You Don't Make Friends with Salad!!!!!!!!!

One of my favorite Simpson's episodes is when Lisa decides to go vegetarian and Homer and Bart sing "You don't make friends with salad! You don't make friends with salad!"

I'm not a big fan of salad. It's rarely appetizing to me, I never really "want" to eat it, and it feels like an appetizer, not a meal itself.

Well, now I have more reasons to be pissed at it! On Saturday, I went with Nels, my mom, and brother to Long Horn Steakhouse. I really, really, REALLY wanted their chicken fingers - which I never even eat all of because they give you so much - but I decided to "behave" and order a salad. Now, I am well aware that you have to be careful with salads and many times they are worse for you than, say, a burger. I analyzed the list of contents: lettuce, grilled chicken, feta cheese strawberries, mandarin oranges, and pecans in a raspberry vinaigrette. Hmmm, it might be "sort of" bad, but has to be better than fried chicken fingers right?

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only ate half of the salad, so as I sat here eating the leftovers, I started to wonder about the nutritional information. Thankfully, Long Horn posts the information on their website.

Chicken Tenders: 730 calories, 37 grams of fat. Hmmm. About the range I expected.

Grilled Chicken & Strawberry Salad: 960 calories, 60 grams of fat. WHAT THE HELL?! In fact, out of the 4 salads Long Horn has, my salad was THE WORST of them all. Of course.

When things like this happen, it is really frustrating. This is why I wish it was a law that all restaurants have to post nutritional information ON the menu.

My lesson? Eat what you want in reasonable portions. This is the second time I chose a "healthy" salad over what I really wanted only to find out it's a far worse choice.

Bogus.