Comments on: Cheesecake Factory has 3,120 calorie dish

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:34:00 +0000

Yeah, going on a mountain hike is pretty much the only time I find myself at one of these places. Famished to the point of hallucination is a very good time for Outback Steakhouse.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:33:00 +0000

And yet, for being nothing but heavy cream and cheese, still manages to be less fucking terrible for you than any of these “casual dining” restaurants.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:32:00 +0000

“Personal choice, peeps. ”

Who are you replying to?

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:32:00 +0000

So you’re talking to yourself?

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:31:00 +0000

“The waiters there pride themselves on being able to remember every order at a table without writing them down”

I don’t think that’s as impressive as they think it is.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:27:00 +0000

Solution: Don’t go to shitty chain restaurants that have the same menu in most every country, let alone state.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:26:00 +0000

“calorie” isn’t a dirty word in parts of the world.”

It would be if globalism gave them Cheesecake Factories.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:25:00 +0000

I doubt they have much fat in the MREs, this dish would go rancid quite quickly.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:25:00 +0000

They mandated it here in NY that calories are shown with items at all chain restaurants

Cheesecake Factory put in some “diet” options to try to minimize the shock of seeing the calorie counts. I ordered their “diet Jambalaya” last time I was there. The picture showed a nice portion of rice with it. What I ordered came with a tiny portion of rice and hardly any jambalaya. It was enough for me, just barely, but put some perspective on their other offerings.

By: jmcgarry

jmcgarry — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:12:00 +0000

Thanks, I’ll definitely look at the calories next time. It would also be nice to have a full nutritional info, some calories are better than others.

By: James Kimbell

James Kimbell — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:32:00 +0000

Sometimes I eat an American amount at the local Asian buffet, and then I get this feeling like, “All right, I’m done. I am done with food. I don’t even have to think about food until most of the way through tomorrow.”

By: James Kimbell

James Kimbell — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:29:00 +0000

Sometimes places like that can surprise you. Golden Corral (which, while not meeting your name criteria, certainly fits into that category) has a really good salad bar.

By: Vinnie Tesla

Vinnie Tesla — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:10:00 +0000

Oh, sure, if you’re going to just arbitrarily rule out cannibalism.

By: spacedmonkey

spacedmonkey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:21:00 +0000

I don’t eat out much, and a while back I got the several course special at a diner on the way back from about a 20 mile hike, so I was pretty hungry. I kind of felt obstinately and inexplicably determined to eat the whole thing, and I didn’t quite manage to finish, bu I ate so much that I had to pull over about ten minutes later and puke it all up. I’m a pretty big guy, and I’m active, and I was under the impression that I eat a lot until I had this encounter with real American portions.

By: Ashley Yakeley

Ashley Yakeley — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:14:00 +0000

Modernist Cuisine. 2438 pages, 42lb, ~$450 at Amazon.

Or there’s the home edition, 456 pages, 10.3lb, ~$100.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:50:00 +0000

That IS the secret sauce recipe.

By: jellyfibs

jellyfibs — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:35:00 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time near Caltech in Pasadena, so I’m familiar with the area – many places referenced in The Big Bang Theory actually exist in Pasadena and throughout LA!

By: Jack Everitt

Jack Everitt — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:29:00 +0000

Rob – Five points to you for using the word hillock interestingly.

By: johne2

johne2 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:55:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure I didnt claim anyone was, but hey, YMMV.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:50:00 +0000

I’m not forced to eat 3,000 calories in a sitting, but I don’t really want it legislated or a finger shook at me by some group if I choose to.

I’m sure that would be a fascinating comment if anyone here were advocating that.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:32:00 +0000

I tried to find a picture of a cucumber or a carrot fucking an onion ring, but the best that I could do was a lady with three zucchini in her nether orifice. Apparently, true food-on-food porn doesn’t exist.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:17:00 +0000

Any restaurant in New York City with more than five or six locations need to post their calories. However, it appears to make no difference.
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/2012/0829/Do-posted-calorie-counts-help-people-make-healthy-choices

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:16:00 +0000

the cholesterol will kill him

And his flatulence will kill you.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:12:00 +0000

Hmm. If I went to California Pizza Kitchen, I would get a half Caesar salad (277) and split it with my dining companion. And order perhaps a Chicken Chipotle pizza (1198), eat two slices and make two more meals out of it. And maybe a Sam Adams (145). 683 calories for the meal. And I wouldn’t feel ill.

By: James Kimbell

James Kimbell — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:03:00 +0000

The reference intake for a male soldier doing moderate activity is 3250 calories per day, so this is almost perfect.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:59:00 +0000

I googled “restaurant reviews ‘the trough’” and was not disappointed.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:54:00 +0000

To be fair, you can be both obese and malnourished at the same time.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:53:00 +0000

It doesn’t work like that. I used to have a friend who was the Big Man. He always ordered the most expensive thing on the menu because he was the Big Man. We’d go to a noodle place where the most expensive meal was $10. But the Big Man would order the Surf n’ Turf for $30 because the Big Man always gets the best.

What he never figured out is that the single big ticket item exists solely to make everything else look cheap. The noodles were handmade. His dinner came from a three year old box of Army surplus Surf n’ Turf wedged into the back of the freezer. It exists to warn off sensible people and soak the suckers. He always paid the bill for everybody. It’s an ecosystem.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:45:00 +0000

I’m curious to know how big this thing is. I make alfredo sauce at home from time to time and it’s nothing but straight heavy cream and parmesan cheese (and some spices). I know it’s not good for me, but it’s damn tasty, just like anything high in fat/sugar.

I’d much rather eat less than eat a shitty low sugar, low fat diet.

By: johne2

johne2 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:31:00 +0000

Nah, it’s not about Big Government at all. That’s not my point. My point is if I as a consumer, choose to consume that much, so be it. I’m not doing any harm. And any suggestion, really, REALLY people, that we’re being somehow duped into eating that huge a portion of calories? We’re being intellectually dishonest with ourselves if we believe that.

I’m on board with listing calories. It’s law here in CA for sure. But I knew when I was being a glutton before, too.