Big In Japants

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The Heist is exactly what I like to see from a mobile game. The overall production value of the game is great (minus the voice acting). All of the puzzle mini games are well done and challenging. The story adds in a little bit of mystery. To wrap it all up with an actual piece of software as a price is pretty cool. I hope to see more apps like this in the future.

It’s something I often find myself doing when I end up looking at fast food menu. I think to myself, “I’ll order the chicken sandwich because that’s healthier.” Seems like common knowledge that chicken is better for you than beef. But when it comes to what fast food restaurants serve, is it really?

After I pondered this for a moment, I figured it would be easy enough to find out. All major fast food chains publish their nutritional information online. It’s easy enough to figure out the difference in calories between a burger and a chicken sandwich.

To gather this data I decided to use the most basic burger and “healthiest” sounding grilled chicken sandwich. I picked out the first six fast food chains that came to mind that had both chicken and burgers.

Also, who the hell names these things? Ultimate Chicken Grill? That sounds like a BBQ restaurant, not a sandwich. Anyway, on to the data!

As you might guess, the total calories for a chicken sandwich is less than a burger. Hooray for common knowledge. The average difference in calories is 135 with McDonalds on the low end at 90 and Burger King at the top with 200. But more importantly than just total calories, how many of the calories are coming from fat?

Now you can see another striking difference, the chicken sandwich get a lower percentage of their calories from fat. The burgers average 45% whereas the chicken sandwiches average 30%. Not only less calories, but also less fat. Now if the only tasted like a delicious hamburger. So how much less fat are we going to be eating by order that less tasty chicken sandwich?

Taking a look at that graph we can see a big drop in calories from fat, with two notable exceptions. The first is Carl’s Jr. who puts bacon on their chicken sandwiches. Great for taste, bad for fat. Arby’s has the opposite problem, their roast beef is just too healthy, only getting 35% of it’s calories from fat. In addition the fine people at Arby’s have somehow managed to find some chicken that is fattier than their beef, good work guys. By switching to a chicken sandwich you are, on average, cutting about 15% of the calories from fat, 20% if we remove our two outliers.

So what can you take away from all this? Does ordering a chicken sandwich make a difference? Yes it does, about 135 calories worth. More importantly it’s going to reduce the fat you’re about to cram into your food hole by around 20%.

Just as a disclaimer, I am not any sort of food scientist. Unless you count mixing your own fry sauce out of ketchup and mayo, then I would have a degree. This is all just statistics and rambling. If you are concerned about your diet, listen to your doctor, not a blog.

I hate downloading shit from zshare, but people always seem to use them. Mediafire at least doesn’t make you wait 60 seconds. Thankfully someone made a firefox plugin to wait for you. Skipscreen. Check it out: http://skipscreen.com/

Awesomely rad bootleg remix of How Low by Ludacris. Check it out http://dmertl.com/files/posts/How%20Low%20(The%20Filth%20Remix).mp3

Chase Jarvis, one of my favorite photographers, has a saying, “The best camera is the one you have with you” Which is a great point, what good is your $10,000 1DS Mark III if it’s sitting at home? The camera that most people have with them all the time is on their phone. With the iPhone it’s even a fairly decent camera. The controls and editing on the standard camera app are non-existent. There are lots of apps out there that solve this problem, but so far this one is the best. You can take photos inside the app, or load existing ones from your library. There are several basic filters that you can layer to create effects. Such as contrast, warm, darken, desaturate, etc. Then when you’re done editing there are buttons to share your photo on flickr, facebook, and twitter. Those three steps make for a really easy workflow to let you share your pictures. With a price tag of only $2.99 I would definitely recommend Best Camera (app store).

Enough shitty food reviews. Time for some tunes. Mustard Pimp is becoming one of my new favorites. Check out these tracks:

Atari Teenage Riot – Rage (Mustard Pimp Remix)

Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (Mustard Pimp Remix)

I would think the inclusion of rice with your beef teriyaki would be a give, but apparently fresh and easy wants you to be certain. This is a very simple dish, but the still somehow manage to make parts of it crappy. The beef tastes old and dirty, almost like beef jerky. The broccoli is turning white and tastes like it’s been sitting around for a while. The only redeeming part is the sauce. The teriyaki sauce is pretty decent and the rice is alright.

Rating: 2/5