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Saturday, July 15

McHealthy?

Muck was just telling me how yummy the KFC "Famous Bowls" are, so I looked up the Nutrition Facts thinking I could save myself a trip. 720 calories (PDF) isn't exactly diet food, but 531 grams seemed like a pretty significant serving size.

Since I don't frequent KFC, I needed to find a comparison I was familiar with - enter the McDonald's USA Nutrition Facts. Since I have nothing better to do, I loaded the menu into my first ever Google Spreadsheet. Sadly, it does not appear that you can publicly share GeeSheets yet - so I published it on my first ever ZOHO Sheet.

The bowl is only 1.38 calories per gram, a whopping 60% less than a small fry. All this typing is making me hungry, I wonder where I can get one of my own?

PS: It hurts to type b,f,g,r,t and v because I burned my left index finger starting last night's campfire - perhaps more on that in another post...

posted by Brad at 7/15/2006 06:48:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

2 Comments:

  • In May we had the Bowl (no cheese) in Culpepper, VA. It was freaking fantastic. At first, it seems gross that you pile all that stuff in a bowl and eat it.

    Then you realize that if you go to KFC, you're gonna eat chicken, corn, and mashed w/ gravy so what's the dif if you eat it in one bowl or spread out in a compartmentalized plate. Same thing, same calories.

    The cheese confused us though - nothing else on the KFC menu contains shredded cheese (that we could tell) so why add it to the bowl? Do fat Americans need a few MORE calories? Or is the inventor of the bowl from WI? :)

    By Blogger Laura, at 7/15/2006 8:43 PM 

  • Hey,

    Thanks for using Zoho Sheet! Hope it helped you out with its feature set.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/16/2006 7:29 AM 

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