Ah, I'm so embittered by the calorie counts on all the chain menus that seeing them on the subway feels more like a fun game...

the calorie counts never bother me. I think they're great. If I'm gonna eat my BK Wednesday, I like the reminder that I should eat nothing but salad and water for the rest of the day. Given the amount taxpayers pay for preventable health problems, I wish more things like this could be done for other issues.

And I can eat a thousand calories at one meal if I want to!

I totally don't see what's wrong with eating 1000 calories at one meal. At all. Cause I often only eat two meals. Or will eat one meal that's much much bigger than my other meals, if I"m actually eating three. So...that doesn't seem weird to me. I'm well aware that a Baja Fresh burrito is 1000 calories or more. But if I have a bowl of cereal for breakfast at 10am, a burrito at 4pm, and then don't eat dinner cause I'm still ful cause those things are HUGE....uh....OK, I'm not healthy. What??

At least in the example shown, I look at that and think that is a lot of food!

Uhg, so I'm afraid to call the mechanic to find out whether the part arrived & has been installed. I mean, yay loaner and all, but I'd like my own car back, you know??

But if I have a bowl of cereal for breakfast at 10am, a burrito at 4pm, and then don't eat dinner....uh....OK, I'm not healthy. What??

I am totally with you. And that sounds perfectly reasonable. I think it's the "eat six times a day" people, who are also responsible for the 300 calorie Lean Cuisine "meals." If I'm eating three meals of 300 cal each, that would be a really extreme diet! I'm not a snacker, I have like 150 cal. for breakfast, and I'm not even trying to lose weight.

Possibly I am overly defensive.

I think the ads are obnoxious and do little if anything to improve public health. It just seems like a giant waste of money.

I think the calorie counting ads are better than the stupid "pro-marriage" billboards being paid for with our tax dollars up here.

I am splitting my lunch a lot recently - eating part at noon and the rest at 2 or 3. Those days I often don't eat more than a small snack for dinner. But, I don't count calories, so I have no idea how many I consume. I would think the menu calorie listing would be helpful to anyone who was trying to lose weight, even if they are a buzzkill.

They should put up the calorie contents of the "healthy" fruit smoothies.

In NYC, any chain with more than some number of stores has to list all the calories, so I'm sure Jamba Juice has their up, too.