New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock

So what?

"New Yorkers have been in the throes of sticker shock since this spring when the Big Apple became the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post the calorie count of each food in the same size and font as the price."

Will it make a difference?

"Despite the eye-opening revelations, whether New Yorkers will switch to lower calorie meals remains to be seen. They may just switch menus.

That’s what Fowler, the woman who was dining recently with her friends at T.G.I. Friday's, decided to do.

'I’m so upset,' she said, noting some entrees — like the Jack Daniels ribs and shrimp dinner — contain almost 2,000 calories, and the desserts were more of the same (the brownie obsession is 1,500 calories). 'I wish they wouldn’t have done this.'

But then Fowler noticed that the waiter had handed her friend an old menu, which didn’t have calorie counts on it.

'You got a menu without anything on it?' she asked her friend. 'Can I have yours?'”

Fat people are so creative.

But not creative enough, apparently, to use the new law to their weight loss advantage.