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Unhealthy Regional Foods
16 Fattening Regional Favorites
Rochester, New York has the garbage plate. The Pennsylvania Dutch have shoo-fly pie. In Southern states, hush puppies and sweet tea are staples. What do all these regional favorites have in common? They’ll ruin your diet. We tried the biggest food catastrophes in the US so you don't have to
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Western New York's Garbage Plates
Lore has it that this “everything but the kitchen sink” dish originated in 1918 at Rochester, New York's Nick Tahou Hots restaurant, but today customers are served the overflowing plates all over town. Ingredients differ by location, but a typical meal includes a plateful of starchy items—think home fries, mac and cheese, or French fries—topped with hot dogs, a cheeseburger, or other main course item, then smothered in red meat sauce. Stuffing your face with one of these plates also means stuffing your belly—estimates suggest that the 3-plus-pound meals could contain more than 100 g of fat. (Instead, choose one of these 10 comfort foods that won't pack on pounds.)
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