The fun little Eat This, Not That grinches at Men’s Health who are always grabbing unhealthy food out of our mouths just as we’re about to swallow and kill ourselves have drawn their annual line in the sand. Once again it’s an item from the franchised fat and calorie emporium known as Baskin Robbins (whose pumpkin pie ice cream I could eat by the gallon), but this year’s Worst Food is even worse than last year’s. Hoo boy.
Last year’s “winner” of this dubious award was BR’s Heath Bar Shake, with more sugar than 20 bowls of Froot Loops, more calories — 2.310 — than 11 actual Heath Bars and, somehow, 73 ingredients. I’ll let the grinches get a word in edgewise:
Rather than coming to their senses and removing it from the menu, they did themselves one worse and introduced this caloric catastrophe. It’s soiled with more than a day’s worth of calories and three days worth of saturated fat, and, worst of all, usually takes less than 10 minutes to sip through a straw.
Don’t you love the use of soiled? The smutty little Worst Food of 2009 is Baskin Robbins’ Large Chocolate Oreo Shake and it shakes down like this: 2,600 calories, 135 grams of saturated fat (2.5g trans fats), 263 grams of sugar and 1,700 grams of sodium. All in one how-is-it-not-salty, how-are-they-still-breathing milkshake.
What to order instead? Just about anything, don’t you think? The full list of Worst Foods is here.
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I read that article too… But I think in the New York Times…
Guess food today isn’t what it used to be. Though I would probably want to try just a small sip to see how it tastes like. But just from looking at the info, it would probably be too rich for my tastes…
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I’d probably want a sip too, although I’d most like to see one. Just how big is that thing? And I’d love to see who orders it. Ugh.
I haven’t seen a Baskin Robbins in many years and don’t even know where one might be. Probably a good thing during the month or so they sell the pumpkin pie ice cream!
There are so many ways to ingest 2600 calories of fat and sugar . . . a good organic gelato smothered with all the extras: nuts, caramel, fudge, imported chocolate, I can’t imagine settling for BR.
We have one in Harvard Square.
I’d rather go to Whole Paycheck at get a chunk Robusto and smoother it with fig jam or stuff it into dates.
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Amen. I can’t imagine an entire pizza with a couple veggies and some chicken breast surpassing 2600 calories. To each their own.
(Note to self: October. Cambridge. Pumpkin pie ice cream…)