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As far as I can see, almost all the foods that don't have wheat have sugar, which I assumed everyone knows is bad. The remaining five "bad" dishes are potato-ba

• dpark 10y ago
  So basically you're anti-carb. You started with the claim that "the common denominator for all the worst foods there is refined wheat" and now you're dragging in potatoes and sugar. If you're anti-carb, that's fine I guess, but it's utterly irrelevant to why these meals are "bad". They're bad because they are too many calories. Wheat is a minor component of almost all of them. There's nearly as many calories in the chips and guac from Chipotle as in the burrito. Even in the flour tortilla, nearly a third of the calories are actually from fat (and it's only 300 calories total). In the steak and martini from Ruth's Chris, there's no wheat, no sugar, no starch at all. It's still 2000 calories and a third of that from fat. In that absurd milkshake from Sonic, there's no wheat. More than half the calories are from the fat, which is pretty impressive considering how much sugar is in it. Even that pasta from the Cheesecake Factory has over a third of its calories from fat. I find it amazing that even the IHOP breakfast has more than half its calories from fat, considering it literally has a pile of wheat in the form of pancakes. The idea that refined wheat could somehow be responsible for the caloric excess of most of these dishes is absurd. Most have little or no wheat. They all have too many calories.
  • charlesism 10y ago
    > They all have too many calories. Agreed. Eating too much, and consuming sugar, are real problems. I like to bring up starch because so many people underestimate how many calories are in starchy foods. That said, I overstated my point.