Saturday, April 21, 2007

Rating popular lunches in Los Angeles by nutritional content

Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times has a challenge to readers about knowing the nutritional benefits of eating a variety of iconic Angeleno lunches from classic establishments: In-N-Out Burger, Pink's Hot Dogs, Burrito King, Yang Chow Chinese Restaurant and Wolfgang Puck Gourmet Express.

Restaurant     Food                       $       F   P   C   Cals
In-N-Out double-double w/ fries $4.37 1 3 3 2
Pink's bacon chili cheese hotdog $4.30 3 4 5 3
Burrito King 2 carne asada tacos $4.01 5 2 4 5
Yang Chow slippery shrimp w/ steamed
rice and fortune cookie $15.70 2 1 2 1
Wolfgang Puck mushroom and pepperoni
personal pizza $9.69 4 5 1 4
Mad Professah's ranking of the respective Fat, Protein, Carb and Calorie content are in the right most columns. I regularly eat at Yang Chow (see review) and In-N-Out .
It should be noted that 1 g of fat has 9 calories, 1 g of protein and 1 g of carbohydrates each has 5 calories.

In-N-Out has the most fat mainly because of the fries. The slippery shrimp with steamed rice has the most calories and protein because of the portion size (I think it's the largest) and the shrimp has to be a lot of protein. The pizza is the most carbs because it's basically bread with tomato sauce and toppings.

Another interesting part of this exercise would be to speculate as to what other iconic Los Angeles area lunches should be added to this list. I would have to include Zankou Chicken's tarna chicken wrap as well as Porto's Bakery and Cafe media noche.

What regular lunch would you add to the list?

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