a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
zebra2  ·  4131 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who's Up for Chipotle?

Chipotle is health food? That's news to me. Funny that the burrito I usually order turns out to be a whopping 1090 kcal. If I added a drink, chips and guac (thank god I don't) I'd be pushing 2000 kcal in a single meal.

What exactly is supposed to qualify it as "healthy" food? The macro nutrient balance here doesn't look so healthy to me. It certainly suffers from the most disastrous problem of fast food nutrition: way too calorie-heavy portions. If it's meant to be healthy Chipotle is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

What I do like about Chipotle is that it's popularizing the norcal style burrito, where you have a bar and select ingredients and build a whole meal out of a burrito. When I came to socal I was expecting to find some good burritos, however I was amazed to find that type of burrito place didn't exist down here. If you ordered a chicken burrito you would get a tortilla full of chicken and nothing else. Just a meat-sack. In socal, this is what burritos were. Hopefully you'll see more (better) places emulate the norcal style now that people down here have seen the light.