Denny's Fried Cheese Melt Latest Extreme Meal
Ever wondered how you could stuff a little more cheese into a grilled cheese sandwich?
Wonder no more - Denny's has done it.
The answer: Deep-fried mozzarella cheese sticks smothered in American cheese and grilled between two slices of sourdough bread.
Sound like a good time?
That's what you get with Denny's new Fried Cheese Melt. The price is reasonable, too. According to The Eater.com, the sandwich, served with french fries and a side of marinara sauce, will cost just $4.
However, CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor reported the cost to your diet is 895 calories and 34 grams of fat.
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This is the latest extreme meal to be released -- and it might be a little tame.
Other chains have come up with a variety of diet-busting concoctions. KFC has the Double Down, a "sandwich" made of two deep fried chicken breasts, two pieces of cheese and bacon that had about 500 calories. Friendly's 1,160 calorie Ultimate Grilled Cheese Burger Melt replaced the traditional bun with two grilled cheese sandwiches. And IHOP has their Pancake Stackers, a confection of crustless cheesecake filling surrounded by two buttermilk pancakes and topped with a strawberry, blueberry or cinnamon apple compote and whipped topping. A combo meal, which includes Pancake Stackers with strawberries, two eggs, bacon and hash browns, runs 1,250 calories.
For more on Denny's new sandwich, click on the video below.
Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. Wonder no more - Denny's has done it.
The answer: Deep-fried mozzarella cheese sticks smothered in American cheese and grilled between two slices of sourdough bread.
Sound like a good time?
That's what you get with Denny's new Fried Cheese Melt. The price is reasonable, too. According to The Eater.com, the sandwich, served with french fries and a side of marinara sauce, will cost just $4.
However, CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor reported the cost to your diet is 895 calories and 34 grams of fat.
Friendly's Burger Melt Doubles Down on Calories
IHOP Introduces Pancake-Cheesecake Sandwich
This is the latest extreme meal to be released -- and it might be a little tame.
Other chains have come up with a variety of diet-busting concoctions. KFC has the Double Down, a "sandwich" made of two deep fried chicken breasts, two pieces of cheese and bacon that had about 500 calories. Friendly's 1,160 calorie Ultimate Grilled Cheese Burger Melt replaced the traditional bun with two grilled cheese sandwiches. And IHOP has their Pancake Stackers, a confection of crustless cheesecake filling surrounded by two buttermilk pancakes and topped with a strawberry, blueberry or cinnamon apple compote and whipped topping. A combo meal, which includes Pancake Stackers with strawberries, two eggs, bacon and hash browns, runs 1,250 calories.
For more on Denny's new sandwich, click on the video below.
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compound) I avoid most of them.. CHeese is oneof my joys which Ieat
sparingly. Cheese can easily be melted with deepfat frying.
Seriously, I've tried the KFC Double Down and it's disgusting. The only KFC chicken worth eating anyway is the extra-krispie because they leave the skin on so you can pull the skin and breading off the meat when you eat it, eat the meat and toss the rest in the garbage. The breading tastes terrible.
My guess is this "sandwich" is similar. They created it just to make headlines not because it tastes good.
Watch for the next concoction out of fast food places - 2 slabs of deep-fried Crisco slathered with mayonnaise and canned cake batter.
Sigh, so much temptation out there at restaurants. It's not so bad when you can cook substitutes at home like oven-fried chicken, but I went to Las Vegas a while ago, and it was virtually impossible to find healthy food that was tasty. Either you have to buy fried chicken and take off the good part, or have to eat some salad with a grilled chicken breast on top that comes with a fat-laden dressing which you can't really add.
I can understand how somebody could easily go to someplace like Denny's and look through the selection and start feeling like if they were going to eat a burger and fries, how is a fried-cheese stuffed grilled cheese sandwich all that much worse in comparison?
I wish restaurants would be taking their menu in the opposite direction - so frustrating!
Bacon makes everything better. But to really top this meal off, it should be chased down with a large strawberry shake.
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Theres a fast food chain called Portillos around where Im at that serves a Chocolate Cake shake. You can actually watch them put in slices of cake and stir it up. :)
That's just instincts though - in real life, it'd be so easy to just make a grilled cheese on whole wheat with just a slice of reduced fat cheese and a little bit of reduced fat margarine. With a big salad on the side.
Everything in moderation :)