If you ate a large funnel cake covered in powdered sugar once a day, you
could definitely end up like that. But I have maybe one a year, depending
on if I go to one or two festivals that serve them. They're a special
treat, not a dietary staple.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> These folks likely didn't get that way from eating funnel cakes. Not that
> funnel cakes couldn't do that to you but they're generally only served at
> special events like fairs, carnivals, circuses, etc. They probably only
> have an opportunity to have a funnel cake 2-3 times/year if that.
>
> This is about the origins of funnel cakes. They originated in medieval
> Arabia and Persia and spread to Europe and North America.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cake>
>
> This link <http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/funnel-cake>
> gives the calorie content of a funnel cake as 276. But that's for a 6"
> diameter cake. What's being served there is more likely 8-10" diameter for
> 2-3 times the calorie count.
>
> Before the day is over they'll likely equal or exceed the calories in the
> giant funnel cake by drinking several of those oversize cups of lemonade
> (from the other side of the street).
>
> I love 'em (as does my Pennsylvania born wife) but we've probably only had
> 1 or 2 of them in the past 10 years.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 8/28/2016 10:25 AM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> From Tina's posting.
>>>
>>
>> Very interesting. If that
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163960311
>>
>> ( OMG is appropriate)
>> is what eating funnel cakes does to the body, I think i'd give them a
>> miss.
>>
>> Interesting series of photos.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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