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Warning! The four hundred gram steak you are about to eat may add to your waist line. Combined with the mushroom sauce ,fries and salad on the plate before you consuming this entire meal may be a health risk. You should obtain the professional advice of a dietitian before proceeding.

To hell with the warnings. You have saved up for months to take your wife out to dinner for your anniversary. You want to enjoy your meal without having to pour over a list of calories and fat grams on a menu. You know that you are over indulging. That is the whole point of it.

Just supposing instead of actually sitting down to a meal served on a real china plate ,using a metal knife and fork and sipping a fine wine every so often from an actual wine glass you decided to spread the ludicrous amount of the restaurant bill across ten visits to McDonalds. Because of public pressure McDonalds do state the calories and fat content on their meals. Rightly so. Ten visits to McDonalds is enough to make you want to count calories.

But tonight it is your anniversary. Look around you. No screaming rug rats. No eating with your fingers. Not a piece of cardboard in sight. No burger falling to pieces with each bite. A table with a table cloth. Knifes ,forks ,glasses and actual waiters.What joy. What bliss. All this and some clown wants you to pour over the menu and start counting calories and fat grams on a menu. Is he for real?

One of life's joys is to lash out every so often with some extravagance which is all the more enjoyable if you are only able to do it on special occasions. I suppose if you were rich enough to dine in a restaurant every night you may well need to watch your food intake. Too much of a good thing may well be bad for you.

It matters not one iota if you are rich or poor.There is absolutely no need for restaurants to list calories or fat grams on their menus.The poor will have to eat less for a few weeks to cover the cost after one night at a restaurant.The rich may well die soon enough from over indulgence.

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