So when do people stop going out to eat?

[fan4ever]

I have a customer who owns 5 Mexican Food Cafes here in the Phoenix area. The past few years we've reprinted their menus 6 times...always to accommodate higher prices. Their typical cost now is about $18.00 per entree...Mexican food.

On a personal note I stopped by a McDonald's today and paid $4.96 for a large order of fries. There's got to be a breaking point for most folks.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by lewdog

$4.19 here. Better than it's been. Bought some and having 4 eggs sunny side up right now. Let's go!!!!!

Did the same this morning. Two eggs over-easy with hash browns and toast. Eggs less than 20c each made it palatable. Hoping more chickens come online to lower the price even more.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Hey, who has the best fried fish sammie?

Culver's Walleye, available now during lent, is really good.

[Sassy Squatch]

Chips are just potato jerky.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by TripleThreat

You don't go to In-N-Out because its "that good", you go when you don't want to spend $10 on the good burger at Five Guys, but you also don't want to buy a burger from McDonalds either.

Funny story: I'm on a road trip and my wife was going to take me to Five Guys for my birthday lunch. However, there was some unexpected thing at the restaurant that shut it down. So I never got it.

Fast forward a few days and she said that she would make it up by taking me to In and Out since we'd never been there. So I was willing to spend the $10 on the good burger at Five Guys, but was burger-blocked.

We were both trying to figure out the fries. Were they old, or were they not cooked properly, or were they really supposed to be kind of limp and soft? We decided that they were really supposed to be limp and soft, and that didn't work for us.

[Rain Man]

In other news, we discovered the best enchilada sauce on earth during our road trip. If you're ever traveling in rural southern Arizona, stop at this place and get a burrito with green enchilada sauce. You will not regret it. In fact, we planned our route to stop here a second time on our way home just to confirm that the first time wasn't a fluke. It's possibly the best Mexican food that has ever crossed my lips.

Avoid the salsa because it's hot, but the green enchilada sauce is uniquely sweet and tart. My wife and I think it's got a lime base or something.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/isabel-s-so...border-willcox

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

Well not really because not all calories have the same effect on your body.

I remember reading some study where they controlled what the participants ate for breakfast and lunch and then in the afternoon the participants got something like a 400 calorie snack.

Some got 400 calories from a sugary drink. Some from yogurt, some from a piece of steak etc.

Then they let them all self serve how ever much dinner they wanted of spaghetti or something.

The ones consuming the steak reduced their dinner consumption by almost 400 calories compared to the ones drinking sugar. The yogurt was in between.

So drinking sugar does nothing to keep you from being hungry later, duh. But eating steak did.

But that's the point.

Calories in aren't the all same. That's why high protein diets work to lose weight...

And 400 calories of steak is a fairly small/quick package...

So being high calorie quick to eat isn't really the issue.

I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, but I feel like you didn’t understand my post.

For one thing, calories in/calories out is simply tracking the amount of calories you’re taking in as opposed to the amount of calories you’re burning. You could lose weight on a diet consisting solely of donuts.

The rest of your post just basically reiterates my second paragraph. You’re not likely to lose weight while eating trash processed foods, which is where most people struggle, because they’re full of calories and not as filling.

[Stewie]

I don't eat at restaurants much because it's impossible to know what you're actually eating. I remember the "heart healthy" menus at various casual restaurants were anything but heart healthy when analyzed.


I will also add that frozen entrees at grocery stores are the worst. Costco and Sam's amplify this significantly.


I once bought "healthy" chicken tenders at one of the warehouse stores. Minimally processed with some breading. Not the processed precooked stuff.


Holy Crap! They were salt bombs. Never again.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, but I feel like you didn’t understand my post.

For one thing, calories in/calories out is simply tracking the amount of calories you’re taking in as opposed to the amount of calories you’re burning. You could lose weight on a diet consisting solely of donuts.

The rest of your post just basically reiterates my second paragraph. You’re not likely to lose weight while eating trash processed foods, which is where most people struggle, because they’re full of calories and not as filling.

Everyone here is a YUGE cock gobbler when it comes to food and fitness

Theres only one way, THEIR way

[KCUnited]

My favorite quesadilla is from Flash Taco in Chicago. They’re a total 24 hour, post-bar closing, 6 hours later loose stool factory but if you order the carne asada quesadilla to-go, and they don’t know you, they ask where you live.

If you answer outside of a handful of blocks away they won’t sell it to you due to the risk of deteriorating optimal consumption. It’s like their one pride item, basted in butter, a succulent marriage of greatness, and to their credit you have about 10 minutes to rejoice in it before it transitions into an entirely different and lesser food thing.

IYKYK

[srvy]

Originally Posted by scho63

I hate breakfast too and especially hate eggs.

I'll have an English muffin occasionally, maybe a Post Great Grains Banana Nut Crunch cereal or a rare BLT sandwich but the ONLY time I like breakfast is when I go on vacation.

Then the breakfast buffet at the hotel is good and I can relax. Pancakes with Banana and Walnuts inside are my go to with a side of sausage links, extra crispy hash browns, plate of tropical fruit, decaf coffee and freshly squeezed OJ.

[jerryaldini]

Can somebody checkout Denny's and report back?

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by jerryaldini

Can somebody checkout Denny's and report back?

Hanging on by a thread here. Can't find anyone to work and the service sucks as a result. The last time we went, we waited 20 minutes for someone to acknowledge us and they weren't even busy

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, but I feel like you didn’t understand my post.

For one thing, calories in/calories out is simply tracking the amount of calories you’re taking in as opposed to the amount of calories you’re burning. You could lose weight on a diet consisting solely of donuts.

The rest of your post just basically reiterates my second paragraph. You’re not likely to lose weight while eating trash processed foods, which is where most people struggle, because they’re full of calories and not as filling.

Well maybe I did misunderstand. I thought you were saying just because they were quick to eat. I didn't see you say anything about being less filling.

And certainly at some level it comes down to calories in versus calories out and if someone is eating too much they should cut back.

But this can still be simplistic. For instance, an overweight, middle age person might cut their calorie intake by 100 calories a day and their body might respond by burning 100 less calories just while doing things like sitting in a chair...

Once a body has accustomed to a higher weight it can fight weight loss by slowing down the resting metabolism.

So reducing the calories in can reduce the calories out. No, it isn't always that simple for everybody but trying to reduce it to simple phrases isn't really accurate either.

[TripleThreat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Funny story: I'm on a road trip and my wife was going to take me to Five Guys for my birthday lunch. However, there was some unexpected thing at the restaurant that shut it down. So I never got it.

Fast forward a few days and she said that she would make it up by taking me to In and Out since we'd never been there. So I was willing to spend the $10 on the good burger at Five Guys, but was burger-blocked.

We were both trying to figure out the fries. Were they old, or were they not cooked properly, or were they really supposed to be kind of limp and soft? We decided that they were really supposed to be limp and soft, and that didn't work for us.

From what I've been told about the In N Out fries take is that "It's healthy" since they watch them cut the potatoes from a potatoe, fry em, and thats it. Whenever I get there frys I have to get animal style and some spread just because again, there frys are so shit. But I have grown accustomed to the animal style fry.

Thinking about Frys... I just had Wendy's frys tonight, they were pretty damn good.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Everyone here is a YUGE cock gobbler when it comes to food and fitness

Theres only one way, THEIR way

I’m not sure who in particular this is directed toward, but I imagine it’s not me because I am not saying there is only one way. I’m actually saying there are many ways to do it, but ultimately they all boil down to calories in/calories out.

Going low carb, high protein, intermittent fasting, paleo, etc., the idea at the end of the day is to restrict you calories so that you’re burning more than you’re taking in.

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

Well maybe I did misunderstand. I thought you were saying just because they were quick to eat. I didn't see you say anything about being less filling.

And certainly at some level it comes down to calories in versus calories out and if someone is eating too much they should cut back.

But this can still be simplistic. For instance, an overweight, middle age person might cut their calorie intake by 100 calories a day and their body might respond by burning 100 less calories just while doing things like sitting in a chair...

Once a body has accustomed to a higher weight it can fight weight loss by slowing down the resting metabolism.

So reducing the calories in can reduce the calories out. No, it isn't always that simple for everybody but trying to reduce it to simple phrases isn't really accurate either.

I didn’t say “less filling” but that was my aim with the chips and soda talk. You can sit down with a bag of Doritos and a Coke and 15 minutes later you’ve taken in 500 calories but you’re still hungry- because that processed crap is super high cal but not filling. On top of all that, processed foods are more likely to cause cancer. It’s basically the worst combination of shit you can eat.