Do Wendys - do what tastes right
Ever had one of those days or weeks where you just cant be arsed? Like the England batsmen and fielders this week? I'm thinking who might read this. Amanda, Elisa can always be arsed.. Rog mostly, then i think we're moving to Sarah, Bec, Brian, Katie who can be arsed more often than not.. then Mark and Chris, who can be arsed a fair amount of the time, Ben probably a bit less than that.... and well Jing can never be arsed, probably even to read this! He'd better be arsed to file his company accounts before people come looking for him, that's all i'll say.
It may or may not have escaped your attention that i havent been arsed to type into here this week, and well, on Thursday night, having had to work til midnight on Wed because i needed to hand in my computer on Thursday afternoon, i just couldnt be bothered to even cook. Enter Wendy's, which is not as junk as McDonalds, but to be fair is fighting for the same audience. Thursday night then, i had a dinner date with Wendy.
Now Wendy is no different really from Maccy D's. You're aiming for the same quick fix of blood sugar and saturated fat. And hey, there is some good there. There is an argument that fast food kept me alive in Germany, in my final year, and at various times of the past 6 months. I'm assuming i can count that as good?
Wendy's offers at least 9 combos (thats 'meal deals' to the English). But in this supersized world we live in, it recognises some level of social responsibility in promoting healthy eating. So to go with your triple beefburger and drink, you have a choice of 5 sides - fries, side salad, caesar salad, Chilli or baked potato. And the drinks arent so restrictive here either. Any combo can be tailored to your precise health requirements, from the 750 ml supersized coke or sprite to minute maid orange, water and tea or coffee.
So I plumped for a double burger, which was square (a wendy's selling point, but to be fair just tasted like a normal burger), side salad, mineral water and small side orange juice. Practically health food.
Although, that said, the 2 sachets of dressing provided were defeating the object slightly. This wasnt dressing, this was drowning. I didnt open them, but had i chosen to, i would have covered my salad with 412 calories of additional energy, more than 15g of which was saturated fat. Mmmm. Nice. I'm no nutritionist, but i'd say that at 2000-2500 calories a day, (2500 is recommended for men i believe) thats anything from 15 to 25% of a persons expected intake of energy, not to mention fat. Now, where were those fries?
Also with the meal comes a nutrition sheet from the dieticians of Canada - you can find out more about them at www.dieticians.ca/eatwell . Rather like the breakfast cereal boxes in Germany from kelloggs, these nutrition sheets break down the areas where you should be looking to eat - Milk products, meat and alternatives, grain products and vegetables/fruit. I picked up the Milk one and the meat one. The milk one reminds you that cheese, yoghurt and milk all count as calcium containing milk products whilst stressing that 'cream cheese and ice cream are calcium poor choices'. Thanks for the reminder. The meat one was fairly self explanatory, but reminded me that 'to keep all meat and poultry (arent they the same?) cold, make it the last selection in your grocery cart'
Grocery cart? You can learn most things from friends, Seinfeld, the Simpsons and other N American TV shows about what passes for language here, but to be fair grocery cart isnt probably one of them. Its shopping trolley in English.
Which reminded me of some of the other words I had learned (mostly through asking for one thing, and getting laughed at it must be said, although not the pushchair!)
Canadian English - English
Off ramp - slip road
Pavement - road surface
Golden age - OAPs (over 65s)
Crib - Cot
Stroller - pushchair
skillet - frying pan
cook and carry pan - baking tray
paper towels - kitchen roll
bathroom tissue - toilet roll
garbage bags - bin liners
As you can see, my week has also involved me settling in to my flat and filling up with essential day to day items. Expect more Canadian to English translations sometime before i leave!
It may or may not have escaped your attention that i havent been arsed to type into here this week, and well, on Thursday night, having had to work til midnight on Wed because i needed to hand in my computer on Thursday afternoon, i just couldnt be bothered to even cook. Enter Wendy's, which is not as junk as McDonalds, but to be fair is fighting for the same audience. Thursday night then, i had a dinner date with Wendy.
Now Wendy is no different really from Maccy D's. You're aiming for the same quick fix of blood sugar and saturated fat. And hey, there is some good there. There is an argument that fast food kept me alive in Germany, in my final year, and at various times of the past 6 months. I'm assuming i can count that as good?
Wendy's offers at least 9 combos (thats 'meal deals' to the English). But in this supersized world we live in, it recognises some level of social responsibility in promoting healthy eating. So to go with your triple beefburger and drink, you have a choice of 5 sides - fries, side salad, caesar salad, Chilli or baked potato. And the drinks arent so restrictive here either. Any combo can be tailored to your precise health requirements, from the 750 ml supersized coke or sprite to minute maid orange, water and tea or coffee.
So I plumped for a double burger, which was square (a wendy's selling point, but to be fair just tasted like a normal burger), side salad, mineral water and small side orange juice. Practically health food.
Although, that said, the 2 sachets of dressing provided were defeating the object slightly. This wasnt dressing, this was drowning. I didnt open them, but had i chosen to, i would have covered my salad with 412 calories of additional energy, more than 15g of which was saturated fat. Mmmm. Nice. I'm no nutritionist, but i'd say that at 2000-2500 calories a day, (2500 is recommended for men i believe) thats anything from 15 to 25% of a persons expected intake of energy, not to mention fat. Now, where were those fries?
Also with the meal comes a nutrition sheet from the dieticians of Canada - you can find out more about them at www.dieticians.ca/eatwell . Rather like the breakfast cereal boxes in Germany from kelloggs, these nutrition sheets break down the areas where you should be looking to eat - Milk products, meat and alternatives, grain products and vegetables/fruit. I picked up the Milk one and the meat one. The milk one reminds you that cheese, yoghurt and milk all count as calcium containing milk products whilst stressing that 'cream cheese and ice cream are calcium poor choices'. Thanks for the reminder. The meat one was fairly self explanatory, but reminded me that 'to keep all meat and poultry (arent they the same?) cold, make it the last selection in your grocery cart'
Grocery cart? You can learn most things from friends, Seinfeld, the Simpsons and other N American TV shows about what passes for language here, but to be fair grocery cart isnt probably one of them. Its shopping trolley in English.
Which reminded me of some of the other words I had learned (mostly through asking for one thing, and getting laughed at it must be said, although not the pushchair!)
Canadian English - English
Off ramp - slip road
Pavement - road surface
Golden age - OAPs (over 65s)
Crib - Cot
Stroller - pushchair
skillet - frying pan
cook and carry pan - baking tray
paper towels - kitchen roll
bathroom tissue - toilet roll
garbage bags - bin liners
As you can see, my week has also involved me settling in to my flat and filling up with essential day to day items. Expect more Canadian to English translations sometime before i leave!
posted by CBC at 2:34 pm
1 Comments:
yes its the slogan. others include 'long live the grill' (which you wont have heard of) and 'im lovin it', which (knowing you) you might have. scary how quickly these slogans go into your head.
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