College Times

Issue date: 4/16/09 Section: Blogs

I'm a food person. I watch "Top Chef." I enjoy cooking and when I'm hungry, I fantasize about what I will eat next. I don't consider myself a "foodie" though, because I enjoy the likes of foods, from junk food to high-end hors d'oeuvres. So you can understand my devastation when I read that Chili's had removed the Awesome Blossom onion from its menu. The reasoning behind this treason? The deep fried onion was named one of the worst foods in America last year because of its 2,710 calorie count.

Okay people, this is where the calorie-counting obsession must stop. It may have been obnoxious to listen to this compulsive counting, but we must draw the line when the caloric counters prohibit normal people from enjoying the fruits of culinary genius.

But it hasn't stopped, and another list of the worst foods of 2009 has come out, threatening the existence of some of the greatest foods our taste buds will ever experience.

Out of 20 dishes, the number one dish is one close to my heart. It is Baskin Robbins' large chocolate Oreo milkshake. Now why? Why do people have to go and ruin something as simple and beautiful as an Oreo shake? When I eat something like this, I don't want to know that it has more than a day's worth of calories (2,600 to be exact) or that it has three days worth of saturated fat. No, those are not the sort of things I need to hear when I'm trying to enjoy a treat.

And that's the point isn't it? These foods are meant to be treats, not staples in an everyday diet.

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