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Worst New Fast Food Item
Submitted by Dana on Mon, 2009-05-11 15:25
Just when I thought nothing could be worse than KFC's "Famous Bowls" (bowls of mashed potatoes with every other gloppy, carb-y thing they serve piled on top), Domino's invents --
Bread Bowl Pasta. That's right, pasta served in a bowl made of bread. White flour served on white flour! Mmmmm.
They want $5.99 for this. I'm guessing that it contains roughly 15c worth of flour, plus, of course, some cheap nasty shortening, and oh, a teeny bit of animal protein and/or a smidgen of vegetables in the sauce if you choose the right variety.
Italian-oid places, in particular, are big on being "generous" by piling on the carbs. Free "crazy bread!" All you can eat bread sticks! Please, fill yourself up on nutrition-free glop so you won't notice how little protein you're actually getting.
I trust I don't have to tell you to steer clear?
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latest nonsense.....
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/weightloss/422/a-low-carb-diet-can-hurt-your-memory/
RE: KFC name
The company changed the name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC to blur the reference to the word fried which implied FAT.
The did not make their product less fat, just re-branded it so it was more generic and less blatantly FAT.
q-wonk
Famous bowls famus for what
When I first saw these at KFC (why can't they at least use the name their founder gave them) I was really set back. I had to read that several times. For one thing, it is like they have something that is famous, but didn't exist before. Then it is like, this is all you actually get. Basically they took a bad version of a "loaded baked potato" and invented "loaded mashed potatoes".
Claiming that they are famous is quite a stretch. Maybe even false advertising.