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Subject: The Pope and the Rabbi
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews
had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy. There was a
huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered
a deal. He'd have a religious debate with the leader of the
Jewish community. I f the Jews won, they could stay in Italy; if
the Pope won, they'd have to convert or leave.
The Jewish people met and picked an aged and wise rabbi
to represent them in the debate. However, as the rabbi spoke
no Italian, and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they agreed that it
would be a "silent" debate. On the chosen day the Pope and
rabbi sat opposite each other.
The Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers.
The rabbi looked back and raised one finger.
Next, the Pope waved his finger around his head.
The rabbi pointed to the ground where he sat.
The Pope brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of
wine.
The rabbi pulled out an apple.
With that, the Pope stood up and declared himself beaten and
said that the rabbi was too clever. The Jews could stay in
Italy
Later the cardinals met with the Pope and asked him what
had happened.
- - -
The Pope said, "First I held up three fingers to represent the
Trinity. He responded by holding up a single finger to remind
me there is still only one God common to both our beliefs.
Then, I waved my finger around my head to show him that
God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the
ground to show that God was also right here with us.
"I pulled out the wine and water to show that God absolves us
of all our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of the
original sin.
"He bested me at every move and I could not continue."
Meanwhile, the Jewish community gathered to ask the rabbi
how he'd won.
"I haven't a clue" the rabbi said. "First, he told me that we
had three days to get out of Italy, so I gave him the finger.
"Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of
Jews and I told him that we were staying right here."
"And then what?" asked a woman.
"Who knows?" said the rabbi. "He took out his lunch so I took
out mine."
What an amazing story excel..
people are wonderful
Does anyone think this could work?
I got this from an email I received...
Subject: Dropping Gas Prices
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.
Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer, and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas.
It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
BUT, whoever thought of this idea has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!
By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.19 for regular unleaded in my town.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.
With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas.
But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL.
If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.
If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am . so trust me on this one.
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days !!!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you!
Acting together we can make a difference.
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
Keep it going!!!
That is a great story... thanks
Silly Hillary joke...
no offense meant or political message...
Hillary at the Hadassah
Ladies of Hadassah , let me start by saying how nice it is to be among mishpoche. I'm reminded of a Sunday morning a few weeks back when I was sitting with my husband, the former President, and our beautiful and talented daughter, Chelsea. (An investment banker now, by the way, with a very good company. I know I don't have to tell you what a mecheiah it is, having a child like this.) Anyway, I was sitting having my usual bagel with some good novy and a schmear, and I said to my husband, Bill-eleh. How fortunate we all are to be living in this great country of ours. I mean, sure, we've still got that mamzer in the White House. Not to mention Cheney, that chazzer. Or the farshimulte meeskite running the State Department. And dont even get me started
But this is my point. Where but in this beautiful country of ours would you find a boy named Grossman playing quarterback in the Super Bowl? (Okay, he lost the game, but gay gzind.) And where but in America would I be sitting down with Mrs. Feinstein and Mrs. Boxer not to drink Sanka
and play mah jongg, but to decide the important domestic and foreign issues of the day?
And so, ladies, today as I reach out the hand of friendship to you, my shvestern, my landsmen, I come to ask that you join me in my quest. And to assure you that behind this goyishe punim is a yiddisher kop. I hope to meet each of you personally at the lovely dairy brunch following >this event. And I hope you'll forgive me if I pass on the whitefish, its a little salty and Im retaining. God bless America! We should all live and be well
Borealis,
There were 3 hard core smokers at the Ginn Resort in Kissimmee
where I worked in the Spa.
Another therapist and I went to give them in room Massages,
and I thought I would chock to death in the room.
EACH Fellow was charged $300.00 to clean the room...
It Stunk!!
He IS amazing...
and he's blind....
How have you been?
He is sooo funny,
I think he wishes he used litter!!!
I thought so also,
People can be so courageous, I see it all the time...
for the good of the world. glad you enjoyed
Good morning,
I am back from the insanity of sickness with my Mom.
She fell, and is now in Rehab hopefully getting better soon. She's 85, and it is scarey!!!
BUT.. check out this new "transformer"
A great one for a Saturday!!
thanks
Hi everyone,
I am back from my visit to the mountains in Vail..
I had hoped to be there a month, but Mom fell and is now in a rehab.
Anyhow, thought you might like this link
http://richards-creations.net/Pages/8/_Irena-s_Children.html
Try your word skill...
http://freerice.com/index.php
Check out this:Crime doesn't pay" video.
I was laughing my balls off
when I read about you guys and the
balls,
any good ball jokes?
Life
This board is ridiculous,,,,
brains or balls, don't know anymore...
ROTFLOL
Hi everyone,
Just found this board,
I have a red and white Kat, named Rajie,,,,
his fur is really unusual, almost like a rabbit, he is SOOOO
soft... long cat, he is really sweet...
Great posts here
Life
OH NO!!!
I just opened up an account at WAMU!!
Closed Colonial Bank, too many charges, sat on my funds til the next day!
I think I will consider cash.
Excel, is there a board on personal sovernty?
I agree with you excel...
I wonder is he will give money to charity or cash
it out and play with it in his basement?
Hi everyone,
I recieved this without a link this morning, Anyone know
abut it?
By VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK --
Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American Dream, the last matzo factory on the Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once home to hundreds of thousands of immigrant Jews.
Streit's, a family-owned matzo-making giant that churns out 16,000 pounds of unleavened bread a day and has been on the Lower East side for nearly three-quarters of a century, is putting the property up for sale.
It hopes to get $25 million for the antiquated six-story building in a part of New York where tenements and sweatshops have given way to fine hotels and condos, expensive restaurants and trendy nightclubs.
"We're doing this with a heavy heart," said Aaron Gross, the great-great-grandson of founder Aron Streit, an Austrian immigrant. "We're America's last family-owned matzo factory."
The red-brick factory will keep producing matzo until the family builds a new one in about a year, probably in New Jersey.
The 32-year-old matzo heir said it is just too difficult to keep manufacturing in the city. The streets are too congested for the company's tractor-trailers, and he gets regular complaints about the loud machines that mix, roll and cut the dough before it is baked in two 72-foot-long steel ovens.
At the turn of the 20th century, the Lower East Side was the very capital of immigrant Jewish life in America, a vibrant neighborhood teeming with Yiddish-speaking shopkeepers, factory workers and pushcart peddlers.
Half a million Jews, many of them fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe, were crammed like herring into the lower Manhattan neighborhood. Among those who once called it home were actors George Burns and Walter Matthau; gangsters Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel; and musicians Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin.
The Jewish population dwindled after World War II as the immigrants' children and grandchildren moved up and out to better neighborhoods, replaced by Chinese and Hispanic immigrants whose influence is evident in the bodegas and noodle shops that dot the neighborhood.
Today, there are around 30,000 Jews living in the area and only scattered reminders of a bygone era, including Katz's Delicatessen, the oldest deli in New York, and the Yonah Schimmel bakery, whose slogan is: "It takes a downtown knish to satisfy an uptown craving."
While many blocks of the Lower East Side are seedy, gentrification has swept the neigh borhood since the 1980s. The elegant Beaux Arts structure built in 1912 for the Yiddish-language newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward - which boasted a circulation of 275,000 in the 1920s - has been converted into million-dollar condos. (The Forward says circulation for its Yiddish edition, now a weekly, is down to just 5,000, the English-language edition to 35,000.)
Earlier this month, the 120-year-old Moorish-style Eldridge Street Synagogue was rededicated after a 20-year restoration. But in a sign of the times, the building will serve a dual purpose as an American Jewish history museum and a functioning synagogue.
"After the 1980s, you got this continual increase of property values and rents and it just never stopped or went down again," said Clayton Patterson, a local preservationist. "I think it's tragic. What we're getting now is kind of boring and mundane."
Alan Dell, co-owner of Katz's, said he has no plans to unl oad the nearly 120-year-old deli famously featured in the fake orgasm scene in the movie "When Harry Met Sally." But he acknowledged an outrageous offer - "stupid money" - could change his mind. "As my father said, 'Money can make a blind man see.'"
As for Streit's, "we haven't found a place yet, but we want to stay close to our base in New York City," said Gross, adding that Streit's already has warehouses in New Jersey from which the matzo is shipped.
The factory doesn't appear to have changed all that much since a photograph from a half century ago that shows a group of rabbis in white coats supervising production to make sure it's kosher. Many of the 60 employees have been working there for decades.
Streit's has tens of millions of dollars in annual sales and about 40 percent of the U.S. matzo market. Its chief competitor is Manischewitz.
Customers can still walk up and buy matzo from the Streit 's factory, but the retail business has slowed since the 1960s.
"With the rejuvenation of the neighborhood, a different type of person is living there. It's not an ethnic Jewish neighborhood anymore," Gross said, "and the need to be here isn't what it was."
I like that one also,
good sig.
I love art photos so fun.....
Flocking sounds like great fun excel,
Try you hands at this one
http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/useugame2007/html/play.html
Great photos,,
keep the fires burning!!
Love ya', Life
It blew my mind,
just imagine, and I thought my position was
rather helpless before!!!!
i can relate to that excericize program...
check out this email
is a Billion - - - Very Interesting.
This is too true to be very funny
The next time you hear a politician use the
word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spending
YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of its releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and
20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?
A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of
New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you
each get $516,528.
B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family
gets $2,066,012.
Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??
Tax his land,
Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirts,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his booze,
Tax his beers,
If he cries,
Tax his tears.
Tax his bills,
Tax his gas,
Tax his notes,
Tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers,
Tax him more,
Tax hi m until he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom!'
And when he's gone,
We won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Su rcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'
And I still have to 'press
1' for English.
I hope this goes around THE
USA at least 100 times
What the heck happened?????
Sounds really good!
Did you have one?
Believe It Or Not, Japanese Style !
click the line below:
http://www.youmaker.com/video/sv?id=51485816d3124842bc22d463af60dc51001&f=fs
amazing
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2008
Have you seen the new flavors??
JEWISH ICE CREAM
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is now available in Israel
in the following flavors:
Wailing Wallnut
Moishemellow
Mazel Toffee
Chazalnut
Oy Ge-malt
Mi Ka-mocha
Bernard Malamint
Berry Pr'i Hagafen
Choc-Eilat Chip
Simchas T'Oreo
It should be noted that all of these flavors
come in either a cup or a Cohen .
Happy New Year......
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise....
click this
http://www.icq.com/greetings/cards/3672/send/
Glad you liked it...
Happy New Year excel, to you and the family
and of course, the fist
Hapy Hew Year to all the coffee shoppers
Hi everyone,
check out this cuteness for the new year!!
MERRY XMAS HOLIDAY!!!!!!
you betcha!!!!
Disapearing car door
Got this in an email..
> http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/
Nice mas story,
I WISH that was where I used to live,,,, now
I live in a little box in a larger generic
neighborhood in Orlando, Fl. I miss the West
Life
Happy Holidays everyone
That was great excel,, good tune
‘Eat This, Not That’
The dirt on restaurant nutrition
It didn’t surprise Dave Zinczenko and a team of Men’s Health editors that
restaurants weren’t eager to share their nutritional charts, but what the
team found surprised even its members. “Eat This, Not That” is based on the
magazine's column by the same name but reveals so much more. Here's an
excerpt:
Introduction: A Weight Loss Coach in Your Pocket
I don’t want you to read this book.
I don’t want you to read this book because I want you to do something else:
I want you to USE it.
Use it when you’re out with friends. Use it when you’re shopping for your
family. Use it when you’re idling in the drive-thru, waiting to talk to a
clown. Use it to make smart, healthy, fat-busting food choices no matter
where you are. Use it to strip away belly fat, build lean, firm muscle, and
look and feel fitter, healthier, and happier than you have in years.
See, this isn’t a traditional diet book. Diet books are great when you’re
sitting at home and reading. But how do they help you out in the real world,
where an impatient server or a kid in a paper hat is waiting for your
decision? Besides, I bet you have better things to do than sit inside
reading diet books. Instead, you’d rather be out in the world enjoying
yourself—having fun with office mates, sharing good times with family—and
knowing that you’re making the right food choices every time. It’s simple:
Just use EAT THIS, NOT THAT! as your sourcebook, and you can live life to
the fullest and still lose weight and build the body you want.
Smart weight loss isn’t about staving yourself, or eating only grapefruit
and tofu, or running everything you eat through a juicer (which really ruins
the pizza experience, by the way). The smart path to weight loss is about
smart choices—choices you make every day.
With EAT THIS, NOT THAT!, those choices just got easier.
As the editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine, it’s my job to scour the
studies, interview the experts, test out the trends, and compile the newest,
smartest, most authoritative information on weight loss available. I even
created my own diet franchise—The Abs Diet—which has sold more than one
million copies, much of it by word-of-mouth. And it works! Tens of thousands
of men and women have lost weight and rediscovered the firm, rippled
abdominal muscles of their youth—and gained control of their waistlines,
their health, and their lives.
So why EAT THIS, NOT THAT!?
It’s simple. No matter how successful The Abs Diet has been, it shares with
all other diets one single dilemma: A diet only works if you have control
over what, how, and when you’re eating. And as you well know, most of the
time, you don’t have control.
Sure, you can cook your own dinner. You can brown-bag your own lunch. You
can spoon yourself some yogurt in the morning and eat a healthy snack before
bedtime. (And yes, there ARE healthy and delicious snacks to eat before
bedtime.) But you can’t control what’s offered at the office cafeteria
(unless you own the company), or what’s being served at Mom’s house for
Thanksgiving (unless you’re Mom). And you can’t stand in the kitchen at
Olive Garden or Mickey D’s and tell the chef to go easier on the vegetable
oil, either.
Consider this:
TWO-THIRDS OF U.S. ADULTS ARE NOW OVERWEIGHT, and the obesity rate has
increased 50 percent since 1960. Is it because we all just turned into junk
food junkies? No: It’s because restaurants and packaged food marketers are
loading our meals with empty calories, and there’s nothing we can do about
it—until now, that is!
THE FOOD INDUSTRY SPENDS $30 BILLION A YEAR ON ADVERTISING—70 percent of it
pitching convenience foods, candy, soda, and desserts. Even the teens
working behind the counter are coached to get you to upsize your meal. (And
for an average of 17 percent more money, you get yourself 55 percent more
calories! A bargain—if you consider flab a good investment.)
EVEN THE EXPERTS ARE CONFUSED. In a Cornell University study, 85 grad
students and nutrition science professors served themselves ice cream. One
group underestimated their own serving size—and caloric intake—by 40
percent!
But with EAT THIS, NOT THAT!, you’re the expert. You’re the expert in the
frozen food aisle. You’re the expert at the deli counter. You’re even the
expert at the sushi restaurant. You control your food universe because,
unlike every other customer, you’ll know the smart choices to
make—instantly!
Just think about what this means:
YOU’LL LOSE WEIGHT.
EAT THIS, NOT THAT is crafted to specifically target belly fat—by filling
you with smart, healthy choices that rev up your resting metabolism and
helping you burn away flab all day, every day, even while you sleep.
YOU’LL RESHAPE YOUR BODY.
Most diet plans force you to cut, cut, cut calories until you’re practically
starving. And what do you get? Sure, you lose fat, but you also lose muscle.
And muscle is crucial to keeping your metabolism revving and giving you the
lean, firm shape you crave. So as soon as you go off your starvation diet,
your body is primed to gain weight back more easily than before. But with
EAT THIS, NOT THAT!, you’ll never go hungry. You’ll eat in the same places
at the same times, but you’ll eat smarter. And that means you’ll be able to
hold on to and even build firm, lean muscle while shedding useless, flabby
pounds.
YOU’LL GAIN GREATER HEALTH.
The number-one principle of EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is to cut empty calories and
add in nutrition—more bang for your caloric buck with every bite. And by
carving away belly flab, you’ll cut your risk of heart disease, diabetes,
stroke, and even cancer. (A University of Alabama-Birmingham study, for
example, found that the amount of belly flab you carry is the single best
predictor of heart disease—more so than blood pressure, cholesterol, or
family history.)
YOU’LL EVEN GAIN RESPECT.
Not just the respect of those who admire your body—because let’s face it,
staying lean is something successful people do—but the respect of coworkers
and bosses, too. Don’t believe me? Consider this: A NYU study found that
people packing on an extra 40 pounds make 20 percent less than their slimmer
colleagues.
Those are some hefty promises, but EAT THIS, NOT THAT! has the insider info
to deliver.
Thing about it: Do you really know what’s in the food you’re ordering at the
sports bar, the fast food restaurant, the local diner, or the
all-you-can-eat buffet? Not unless you’ve worked in the kitchen yourself. Do
you really know if that burger is 250 calories, 500 calories, or 1,000
calories? No. (And now you’ll be shocked and amazed when you discover the
truth!)
Well, now you know. And you’ll be able to make smart choices wherever you
go, whenever you go. Losing weight and feeling fit and healthy has never
been so easy. And there’s a reason for that:
EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is jam-packed with SECRETS THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY DOESN’T
WANT YOU TO KNOW! For example:
BURGER KING doesn’t want you to know that a BK Big Fish Sandwich and fries
have a whopping 1,000 calories—nearly half your daily caloric intake! (Fish
is usually healthy, but not this kind. Find out why on page 39.)
PIZZA HUT doesn’t want you to know that a standard pizza in Italy contains
500 to 800 calories, but the same meal at Pizza Hut can top 2,100 calories!
(You’d need to ride a stationary bike for more than three hours to burn off
this mistake. Instead, eat all the pizza you want by making smart choices—I’ve
outlined them on page 106.)
PANERA doesn’t want you to know that their Sierra Turkey sandwich packs 41
grams of fat! (The real criminal is the bread it’s served on—check out page
103 for details.)
MACARONI GRILL doesn’t want you to know that a single serving of their
Grilled Salmon Teriyaki has more than three times your daily allowance of
sodium! (Cut your risk of high blood pressure by making smart choices at the
same restaurant. You’ll find them on page 117.)
APPLEBEE’S, OLIVE GARDEN, OUTBACK and RED LOBSTER don’t’ want you to know
that they don’t’ provide full nutritional information for their products. We
worked with the nutritional analysis website CalorieKing.com to find out
what these titans of the restaurant industry are hiding, and what we found
was astounding: A plate of Chicken Marsala at Olive Garden has 1,315
calories and 86 grams of fat; a salad at Applebee’s (their Grilled Steak
Caesar) has more than an entire day’s worth of fat entangled in its leave;
and Outback’s Aussie Cheese Fries, at 2,900 calories, is the single worst
food in America. (Start your own investigation on page 6.)
No, the restaurant and packaged-food industries don’t want you to know any
of this. They want you to go right ahead and keep ordering their food
blindly, trying to eat healthy but never really knowing what’s in that
not-so-happy meal in front of you, and wondering why the weight never seems
to come off.
The funny thing is, if you only knew the insider information, you could eat
at any of your favorite restaurants—or chow down on everything from the
company vending machine to your kids’ Halloween buckets—and know that every
decision you made was smart, healthy, and the best possible choice for you.
For example, did you know:
AT KRISPY KREME, all you need to do is order the Very Berry Chiller instead
of the Mocha Dream Chiller, and you’ll save 500 calories? (Do that once a
week and you’ll drop more than 7 pounds this year—without trying!)
AT CHIPOTLE, you can cut 498 calories out of your Chicken Burrito just by
ordering it as a bowl (without the tortilla) and asking them to hold the
rice. (Same great taste, but with 83 fewer carb grams!)
AT COLD STONE CREAMERY, you can save 40 calories and 2 grams of fat by
choosing shaved chocolate, not chocolate chips, as your topping. (Sure, you’re
indulging—but why not indulge smartly?)
AT McDONALD’S, an Egg McMuffin is actually a healthy choice, with just 300
calories. (The Hotcakes pack more than double that amount!)
AT CHICK-FIL-A, not a single sandwich tops 500 calories. (When it comes to
fast food, this might be the healthiest no-brainer around.)
IN THE PRODUCE AISLE, you’ll get twice the vitamin C—and nine times as much
vitamin A—by simply picking red bell peppers over green ones. (Who said
eating healthy was difficult?)
And that’s why EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is going to change everything. It’s time
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waistlines, and having to starve ourselves or spend hours on the treadmill
trying to burn off the damage. Now—for the first time—you’re in charge!
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Absolutely,
my feelings exactly lol
that's great mfats!!lol
I like meatballs warmed up!! BTW