Worst Foods

 Mens Health Magazine is out with a Worst Foods List. Author David Zinczenko just has a special way to make us all feel real, real guilty for enjoying what we already know are guilty pleasures.
 Number 15 on the top 20 list was:

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California Pizza Kitchen Waldorf Chicken Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing

1,561 calories
N/A g fat (31 g saturated)
1,821 mg sodium

Zinczenko says:

After we castigated its Santa Fe Chopped Salad for years, TGI Friday's finally removed them from its menu. Unfortunately, there are plenty of unsettling salads to take its place. None are worse than this tangled heap of trouble from CPK. And the potential it had! The first half of this menu description reads like nutritional poetry—field greens, fresh grapes, sliced apples—but it stops there. Sugar-coated walnuts, Gorgonzola, and a flood of blue cheese dressing all conspire to saddle this salad with more calories than any of CPK's whole pizzas.

 

Burger King, Quiznos and PF Chang are all on the list. I don't think any of the selections are very much of a surprise- but it is interesting to see the calorie breakdown and understand what it means. So you wonder.... what was #1 on his list? 

 

#1 was reserved for:

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Cheesecake Factory Bistro Shrimp Pasta

 

2,730 calories
N/A g fat (78 g saturated fat)
919 mg sodium

 

Zinczenko says of this meal: