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I will be going to the Outback in the next few weeks. Before my diet, I ALWAYS ordered the Rockhampton Ribeye. Do you know if they have good mixed vedgies to replace the potatoe stuff? I'm not a big fan of squash.

Followup to Donica:Ebert and Roeper discussing "Supersize Me"

I always found the low carb fast food to me extremely uninspired. McDonalds and BK with their bunless burgers and arbys with their sandwich meat and lettuce in a plastic tray. Papa john's offering crystalizes this point with their low carb pizza, where they just use 1/2 the dough, and it still ends up being like 20g/slice. The only one that required any bit of ingenuity to come up with was the subway low-carb wrap. Some are just terrible... I'm not sure if you all have Caribou Coffee out there, but they came out with a new drink, the "Skinny Bou low carb latte." A medium has 10g carbs compared to the regular @ 16.7g, but amazingly, it has 122g of fat compared to the regular @ 6.3g!

I was watching the news and the corporate officer that 'came up with' the bunless burger idea for BK said something like "i just saw someone throwing away the bun one day and I just thought up the idea.' I thought to myself, if this guy had set foot in a grocery store in the last 6 months, he probly woulda noticed low carb breads hitting the market, and might have even thought up the low carb bun. The visal comes to mind of that time George Bush Sr was shocked and amazed by price scanners in the grocery store.

So why on earth has no chain come out with low-carb buns for burgers? I do have a theory. It could be because all it would take is one diebetic ordering the low carb burger and getting the regular... then there's a big 'ole McLawsuit. The low carb bun would have to look pretty unique in order to avoid such a complication.

That's a very good question on low carb buns. We're having burgers tonight on the grill and while my son gets buns the rest of us are eating them bunless. We did in fact get low carb bread at the supermarket on the shopping run. They definitely have low carb muffin mixes so it's not a matter of making a "solid bread" vs slices. The muffins are quite dense.

It's only been the past month or two that we've seen REAL progress on the bread front, suddenly there are a variety of brands out there. So I think they're testing the waters, making sure this isn't a fad. Actually nutritionists are telling EVERYONE to eat the low carb breads because they have less sugar and more fiber than normal bread - these are both things that every one of us needs. Low carb diet or not. So hopefully when sales skyrocket, they'll work on the english muffins and buns next <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />