“In the Temples of Supersizing, Eating Light Draws Converts” (NY Times) rates the healthy offerings at fast food restaurants.
To find out if low-fat sandwiches and salads are tasty and satisfying enough to make people give up their Whoppers and Big Macs, I set out three weeks ago to systematically taste the items billed as healthful at Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Blimpie and Subway. Some of this food was quite edible. Most gave healthy food a bad name.
There's got to be room for a "healthy" fast food option. No, healthy and fast-food are not mutually exclusive! Granted it wouldn't satsify the extremists.
What I hate are that fast food places either advertise or imply that certain items are healthy, but they either are not that healthy or they have to be ordered in just such a way.
While some of their salads may be a healthier alternative, the McDonalds Crispy Chicken Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad with the ranch dressing has 660 calories and 51 grams of fat! A Big Mac is "only" 600 calories and 33 grams of fat. People don't like situations where they have to analyze that much data, especially when they are holding up a busy lunchtime line.
What a fast food chain needs to do is come up with some sort of rating system so that people can quickly grasp the relative healthiness of a meal. Kind of like the terrorist alert system...
I agree and wonder why we can't come up with healthy fast food in this day and age.
I'm still a sucker for the occasional McD's run...though I've gotten down to a cheesburger + small fries + small yogurt parfait routine.
It's those damn fries I can't resist...
It's those damn fries I can't resist...
And, of course, it's what they put on the fries that makes it so you can't resist.
Mmmm... MSG... sugar... salt...
The deadly, yet yummy triumvirate.
At WWDC, I listened to Apple representatives make some excellent points about taking the time to build a 100%-compliant Aqua application, and I think all developers need to look beyond the code and listen to what the folks at Apple have to say