Everyone knows salads are healthy? Right? Amirite? The make you thin and healthy! And cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets are pure evil and make you ugly and die.
Well, according to Sumo Salad, an outlet found in food courts everywhere in Australia. See Axis of Fat’s post on this heinousness.
Only they’re a bit like Subway on this “We’re healthy!” front: hypocrites. If you compare their nutritional info sheets to those of McDonald’s, KFC and so on, you can see that they have many menu items which have more fat/calories/etc than a cheeseburger, 6 nuggets, small fries, and other apparently evil food items. The chicken and mushroom salad has 36g of fat, for example. All of their wraps have at least as much fat and energy as a chicken burger. Even their lowest-calorie mini rolls are about on par with a cheeseburger or 2 pieces of fried chicken.
Maybe you’d get a little more nutritional diversity out of a chicken and mushroom salad as opposed to Big Mac, but that’s not what the advertising campaign is about. It’s about claiming Sumo Salad is “healthy” and will prevent cankles or whatever the hell else because it’s low-fat/low-cal compared to other fast food franchises. This is simply untrue. It’s just an excuse for some body-shaming and food moralising in an attempt to sell more of their products. Bleah.
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It’s about claiming Sumo Salad is “healthy” and will prevent cankles or whatever the hell else
Much love just for this.
dressing has fat
more dressing= more fat
chicken, depending on how it is cut, has fat
more chicken= more fat, fatty cuts of chicken= more fat
A large bowl of crisp lettuce, juicy tomatoes, lean chicken, mushrooms, drizzled with 2 tablespoons of low fat dressing= sounds pretty refreshing and healthy to me…
do the math, this isn’t rocket science
Your comment makes very little sense. Have you had enough to eat? Did you read the post?
I did the math. Sumo Salad’s claim that their menu is inherently healthier (read: lower-fat, lower-calorie) than other fat food chains is simply false. The salad might sound refreshing and healthy to some compared to a burger, but again that’s not really the point. According to their menu, that chicken salad has over 30g of fat, more than a Big Mac. Your imagined cut-down version may well have less, but again, way to miss the point.
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