Truth In Advertising

I think truth in advertising should include the names of menu items on fast food menus. There are a couple of things being advertised lately that can use some name adjustment to more accurately reflect what the consumer gets.

Let's start with the Whopper Jr. There isn't much junior here. Without cheese it has 370 calories which is 1/4 of what most people should get in a day, 21 grams of fat of which 6 is saturated which is 40% on both counts and 560 mgs of sodium which is more than 50% of what a healthy diet allows. So the truth in advertising name should be Plenty O Whopper If You Don't Have Fries And A Coke and Eat Really Clean All Day Otherwise.

McDonald's has been advertising Fish McBites. They are cute little balls of "fish" and breading. They pack 500 calories when you add the Tartar sauce - 31% of a day's worth, 35 grams of fat with 5 grams of saturated fat which is almost all of your daily fat and 35% of the saturated fat, and 790 mgs of sodium which is almost 80% of a day's worth. Let's call them Fat and Salty McBites.

KFC has revived the Chicken Pot Pie. If you eat one you may need reviving yourself. Thay pack 790 calories - 1/2 a day's worth, 45 grams of fat with 37 grams of saturated fat which is purely obscene along with nearly 2 days worth of sodium at 1970 mgs. Let's call this The Paramedic Special Pot Pie.

Finally, our friends at Jack in the Box have the Hot Mess. This name is close to true. It has 846 calories - more than 50%, 59 grams of fat with 20 grams saturated fat which are both over 100% of what you should eat daily, and 1201 mgs of sodium which is also more than 100% of a healthy diet. Lets call this the Hot Heat Attack Mess From Hell.

I wanted to do Wendy's Spicy Santa Fe Burger but I was unable to find the nutritional info.

Please don't eat this stuff or feed it to your kids - they are human too even if they seem like aliens most of the time and the stuff affects them the same way it does you.

Be very well and more soon....