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Tuesday, March 09, 2004

# Posted 10:20 AM by Patrick Belton  

PLAYING WITH MY FOOD: CNN reports this morning that McDonalds's salads have a greater fat and caloric content than the fast food company's hamburgers. Wow, that's really neat, in a sort of troubling kind of way.

So, illustrating what I do when I'm skipping lunch to work on my dissertation, I used the McDonalds's website nutrition calculator to run a few sample meals, and the CNN article was right. It turns out the trusty cheeseburger has 330 calories and 14 grammes of fat, of which 6 are saturated. The Crispy chicken California cobb salad has 370 calories and 21 grammes of fat, of which an identical 6 are saturated.

You can draw whatever moral you like, but my suggestion is to just go have a burger!

UPDATE: Baude says get the salad.
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