KFC, Taco Bell to post calorie counts on menu boards

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

KFC, Taco Bell to post calorie counts on menu boards
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Is Yum! actually doing a good thing? I'm honestly surprised and happy about this. Information is key to good decision making.

Plus, KFC was the first major chain I know of to abandon frying in transfats. I prefer Popeye's, but because of that I will only go to KFC now.

There are young people who don't know what KFC stands for. I would have loved to be at the meeting where they asked, "How we get 'Fried' out of our name without changing our name?"

Sorry, but nothing from those fat factories has entered my mouth in at least 20 years. That's just gross stuff. I think the series with Zonker at McFriendly's handled it well - "Could I see a menu without the calorie numbers?"

But your diet must be rather boring. Sometimes there's just nothing better than some original recipe KFC or a Big Mac and fries.

Bake

When my wife asks her kindergarten class what they had for dinner the night before, the answers are usually Wendy's, McDonald's or Burger King. Now THAT is boring! The young guy at the checkout who asked me what kind of produce I had placed in front of him has a boring diet. The answer was "broccoli". I'm still shaking my head about that one. But it isn't really a vegetarian/meat-eater issue - the problem with the term "fast food" is the inclusion of the word "food". The calorie counts won't stop people from snarfing garbage anymore than the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes have stopped smoking. Too many people don't care about weight, heart health, or anything else. They'll ignore the numbers and gripe that they take too much space away from the pictures of dripping grease. They won't take anymore responsibility for what they eat than they do when they cast a single-issue vote. To quote Opus from Bloom County, "I prefer to blame Congress."

Sorry about the rant ;}

And yeah, that was pretty boring. Now I only have fast food occasionally and it's good. Like anything else, variety is the spice of life.

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Bake

i may not live as long as i "could" if i was vegetarian, but i'll enjoy the time i have more

ymmv

My wife can whup up the BEST fried chicken anywhere. My burgers on the grill are PRIMO. Steaks? Even better.

But sometimes -- just SOMETIMES, mind you -- a Big Mac or KFC really hits the spot. And for a lot less trouble.

Bake

The Colonel is the best. Although I like Bojangles as well and used to like Roy Rogers.

Nachos Bell Grande with steak and extra sour cream!:crazy:

:hi:

Bake

One person's "gross" is another person's "great". Regardless, relevant additional information is rarely a bad thing...

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Then yes, even cardboard can provide enough calories for three days worth of food, and with only a fraction of the nutritional value.

And when you add in a large fries, a chocolate shake and a box or two of cookies for afters.... :wow:

:puke: :rofl:

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just like the "you'll get cancer and die a horrible death" warnings have been so effective on cigarette packs...

Having just started on hypertension meds I can tell you how important the sodium content is.



Laura

zero relation. I do not necessarily agree, but there is a lot of debate.

If salt isn't necessarily a major culprit, then it would just be one more thing they appear to have wrong.

I'm now test driving med #2 and I am not enjoying this experience too much. ACE inhibitors gave me a HORRIBLE cough and now I am on Diovan which is something different. I still have a cough, now I can't sleep at night, and my legs hurt! Oh-and my nose has been running since I started taking this stuff ten days ago. As an added twist, my hair is starting to fall out! I can't say that I think my blood pressures have been all that good either...

I'm supposed to see a Doc in one week for a followup and I'm not sure how THAT is gonna go. Franky, I'm just about ready to go to a Chinese herbalist or the natural food store and try some of the herbal stuff. It can't possibly make me feel much worse than these meds have and maybe it will keep me from stroking out at the medical bills I'm racking up with the Doctor visits and cost of meds that don't work at best.



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Laura

especially if they are taught nutrition .

Nothing like deep fried fat on a stick. No wonder the country is fatter than it has ever been. I know the restaurants here in Texas are fighting this because they ant to hide what they are putting in our food.

Bastards and their killer calories!

Serious now. I actually tried finding something negative about this, but I can't. I mean, other than such places should be shutdown and not allowed to operate, but that kind of gets in the way of my belief that people should be allowed to eat shitty food if they so choose. It's not my place to criticize you uncultured fast food junkie's love for shoving deep fried fat laced meat products into your mouths :P So hey, this sounds good to me...

Actually, I really am just kidding about what I said above. I wouldn't read too much into it. Please don't deep fry me and turn me into bit sized nuggets of Awesome.

Ay least from one perspective. The amount of trash, particlarly plastic trash, from most KFC meals or combinations is staggering!

I recently got one and it came in a plastic dome and plate that was sturdy enough to keep washing and leave to the children, if I had chosen to do so.

As I hefted the huge non-recyclable plastic plate and dome, I wondered just how much oil had been burned to create this, not just the energy required, butthe actual plastic material probably reuired 10 times it's weight in crude or something.

I love the taste of KFC. But I know now that it has to be the bucket o' chicken or nothing, because pretty much everything else seems to come in enough plastic to make a school lunchbox.

One leaking guano lagoon can destroy a river and its watershed. And have you ever smelled a chicken factory farm?!!

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I'm all for more information, but are people really going to not order those KFC biscuits because of it? Isn't it obvious that fast food items are at least 450 calories or more?