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Scariest New Restaurant Foods

There’s an arms race going on, and it could mean disaster for your waistline.

But this terrifying competition to build the biggest, scariest weapons of mass destruction isn’t happening between the United States and Russia, or on the Korean peninsula, or among angry rivals somewhere in the Middle East. It’s happening between America’s restaurants—every one of them, it seems, is eager to show it has the biggest, scariest, most destructive new food in the marketplace. And the unsuspecting victims of this Strangelovian contest? You and me.

See, even the most well-established restaurant chains can’t rest on their laurels, serving the same old standbys that we’ve loved since we were kids. They have to keep us interested and attracted with shiny new bells and whistles. And since no one has invented, say, a new kind of potato, they’ve got to go with the next best thing: gimmicky entrees with terrifyingly complicated ingredient lists and rapidly expanding serving sizes. It wasn’t enough that pizza makers started putting cheese inside the crust! Kentucky Fried Chicken saw that and ramped up its own destructive powers, by making a sandwich in which the bread is replaced by slabs of fried chicken. Then a few major league ballparks started serving their burgers on doughnuts instead of buns. What’s next: fried Fluffernutter franks?

Almost. Take a look at what’s being whipped up in the labs of the mad fast-food scientists, compliments of the upcoming Eat This, Not That! 2011 book, and be afraid—be very afraid!


Scary Meal #5
Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt with wavy fries and marinara
1,260 calories
63 g fat (21 g saturated, 1 g trans)
3,010 mg sodium

CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 18 T.G.I. Friday’s Frozen Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins

Apparently, Denny’s deemed the classic grilled cheese too boring for our novelty seeking taste buds, so they fixed it by driving four deep-fried cheese sticks into the core of the sandwich. So what you end up with are cheese sticks with extra cheese between slabs of buttered bread and a pile of fried potatoes on the side. If Denny’s was serious about improving the grilled cheese, they would have skipped the novelty and brought in big-flavor ingredients like sautéed mushrooms or sliced figs. But, of course, if they did that, they might not be able to sell this entire meal for $4. Here’s to cheap food and expensive health care!

Eat This Instead!
Denny's BLT with Hash Browns
730 calories
47 g fat (10.5 g saturated)
1,270 mg sodium



Scary Meal #4
IHOP New York Cheesecake Pancakes
1,270 calories

CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 28 McDonald's Chicken McNuggets

Further blurring the line between dessert and breakfast, IHOP has infused their fluffy flapjacks with gooey hunks of cheesecake. Next thing you know they’ll be serving breakfast with big scoops of ice cream and chocolate syrup. The best breakfast is one with protein and fresh fruit, but if you’re going to go for the carb-heavy indulgence, there’s a better way to do it. Don’t make it a habit, but IHOP’s Chocolate Chip Pancakes will save you 660 calories.

Eat This Instead!
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
610 calories


Scary Meal #3
Friendly’s Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt
1,500 calories
97 g fat (38 g saturated)
2,090 mg sodium

CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 15 Snickers Kudos Granola Bars

Is this a joke? Because it should be. Where a normal hamburger has buns, this one has grilled cheese sandwiches. Yes, that’s two grilled-cheese sandwiches with one hunk of ground beef wedged between them. Other iterations of this sandwich have been dubbed “fatty melts”—for obvious reasons. They have twice as much cheese and bread as a regular cheeseburger.

Eat This Instead!
Grilled Cheese
790 calories
37 g fat (12 g saturated
1,280 mg sodium


Scary Meal #2
Uno Chicago Grill Lobster BLT Thin Crust Pizza
1,530 calories
87 g fat (30 g saturated)
3,480 mg sodium

CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 51 Nabisco Ginger Snap Cookies

On its own, lobster is sweet, healthy, and loaded with lean protein. Yet, for some reason, restaurants never seem to know what to do with it. Case in point: Lobster BLT Pizza, an amalgam of foods that don’t quite fit together: One is seafood, one is diner grub, and one is an Italian-American hybrid. We're all for trying new things, but not when the toll is 75 percent of your day’s calories and 1½ day’s worth of sodium and saturated fat.

Eat This Instead!
Lobster Wrap with side of roasted vegetables
570 calories
30.5 g fat (4 g saturated)
1,660 mg sodium


Scary Meal #1
Applebee’s Provolone-Stuffed Meatballs with Fettuccine
1,550 calories
97 g fat (46 g saturated)
3,910 mg sodium

CALORIE EQUIVALENT: 148 Whoppers Malted Milk Balls

Yes, America has a cheese fetish, but this is just excessive. Cheese-filled meatballs? It’s like a beef-based Gusher, a sort of meaty water balloon of fat. Especially problematic is the fact that said meatballs are served on a bed of fettuccine Alfredo, which is basically flat noodles basting in oil, butter, and—yes—cheese. Cut more than a thousand calories by switching dishes. A smart swap like this one (and the hundreds of others in Eat This, Not That!) a couple times a week and you can lose 2½ pounds a month without ever dieting!

Eat This Instead!
Spicy Shrimp Diavolo
500 calories
10 g fat (3.5 g saturated)
1,910 mg sodium
 
EWWW hey at least they didn't show the deep fried BUTTER!!!!

MMM.....Only one month from today til deep fried butter. :lol: It's as good as it sounds.

BTW I live in a land where Crisco is a condiment and a sausage patty is an after dinner treat. Where any time is bacon time. Yet we have quite a few 5 generation photos laying around :hmm:

I however am a healthy eater usually. I figure I will be lucky to see 60. :lol:
 
MMM.....Only one month from today til deep fried butter. :lol: It's as good as it sounds.

BTW I live in a land where Crisco is a condiment and a sausage patty is an after dinner treat. Where any time is bacon time. Yet we have quite a few 5 generation photos laying around :hmm:

I however am a healthy eater usually. I figure I will be lucky to see 60. :lol:

THIS is true... think the deep fried Butter originated there right?? Well the foods of the Appalachians aren't much better LOL (i'm kinda curious about deep fried Oreos though if I'm gonna be honest!)
 
Those single meals contain more calories that someone should consume in an entire day. No wonder we are a bunch of fat asses. Would you like to supersize it?
 
Hmmmm Funnel cake AND margarita?? :hmm:

Come on down. You get to meet Big Tex too. Plus nothing beats Texas-OU football and getting to make fun of those stupid orange uniforms. And there is live cattle on the sidelines.

I think the Fried Frito Pie/Fried Beer combo is calling my name.
 
I had Indian fry bread in NM years ago and it was really good, better than the funnel cakes or the "elephant ears" at the state fairs although those are good, too....
 
Come on down. You get to meet Big Tex too. Plus nothing beats Texas-OU football and getting to make fun of those stupid orange uniforms. And there is live cattle on the sidelines.

I think the Fried Frito Pie/Fried Beer combo is calling my name.

LIVE Cattle on the sidelines WOW that makes it hard to resist!!!
 
How about some deep fried bacon

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Those single meals contain more calories that someone should consume in an entire day. No wonder we are a bunch of fat asses. Would you like to supersize it?

Yeah but eating one of those meals isn't the problem. Eating like that often is the problem.

Also the sodium would scare me much more than the calories.
 
Yeah but eating one of those meals isn't the problem. Eating like that often is the problem.

Also the sodium would scare me much more than the calories.
I don't agree unless one of those meals is all you eat for the entire day. The reality is that even if you eat one of those meals and normal meals the rest of the day you are still consuming more calories than you should and will most likley gain weight as a result.
 
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