The Center for Science in the Public Interest's annual list of "food porn"–items that have more calories in them than one might expect–identifies Cheesecake Factory's Bistro Shrimp Pasta as a particularly bad offender.
"It's like eating three orders of Olive Garden's Lasagna Classico plus an order of tiramisu for dinner," CSPI said. Some in the food and beverage industries have dubbed the Washington-based group the "food police". More than one-third of Americans are obese.
One of my first memorable experiences in the U.S. was visiting a Cheesecake Factory, ordering a salad, and receiving 8lb of shredded lettuce suspended in a curiously solid hillock of oil and ranch dressing.
Cheesecake Factory pasta on annual list of caloric "food porn" [Reuters]
