Thursday, May 12, 2005

"Houston, we have a problem"


Maybe it's me... but when there's an obesity crisis in the US, especially in Texas, and your Amarillo, TX restaurant is challenging people to eat a 72-ounce steak, salad, shrimp cocktail, baked potato, and roll in under an hour, you're not really helping things. I guess if a customer eats this monster in under an hour they get the $54 meal comped. I wonder how much the agony of digestion is worth for the next two days?

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1 comment:

Carl Daikeler said...

I appeciate the promotional aspect of it, but at the same time, I think it's not a healthy one. There are other ways to generate excitement about great tasting food without celebrating over-eating. Like other states, Texas has an issue with obesity. Imagine how exciting it might be if people were rewarded for making a healthy choice.

Ultimately, it's not my business to judge... Except, I can hope that, in general, the collective message we are getting is one of making healthy choices, not the challenge to act in an unhealthy way without any consequence. That's my point.