August 30, 2007

Say What?: The Savory, The Sweet, and the... Ugh

Yesterday evening, after a grueling workout, I passed by a Domino's. There's usually nothing to see except for a few bored employees.

However, yesterday was different. I couldn't help but laugh when my eyes fixated on the poster you see on your right.

If you've ever dreamt of a pile of Oreo bits and streams of vanilla sauce on sweet pizza crust, your processed food genie has granted your wish!

Part of me wants to get one for taste-testing purposes. I can't help but wonder -- are there cold toppings on a hot crust? Hot toppings on a hot crust? Warm Oreos but cold vanilla sauce?

Oh, what I would give to be a fly on the wall at these product development meetings...

More importantly, though, here are the nutrition facts:

One 10-inch pie contains 8 servings. Each serving breaks down like this:

120 calories
4 g fat
1 g saturated fat
8 g sugar (2 teaspoons)

In reality, two people are probably splitting one, meaning they are each taking in 480 calories, 16 grams of fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, and a Coke can's worth of sugar.

As far as the ingredients go.... well, if you're trying to only eat foods that contains a handful of ingredients, I'd suggest skipping this one.

10" THIN DESSERT STYLE CRUST:
Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour), Water, Soybean Oil, Malt Extract, Chocolate Flavor (Natural and Artificial Flavors, Cocoa, Maltodextrin, Gum Acacia), Yeast, Dextrose, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Calcium Propionate and Soy Lecithin

VANILLA SAUCE: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Sugar, Starch, Contains less than 2% of Salt, Titanium Dioxide, Cellulose Gel, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Polysorbate 60. Freshness preserved with Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate

Oreo® Cookie Crumbs: Sugar, Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid), Palm and/or High Oleic Canola and/or Soybean Oil, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Baking Soda, Cornstarch, Salt, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier), Vanillin (an Artificial Flavor), Chocolate

WHITE ICING: Water, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Modified Corn Starch. Contains less than 2% of Each: Soybean Oil, Cellulose Gel, Mono and Diglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Titanium Dioxide. Freshness Preserved with Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate. Contains Soy, Wheat (Product is manufactured in a facility that processes peanuts and tree nuts.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The nutrition info isn't as bad as I thought. Half an oreo pizza is worse than a regular snickers bar, but not nearly as bad as a king sized snickers.