Energy-content disclosures to be required for restaurants

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm pretty sure it's only for chains, which have relatively standardized menus - a small independent restaurant doesn't have to count calories on all its dishes (which may, after all, change from day to day).

Exactly.....last time I was in Philthadelphia I went to a TGI Fridays across the parking lot since the hotel's food choices weren't much and since I had far too much booze in me to drive anywhere.......I looked at the menu and on every dish, all the nutritional information is there.......If you seriously read it, you wouldn't have anything but a plain iced tea with no sugar.....

Honestly, if I choose to go to a TGI Fridays......I don't want a menu to tell me how bad I'm eating.......I know that before I walk in.....

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm pretty sure it's only for chains, which have relatively standardized menus - a small independent restaurant doesn't have to count calories on all its dishes (which may, after all, change from day to day).

Exactly.....last time I was in Philthadelphia I went to a TGI Fridays across the parking lot since the hotel's food choices weren't much and since I had far too much booze in me to drive anywhere.......I looked at the menu and on every dish, all the nutritional information is there.......If you seriously read it, you wouldn't have anything but a plain iced tea with no sugar.....
 
Honestly, if I choose to go to a TGI Fridays......I don't want a menu to tell me how bad I'm eating.......I know that before I walk in.....

Ha.  About six years ago we were in a TGIFridays in Honolulu and I noticed a "bunless burger" on the menu.  I asked about it and the very rotund polynesian waitress told me that it's for the carbohydrate free diet people.  How bizarre.  

Well, we're on a new kick now.  We were eating Tofu and bacon tonight, and my wife pulls out a bottle of seaweed and sesame seed that she likes to sprinkle on her rice.  And my son jumps up and down, "oh, oh, let me sprinkle my own."  He loves seaweed, and pretty much anything made from sesame, and likes to cover his rice with it.  And my wife says, enjoy it now, since that's the last bottle we're buying.  Apparently we're no longer going to buy anything from Japan, or at least anything that comes from the seas around Japan, which pretty much means nothing from Japan.  Not that we buy lots of Japanese seafood, but we buy enough that it'll matter I think.

I suppose now that complete nutritional labeling should probably include isotopic abundances of the elements in Japanese seaweed.  Who knew?

Just pass me that bottle of Jack and shut up.  Thank you.

If your kid and wife start glowing in the dark you'll know she was right