Spreading the word...

[giza]

After I made the previous post ("Heath Shake? More like Death Shake!"), I emailed the link on the Baskin Robbins website to The Consumerist.

Guess what? They picked up the story:

http://consumerist.com/5052633/baskin-robbins-death-shake-has-2300-calories

This is almost as sweet as that Death Shake. :-)

Comments

[rysar.livejournal.com]

I had the one on Wegmans a month or two back posted, so yay you.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Link me?

[rysar.livejournal.com]

http://consumerist.com/5029914/wegmans-grocery-store-admits-that-the-dreaded-grocery-shrink-ray-exists

[atara.livejournal.com]

Oh, I read that! Good for you!

[lilpup.livejournal.com]

Holy Shit... 303g of carbs in ONE shake?!? Damn... that IS a death shake... :-P

[lockemaison.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised it wasn't picked up by more major sites before, I originally found the story on Yahoo. Might have been their front page too, but i could be wrong.

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

I have a strange desire to feed this to some diabetics

[rustitobuck.livejournal.com]

It's so nice being diabetic.

Lowers the bar a bit. Now I wonder if my lunch should contain, oh, bread rather than a 2300-calorie sugar bomb.

Now, let's consider those 303g of carbs, 266g of which are sugar. At a rise of 0.28/mg/dl/gram of carb, that's a rise of 84 mg/dl, and it would take, say, my slightly high BG of 130 to 214. Not as bad as I thought...but damn, at 214, I'm drowsy and emo and cranky. Not exactly what you'd expect from a "happy little snack".

[rook543.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I pay extra, I can get one wrapped in bacon...

[simbab.livejournal.com]

"Butter that bacon, boy"
"But, Dad, my heart hurts."
"I said butter it..."

[simbab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll give you that "death shake" as a certain Gawker ring to it. That's right up their alley.

[pyesetz]

Congratulations on your publication credit!

[giza.livejournal.com]

Haha, right. :-) They only mentioned my first name on the Consumerist site, and I only added a couple of paragraphs.

I'm more like a cog in the machine. :-)

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

Just went green on Fark. :)

[taral.livejournal.com]

Grats. :)

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

haha great!