So I was recently inspired to blog from a conversation I just had with Crash. She was telling me that she just ate at The Hard Rock Cafe over the weekend. She said that she was a little disturbed by the menu because they included the caloric content for each item. As you can see from the picture, this is something we really do not need to know. Come on now, a grilled salmon Caesar salad has 1,250 calories! WTF?! Now, I'm not one to count calories but this just made me a little depressed. Unless you're being forced to do it by law, do you as a restaurant really want to let your consumers know how many calories you're stuffing into your gullet? The same goes for all the fast food chains too. At 3 in the morning, after a night of heavy drinking, do I really need to kill my buzz by knowing that a quick trip through the drive-thru could cost me about 1,500 calories? I think not...actually, I know not. You already know that you shouldn't be eating fast food, so why rub in our faces how fat and unhealthy we actually are? I know these are a lot of questions that could formed into very legitimate statements...but for mindless-babbles-sake, I will leave them as questions.
So just think about it next time you sit down at your favorite burger joint, how many walks around the block you will have to take in order to burn a quarter of what you are about ingest. I can tell you that I won't even look twice at that stupid caloric content nonsense when ordering my triple bacon cheeseburger with fried onions and extra mayo. Bring on the heartburn baby!
Until next time....
~Scotty B.
