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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
Dieter’s corner: Do you really want fries with that?
Let’s talk about fast
foods. I’ve got my
favorite places and
probably you do, too, but
I’m also aware that those
meals-in-a-bag are one rea
son that there’s hn obesity
epidemic in this country, and
that so many of us are on
weight-loss diets, including
yours truly.
Let’s start with some
examples:
If you’re not used to
counting calories, just look
at it this way. Assume that
in order to lose weight you
have to stick to 1,400 calo
ries per day.
You go through the drive
Restaurant Report Card
Houston County Environmental Health inspectors visited the following food service estab
lishments between Oct. 30-Nov. 3. Major problems are corrected before the health inspector
leaves the premises. A rating of 90-100 in considered excellent, 80-89 is good, 70-79 is sat
isfactory.
Key to type of discrepancies found:
A. Employee Hygiene Maters
B. Food Handling Techniques
C. Temperature Control of Foods or Food Sources
D. Facility/Equipment Problems
E. Storage of Cleaning Products/ Toxic Materials
Organization Score
■ 3 Star, 1521 Moody Road, Warner Robins 100
■ Allen’s Stonebaked Pizzaria, 117-1 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins 95
■ Anderson’s Bakery & Catering, 104 Heard Road, Kathleen 100
■ Atlanta Bread Company, 2624-A Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 88C
■ BJ’s Orioles Nest, 2001 Moody Road, Warner Robins 92
■ Big Dog BBQ #4, 854 North Houston Road, Warner Robins 92
■ Buffalo’s Case, 3061 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 83
■ Burger King, 2010 Watson Blvd. 100
■ Captain D’s, 513 North Davis Drive, Warner Robins 96
■ Chen’s Wok/Galleria Mall, 2922 Watson Blvd, Centerville 92
■ Civic Center, 700 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 100
■ Comfort Inn/ Mini Kitchen, 95 S. Highway 247, Warner Robins 98
■ Country Inn & Suites, 220 Margie Drive, Warner Robins 88
■ Cracker Barrel, 2700 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 88
■ Cricket’s Bar & Grill, 1249 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins 100
■ Dairy Queen, 1224 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 98
■ Don’t Place Cafe’, 759 Highway 147 South, Bonaire, 91C
■ Drip Drop Case, 206 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins 99
■ Fincher’s Barbecue, 519 N. Davis Drive, Warner Robins 91
■ Holiday Inn Lounge, 2024 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins, 99
■ International City Golf Course, 100 Sandy Run, Warner Robins 95
■ J&B Catering, 214 Windsor Drive, Warner Robins 100
■ Krystal, 1638 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 97
■ Larry’s Giant Subs, 3035 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 97
■ Little Caesar’s, 2063 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 90
■ McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, 2720 Watson Blvd, Warner Robins 97
■ Papa John's Pizza, 100-H North Houston Lake Road, Centerville 92
■ Shenanagan’s Case, 1291 Houston Lake Road, Warner Robins, 93E
■ Subway, 1001-C Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 97
■ Subway, 809 Highway, Warner Robins 94
■ Sushi Thai, 2624 Watson Blvd., Warner Robins 99
■ Taco Bell, 1998 Watson Ave., Warner Robins 94
■ Waffle House, 310 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins, 95
■ Wok ‘n’ Roll, 789 Highway 96, Bonaire 81C
Phases you go through with wine
We truly are creatures
of habit. If you don’t
think so, ask your
self sometime why you buy
your gas at the same place
all the time.
Or why you eat at the
same restaurants and order
the same dish over and over.
We get into ruts and tend to
stay a while.
A lot of people are the
same way about their wine.
They have those comfort
able selections that they buy
again and again.
Some people know that
they are in a rut, but just
don’t know how to break
out. Others keep the blind
ers on and barely see all the
other choices available.
It happens to me too,
but I have to break out. It
wouldn’t do to write a col
umn and only drink a few
wines on any kind of regular
basis.
So I read a lot of wine
publications to see what’s
new, go to tastings whenever
possible, talk to people in
the business, and most of
all, force myself to buy and
try new things. You’ll never
know what you’re missing if
you don’t try it and see for
yourself.
At one time, I found
Australian wines very excit
ing. They were producing
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through at Arby’s and order
the wholesome-sounding
Market Fresh Chicken Salad
Sandwich. That’s 769 calo
ries right there. Even with a
diet drink and no fries, that
sandwich constitutes more
than half of your calories for
the day.
Or head for Wendy’s
drive-through, and get the
Mandarin Salad. It seems
like a good deal, diet-wise
- but once you’ve added the
almonds, the Chinese noo
dles and dressing that come
with it, you’re up to 620
calories.
Or you could try the Taco
Salad at Taco Bell for 790
a large number of varietals
that were getting great press,
the values were there, and I
was happily tasting one after
another.
Now, I
almost
never buy
one and
find them
boring.
They’re
not. It’s
just a
phase I’m
in.
For
Brian Goodell
The Wine Guy
Morris News Service
a time,
I snatched up Sauvignon
Blancs from New Zealand
as fast as I could find them.
I drank a lot of Monkey Bay,
Matua Valley, Cloudy Bay,
and liked them all.
I still like them a lot, but
don’t buy them nearly as
often as I used to. I’m not in
that phase anymore.
I couldn’t leave the
store without at least one
Rhone red during one of
my phases. It might be a
Cote Rotie, Chateauneuf
Du Pape, Gigondas, Crozes
Hermitage, or a plain old
Cote du Rhone, but if you
looked at my wine rack,
that’s what you would find.
That was a good phase.
I may go back to that one
soon, but it’s tough on the
calories.
Now, about fries, you’d
come out ahead with a
Snickers Bar (273 calories).
Just to
take one
example,
Burger
King’s
large fries
come
to 460
calories,
with 24.5
grams of
fat. Have
that with
a Double
£
Charlotte
Perkins
Lifestyle Editor
Whopper with Cheese (990
calories) and you’ve had
pocketbook.
Vieux Telegraphe at
$54.99 is one of life’s many
pleasures, but Parallel 45 for
$10.99 isn’t bad either.
The average Rhone red of
any kind of quality will gen
erally cost you more than
a twenty dollar bill, but for
food wines with subtle rich
ness and complexity, it’s
hard to find a better region
of the world.
Of course my Italian
phase was terrific, with
Tre Donne Barbera D’Alba,
Masi Valpolicella Superiore,
the occasional Pio Cesare
Barbaresco, various Vino
Nobile’s and Montepulciano
D’Abruzzi’s, as well as some
very good whites and spar
klers.
Maybe my next phase will
be Spanish wines, or German
Rieslings. Perhaps California
Cabernet Sauvignon will
grace my table often.
No matter what it is, there
is more great wine being
made than I will ever have
the opportunity to taste. I’m
enjoying the journey, though.
Remember, that’s what it’s
really all about.
To share your stories,
ask questions, or just
to talk wine, write me at
goodellwineguy@sbcglobal.
net. Until next time, happy
pours.
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your food for the day. (Also,
your fat and salt).
To be fair, at most of these
places, you can get a grilled
chicken sandwich and a diet
drink and you’ll be fine pro
vided you check to make sure
the sandwich doesn’t have a
1/4 cup of mayonnaise under
that lettuce.
Subway (and other sub
sandwich places) offer good
options for low fat sandwich
es. Try the six-inch Subway
club on the Italian or wheat
bread for 320 calories, and
pass on the cheese and that
Macadamia nut cookie.
Shall we discuss break
fast?
Cheerleaders and cold pizza
Have you ever
achieved a lifelong
dream only to find
out that it isn’t everything
you thought it would be?
That happened to me last
week. I was eating break
fast with not one but two
beautiful cheerleaders. This
is a bachelor’s dream.
Maybe it was a letdown
because 1. I’m no longer
a bachelor, 2. I was eating
cold pizza in the Rock 105
radio studio and 3) I had
two disc jockeys —Mark and
Dahmer - horning in on my
cheerleader time.’
Actually, I was part of
a judging panel, joined by
two Roar cheerleaders. We
were called upon to choose
the best cold pizza in town.
The meat-loaded slice from
Santioni’s at Sawgrass of
Ponte Vedra won.
I was chosen because cold
pizza is the one aspect of
food where I can truly claim
expertise. I was a longtime
bachelor and not much of a
cook in those days.
While the cheerleaders
were good sports and ate
and judged the pizza like
pros, does it really make
sense to drag beautiful
women into a radio studio
when only the DJs can see
them?
It’s radio. But I guess
that’s one of the perks of
being a wacky morning
team.
They set before us seven
slices of pizza that were
ordered and delivered
the day before. The pies
were left in the studio
and served to us the next
morning. That’s just the
way a bachelor would do
it.
True cold pizza has to
be left on the coffee table
or kitchen counter over
night. Hardly a health
ful thing to do, but I fig
ure the stale crust has
the beginnings of penicil
lin mold growing on it, so
that will safeguard me.
To truly enjoy cold pizza
bachelor-style, you have to
wash it down with the last
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If you make a biscuit at
home from scratch, it’s going
to be around 100 calories. If
you go to McDonald’s, that
biscuit (just plain) is 240
calories - which is about
average for fast-food bis
cuits. Add in bacon, egg and
cheese and you’re up to 450-
500 calories at most places.
The reason fast-food biscuits
taste good, by the way, is
that they’re full of fat. You
let one get cold and try it
and you’ll see what I mean.
So, to sum up, it’s a good
idea to get organized so that
you have breakfast at home
and take your lunch to work,
whether it’s a can of soup
couple of swallows of that
unfinished Miller Lite from
the night before. All this
morning team had to offer
me was Mountain Dew. Two
sips of that soda and I was
looking
for the
“burp”
bu t -
ton to
kill my
m icro
phone.
W e
judged
seven
pizzas
(three
shops
failed to deliver their prom
ised pizzas - Dahmer made
sure to give them an on-air
scolding). In my book, a
quality cold pizza should
be thin crust - deep dish
style gets too soggy over
night. It’s like chewing on
a tomato sauce-covered
sponge. But the thin crust
still needs to be pliable.
If you can hold a slice by
the wide end and the tip
doesn’t dip, then the pie
has become too stiff. Cold
pizza shouldn’t resemble a
shingle.
Of course, the cheese will
be hard but not al dente . It
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with a few crackers, a simple
sandwich with an apple, or a
frozen diet entree.
The calorie counts above
came from www.calorie
count.com. There are numer
ous sites for dieters on the
Web, and this is one of the
most useful.
Guilt-free find of the
week
Bigelow Spiced Chai Tea
(decaffeinated). Make it in a
teapot or just mike it in a cup
of water. Try it with a little
milk and sweetener. Chai is
spicy and has a deeper fla
vor than most teas. This
is a real treat now that the
weather’s cooled off.
Dan MacDonald
Columnist
Morris News Service
shouldn’t resemble plastic.
Chipping a tooth on the
cheese is a bad sign.
Toppings need to retain
their integrity. I appreciate
sausage that still has some
bite and oregano that pro
vides some zing. Pepperoni
slices are going to be chewy,
but I shouldn’t have to
work on it like a wad of
Double Bubble.
I’m not sure the contest
was Jacksonville’s finest
radio moment. How enter
taining is it to listen to peo
ple chew? I’m sure people
were turning the radio dial
at wrist-spraining speed as
they woke up to hear Mark
chomping into the micro
phone.
But the DJs were enthusi
astic. Though the cheerlead
ers and I paced ourselves
with small bites, Mark and
Dahmer pounded the pie,
taking several big bites
out of each sample. Genny,
the voice of reason on this
morning team, opted out
by using a tiny Halloween
costume as her excuse.
True or not, she was
smart to abstain. Because
as my stomach churned
later in the day, I realized
that day-old pizza is noth
ing to cheer about.
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