Fresh-Mex Restaurant Chains Get Grilled:
Football-Sized Burritos at Fast-Food Mexican Restaurants Pack Caloric Punch.Yikes, football sized burritos! Don't tell Nao Bustamante or she'll strain something strapping one on!
With slogans that tout how their oversized burritos are so big that they beep when they back up, perhaps the popular "fresh-Mex" fast-food chains should have seen the food police salivating.Just like death and taxes, the whiners always show up when it looks like someone might possibly be having fun.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the group that blew the whistle on the fat content of movie theater popcorn, Chinese food, and other fast-food restaurant fare, has now set its sights on the mushrooming Tex-Mex and fresh-Mex food chains, such as Chipotle, Baja Fresh, Rubio's, and La Salsa.Hit the link for all the details, but here's the net: football sized burritos have a lot of calories, fat, and salt.
Who would have suspected that?
