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Yes; restaurants, especially nice restaurants, are in the business of selling food which people eat primarily for pleasure, not for nutrition. It's an indulgenc
by CommieBobDole 7y ago
Yes; restaurants, especially nice restaurants, are in the business of selling food which people eat primarily for pleasure, not for nutrition. It's an indulgence, not sustenance.
Even those restaurants who want to appeal to a 'healthy eating' audience find that their less healthy items sell better; considering the difficulty of succeeding or even surviving in the restaurant business, they start to emphasize those items and eventually become a source of relatively unhealthy meals. It's the same phenomenon that caused all of the niche cable networks to fill their schedules with general-interest reality shows unrelated to their original programming over the last couple of decades.
tl;dr: Restaurants sell unhealthy food because people want to buy unhealthy food.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoThe misconception is tasty food and healthy food are orthogonal qualities; that's thankfully far from the case! For example, you could a make a restaurant quality chicken breast entree with a white wine reduction and heavy cream sauce, seasoned with Herbs de Provence. If you're a follower of Keto, you'd notice these ingredients are all low carbohydrate, and offer protein and fats. Pair with seasoned veggies and you've got yourself an entree, it's delicious, and it's far from consuming the "empty" calories of typical fast food.
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoSubstitute thighs for the breast and you might have something. As has been noted, chicken breast is the skim milk of the meat world.
- phonypc 7y agoThere's nothing wrong with chicken breast, especially if the skin is left on and crisped. It just lends itself to different applications than thigh.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoEspecially if you're using heavy cream, which is 36% fat. The sauce compensates for the breast's lack of fat (when compared to thighs). I like both, but as you say, they have different applications. For breast, just use extra olive oil/butter/heavy cream to balance the dish. Thighs are less time and temperature sensitive. They're a bit more hardy if you're new to cooking. Chicken breast is easy to overcook because less fat makes it less forgiving.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoChicken breast is garbage. The magic is in the leg meat.
- rayhendricks 7y agoHealthy meals do not have to be flavorless. Of course if they are trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator then the menu will maybe start to look like McDonald’s, but even somewhere like chipotle you can buy a salad without the extra cheese and chips.