Baskin Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Ice Cream Milk Shake nutrition information:

1 serving: 36 fl oz (1.8 imperial pints)

2600 kcal
135g fat
263g sugar

according to their data, it contains almost 3x the maximum daily intake of cholesterol, more than 2x the maximum of fat and more than a days worth of carbohydrate. It contains about 1/2 the vitamin and mineral content needed per day. Mmm Mmm Mmm, I'll have death-in-a-cup please.

why would anyone need nearly 2 pints of that? Surely 300ml would be fine as a super doopa desert?

just check the ingredients! It’s like some mad scientists experiment

one day America will capsize into the ocean over loaded by it population

Ingredients: chocolate oreo ice cream (cream, nonfat milk, crispy crackle fudge (fudge [powdered sugar (sugar, cornstarch), peanut oil, cocoa processed with alkali, dextrose, nonfat dry milk, cocoa, salt, soy lecithin], crispy rice [rice, sugar, salt, high fructose corn syrup, malt flavoring]), oreo cookies (sugar, enriched flour, vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean oil), cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, corn flour, whey, corn starch, baking soda, salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanillin, chocolate), sugar, corn syrup, cocoa powder (processed with alkali), chocolate liquor (processed with alkali), whey, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, polysorbate 80), milk, hot fudge sauce (sugar, corn syrup, water, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cocoa (treated with alkali), nonfat milk solids, modified food starch, salt, sodium bicarbonate, potassium sorbate as preservative, natural and artificial flavors, lecithin, propyl paraben as preservative), oreo cookie pieces (sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {vitamin b1}, riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid), palm and/or high oleic canola and/or soybean oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, baking soda, cornstarch, salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanillin - an artificial flavor, chocolate), chocolate coating (fractionated palm kernel oil, sugar, coconut oil, cocoa powder, cocoa (processed with alkali), soy lecithin, artificial flavor, salt), whipped cream topping (cream, milk, sugar, dextrose, nonfat dry milk, artificial flavor, mono & diglycerides, carrageenan, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), to protect flavor, propellant: nitrous oxide).

they are the laziest people in the world inoticed when i was there admitidly in orlando. there are no pavements and no way to get across the bloody road. they were driving from shops on one side of the road the other. now that combined with food like that is why they are fat lazy buggers
only my opinion of course
rob

i think you answered your own question there mr smart!
there was a prog on telly some time ago,some health expert went down a street lined with shops,not one shop sold fresh fruit or veg,it was all fried gerbil and lard burgers,no wonder they have health problems

Of more concern should be the rate at which we (the UK/Europe) are following them down this path.

A quick ingredient check of most food products on sale in the UK doesn't exactly make for pleasant reading. It's just we haven't upped our portion size to the same degree - yet!

I recently met an operations manager from a commercial bakery in the North East supplying baked goods to the sanwich trade. He doesn't eat his own products and indeed very little bread full stop

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Originally posted by bob tatt
they are the laziest people in the world inoticed when i was there admitidly in orlando. there are no pavements and no way to get across the bloody road. they were driving from shops on one side of the road the other. now that combined with food like that is why they are fat lazy buggers
only my opinion of course
rob

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Plenty of overweight people here. I could shed a couple of pounds myself, cheaper than carbon parts for the car or liposuction.

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Unfortunately I can see people here heading the same way, most women are now overweight now. We've got a few huge ones in my work here too.

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Originally posted by cd.thomson

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Unfortunately I can see people here heading the same way, most women are now overweight now. We've got a few huge ones in my work here too.

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Sweeping generalisation from your consistent lechery there Whippy. I know how you feel though, I'm starting to find *any* slim girl in the gym attactive now, because that narrows the search down more than enough!

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i used to work on cruise ships based in the states, & so 99% of passengers were FAT americans, & boy did they eat! they,re "club sandwich" was like something you,d put out as buffet spread, food was available 24hrs per day & as they could have as much as they wanted & not cost anything they really did eat.
i prefer slim, my mrs is moaning that she,s gone from a size 4 to size 6???

andy

About 25 years ago, a colleague went to the USA, somewhere in Texas (I think) for a training course (3 months). This chap was from the Thetford area, and was bit of a country type.
He always walked everywhere. Also he wore plus Fours and a Deerstalker hat! (No mad dog to walk at lunchtimes though)

After about a week, the local TV station heard about him walking everywhere.
They filmed him and he also made it into the local newspapers.
After that, all the locals would honk their horns and wave at him! He became a minor local celebrety.

I remember him saying it took nearly a week to discover how to cross the road safely and without getting done for jaywalking!
He also said that it appeared that no one ever walked anywhere.

Another colleague was in a hotel in New York, and the doorman hailed him a cab after he asked the doorman where the nearest papershop was. It was about 300 yards up the same road!
Evidently it was not that safe to walk even that far. Too many dark alleyways off the street, and it was getting dark.

Its not just the USA, people drive to the shop in out village!

Have you seen the size of a USA Big Mac compared to a UK one? Well most things are like that. Thats why they have a weight problem. Its not a lot different over here in the UK. There is a growing trend of Obesity. As usual the UK is about 20 years behind of the USA.

A previous boss of mine used to order children's portions in US restaurants - and often he couldn't finish those...

[Edited on 26/1/09 by David Jenkins]

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Unfortunately I can see people here heading the same way, most women are now overweight now. We've got a few huge ones in my work here too.

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Sweeping generalisation from your consistent lechery there Whippy. I know how you feel though, I'm starting to find *any* slim girl in the gym attactive now, because that narrows the search down more than enough!

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There are a those in this office that actually get in their cars, join the queue of traffic and drive to Tesco to get their lunch! They then spend ages trying to park as close to the front door as possible, you can see from this map just how close they are and it takes me about 2 minutes to walk there, yet they’d actually drive further than risk the walk…unbelievable laziness

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The sun will be rising soon over the Eastern USA...............

'Fat Americans' is a generalisation - I've met quite a few slim ones, even skinny. However, when you watch some American DIY shows the majority of the adult males seem to have beer pots... not that I can criticise.

My son's comment when he went to Philadelphia was how big many Americans are - not fat, just BIG - tall, broad-shouldered, etc. And he's 6'2" so he's not exactly short!

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Originally posted by David Jenkins
'Fat Americans' is a generalisation - I've met quite a few slim ones, even skinny. However, when you watch some American DIY shows the majority of the adult males seem to have beer pots... not that I can criticise.

My son's comment when he went to Philadelphia was how big many Americans are - not fat, just BIG - tall, broad-shouldered, etc. And he's 6'2" so he's not exactly short!

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I think "fat americans" is such an unfair generalisation.

Havin lived there for nearly 2 years I have to say they do have an obesity problem but we are catching them up quick. Still the obese people are still in minority. ie you would 10 or 15 regular people to 1 obese person, how is that any different to here?

There are places where you can go and get dustbin lid pizzas but i think when you take the nation as a whole they are the exception rather than the norm.

List of things which I did find out about America when I was there.

1. Correct no-one walks ANYWHERE, my mother who used to walk around town was refered to as the "Walking Woman" before people knew who she was.

2. They show a blatant disregard for trafic laws while trying to park closer to cinema/mall/restaurant door even in an empty parking lot. ie people cars lining the pathways right next to the doors when the car park is completely empty.

3. Some americans have a blind ignorance when it comes to foreigners, or anything out side the US come to that.

4. They have such so many good places to get a meal. They knock spots off us for that. Over there I lived in a town with 8000 people in there were at least 20 GOOD places to eat.

5. You are saying "fat americans" but don't forget who's usually top or second of the medals tables in the olympics. Their Collegiate sports network is amazing.

6. Thereis no size difference between a US and UK big mac at least in Oklahoma and Texas


7. The people in Oklahoma are some of the most genuine and friendly I have ever met and I am proud to call then my friends.

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I will add that I am sure there are geographical variations the folks in Oklahoma were certainly not overly big

[Edited on 26/1/09 by liam.mccaffrey]

must say i never noticed them being particularly fat when i was over there. I think its more a media generalisation.

That Baskin Robins shake is infamous over there I remember reports in the papers and on the news. Even campaigners outside Baskin Robins iirc

I do have one memory from yonks ago, when I was walking in the street behind Regent Street in London...

"Gee Elmer! It's the London Palladium!!!" in a bellowing female voice... I turned around to see a 'vision' in a pink trouser suit - like a pink barrage balloon - shouting back to a harrased little man following her at some distance. He had the stereotypical check trousers, loud jacket, etc.

It they'd put that scene into a film there would have been an outcry from America, with people complaining that Americans really aren't like that!

On the opposite side, one of my neighbours is a different stereotype - he's a Texan, 6' tall and slim, who looks (and sounds) like he's just got out of the saddle... he turned up in the local pub one day with his cowboy hat on, and got so much leg-pulling that it was never seen again...

my pal as a lad used to like wearing cowboy boots and the occational hat - he now lives in texas, happily married! The stork obviously dropped him on the wrong continent!

There are people from the American colonies who use this site, They will be along to defend soon. I think it is a little unfair to generalise. I reckon as said, there is a ever increasing number of bloaters in this country now. Me included

Steve

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1. Correct no-one walks ANYWHERE, my mother who used to walk around town was refered to as the "Walking Woman" before people knew who she was.

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Is there something lurking in the grass that makes is dangerous to walk on??? I grew up in the countryside and walked everywhere including miles to school (when we did get snow in winter too) with not a pavement insight.

I think it has to do with distance. It's the same here. Also, Remember food is cheaper there so they have a habit of loading up with as much fuel as they can.

Double post. I'm on an iPod touch

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Is there something lurking in the grass that makes is dangerous to walk on???

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Don't forget, gas/petrol/diesel (ha ha ha - very discouraged here) is cheap here, and even cheaper in the US. There is also too much parking; a space thing. You don't have any, and we do. Plenty of room for more wide, boring roads to drive those mastadons on and places to put them when you need to fill up again.

North American cities and towns were designed after the invention of the car. That's why they are so ugly. But really, many Americans tend to just eat more, and eat badly. Takes energy to reach for that remote control. I lived on a diet of Carl's Junior hamburgers when I spent a winter in California many years ago, mainly because I hardly ever got out of my car. Good thing I was young and active!!

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