New York is requiring chain restaurants to post caloric information on its menus. This is both a good and a bad idea. Now the consumer cannot claim ignorance, but that does not necessarily stop consumption of unhealthy foods. Read the story from Yahoo! News: NY Calories.

This explains the horrible menu at Chevys Fresh Mex in Times Square. Chevys has a great location – it’s right next to and connected to the Regal E-Walk Stadium 13, which seems to play new releases more often than the AMC 25 across the street. However, the menu makes you cringe. Even a light salad that seems to have nothing at all is 700 calories – the main dishes easily push into the high 1000s and even 2000s. Sharing suddenly becomes a great idea: who wants to eat their entire supposed daily intake in one meal?

Sometimes things are better left untold – guiltless food tastes better than remorseful eating. I’m not sure which one is worse: unhappy fooding or America’s obesity epidemic, but everyone loses in the end, for better or worse.