Top Ten Worst Foods of 2009

Wow what a calorie count
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/t ... 009-393616

(Edited by Robin to make the URL work)

Can't find it anymore . . . can you summarize?

I can not seem to get the Url to load right.

the article talks about the Romano’s Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce - This dish will set you back a staggering 2,430 calories and nearly three days’ worth of saturated fat (57 grams) plus 5,290 milligrams of sodium - more calories and saturated fat than two Macaroni Grill Tuscan Rib-Eye steak dinners.

It goes on to name 9 other mighty offenders.

Eat up America

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Read the list....I thought those were supposed to be the WORST foods...I was expecting something like lutefisk.

UFF DA, John. That hurt. You 'ust have not had lutefisk properly prepared!

[Robin Garr]

I can not seem to get the Url to load right.

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UFF DA, John. That hurt. You 'ust have not had lutefisk properly prepared!

Properly preparing it means tossing it in the trash and going out to Mike Linnig's for some fried fish

If you are saying that and you have tried lutefisk, I accept your opinion, Josh. I realize the lutefisk is the butt of many jokes, but it is quite tasty. So if you are sayig that and you haven't tried it, it hurts.

Lutefisk is a dish of my heritage and I am very proud to be a Norwegian-American. I have served lutefisk as a first course at several dinner parties and have never received a disparaging remark.

I read the list and was surprised that any of the KFC bowl things didn't make it. Arghhhh!!!
Mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and fried chicken all heaped together in a bowl. Why not just put it all out in a trough of some sort?

UFF DA, John. That hurt. You 'ust have not had lutefisk properly prepared!

I haven't sampled Lutefisk, Gayle....nevertheless, I don't feel that my Scot heritage is maligned everytime someone makes a face and feigns gagging when the topic of Haggis comes up, so please don't take it personally...it's not about you -- it's all about the Lutefisk....which, if I'm not mistaken, is traditionally prepared with lye, and because traces of nonstandard amino acid lysinoalanine can be found in lutefisk due to the reaction with lye it is often humorously(though not quite inaccurately) compared with rat poison....but I've heard that when completely prepared it's surprisingly tasty...yet, like Haggis, it remains the butt of jokes....

BTW...I'm approaching middle age, and admittedly not up to speed on all the e-mail and IM shorthand...so given the context of your post, I presume that "UFF DA" doesn't mean, "Let's get together and have a drink sometime."....if you want to send me a disparaging comment I'm big enough to take it directly...there's no need to mask it with short-hand -- IF that's what you were doing, it's a little childish.

John, the best way I can [url]explain “UFF DA” is that it is the Norwegian equivalent of the Yiddish “oy vey.” For a more detailed explanation see http://www.lawzone.com/half-nor/uffda.htm[/url]

I poorly tried to write the next sentence with a Norwegian accent, writing “’ust.” The apostrophe wasn’t a typo, but my attempt would have been better had I written “yust.”

I have never, before today, heard of lutefisk compared to rat poison. I don’t make fun of haggis, or other national dishes. I like food way to much. By the way I have eaten haggis three times. Once, so-o; once, good; the last time, blew me away, it was so delicious. In fact if I still lived in Canada I would be attending that fund raiser every year. (The salmon and the shortbread weren’t too bad either.)

BTW . . . I’m well past middle age; in fact I would guess that I am the senior poster on this forum. I am certain I am one of the ten oldest. I, too, am not up to speed on all the email and IM shorthand other LOL, IMHO, and BTW, but I do use Google to lookup terms I do not know. I’ve learned much that way.

BTW . . . I’m well past middle age; in fact I would guess that I am the senior poster on this forum. I am certain I am one of the ten oldest.

I am way ahead of you for being senior. .... 67

"Mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and fried chicken all heaped together in a bowl. Why not just put it all out in a trough of some sort?"

Maybeeeee it's because I'm from the South, but that's how I eat it at home and at Lancasters (where they don't laugh at me). (No KFC here). Chicken on the side, to stay crispy, but sweet corn, and potatoes, and gravy. Trough it up, baby!

I "learnt" it watching my Daddy, and have recently succumbed to the fun of peas IN my spaghetti. I'm sure he would be so proud of our wannabe putanseca. Mayhap healthier than the fine cuisine above.

I read the list and was surprised that any of the KFC bowl things didn't make it. Arghhhh!!!
Mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and fried chicken all heaped together in a bowl. Why not just put it all out in a trough of some sort?

When that item was introduced by KFC, I thought of it as a variation on a theme -- Sunday dinner with fried chicken and all the fixin's, when one (okay, me anyway) would mix the peas/corn/green beans in with the mashed potatoes and gravy on the plate.....mmmmm, mmmmm.

Speaking of troughs brings to mind a cafeteria chain that was in business several years ago (and may be still?) called "Duff's"...I haven't visited one in years, so things may have changed, but I recall going to one in the Louisville area, and rather than provide a "linear" serving line with steam tables, guests walked up to a series of rotating serving stations for their food, and the image that immediately popped into my head at the time was "troughs"!