last night, mama de pooka dropped by to pick up some stuff and she started telling me about this restaurant she went to last week in tacoma that has the calories and grams of fat listed for each menu item. she and her food-companion sat down, opened the menu, dropped their jaws, and left to get food elsewhere. what surprised her were two things 1) that a burger/nachos kind of restaurant in tacoma would have nutrition information and 2) that the aforementioned nachos contained somewhere north of 1000 calories. holy shit.

this made me wonder what would happen if all restaurants had to list calorie counts next to each item on the menu. would people stop going out to eat? if not, would they change how they ate? would it be bad for business for restaurants to label? would they simply change the way they cook to use less fat? or would they lobby the fda to increase the total recommended number of calories again?

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