How sinful is that breadstick? Olive Garden, Red Lobster put nutritional info online

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Is it better to eat through life knowing how (or how not) fattening your dinner is? Now’s the chance to find out. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden and Red Lobster, among others, now lists its restaurant menus’ nutritional information online.

While Kim Hays at the Sentinel seems to be happy that Darden has outed itself, I can’t help feeling like the Muppet Grover in the children’s tale ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ -- I know this stuff is bad for me, but do I want to know how bad? And I know I’m going to have to look eventually.

Hays did spoil a bit of the surprise, stating ‘an Olive Garden breadstick and a Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit are 150 calories each.’

What about you? If you’ve got the nerve to look, are these calories more or less what you expected? Do you wish more restaurants would post nutritional information on their websites or on their menus in the restaurants?

-- Whitney Friedlander

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