Burger King to deliver to LA drivers stuck in traffic

[webny99]

In any case, if you add up the calories of each individual generic component and the sum is much higher than the calorie count of the burger, that tells you they've done some things to deflate the amount of calories.

You have some numbers to back that up?

No, and I don't know why I would need to. You are welcome to find your own numbers for whatever food you're interested in. If the math works, you've probably got an OK final product.

But please, do explain to me how calorie count is in any way indicative of origin. I want to know, so that next time I go to the store, when I look at a box of burger patties and see the calorie count, I can know exactly where it came from and what the factory did to it. Same for the cheese, or the bun.

I never said that. All I'm saying is if two very comparable foods have vastly different calorie counts, I have a lot more trust in the authenticity/quality of the one with more calories. If burger x has 100 calories and burger y has 200, forgive me for suspecting that burger x is half cardboard.

[MNHighwayMan]

If burger x has 100 calories and burger y has 200, forgive me for suspecting that burger x is half cardboard.

Or, burger y is full of corn syrup and other high-calorie fillers, while burger x isn't.

It just doesn't follow that the thing with more calories is automatically the more "authentic" of two items.