Outback's cheese fries = 21 fast food burgers!!

[transplant99]

Calling Kevan Guy!!!!!!

Awesome article.

OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE
Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch
2,030 calories
??? g fat
??? mg sodium

Calorie Equivalent: Like eating as many as 21 White Castle Hamburgers!

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatt...rs-in-america/

[The Ditch]

White Castle burgers are small, it is more like 4 big macs. I mean, I don't think anyone is going to polish off a plate of those themselves anyways it's an appetizer.

[KevanGuy]

Nice! Thanks for that tranny, my friend was telling me about this exact article a couple days ago.

[Nancy]

Boston Pizza:

* DOES NOT INCLUDE GARLIC TOAST CALORIES (150 cal/slice) *

Smokey Mtn Spaghetti - 1800 calories
Spicy Italiane Penne - 1410 calories
Scallop and Prawn Fettucine - 1390 calories

Spicy Perogy Pizza - Small=2040 calories (Individual = 980 calories, slice=320)

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by The Ditch

White Castle burgers are small, it is more like 4 big macs. I mean, I don't think anyone is going to polish off a plate of those themselves anyways it's an appetizer.

OK...so even if its 4 big macs...would that not seem excessive for an appetizer? Even split by two people...hell even 4?

2,000 calories are pretty much a days intake for most I would think.

[Nancy]

They sell those tiny "sliders"... must be that.

[anyonebutedmonton]

Haha I used to work at Outback and trust me we had people polishing these things off by themselves all the time. The funniest was when young (17) girls would come in and act like "oh Im not going to get a whole meal I just want those cheese fries" as if they are somehow eating light.

[J pold]

The real question is how many Spicy Banconator's?

[Locke]

Mmmm....heart stoppingly delicious.....

[Nancy]

Originally Posted by J pold

The real question is how many Spicy Banconator's?

830 calories each.

[Eastern Girl]

These are articles I could live without reading, honestly. I would rather just enjoy the food on those rare occasions I go out to eat, instead of just thinking about how many calories I am taking in. I would rather live in blissful ignorance.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Nancy

Boston Pizza:

* DOES NOT INCLUDE GARLIC TOAST CALORIES (150 cal/slice) *

Smokey Mtn Spaghetti - 1800 calories
Spicy Italiane Penne - 1410 calories
Scallop and Prawn Fettucine - 1390 calories

Spicy Perogy Pizza - Small=2040 calories (Individual = 980 calories, slice=320)

This is why you take half home with you.

[HOOT]

Also FWIW Men's Health (Dec. 2007) had an article "The First Annual 20 Worst Foods in America" and listed the Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing the #1 worst food.

I actually found the magazine:

2,900 - Calories
182g - Fat
240g - Carbs

edit:

And the online article: http://www.menshealth.com/20worst/worstfood.html

[@theCBE]

That looks so good.. this thread is making me hungry

[ernie]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

These are articles I could live without reading, honestly. I would rather just enjoy the food on those rare occasions I go out to eat, instead of just thinking about how many calories I am taking in. I would rather live in blissful ignorance.

Which you can do as you go out on the rare occassions. I know people that knock back one or two of those types of appetizers or main courses a week.

[troutman]

How about A&W Poutine?

[HOOT]

Large Poutine is:

780 cals
47g fat
69g carbs
25g protein <---this surprised me!

edit: Whenever you want to know just go to Google and type in "Name of Food nutritional facts" and it will populate pages with that info.

[troutman]

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05btaco.phtml

We take a crunchy, all-beef taco, smother it in nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato and our special southwestern sauce. Then we wrap it in a soft, flour tortilla with a layer of refired beans in-between.

Jason: Sweet!

Announcer: Then we wrap that in a savory corn tortilla with a middle layer of Monterey Jack cheese.

Andy: Awesome!

Announcer: And it gets even awesomer, when we take a deep-fried gordita shell, smear on a little of our special "guacamolito" sauce and wrap that around the outside.

Bill: [ trying to hold this mighty taco ] This is pretty big..

Announcer: But it gets even bigger! Because we bake it in a corn husk filled with pico de gallo, then then wrap that in an authentic Parisian crepe, filled with egg, gruyere, merguez sauage and Portobello mushroom.

Jason: [ getting restless ] Can I eat in now?

Announcer: Sure. But not before we take the whole thing and wrap that in a Chicago style deep dish meat lovers pizza!

Andy: Pizza? Now that's what I call a taco!

Announcer: Well, it's not a Taco Town taco until we roll it up in a blueberry pancake, dip it in batter and deep-fry it until it's golden brown. Then we serve it in all commemorative tote bag filled with spicy vegetarian chili. It's 15 great tastes all rolled into one.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Also FWIW Men's Health (Dec. 2007) had an article "The First Annual 20 Worst Foods in America" and listed the Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing the #1 worst food.

I actually found the magazine:

2,900 - Calories
182g - Fat
240g - Carbs

Wow ... that's almost a half pound of fat alone.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Large Poutine is:

780 cals
47g fat
69g carbs
25g protein <---this surprised me!

That's not too bad is it? I thought a large poutine would've been a lot worse.

Here's a big mac meal:

Calories 1350
Total Fat 54g 83%
Saturated Fat 13.5g 68%
Trans Fat 1.5g
Cholesterol 75mg 25%
Sodium 1470mg 61%
Total Carbohydrate 194g 65%
Dietary Fiber 9g 36%
Sugars 95g
Protein 31g 62%

A big mac meal is has nearly twice as many calories as a large poutine.