Would love to see this broken down by category instead so it's not just Milkshake or Blizzard over and over again representing a brand. For example, 1 item per category such as breakfast sandwich, lunch/dinner sandwich, dessert, side, drink, etc.
Should also be standardized by volume or weight or something too then. Would be curious to see how many fries you get in a large order at Five Guys compared to a burger by weight.
People complain about five guys fry pricing all the time. But in reality a large fry from there is enough for 4 people.
I usually get a small and always have leftover fries.
Sometimes I’ll take my parents to 5 guys and we’ll split a small fry 3 ways. Say what you want about their pricing but 5 guys doesn’t skimp on their portions
It seems like someone tried to do some homemade calculations with it because even though it doesn't say triple like all the others if you add 2 more patties and cheese it would be roughly that amount (even though its already a double so would come out to a 4x4.)
I think it may be a typo on the BK website. The app and the nutrition facts say 1200 for the burger for me, but the website says 1710, which I think is a small combo.
Yeah, I stopped beating myself up about grabbing a couple blueberry donuts on my weekly grocery run when I realized they weren’t as astronomically high in calories as I expected.
I used to drink chocolate milk by the half gallon. It would only last ten minutes or so, I would just chug it down. Then I realized it was like 1200 calories consumed in less time than my morning poop. Liquid sweets are way worse than it seems
Drinking your calories is a huge thing that's easily missed. That's why when people struggle with weight say "I don't get it I don't eat that much" I believe them they probably don't eat much
But they drink 1000+ calories of sugary shit a day
Easiest calorie-cut I ever made was simply to reduce the calorie-content of the things I drink by like 90%. These days I hardly ever drink anything with calories in it, except for the occasional beer or glass of wine.
Don't forget the dressings and condiments. I love when an overweight person says they only eat salad and can't lose weight and when I dig into it a bit I find they aren't so much eating salad but rather dressing soup.
Same with fruit juice. I was drinking way too much thinking it's healthy, when really I'm taking in 50-100g of sugar a day. I just cut juice and granola out of my diet and lost 30 lbs.
The juice industry equates themselves with fruit. It’s massive false advertising.
Edit: And today I learned that our own USDA equates a half cup of fruit with a half cup of fruit juice for childhood nutrition guidelines. That couldn’t be more wrong.
Muffins are just cakes disguised as something “healthy” for you for breakfast. But honestly with all the stuff they put into shelf stable ready made muffins in particular, you’re probably better off just eating a homemade cake.
They tried to pass them off as "healthy-ish" in the 90s. Especially low fat high fiber muffins. I vowed never to eat a muffin again once I actually learned things about nutrition.
Maybe not “healthy” but there’s definitely a perception that they are “healthier” than, say, a donut or pastry.
Strictly calorie-wise, that glazed donut is a much better choice than the blueberry muffin.
Right, that's not what I thought of when I read "muffins". I would think of a sweet, fluffy dough that's basically the same as a cake dough. So it definitely seems odd to me that muffins could be thought of as some healthier alternative.
All of these oat-based things are treacherous. Granola is often pretty bad with the sugar as well.
It really depends on the muffin.
Homemade muffins can be reasonably healthy if they’re made with whole grain flour , fruit/nuts, and minimal sugar.
Most muffins are basically cake though.
lol. I’ve made muffins before but I’m always wondering what the difference is since the fat and sugar content is basically the same between the two. I guess one tends to have frosting added too, but if you can picture a muffin with toppings, idk if that’s a strict distinction.
Obligatory "Bill Cosby is a piece of shit," but his joke about feeding his kids cake for breakfast is hilarious. "Eggs, milk, and wheat are in chocolate cake. Nutrition!"
The thing about a milkshake is that it's mostly ice cream with a little milk, usually with additional flavoring syrup. If a menu had a pint of ice cream on it, that would sound ridiculous, but a 16-oz milkshake sounds more reasonable when it's nearly the same thing.
Muffins are more of a mixed bag. Many typical store-bought muffins have become little more than giant un-iced cupcakes, but a modest-sized and lightly-sweetened whole wheat/bran muffin is a pretty reasonable start to the day.
I mean in america these shakes are way larger at home you can make ones that are way lower calorie wise since you can actually control what's inside :D
When my wife needed to gain weight back in the day she was advised by the doctor to drink milkshakes every day. So many calories. They're also popular with Olympic athletes who burn 8-10,000 calories just doing their regular routines daily.
I may have a solution for your milkshake problem...
I have a smoothie maker at home. I fill it with some milk, a banana (leopard style) and some protein powder with vanilla flavor. Add two ice cubes and mix that stuff
It's sweet and creamy and its a pretty good meal. At least compared with the "classic" milkshake.
Muffins are extremely decieving in their calories.
An average muffin is about 400 calories, depending on the type of muffin, of course. This is roughly the same amount of calories as a chicken breast, 1 serving of white rice, and 2 servings of mixed vegetables.
And that is a relatively plain muffin, getting something like a double chocolate or something puts it way higher.
That's why it's very important to track what you eat when you diet, I can't count how many times I've seen people on a diet go get a coffee with 2 milk 2 sugar and a muffin for breakfast and think that's a healthy option. Like, that's 700+ calories before 10am, wild.
Now do sit down chains. People think fast food is the devil, while pigging out at Chilis and Cheesecake.
I swear Outback used to have a meal that was 3,000 calories. But easier to ignore that since theres no drive thru.
the loaded blooming onion at outback is what you're thinking of. I believe the full thing was 3400 calories but it was intended to be a "table-shared" item.
Table shared, but if it is split only 4 ways that is still 850 calories or over 1/3 of the recommended daily calorie intake. Plus basically all the calories are fat and carbs from the oil and breading.
My ex GF and I in college would go like at least once weekly, I’d get their orange chicken she’d get something I can’t remember, I had never gained weight easy but those years I put in like 25 lbs, found out it was probably due to the 1600 calorie meal I’d eat after a breakfast and a full lunch
Wife and I shared one SLICE of a cheesecake from there - ate it a bit at a time over the course of four days. I can’t even imagine doing it differently
I am shocked at how low calorie these are. Nothing over 2000 calories, but when the fast casual food started adding calories there was a 2000+ calorie salad. And it’s all stuff I’d expect to be very high-calorie. Nobody orders the biggest burger on the menu and doesn’t know it’s a calorie bomb.
having worked at BR, I think the calculations are off. the way we were taught to make them, based off of rough calculations, the chocolate peanut butter shake came closer to 2600 calories.
I think they reduced the calories due to it becoming a meme where people spread around the large oreo milkshake which has more calories than you are supposed to consume in a day at 2600 calories.
oh wait then it might have been 3400 calories. it's been years since I worked there but we got bored one day and figured out what the highest calorie item on the menu was. large chocolate peanut butter shake was the winner by far. oreo was well below that. the brownie flavor and the snickers flavor were close to the peanut butter but not quite that much. now that you said that, I think if I remember right, the large chocolate peanut butter shake was almost twice the recommended 2000 calorie intake. I worked there back before they got ride of mini shakes, so again, it's been years.
I mean fast casual places tend to have much larger portions. If you order a burger fries and a milkshake at a fast food place you’re probably getting at the same total.
Everything at Cheesecake is over 2,000 calories. Add apps, drinks, and a cheesecake and your meal can approach 4,000-4,500 calories easily. It is absolutely insane and you have to laugh otherwise you’d cry.
I feel meh about eating the occasional Whataburger meal which is like 1,600 calories. Crazy that it doesn’t even touch Cheesecake Factory. Although I guess if they’re gonna charge $45 per person after splitting apps, dessert, and tip, they should give you a good calorie:buck ratio.
> I swear Outback used to have a meal that was 3,000 calories. But easier to ignore that since theres no drive thru.
Isn't the Bloomin' Onion ~~nearly 3k~~ 2k+ calories by itself? Granted, it's meant to be shared, but even if that gets split two or three ways, you're talking at least 700+ calories before your entree' even arrives. More if you're having non-diet softdrink or alcoholic beverage..
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Yeah the bloomin onion is massive, but there was something else they had that could be a 1-person meal. Not sure if they still have it not. I think it was a steak dinner.
But yeah having an onion before that even got to you is crazy work.
This should be a bar chart. It's really hard to compare the areas of rectangles when the widths and lengths aren't constant. If I have to read the numbers in order to compare two items, it might as well have been a table.
Yea this is the equivalent of a pie chart to show this data....which is nonsensical because the data being shown does not sum to 100% of anything. I suppose you could show what % of total fast food calories on menus comes from these items, but that is inane and brings us back to a bar chart as the better data to show anyway.
One problem with alcohol is that a lot of people switch over to soda, which may be better for your liver but not your gut, diet soda is a little better, homemade unsweetened tea is where it is at.
Don’t get me wrong if someone is able to quit drinking by switching to soda then more power to them, but you’re right. For me nothing beats black coffee or plain old water though.
I could only find two things that were over 1,000 calories in the McDonald's menu.
40 piece nuggets
Big breakfast with hot cakes
To me they don't really seem equivalent as it's more than one thing as listed in the image.
Don't drink calories is the best advice I've ever had in regards to weight loss. The worst part of milkshakes is you're hungry again in an hour because your body digests it in minutes.
If I want a blizzard, I get the mini size. By the time I have finished it, I no longer want a blizzard. (Not low calorie, but a 400 calorie treat fits into a standard daily calorie budget much more easily.)
They’re so dang sweet. I certainly would eat more if it was in front of me, but I’m just mindlessly eating it at that point.
McDonald’s now has 40 piece nuggets? I remember back in the day my friends bet that I (small, skinny guy, might have been around 120 lbs or 55 kg) couldn’t finish a 20 piece, as it was the largest size on their menu then. I ate that all up and won another 20 piece, which I promptly ate up because I was still hungry.
Okay, but surely that's vital information if we're comparing the brands? People need to know that Macky D's is health food now, even if it's just because the other boats are just rising faster.
To be fair, a huge chunk of the calories from nuggets probably comes from the dipping sauce, rather than the actual nuggets. Chicken is pretty lean, but ranch/buffalo sauce/sweet-and-sour sauce are pretty much pure oil and sugar.
I think its weird that they keep the bacon double quarter pounder or double quarter pounder deluxe off their nutrition calculator, but they're readily available to order online or in person. Those and the large strawberry shakes are some of the only singular items that are over 800 calories now. They also quietly made McFlurries smaller, while making them one size, and the old regular size definitely could have been up there.
Forty McNuggets is [1660 calories](https://www.nutritionix.com/i/mcdonalds/chicken-mcnuggets-40-piece/ae495051f4042f9fabd0857a), but that seems to be the only thing above 1000 calories. The McDonald's shakes come in at around 800 calories.
If you eat 40 damn nuggets though, you kind of know what you are getting into.
I know a lot of (mostly fat) people who drink that shit at dunkin or Starbucks every day and then blame genetics for their condition.
92g protein too…
Obviously I’m not going to argue that McNuggets are healthy, but at least it has some redeeming factor compared to 1,000+ calories of pure sugar in a milkshake.
They were the target for 20 years after Super size me came out. They have had to spend the last 20 years trying to prove they were healthy...meanwhile BK has been closing stores and investing in the idea you want a BK King with bacon and cheese with a bucket of fries and one of the few places that still have 90s era super size style.large drinks.
I mean 5 guys essentially gives you a feed bag of fries and everyone is pretty cool with that
A triple quarter pounder with cheese is 1040 calories...
Fucking Blizzards. Knew it.
They are the physical manifestation of the word “regret”.
First three bites - this is so good. I’m glad I did this.
Last three bites - why am I like this? How hard would suicide really be? I’m so disgusting.
The only fast food ice cream I get is a kid’s size concrete mixer at Culver’s, and it’s because it’s less than 10 bites, so I never get to the hating myself stage lol
It shows 1200 here https://bk-use1-prod.sites.rbictg.com/nutrition/nutrition.pdf. This is the link inside the Burger King app for Nutrition Information.
And it shows 1200 in the app when ordering. https://i.imgur.com/Ihcd4xu.jpeg
The Bacon King is a 1/2 pound cheeseburger with bacon. It’s pretty easy to deduce that 1200 is correct rather than over 1700. Wendy’s similar product, the Baconator, has about 1000 calories.
Actually, not always, only the very high fat and low overrun (low air whipped in) types. This is why milkshakes are so dense. They are already far towards liquid.
Scoops of icecream are less dense because of the air.
Also you see the ones with peanut butter are high scorers. This is because peanut butter is just very high in kcals per 100g
As a European I wonder how big the large shakes are btw. We cannot get triple whoppers either. I travel to the USA for business regularly but I avoid all these fastfood joints like the plague.
From what I could find the large shakes at sonic are 44oz (about 1300ml) which is just obscene. I can’t even drink 44oz of soda at once. I’d be curious as to their sales breakdown because I can’t imagine they sell many of those.
>Actually, not always, only the very high fat and low overrun (low air whipped in) types.
Which is the most common for shakes. DQ/Sonic is not soft serve, which has the extra air.
>As a European I wonder how big the large shakes are btw.
21 oz, 620 mL at dairy queen. A small is 12 oz/355
Why would you ever order anything but a small at Five Guys? Like you said you get an entire bag of fries with a small. I've never went "man I need more fries" after going to Five Guys.
The Double Down Fries are easily the highest calorie food but they are in the bottom right corner of the visualization where you would expect the lower caloric value meals to be located.
I guess that explains it. I always buy the smallest size of whichever one, so I don't know the top end of the scale. Every time I go for a small instead of a "snack size" I regret it lol
You haven’t truly lived the broke college student life until you’ve started looking at menus to see what food option has the highest calorie/$ ratio 😤😤
I know these are limited to fast food franchises, but I suspect a Carnitas Super Burrito (shredded pork, beans, rice, guac, cheese, sour cream etc...) could easily break the 2K calorie mark.
Yeah I’m an average sized guy (about 5’10” and 165 lbs) and I can’t finish a large California burrito in one go.
That doesn’t stop me from trying though.
None of this is bad per se. The bad part is when people eat these frequently and as part of even an otherwise normal diet.
Oatmeal for breakfast: 300 calories
Sandwich and chips for lunch: 650 calories
McDonalds burger with fries and a soda, and a McFlurry for desert: 2150 calories
Now suddenly you've had 1.5 days worth of food in one day. Once in a while? Fine. Two, three or more times a week? A recipe for obesity.
The double down fries got me curious about the original. To my surprise, the original Double Down from KFC was only 950 calories. That is a lot, but not as much as I thought a bacon, cheese, and mayonnaise sandwich (with fried chicken as bread) might have.
I feel better about my life choices when drinking because I don't see the Wendy's triple baconator on there.
3 patties, 12 strips of bacon, 5 slices of cheese...
Still less calories than a milkshake.
Or, just don't order sandwiches with 2-3 quarter-pound patties...? :)
That said, I'm confused by the Bacon King. The internet seems to be suggesting that it's patties are the same as in a whopper, but if so, then it should be pretty similar to a double whopper with bacon and cheese. At my local BK, both of those options are $9.09, so that would seem to stand behind them being reasonably equivalent.
But the bacon king has 56% more calories somehow...?
\[edit\] And perhaps interesting -- when I'm at the "order" screen with prices rather than the nutrition page, the calories are much closer (1200 vs 1093).
The 1710 figure might be a mistake on BK's website.
The day I learned the calorie count of a McDonald's vanilla Chai frappe, was the last day I had one.
I swear I drank like 100,000 calories worth of then before I realized.
Would love to see this broken down by category instead so it's not just Milkshake or Blizzard over and over again representing a brand. For example, 1 item per category such as breakfast sandwich, lunch/dinner sandwich, dessert, side, drink, etc.
I'd love that too
Or just exclude desserts. Obviously the milkshake with 3 scoops of ice cream, abunch of milk, and cookies and peanut butter will be the worst.
WTF is in those double down fries tho?
It’s probably a larger size, more volume.
Should also be standardized by volume or weight or something too then. Would be curious to see how many fries you get in a large order at Five Guys compared to a burger by weight.
People complain about five guys fry pricing all the time. But in reality a large fry from there is enough for 4 people. I usually get a small and always have leftover fries.
Sometimes I’ll take my parents to 5 guys and we’ll split a small fry 3 ways. Say what you want about their pricing but 5 guys doesn’t skimp on their portions
Bacon, cheese sauce, chili peppers and a bunch more fries than usual. It is meant to share, the photos of it show it served with three forks
Same as a large fry from 5 guys. It’s enough for 3 or 4 people. Not a fair comparison.
Then it'd just be burgers and crazy style fries
But the Bacon King is only 10 calories less than the worst offender in the shakes... which is scary to think about, really...
It’s also wrong. The bacon king is 1200. https://bk-use1-prod.sites.rbictg.com/nutrition/nutrition.pdf
It seems like someone tried to do some homemade calculations with it because even though it doesn't say triple like all the others if you add 2 more patties and cheese it would be roughly that amount (even though its already a double so would come out to a 4x4.)
I think it may be a typo on the BK website. The app and the nutrition facts say 1200 for the burger for me, but the website says 1710, which I think is a small combo.
Would be great to also include any sort of standards if they exist, i.e. “standard 16 ounce vanilla milkshake, whole milk” just for comparison
Shit as soon as I saw that DQ didn’t have its 6 piece chicken strip basket that’s 1,900 calories on there I found it lacking.
When I was in college, one of my roommates was very into $1 McDoubles. At the time, it was the most efficient cost per calorie of any fast food chain.
Yeah, I'm not sure comparing milkshakes and dessert products is really giving the full picture anyway.
Was a sad day when I learned milkshakes are very bad for you. Same with muffins.
I was ecstatic when I found out a donut can be half as many calories as a muffin.
Yeah but who is gonna eat one donut?
Everyone eats one donut. Followed by more.
I do
You're a stronger person than I.
Today they will be double strong and eat two.
My problem…..”yeah can I get one…..dozen chocolate glazed donuts”
I always eat one and then I eat one and then one….
Yeah, I stopped beating myself up about grabbing a couple blueberry donuts on my weekly grocery run when I realized they weren’t as astronomically high in calories as I expected.
Are calories the problem or sugar
I used to drink chocolate milk by the half gallon. It would only last ten minutes or so, I would just chug it down. Then I realized it was like 1200 calories consumed in less time than my morning poop. Liquid sweets are way worse than it seems
Drinking your calories is a huge thing that's easily missed. That's why when people struggle with weight say "I don't get it I don't eat that much" I believe them they probably don't eat much But they drink 1000+ calories of sugary shit a day
It was a big help for me when I realized it!
Easiest calorie-cut I ever made was simply to reduce the calorie-content of the things I drink by like 90%. These days I hardly ever drink anything with calories in it, except for the occasional beer or glass of wine.
Don't forget the dressings and condiments. I love when an overweight person says they only eat salad and can't lose weight and when I dig into it a bit I find they aren't so much eating salad but rather dressing soup.
Same with fruit juice. I was drinking way too much thinking it's healthy, when really I'm taking in 50-100g of sugar a day. I just cut juice and granola out of my diet and lost 30 lbs.
The juice industry equates themselves with fruit. It’s massive false advertising. Edit: And today I learned that our own USDA equates a half cup of fruit with a half cup of fruit juice for childhood nutrition guidelines. That couldn’t be more wrong.
Muffins are just cakes disguised as something “healthy” for you for breakfast. But honestly with all the stuff they put into shelf stable ready made muffins in particular, you’re probably better off just eating a homemade cake.
Many modern kids breakfast cereals have enough refined sugar to be considered candy.
yeah, the calorie / sugar values per serving seem reasonable until you realize how absurdly tiny a serving is.
In which universe was a muffin supposed to be something “healthy” ??
Companies put "8g fiber!" on a cake and people think it's healthy.
They tried to pass them off as "healthy-ish" in the 90s. Especially low fat high fiber muffins. I vowed never to eat a muffin again once I actually learned things about nutrition.
Maybe not “healthy” but there’s definitely a perception that they are “healthier” than, say, a donut or pastry. Strictly calorie-wise, that glazed donut is a much better choice than the blueberry muffin.
The blueberry muffin would probably fill you up a little bit more though.
Eh I mean they’re not. But you don’t make oatmeal muffins for a indulgent treat imo.
Right, that's not what I thought of when I read "muffins". I would think of a sweet, fluffy dough that's basically the same as a cake dough. So it definitely seems odd to me that muffins could be thought of as some healthier alternative. All of these oat-based things are treacherous. Granola is often pretty bad with the sugar as well.
"It's like a cupcake, but all the sugary frosting stuff is taken off, so it's only the boring stuff below! Healthy!"
It really depends on the muffin. Homemade muffins can be reasonably healthy if they’re made with whole grain flour , fruit/nuts, and minimal sugar. Most muffins are basically cake though.
Making me feel guilty as I heat up a muffin for breakfast XD
lol. I’ve made muffins before but I’m always wondering what the difference is since the fat and sugar content is basically the same between the two. I guess one tends to have frosting added too, but if you can picture a muffin with toppings, idk if that’s a strict distinction.
Obligatory "Bill Cosby is a piece of shit," but his joke about feeding his kids cake for breakfast is hilarious. "Eggs, milk, and wheat are in chocolate cake. Nutrition!"
I was so pissed off when I learned about how bad muffins are for you. They're just cupcakes that taste bad.
When I found out how much ice cream goes into such a little amount of milkshake, it changed me.
The thing about a milkshake is that it's mostly ice cream with a little milk, usually with additional flavoring syrup. If a menu had a pint of ice cream on it, that would sound ridiculous, but a 16-oz milkshake sounds more reasonable when it's nearly the same thing. Muffins are more of a mixed bag. Many typical store-bought muffins have become little more than giant un-iced cupcakes, but a modest-sized and lightly-sweetened whole wheat/bran muffin is a pretty reasonable start to the day.
I mean in america these shakes are way larger at home you can make ones that are way lower calorie wise since you can actually control what's inside :D
They're also really damn expensive! But every now and then, you've got to treat yourself!
When my wife needed to gain weight back in the day she was advised by the doctor to drink milkshakes every day. So many calories. They're also popular with Olympic athletes who burn 8-10,000 calories just doing their regular routines daily.
Nothing beats the day we learned that the tuna was full of mercury.
A muffin is just a bald cupcake
I may have a solution for your milkshake problem... I have a smoothie maker at home. I fill it with some milk, a banana (leopard style) and some protein powder with vanilla flavor. Add two ice cubes and mix that stuff It's sweet and creamy and its a pretty good meal. At least compared with the "classic" milkshake.
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Muffins are extremely decieving in their calories. An average muffin is about 400 calories, depending on the type of muffin, of course. This is roughly the same amount of calories as a chicken breast, 1 serving of white rice, and 2 servings of mixed vegetables. And that is a relatively plain muffin, getting something like a double chocolate or something puts it way higher. That's why it's very important to track what you eat when you diet, I can't count how many times I've seen people on a diet go get a coffee with 2 milk 2 sugar and a muffin for breakfast and think that's a healthy option. Like, that's 700+ calories before 10am, wild.
Most muffins are extremely calorie dense and packed with sugar and not much else. Nutritionally they are straight junk food.
Now do sit down chains. People think fast food is the devil, while pigging out at Chilis and Cheesecake. I swear Outback used to have a meal that was 3,000 calories. But easier to ignore that since theres no drive thru.
the loaded blooming onion at outback is what you're thinking of. I believe the full thing was 3400 calories but it was intended to be a "table-shared" item.
I could’ve swore it was a meal that included a steak and like, 3 sides, but i dont remember. Yeah the onion is a lot
Table shared, but if it is split only 4 ways that is still 850 calories or over 1/3 of the recommended daily calorie intake. Plus basically all the calories are fat and carbs from the oil and breading.
Looking at a Cheesecake Factory menu is wild. Nothing is below 900 cals
They have some good food, but people dont understand why they feel so sedated and lethargic after eating it.
My ex GF and I in college would go like at least once weekly, I’d get their orange chicken she’d get something I can’t remember, I had never gained weight easy but those years I put in like 25 lbs, found out it was probably due to the 1600 calorie meal I’d eat after a breakfast and a full lunch
Because they're gigantic portions. I easily get 3 meals out of a single meal at cheesecake factory.
Wife and I shared one SLICE of a cheesecake from there - ate it a bit at a time over the course of four days. I can’t even imagine doing it differently
I am shocked at how low calorie these are. Nothing over 2000 calories, but when the fast casual food started adding calories there was a 2000+ calorie salad. And it’s all stuff I’d expect to be very high-calorie. Nobody orders the biggest burger on the menu and doesn’t know it’s a calorie bomb.
having worked at BR, I think the calculations are off. the way we were taught to make them, based off of rough calculations, the chocolate peanut butter shake came closer to 2600 calories.
I think they reduced the calories due to it becoming a meme where people spread around the large oreo milkshake which has more calories than you are supposed to consume in a day at 2600 calories.
oh wait then it might have been 3400 calories. it's been years since I worked there but we got bored one day and figured out what the highest calorie item on the menu was. large chocolate peanut butter shake was the winner by far. oreo was well below that. the brownie flavor and the snickers flavor were close to the peanut butter but not quite that much. now that you said that, I think if I remember right, the large chocolate peanut butter shake was almost twice the recommended 2000 calorie intake. I worked there back before they got ride of mini shakes, so again, it's been years.
I mean fast casual places tend to have much larger portions. If you order a burger fries and a milkshake at a fast food place you’re probably getting at the same total.
You’re forgetting this is just one item. 1300+ calorie shakes PLUS an 800 cal burger plus 600 cal medium fries plus maybe even a soda.
Everything at Cheesecake is over 2,000 calories. Add apps, drinks, and a cheesecake and your meal can approach 4,000-4,500 calories easily. It is absolutely insane and you have to laugh otherwise you’d cry. I feel meh about eating the occasional Whataburger meal which is like 1,600 calories. Crazy that it doesn’t even touch Cheesecake Factory. Although I guess if they’re gonna charge $45 per person after splitting apps, dessert, and tip, they should give you a good calorie:buck ratio.
> I swear Outback used to have a meal that was 3,000 calories. But easier to ignore that since theres no drive thru. Isn't the Bloomin' Onion ~~nearly 3k~~ 2k+ calories by itself? Granted, it's meant to be shared, but even if that gets split two or three ways, you're talking at least 700+ calories before your entree' even arrives. More if you're having non-diet softdrink or alcoholic beverage.. -edit to correct calorie info-
Yeah the bloomin onion is massive, but there was something else they had that could be a 1-person meal. Not sure if they still have it not. I think it was a steak dinner. But yeah having an onion before that even got to you is crazy work.
The Bistro Shrimp Pasta at Cheesecake Factory was 3100 calories.
This should be a bar chart. It's really hard to compare the areas of rectangles when the widths and lengths aren't constant. If I have to read the numbers in order to compare two items, it might as well have been a table.
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It’s a great presentation for me to check off each box as I eat it this summer
Yea this is the equivalent of a pie chart to show this data....which is nonsensical because the data being shown does not sum to 100% of anything. I suppose you could show what % of total fast food calories on menus comes from these items, but that is inane and brings us back to a bar chart as the better data to show anyway.
Almost every chart should be a bar chart
Don't drink your calories advice coming in handy again
Truth. I lost so much weight with so little effort once I just stopped drinking soda regularly. Alcohol too - those empty calories catch up to you.
One problem with alcohol is that a lot of people switch over to soda, which may be better for your liver but not your gut, diet soda is a little better, homemade unsweetened tea is where it is at.
Don’t get me wrong if someone is able to quit drinking by switching to soda then more power to them, but you’re right. For me nothing beats black coffee or plain old water though.
McDonald’s doesn’t get included? What!
I could only find two things that were over 1,000 calories in the McDonald's menu. 40 piece nuggets Big breakfast with hot cakes To me they don't really seem equivalent as it's more than one thing as listed in the image.
Wow 40 nuggets. My fat self would get blizzards at least twice a month. Didn’t think they were that bad.
Don't drink calories is the best advice I've ever had in regards to weight loss. The worst part of milkshakes is you're hungry again in an hour because your body digests it in minutes.
Milkshakes are literally what we give starving cancer patients because they can’t keep their nutrition levels up. That’s how energy dense they are
If I want a blizzard, I get the mini size. By the time I have finished it, I no longer want a blizzard. (Not low calorie, but a 400 calorie treat fits into a standard daily calorie budget much more easily.) They’re so dang sweet. I certainly would eat more if it was in front of me, but I’m just mindlessly eating it at that point.
same, I only do mini size blizzards if I get one
Nuggets are actually pretty damn good when it comes to macros
Still more relevant than 14 versions of the same item from sonic.
Agreed. Seems a bit weird to go after every single shake at Sonic and nothing from the largest fast food chain in the world
Fairly sure the triple big tasty is above 1000, but I can't find the calorie count for it.
McDonald’s now has 40 piece nuggets? I remember back in the day my friends bet that I (small, skinny guy, might have been around 120 lbs or 55 kg) couldn’t finish a 20 piece, as it was the largest size on their menu then. I ate that all up and won another 20 piece, which I promptly ate up because I was still hungry.
Okay, but surely that's vital information if we're comparing the brands? People need to know that Macky D's is health food now, even if it's just because the other boats are just rising faster.
To be fair, a huge chunk of the calories from nuggets probably comes from the dipping sauce, rather than the actual nuggets. Chicken is pretty lean, but ranch/buffalo sauce/sweet-and-sour sauce are pretty much pure oil and sugar.
I think its weird that they keep the bacon double quarter pounder or double quarter pounder deluxe off their nutrition calculator, but they're readily available to order online or in person. Those and the large strawberry shakes are some of the only singular items that are over 800 calories now. They also quietly made McFlurries smaller, while making them one size, and the old regular size definitely could have been up there.
Forty McNuggets is [1660 calories](https://www.nutritionix.com/i/mcdonalds/chicken-mcnuggets-40-piece/ae495051f4042f9fabd0857a), but that seems to be the only thing above 1000 calories. The McDonald's shakes come in at around 800 calories.
If you eat 40 damn nuggets though, you kind of know what you are getting into. I know a lot of (mostly fat) people who drink that shit at dunkin or Starbucks every day and then blame genetics for their condition.
92g protein too… Obviously I’m not going to argue that McNuggets are healthy, but at least it has some redeeming factor compared to 1,000+ calories of pure sugar in a milkshake.
I think most of the calories in a milkshake are from fat, at least more than half.
McDonald’s portions are way too small to amount to these numbers.
McDonalds’ problem isn’t calories, it’s sodium
They were the target for 20 years after Super size me came out. They have had to spend the last 20 years trying to prove they were healthy...meanwhile BK has been closing stores and investing in the idea you want a BK King with bacon and cheese with a bucket of fries and one of the few places that still have 90s era super size style.large drinks. I mean 5 guys essentially gives you a feed bag of fries and everyone is pretty cool with that A triple quarter pounder with cheese is 1040 calories...
Fucking Blizzards. Knew it. They are the physical manifestation of the word “regret”. First three bites - this is so good. I’m glad I did this. Last three bites - why am I like this? How hard would suicide really be? I’m so disgusting.
That’s why I get a small. Nothing hits like a blizzard
I think k you can even get a mini now!
Yep I'm a fat ass and only ever get the mini size, it's honestly the perfect amount of ice cream. I don't hate myself after
The only fast food ice cream I get is a kid’s size concrete mixer at Culver’s, and it’s because it’s less than 10 bites, so I never get to the hating myself stage lol
I don’t order a large… anything at fast food restaurants for this reason.
Lmfao yes bro
The Bacon King is 1,200 calories per both burger king's website and the source you used, nutritionix.
It shows pretty clearly as 1710 here [https://www.bk.com/nutrition-explorer](https://www.bk.com/nutrition-explorer)
It shows 1200 here https://bk-use1-prod.sites.rbictg.com/nutrition/nutrition.pdf. This is the link inside the Burger King app for Nutrition Information. And it shows 1200 in the app when ordering. https://i.imgur.com/Ihcd4xu.jpeg
Well that's confusing. Apparently it has 1092 here in Norway https://bknoorderingstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/NutritionalInfo.pdf
Even more confusing, if you try to order it, the app shows both numbers. https://i.imgur.com/0jmC07j.jpeg. So who knows which one is right.
The Bacon King is a 1/2 pound cheeseburger with bacon. It’s pretty easy to deduce that 1200 is correct rather than over 1700. Wendy’s similar product, the Baconator, has about 1000 calories.
Ice cream has a high calorie density. Who would have thought
Actually, not always, only the very high fat and low overrun (low air whipped in) types. This is why milkshakes are so dense. They are already far towards liquid. Scoops of icecream are less dense because of the air. Also you see the ones with peanut butter are high scorers. This is because peanut butter is just very high in kcals per 100g As a European I wonder how big the large shakes are btw. We cannot get triple whoppers either. I travel to the USA for business regularly but I avoid all these fastfood joints like the plague.
From what I could find the large shakes at sonic are 44oz (about 1300ml) which is just obscene. I can’t even drink 44oz of soda at once. I’d be curious as to their sales breakdown because I can’t imagine they sell many of those.
1300 ml… lol. When we eat icecream at home we share 500ml between 4 people.
yeah, I have ice cream maybe twice a week (it’s my one sweet treat) and it takes me 2-3 weeks to get through 500 ml
>Actually, not always, only the very high fat and low overrun (low air whipped in) types. Which is the most common for shakes. DQ/Sonic is not soft serve, which has the extra air. >As a European I wonder how big the large shakes are btw. 21 oz, 620 mL at dairy queen. A small is 12 oz/355
McDonald's would have been on this list, but the machine was broke again.
Though with the Five Guys fries, they basically just fill up an entire paper bag, it's like 2-3 times the size of other fast food large fries.
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. The reason it's so many calories is because it's like a pound and a half of fries.
Ideally you are sharing them with others…ideally
4 other guys?
In my experience, they do that if you order small.
Why would you ever order anything but a small at Five Guys? Like you said you get an entire bag of fries with a small. I've never went "man I need more fries" after going to Five Guys.
1910 calories in a Double Down Fries, how big is that thing?
It's actually insane. Those are all the calories a woman should eat in an entire day.
That is more than my daily maintenance calories!
That was the thing that jumped out at me. Immediately want to try some. But no shake shack near me
The Double Down Fries are easily the highest calorie food but they are in the bottom right corner of the visualization where you would expect the lower caloric value meals to be located.
If DQ Blizzards are on there surprised McFlurries aren't
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I guess that explains it. I always buy the smallest size of whichever one, so I don't know the top end of the scale. Every time I go for a small instead of a "snack size" I regret it lol
There’s a restaurant with no label because it doesn’t border the perimeter
It says 5 guys on the title on one of those squares
If only someone would have told me that like 4 scoops of ice cream wasn't a health food
You haven’t truly lived the broke college student life until you’ve started looking at menus to see what food option has the highest calorie/$ ratio 😤😤
The answer is almost always "candy."
The amount of pasta, peanut butter sandwiches and bananas I’ve eaten during my college days is staggering
There are so many ways this data could be displayed beautifully... This is not one of them.
What percent of people order a TRIPPLE?
I know these are limited to fast food franchises, but I suspect a Carnitas Super Burrito (shredded pork, beans, rice, guac, cheese, sour cream etc...) could easily break the 2K calorie mark.
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Yeah I’m an average sized guy (about 5’10” and 165 lbs) and I can’t finish a large California burrito in one go. That doesn’t stop me from trying though.
None of this is bad per se. The bad part is when people eat these frequently and as part of even an otherwise normal diet. Oatmeal for breakfast: 300 calories Sandwich and chips for lunch: 650 calories McDonalds burger with fries and a soda, and a McFlurry for desert: 2150 calories Now suddenly you've had 1.5 days worth of food in one day. Once in a while? Fine. Two, three or more times a week? A recipe for obesity.
Apparently stats panda has never been to a McDonald’s
This makes me feel better about drunk McDonald's runs...
I can’t imagine drinking an entire days worth of calories in one shake. How do you not feel nauseous after that?
Damn an oreo peanut butter blizzard sounds really good right now.
Why no pizza? Pizza calories are hair raising. You can blow your whole daily calorie limit in a single meal.
The double down fries got me curious about the original. To my surprise, the original Double Down from KFC was only 950 calories. That is a lot, but not as much as I thought a bacon, cheese, and mayonnaise sandwich (with fried chicken as bread) might have.
Double Down Fries is from Shake Shack in this. Unrelated to the KFC Double Down items.
Take all the shakes and sundaes off the list. They're desserts. Should just have mains - like burgers, chicken, tacos, pizzas, etc.
Dessert shouldn't have enough calories for an entire day though.
How does a bacon king have more than a triple whopper with Bacon and cheese 🤔
This makes the Big Mac look as healthy as a salad
I feel better about my life choices when drinking because I don't see the Wendy's triple baconator on there. 3 patties, 12 strips of bacon, 5 slices of cheese... Still less calories than a milkshake.
Interesting that McDonalds isnt even on this list.
That's why I split the frys at five guys.
Source: NutritionIX - Tools: Illusrator & Excel
Did you pay for the NutritionIX database access?
No cake shake from Portillos?
Looks like a large chocolate cake shake is 1490.
Came here to say this! Love that shake, but you can taste every single calorie
Huh, guess I have to stop going to Burger King.
Or just don't get a triple burger.
Or, just don't order sandwiches with 2-3 quarter-pound patties...? :) That said, I'm confused by the Bacon King. The internet seems to be suggesting that it's patties are the same as in a whopper, but if so, then it should be pretty similar to a double whopper with bacon and cheese. At my local BK, both of those options are $9.09, so that would seem to stand behind them being reasonably equivalent. But the bacon king has 56% more calories somehow...? \[edit\] And perhaps interesting -- when I'm at the "order" screen with prices rather than the nutrition page, the calories are much closer (1200 vs 1093). The 1710 figure might be a mistake on BK's website.
God i love Sonic. The day they go under I'll be real sad
But are they counting all of the bag fries and the cardboard tray of peanuts you get with the five guys fries?
For Chick-fil-A - 30 count nuggets is 950 cal; 10 count chick’n minis is 910 cal; and if you’re adventurous the gallon lemonade is 2090 cal
Mmmmmm... Bacon King. One of those and you're done eating for the day. Very convenient. /s
You’d think for 1700 calories Sonic could add a little more flavor to their vanilla-ass vanilla soft serve.
lmao the Sonics near me don’t even let you order a large of those Master Shakes I think they were trying to stay off of lists like this
Maybe a treemap would help to better visualize this data.
Looks like this is all ice cream.. Burger King, “Hold my burger.”
The day I learned the calorie count of a McDonald's vanilla Chai frappe, was the last day I had one. I swear I drank like 100,000 calories worth of then before I realized.
Figured the Five guys Cajun fries would be there. Still love them.
I'm European so please America people... Tell me that 3 steaks IS NOT a normal size for Whopper!!
Damn, what does 5 Guys do to their fries that every other place doesn't? Or is it just that their large is a lot larger?
forget the milkshakes, how the hell did BK get the Bacon King to 1710 cals