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[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

What's the hyperbole? The guy sounded pretty serious

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Amid the French fry furore, Rimm has since clarified that he was merely suggesting restaurants offer smaller plates of fries.

Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.

Targeting number of fries instead of weight would also be unscientific, 6 needle thickness and 6 quarter edges fries are not equivalent.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Exercise portion control

How many fries you eat matters more than things like the fries’ surface area or the type of oil used in making them, Lindsay Moyer, a senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said.

Consider, for instance, that a large serving of McDonald’s fries is 510 calories, nearly the same as a Big Mac (540 calories), she said. The Agriculture Department lists a serving of fries as three ounces, which amounts to 12 to 15 individual potato sticks, or about 140 calories. Split your order, get the smallest portion possible or substitute with a side salad or some kind of green vegetable, Ms. Moyer said, or get a baked white or sweet potato instead. “There aren’t a lot of people who are sending back three-quarters of an order of French fries,” Dr. Rimm said. “I think it would be nice if your meal came with a side salad and six French fries.”

Here's the original article with context. The folks were absolutely serious about what they were saying up until the Internet blew up on them

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago

McDonald's salads have more calories than their burgers though.

[-] rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 1 day ago

I've just checked here in France. One BicMac contains 530 kcal while a caesar salad contains 402 kcal. A Royal Cheese also contains 525 kcal. Maybe it's different in your country but here there is a pattern where salad have less calories than burgers.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Royale with cheese!

[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

He wasn't - he was deliberately saying something attention-grabbing so people would realize how unhealthy the typical restaurant fries are made. He knows a serving of six fries is unrealistic.

Of course, people are too closed-minded and insecure to be that honest with themselves about the facts they don't want to hear — preferring instead to attack and ridicule others so they can overcompensate for their well-buried guilt over wanting to eat something they deep down know is very bad for them.