Fast food restaurants are either trying to kill you or vastly overestimating your healthy eating habits.
I will not lie — I love gimmicky fast food.
While I’ve never eaten a McRib, even on its many comeback tours after playing Europe, Asia and Australia, I have fallen prey to the delicious “limited time” offers from some of our more dubious food sources.
Lately, I’ve been trying to eat better. Partially to AVOID DEATH, but also because I’m a vain, vain man. (How vain? I think this song is about me.)
As such, my fast food intake has dropped precipitously. And when I do get something delivered via drive-thru, it’s a special treat. My wife, knowing how much I love spicy foodstuffs, suggested a trip to Taco Bell for one of their Volcano Burritos.
Let me tell you a funny short story about that: No.
OK, now I’ll expound. I did not eat the Volcano Burrito. Because it’s not a Volcano Bean Burrito or a Volcano Chicken Burrito or even a Volcano Beef Burrito. No, it’s a Volcano DOUBLE BEEF Burrito. And it packs 800 calories and 42 grams of fat.
And when I used to go to Taco Bell, I wouldn’t just get one of those, I’d also get a couple of tacos, maybe a bean burrito and a Coke. Yum. So let’s just go ahead and double those numbers, at least.
Everybody is pushing some new crap these days. McDonald’s has the McCafe drinks, which are just like coffee, except with lots of sugary syrup and whipped cream on top. Burger King has mini-burgers, so you can eat 14 of them! Wendy’s keeps putting bacon on things. KFC has decided to market the “Krusher,” which is a milkshake with a weight problem.
Can you eat these things and still be healthy? Absolutely. You just have to make sure your other meals that day consist of water, spinach and dirt.
Which makes you wonder, what kind of companies would market these products to us? Check with a lawyer, because either Taco Bell thinks you live like a monk EXCEPT when you visit their restaurants, or they have a life insurance policy out on you and they’re trying to make it pay off sooner than later.
Judging by Pizza Hut’s new Pork-n-Cheese crust with gravy inside, my vote is for the latter.
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I love this blog. I did laugh out loud because I just ordered a volcano burrito this weekend and it was too hot to finish for me. Wow 800 cal. sucks! It’s true if we saw the facts on paper I think it would be harder to eat that along with all the other crap we eat. Good article and not preachy.