Thursday, September 20, 2007
Factory Reject
Back in the day, choosing a dessert from the menu was tough. Did you want cake or pie or ice c ream or cheesecake? Today, you do not have to bother picking one dessert over another. Restaurants simply pile one on top of the other for you.
Take The Cheesecake Factory Chris's Outrageous Chocolate Caked. The "Cheesecake Factory Original" has "layers of moist chocolate cake, chewy brownie, toasted c oconut pecan filling, and creamy chocolate chip coconut cheesecake". And they are not thin layers, either. Each 5 inch high slice weighs 3/4 of a pound.
Speaking of pounds, that slice has 1380 calories and 32 teaspoons of sugar - quite reasonable for 4 desserts. And by the time you hit the exit, your arteries are the proud possessors of 33 grams of sat fat and 5 grams of trans fat they did not have when you walked in.
It is as though you had ordered 2 Quarter Pounders plus a large fries for dessert.
