Pig-Out Picks: Official Picks posted here

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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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Fresh Chicken and Broccoli Pasta: The name for this Ruby Tuesday’s dish seems healthy enough. The chicken is pulled from a roasted bird and the broccoli is steamed. The pasta is standard penne. But then the entrée transforms into a cardiac catastrophe totaling 2,060 calories (can you believe it?) and 128 grams of fat (including 60 to 70 of the artery-clotting saturated variety).

What gives? It’s the parmesan cream sauce and the topping of Wisconsin cheddar cheese before baking. CSPI labels it “Angioplasta” and equates the dish to two sirloin steak dinners complete with Caesar salad and buttered baked potato.

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Founder’s Favorite: Sorry, Cold Stone Creamery fans, but your favorite ice cream place has CSPI screaming. The group called out the Founder’s Favorite combo as “X-treme.” Here’s, er, the scoop: It starts with a 14-ounce softball-sized mound of ice cream placed in a chocolate waffle cone bowl, then topped with pecans, brownie pieces, fudge and caramel.

What, no shredded coconut? Or as CSPI asks, where are the Gummi Bears, Oreos or Reese’s Pieces?

No matter. The Founder’s Favorite checks in at 1,740 calories, 48 grams of saturated fat and even 4 grams of trans fat (four times the healthy amount in a day). Ask for extra spoons and find some people. The dessert equates to five single-scoop ice cream cones

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Eatery cooks up a new gut-busting burger

Sandwich may outweigh you, newspaper ad fake-out, excuses for sale


They're calling it the Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger, and the 120,000-calorie entree features an 80-pound ground beef patty. It also has a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.

Oh, and there's also a couple pounds of banana peppers wrapped in a 30-pound bun and garnished with 33 pickles.

Gargantuan gluttons can purchase the mammoth sandwich for only $379.

Eatery cooks up gut-busting burger - What Were They Thinking - MSNBC.com