America's Future Foundation

This is almost aggresively stupid:

I was walking downtown the other day and saw this sandwichboard outside a Potbelly’s. The idea was, basically, that people ought to be eating larger sandwiches for lunch. Messing around with their nutritional information calculator, I see that if you order a regular-sized meatball sandwich and an oreo milkshake from Potbelly’s you’ll be taking in over 1,400 calories at lunchtime.

What grown ass man orders a milkshake for lunch every day? That sandwich only has 600 calories or so: eminently reasonable for lunch time consumption. Pair it with a diet coke and a bag of baked Lays and you’ve got a relatively healthy (or at least not particularly unhealthy) meal. It’s like writing “I had a sandwich and a stick of butter for lunch and I got fat; what’s the deal with that?”

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