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1. No guff. So what happens now? More than half the world has no idea what the eff a calorie is.

2. The human species abhors a scold. It’s why we flee from our Leftist relatives at Thanksgiving.

3. An even greater problem is the switch to auto ordering machines. People are more likely to order 2 hamburgers if they don’t have to look another person in the face (seriously).

   1. Says you!

      I’m still getting three…

   2. That’s very true. People want to appear in the most virtuous light possible. It’s why so many low low calorie fast food products failed in the late nineties and early two thousands. Remember the McLean. A low calorie, healthy hamburger from McDonald’s? It tested extremely well in marketing research. People said they would definitely buy it. When it came out, nobody bought it.

      More recently we had the fake meat hamburgers. Every fast food chain had them on the menu. Remember that fat little f*ck in the ads for A&W? He’s gone and now? All the fake meat burgers are gone.

      I remember reading a paper some time ago that said when it came to fast food, people tended to buy the highest calorie content for the lowest cost.

   3. I prefer ordering at the kiosk because the person at the till never gets my order correct.

4. Surprising nobody at all.
   How much money has been wasted determining calorie counts?
   How much waste was created replacing menus with calorie counts?
   How much time wasted implementing?
   On and on, all the waste due to these regulations.

5. The #Libranos have brought the caloric count down… remember scurvy? like from the 1700’s ?

   https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1860718845004058748

   and related: the #Libranos and NDP are both polling at 17% … 30 points behind the Conservatives

6. lm a glutton.
   not so much in my 70s but l took a buddy to an all-you-can-eat ’bout 4 years ago (pre-covid), finished 4 entrees and 3 dessert plates.
   there is a reason.
   for 1st 5 years l lived in a uninsulated wood frame with, get this, no furnace.
   house was heated when my pa got up stoked the wood stove, ma made b’fast and little ol’ moi laid in the crib convinced l was eskimaux and my metabolism was hard coded accordingly, ie, dont layer fat, burn it all off in body heat. and stayed that way.
   one benefit was my ice diving qualification; 3/4 hour in 0 C water in a normal 6 mm wet suit. instructor had never seen that.
   adversity makes us tougher. not this generation, if it doesnt involve ‘clicks’ they pass.

   1. ” … 3/4 hour in 0 C water in a normal 6 mm wet suit. instructor had never seen that.”

      Really? 🙂

      1. Dickie pretty much becomes an introvert in that temperature.

         1. Yup. The original spinal tap.

         2. heh heh. no comment.
            my forehead slightly exposed felt like l got hit with a ball pien hammer.
            afterward when the cold took full effect didnt feel anything!!! whee!!!
            good lord do those fish ever move slow at that temp.

      2. yep. you seems to know what lm talking about.
         still got the PADI certification. Innerkip off 401. around 1995
         standing upside down under the ice, bubbles going ‘down’ to my feet was a lark.
         another lark was the lukewarm water came out of the booties during changeup.
         also much later 2003 lm working late in the year outside for a truss company, the rest of them in windbreakers, lm still in a t-shirt.
         l find if l have that thin layer of cotton to stop ‘direct’ contact with the cold air suffices. all up to a point naturally.
         have a good winter y’all, this is my last one in this place going on the mkt end March

         1. also, full disclosure, a MAJOR reason lm not a bloated potato is 2007 l rear ended my Taurus hydroplaning. havent owned a car since but still have my Raliegh 10 spd new 1978 and wore out/stolen abt dozen mountain bikes since.
            lm 5 pound from my ideal weight, age 73. do the math.
            we all have variations in our dietary needs, responses. pay attention what your body says, NOT your taste buds.

7. Oh well. It gives all the fatsos a chance to tut-tut-tut and pretend that they’re absolutely diet conscious …. appearances notwithstanding..

8. I was just asking myself this question while in the line-up in a rare visit to Harvey’s, a couple of days ago.

9. The calorie count doesn’t matter compared to the glycemic index – how high your blood sugar rises after eating. If it goes too high your pancreas secretes insulin to make your cells convert glucose into fat. The government is basing policy on what dieticians thought they knew 60 years ago.
   Go to youtube and listen to Prof Lustig and Nina Teicholz for more recent science.

   1. By the by, thanks for your response the other day on daily timewaster about fixer upper classic cars.

      I was the anon that asked you where to find them on the Richard Hammond thread.

      I’ve now got my eyes on a ’74 Spitfire.

10. It helps me but then, you’ve got to want to be helped and actually make “mostly” right choices.

    And yes, I was a super fat f*ck. I haven’t been for a few years. Is the cost of doing this worth helping me and a few others ? Maybe. Admittedly, probably not.

    Less nanny state-ism. The people like me who want to do better will continue to find a way.

11. The more you eat, the more you shit.
    Stomachs can’t read. Counting calories at a fast food joint is like counting Jew haters at Mosque – why bother?

12. Nobody reads the calories. We don’t care, and we know they’re trying to guilt us. If we’re on a diet, we’re not eating at McD’s in the first place.

    Really, the outcome of this is they’re training the public to ignore posted information. Unintended consequences ftw.

13. A “dietitian” said to me it did not matter if I poured out the bacon fat – a pound of bacon is a pound of bacon.

    I did not argue, I thanked her for her time – and I never listened to a “dietitian” again…

    Eat less, move more.

    That’s about it for weight loss, and it’s mostly the ‘eat less’ part that gets you there, lotsa strong fat bastards in the gym, good on them though, at least they’re moving…

14. At the original rollout for this, my dietician said that the most useless information that they could put on the menu was the calories.

    1. You have a dietician?

       [You can’t see my expression, but right now my eyebrows are raised very high in a look of surprise.]

       1. Not that it helps……….

15. Watch the carbs.
    I’m reading Dr Gundry. Seems lectins are a key culprit. I’ve seen good results in some people.

16. I look at calorie counts on menus… BUT…only to calculate the $/calorie to find the best value for my money.

17. Calories? Are they like celery?
    As some sage wit said once, “eat what you want and die like a man.”
    Me, pushing 70 years…I eat what I want, lots of meat, dairy, spices, tobacco, whiskey, and all of it heartily espiced with pepper and garlic and another after dinner cigarette.
    And yet I maintain my young, boyish figure.
    Dietician is a euphemism for Karen.
    Bon Appetite!