There were times in not so distant past where a appetizer might have been a small side garden salad, warm bread and butter or maybe shrimp cocktail; well those days are gone. Now days you are more likely to find full blown caloric gut bombs for appetizers. Restaurants are throwing cheese around like confetti on New Years Eve and frying anything they can batter or bread. With all the research going into obesity and the health effects, why are restaurants running towards fattier and higher caloric appetizers? Is it because people are watching their pennies and are more likely to order heavy apps in place of a $20-25 entree? Have we as a culture become that over indulgent?
I am certainly not innocent in this matter, I've consumed my fair share of fried mozzarella sticks and might still have a blommin' onion kicking around somewhere. As I get older I realize I can't keep eating like that and I think what concerns me the most is that kids growing up now will just get used to eating 500-600 calories before they eat their entree. Obesity and childhood obesity is truly an epidemic and the foodservice industry might want to take a look at their influence on this issue.
Men's Health magazine has an article entitled" America's Worst Appetizers"; check it out and see what I'm talking about. http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/The-Worst-Appetizers-in-America/index.php Nourish the Thought welcomes your thoughts on this matter and any other topic we have discussed in the past.
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