This coffee actually sounds pretty damn good. No? I'd maybe stick some heat in there for the cold steep with the sugar and cinnamon, maybe some cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes. Give it a mexican edge. Sure. Coffee should taste like coffee but, every once in a while it is nice to have a complex flavored beverage.
I like this article. Short and targeted to get Twitter responses to fill the content at the end, but it makes ya think at least a little, maybe.
Of course then you have the Washington Post article today. About restaurant chains putting obesity on the menu. Solid stuff right there.
Gotta love the examples:
-- Quiznos large tuna melt sub sandwich.
The numbers: 1,520 calories, 101 grams of fat, 21 grams of saturated fat, 2,020 milligrams sodium.
Equivalent of eating: More than a stick of butter's worth of fat.
-- Chipotle's chicken burrito, filled with rice, pinto beans, corn salsa, cheese, sour cream and guacamole, accompanied by a side of chips.
The numbers: 1,750 calories, 79.5 grams of fat, 23 grams of saturated fat, 2,750 milligrams of sodium.
Equivalent of eating: The calories in more than nine chicken soft tacos at Taco Bell.
NINE SOFT TACOS? WTF man. Granted iirc from 15 years ago when I ate at Taco Bell occasionally those soft tacos aren't really all that big... but a STICK of BUTTER in FAT? Jeepers man.
Scary shit.
For a positive food trend check Bittman's NYTimes article. I'm starving after reading it. The Squid sounds fabulous. And I'll agree, left over pasta is awesome. But some how reading about all his white rice to go with his long run has me thinking back to '09 battenkill when I ate so much white rice pre and post ride (to aid in recovery) that I just aided adding pounds around my waist. 100% medium grain organic brown rice here (pretty cheap too $1 and change/pound).
Oh and I managed to get in my own run this morning. Barely long enough for GCDavid to get his heart rate up but mine was pegged for the whole 22 minutes (trails this time, no 4 legged pace setter).
Following the run this song popped into my head and accompanied my all the way in on the bike. Most of the time I was whistling the tune while riding in (mellow ride).
Ya gotta watch it too, can't just listen. Some of the comments over there on the youtube page are right on. There is a ton of emotion packed into that performance. The Flaming Lips version is the closest non-Paul version up on Youtube. Ya know? Cool Hand Luke, one damn fine movie...
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Chipotle chicken burrito absolutely slays it after a long ride. Guac is extra, chips are extra, no one gets that stuff. The sky is not falling.
Light on the sour cream and it's perfect.
Seriously dude, easy on the Chipotlee.. They use high quality local and organic ingredients, their stores use wonderful minimilist furnishings, they sponsored a pro team.. and as Colin correctly points out, the customer is in control of how much the burrito is filled. If you get the bowl and skip the bread you save a few hundred calories. I eat them regularly (1-2 times a week) and I'm down 15 pounds.. Wife and I SPLIT a burrito bowl when we get it over-filled a bit. It's the only decent food my 7 year old asks for by name. For $15 the three of us are satisfied and we sometimes have something left over to take home too.
The stick of butter is from Quiznos and i'm only pulling quotes out of the article. I didn't write it.
relax ya little hyper active jackasses...
BUT
if a place as vaulted and revered as Chiportly is serving up that many calories, um, yeah...
I'll leave it at that because obviously the average restaurant customer in the USA is purchasing caloric appropriate food for their level of activity, as determined by me from the responses by Colin and not so fat Murat.
I'm gonna go buy a burrito just to spite you. Loon is flat, right?
you buying a burrito must mean you're training (yeah right)...
Loon, yeah, should make last weekend look flat. No problem for you. You'll rock it man.
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