My Last Restaurant Meal Was 1200 Calories!

My Last Restaurant Meal Was 1200 Calories!

My wife and I went to church with the family today. After church we went to eat at a local family restaurant, IHOP to be exact. After we were seated by the hostess and handed our menus we also received a surprise.

“What’s this?”, I asked.

“It’s the nutritional information menu,” said the hostess. “The new law started and all restaurants have to give these out to the customers. “

I said, “I don’t want to know.”

She said, “We have to.”

My wife told me to shut up and take it so I did. I told her I just wanted one of the salads.

OH MY GOD! The salad that I order is 1200 calories! There wasn’t a meal on the menu that was less than a thousand and there were others that were a lot worse! WHAT A DEAL BREAKER!

If this is one of the new ideas our government is using to stimulate business it’s the dumbest I’ve ever seen! How are restaurants supposed to survive this one? My wife, the thin as a rail, veggie eating, “The whole world should go GREEN” freak insists that this is a great thing. It’ll help people make better choices and force restaurants to make better meals.

I said, “NO IT WON’T! It’ll make people order and eat out less!” I don’t want to know what’s in it. I WANT IT TO TASTE GOOD! People don’t go to restaurants to eat stuff that’ll taste worse than what they get at home. They go out to enjoy something and have an experience that they don’t ordinarily have. It’s supposed to be a special occasion. I asked her what she’ll think when we go to one of her really high priced restaurants and find out how bad a lobster bisque is or a real, authentic Caesar Salad, a couple of cocktails, the entrée, and her crème brû-lée?

No answer.

This is just another example of people sticking their nose in where it doesn’t belong. There are no substitutes for sour cream, real cream sauces, BUTTER, a good dark beer, a good wine, A GREAT SCOTCH, or a thousand other ingredients that will now be on a hit list of things in recipes to change.

Before all you health nuts out there start screaming, “Oh yes there are, you don’t know what you’re talking about!” Let me just say, “You’re full of it!”

There are substitutes but that’s all they are. SUBSTITUTES! They make a dish passable if that’s what you’re looking for. They do not replace the original ingredients that have been perfected, sometimes over hundreds of years, in a traditional dish, drink or desert. If I want to get thinner, I’ll eat less and exercise more. If, as a nation, we choose not to, well then that’s our own stupid fault if our arteries clog up isn’t it? Having the government get in our face and tell us we’re being bad people just sucks and it’s bad for business.

If it’s good enough for us why isn’t it good enough for them? Hey Government! Your Budgets and spending are FAT and BLOATED! You need to CUT BACK! You’re killing the country with your FAT programs, PORK and excessive SPENDING! We need to pass a spending menu law because you’re too STUPID to make an intelligent decision!

I ordered and ate what I originally wanted, the salad. But I will admit, I will never enjoy it as much again. Thanks a lot!