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Kaladin · Feb 5, 2016

In an effort to offer healthier menu items, McDonalds has unveiled a new salad with a nutrient-rich lettuce blend with baby kale, shaved Parmesan, and chicken (grilled or fried). Like many fast-food salads, it may seem like a healthy option at first, but its not. The salad, when paired with the restaurants Asiago Caesar Dressing, packs more fat, calories, and salt than a double Big Macthats a sandwich with four beef patties.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016...-more-fat-and-calories-than-a-double-big-mac/

The article goes on to discuss the larger issue of unhealthy meals at restaurants....but WTF McD's. It's a salad.....a salad has one job on a restaurant menu: be healthy.....how do you screw that up?

JayB1920 · Feb 5, 2016

The customer screws it up when using the a full packet of the asiago caesar dressing and fried chicken. Choosing grilled chicken and/or a different dressing would be a healthy alternative. Still people will assume it is healthy because it is a salad.

jwk94 · Feb 5, 2016

That salad is really good, though, far better than a big mac.

entremet · Feb 5, 2016

Double Big Mac?

First time I've heard of that.

Gordon Shumway · Feb 5, 2016

There's a double Big Mac?

hokahey · Feb 5, 2016

Sure, as does any salad when you put fried chicken and dressing on it. This isn't new.

ItIsOkBro · Feb 5, 2016

Oh god baby Kale D=

Hero_of_the_Day · Feb 5, 2016

There's a DOUBLE big mac!?

EDIT: Beaten.

PeakPointMatrix · Feb 5, 2016

Where in the hell is all of that sodium being packed in?! the crispy chicken?

Tesseract · Feb 5, 2016

I see nothing wrong with that

Y'all salty!?

Baroquemantic · Feb 5, 2016

entremet said:
Double Big Mac?

First time I've heard of that.

Gordon Shumway said:
There's a double Big Mac?

Yeah this. Didn't know it was a thing.

Phu · Feb 5, 2016

What about vitamins/minerals? I imagine the salad would have more good stuff in it than the burger at least, right?

Hero_of_the_Day said:
There's a DOUBLE big mac!?

EDIT: Beaten.

Holy crap, this too.

The Abominable Snowman · Feb 5, 2016

You choose the fattiest salad with fried chicken and croutons and then chose the fattiest salad dressing and somehow you're surprised so you blame McDonalds.

At least at McDonalds, the croutons, which represent ~200 cals and likely a good portion of carbs, are packaged away and inside a little bag and are optional.

3phemeral · Feb 5, 2016

JayB1920 said:
The customer does when using the a full packet of the asiago caesar dressing and fried chicken. Choosing grilled chicken and/or a different dressing would be a healthy alternative. Still people will assume it is healthy because it is a salad.

Exactly. You can't have a healthy salad with crispy chicken and a cheese-based Caesar dressing. Get grilled and low-fat balsamic and your calories are significantly reduced.

CornBurrito · Feb 5, 2016

The takeaway is that lettuce is horrible for you. Not the fried chicken and dressing.

SenorArdilla · Feb 5, 2016

I think the bigger issue is the fact that there's a Double Big Mac. Who knew?

Imm0rt4l · Feb 5, 2016

Double Big Mac?

Vostro · Feb 5, 2016

Well of course. That's because there's FRIED chicken in it.

Divvy · Feb 5, 2016

Ditch the croutons and it'd be fine

RedBoot · Feb 5, 2016

PeakPointMatrix said:
Where in the hell is all of that sodium being packed in?! the crispy chicken?

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how they got that much sodium and carbs on a salad (thought it would be in the dressing like usual, but those values are before they add it). I can't find that exact salad on their website, but the one I did look at had most of the stuff in the "Southwest Vegetable Blend" (basically a lot of corn) and the "Cilantro Lime Glaze" (basically a bunch of corn syrup). And they sound so great from their names, too.

davepoobond · Feb 5, 2016

Double...Big Mac?

entremet · Feb 5, 2016

Gordon Shumway said:
There's a double Big Mac?

Hero_of_the_Day said:
There's a DOUBLE big mac!?

EDIT: Beaten.

Thinking about it. It's probably an easy special order. Just add two more patties, but I never crossed my mind!

I do get McDoubles with Mac Sauce since it's cheaper.

davepoobond · Feb 5, 2016

entremet said:
I do get McDoubles with Mac Sauce since it's cheaper.

you can do that, too???

ReAxion · Feb 5, 2016

Stacking the deck with the crispy chicken.

zswordsman · Feb 5, 2016

I think this article was just a ploy to promote McDs double Big Mac, I mean damn I didn't even know that existed.

Malreyn · Feb 5, 2016

Double Big Mac some sort of custom item or something?

Strangelove77 · Feb 5, 2016

Come on. You have to be an idiot to think that putting cheese dressing and fried chicken on your salad is going to be loaded with calories and sodium.
McDonald's is just giving people options, if they want to grease it up its on them.

Community Forum · Feb 5, 2016

Next time I'm at McDonald's I'm ordering a Double Big Mac, no joke. Didn't know that there was one.

entremet · Feb 5, 2016

davepoobond said:
you can do that, too???

Yes. Been doing that for years since the regular Big Mac has too much bread.

Plus getting two McDoubles is usually the cost of one Big Mac by itself.

Imm0rt4l · Feb 5, 2016

davepoobond said:
you can do that, too???

This is all too much to take in at once

hie · Feb 5, 2016

jwk94 said:
That salad is really good, though, far better than a big mac.

Good candidate for an "Am I the only one..." thread.

Bad_Boy · Feb 5, 2016

We need a picture of this double big mac. I need proof this is a thing.

Zoe · Feb 5, 2016

entremet said:
Double Big Mac?

First time I've heard of that.

Gordon Shumway said:
There's a double Big Mac?

Because for some reason they decided to source the Canadian site instead of the American one.

Edit: The salad appears to be exclusive to Canada as well.

Annubis · Feb 6, 2016

Anyone surprised at the Double, where are you from?

Canada here and it's on the menu in plain sight.

LyleLanley · Feb 6, 2016

This whole thing is a sham, there's no such thing as a double big mac.

FunkyDealer · Feb 6, 2016

That Kale salad is Breckin bad.

ehh... I tried. It's late, leave me alone.

soco · Feb 6, 2016

Kaladin said:
The article goes on to discuss the larger issue of unhealthy meals at restaurants....but WTF McD's. It's a salad.....a salad has one job on a restaurant menu: be healthy.....how do you screw that up?

Salad's on fast food menus are often pretty terrible for you. You can look at any number of restaurants and find similar results. Compared to some of the other ones on this list from 2 years ago, that one seems slightly healthier

One of the worst offenders is Applebee's salad with almost 100g of fat.

Salad never meant healthy. just greens in some form.

entremet · Feb 6, 2016

Annubis said:
Anyone surprised at the Double, where are you from?

Canada here and it's on the menu in plain sight.

American.

Chris R · Feb 6, 2016

Bad_Boy said:
We need a picture of this double big mac. I need proof this is a thing.

There is a "Denali Mac" available here in Alaska, it's just a Big Mac using 1/4lb patties.

Kaladin · Feb 6, 2016

soco said:
Salad's on fast food menus are often pretty terrible for you. You can look at any number of restaurants and find similar results. Compared to some of the other ones on this list from 2 years ago, that one seems slightly healthier

True, but still.....I think the shot in the foot is that it is unhealthier than a large double specialty burger on their menu.

NumberTwo · Feb 6, 2016

Imm0rt4l said:
This is all too much to take in at once

Seriously. I'm having a Matrix moment right now. Everything I know has been a lie.

Deleted member 17706 · Feb 6, 2016

2016 and fat continues to be the macronutrient that gets focused on.

The message that fat = makes you fat is just so intuitive to people that they believe it must be true!

Shrike Alvaron · Feb 6, 2016

It seems to me that if you factor in fries, which people who get a Big Mac are likely to order but those who get salads probably won't, this would make a bit more sense. The Big Mac meal with fries (not to mention ketchup for dipping) would definitely be worse than the salad in that case.

And I was confused why people were so confused about a Double Big Mac before I looked closer and saw that it has FOUR patties. Huh. That is odd. And definitely not something I plan to try.

LyleLanley · Feb 6, 2016

Kaladin said:

This is clearly a McGangBang situation. McDonalds does not sell this.

BadAss2961 · Feb 6, 2016

Kaladin said:
True, but still.....I think the shot in the foot is that it is unhealthier than a large double specialty burger on their menu.

Haven't been to McDonalds in awhile, but now I know what i'm getting when I do.

RionaaM · Feb 6, 2016

ItIsOkBro said:
Oh god baby Kale D=

You're thinking of that thread, right? I saw a link the other day in another thread. Man, what a ride, shame I missed it!

BlueWord · Feb 6, 2016

Get the chicken grilled.

Tansut · Feb 6, 2016

I remember having a Double Big Mac back when I was in high school or earlier. So that was like..... 12-15 years ago? Don't think I've seen any since though.

entremet · Feb 6, 2016

Chris R said:
There is a "Denali Mac" available here in Alaska, it's just a Big Mac using 1/4lb patties.

Wait what?!

Zefah said:
2016 and fat continues to be the macronutrient that gets focused on.

The message that fat = makes you fat is just so intuitive to people that they believe it must be true!

It's really stupid. The government recently released their updated nutritional guidelines and they're still fat phobic.

Log4Girlz · Feb 6, 2016

May as well eat 700 calories of pure sugar

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