Pig-Out Picks: Official Picks posted here
Wanted to start this Pig-out-picks section. Lets make this the official one to list the wonderful food we eat at our returants. Lets try to list them with some information gathering on why these are the Pig-Out-Picks
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When the nation’s unofficial food police, the folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, evaluated popular restaurant dishes such as fettuccine Alfredo (“heart attack on a plate”) and Kung Pao chicken (“more than a day’s worth of salt”), the results made headlines and turned heads. But—how does that saying go?—you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Make that you ain’t eatin’ nothin’ yet.
On Monday, Feb. 26, CSPI announced its eight “X-treme Eating” nominees from various chain restaurants. This selection includes appetizers, entrées and desserts that each has almost a day’s worth of calories and several days’ worth of unhealthy fats. Here’s an MSN Health & Fitness exclusive look at the gut-busting choices.
Pizza Skins: The Center for Science in the Public Interest calls appetizers “the most treacherous territory on a restaurant menu.”
No wonder. The Uno Chicago Grill has come up with an appetizer that fuses deep-dish pizza with potato skins for … Pizza Skins. This dish features the Uno signature deep-dish crust, mozzarella cheese, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheddar cheese and sour cream. That adds up to 2,050 calories (more than recommended for most adult women in a day and about 150 calories short for the average guy). The Pizza Skins also have 48 grams of saturated fat and 3,140 milligrams of sodium.
CSPI equated it to three Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizzas, plus “three pats of butter.”
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