Every so often (more recently) someone in Congress or the FDA bruits about the idea of making restaurants (especially chains) put calorie counts somewhere useful like on the menu or in the restaurant somewhere.

Not in our lifetimes, I think, but the combination of the web and the portable web-capable phone may make it irrelevant before long.

You know, there's a guy on the Today Show from time to time who wrote a book called "Eat This, Not That" and he brings 'bad food' and tells us what it compares to. Like the sandwich that was the equivalent of drinking a 12-pack of Budweiser or eating 16 Fudgesicles.

It takes all the joy out of eating in restaurants...