Terrifying Website Tells You How Many Calories You Drank Last Night
If you'd like to feel bad, we have a link for you. The BBC's "Alcohol Experiment" shows you the amount of calories you consumed while drinking last night — or any night — and then translates them into (British) food.
For example, if you had two big old glasses of beer, you drank 355 calories and apparently could have had something called a "jaffa cake." We're not sure what a "jaffa cake" is, but it looks fattening.
Use this website at your own risk.
Alcohol Experiment [BBC]
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I don't concern myself with the calories in a Jaffa cake. My symbiote requires a large amount of calories. Indeed.
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Hey, I have a symbiote too! In my belly. In the shape of a basketball. It's very demanding.
oh, man...those are good.
So the English drink at night now, too? Interesting ;)
I enjoy a couple beers as much (or far more) than the next guy, but there is no shorter road to ruin than drinking your calories--any of them.
Mmm Jaffa cakes...
@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: I think I read somewhere that people tend to forget about the liquid calories they consume.
Oh man if this isn't depressing.... *sob sob sob*
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Mine requires a lot too - but it doesn't use any of it! It just demands and demands and demands... and all those calories is what is giving me a belly... yes it is. I'm totally not just drinking/eating a lot. Definitely not.
Jaffa Cake: Soft cake base, disc of orange-flavoured jelly stuff, then that is covered in chocolate.
Damn I miss them. Stupid orange allergy.
Hoy crap! I drank 2535 calories on Friday night! oops.
@Green Goth Brit Chick - Also Available in Teal: Whoa, I didn't know people could be allergic to oranges. Are you available in orange?
I'd hate to promote it, but just go to Walmart.com. Order the Wii with no bundle.
Problem solved.
@GavinEstecado: WTF? Sorry, this was a comment destined for the other article...no clue how it ended up here....
*cry* But Cider is so gooood.
@GavinEstecado: If they had Goldeneye for the Wii, I believe I'd weigh 300#. That game for N64 resulted in more college drinking than any other source.
(trying to keep it on topic).
This tool does me no good. I'm a girly drinker with an occasional Guinness. It's telling me 175 for the beer... but I'm just going to keep on assuming that those martinis are calorie-free!
@AshleyKeen: Hey, at least Guinness is the lightest in calories out of regular, non-lite beer. Keep at it!
@crashedpc: Indeed. I don't drink alcohol but I do like juice. Drinking sugary stuff without any non-sugary solid food can also send you into a brain fog.
What is Alcopop?
@crashedpc: *laughs* I'm allergic to orange (gives me hives, if spilt on my skin makes me look like I've been burnt - fun on long haul flights when people knock the cabin crew!) and fish.
No, orange/ginger hair isn't worth the effort.
@Oranges w/ Cheese: Yeah, I daren't look up how many calories I drank on Friday (three bottles of Weston's organic Perry, four bottles of Bulmers Pear Cider (ok, ok, Perry) over the space of... seven hours?)
@Green Goth Brit Chick - Also Available in Teal: Jeebus. Well, I'll drink to that! Bring on the cake!
@12-Inch Idongivafuck Sandwich: Varies from pre-mix like Bacardi and Soda in a bottle to synthetic flavoured alcoholic soda eg VK Cherry is a vodka based, cherry flavoured fizzy drink. There was a big uproar about them when they first were introduced to the British market because people believed they'd encourage kids to drink and people wouldn't realise how much they were drinking because "they taste like pop."
Funnily enough the "kids" are still getting hammered on the same old cheap high-strength cider around here.
Hey, I didn't do any drinking last night because I'm not a smarmy European that gets a near-infinite number of holidays off from work.
@crashedpc: Argh, mentioning of cake in close proximity to airline things makes me think of Eddie Izzard's Church of England skit.
As for a drink, right now I'm nursing a nice hot cup of tea (its bloody FREEZING here)
Because I haven't had my coffee and feel like making up sh|t to rile up the masses...
Well, people who choose to drink obviously have no concern for their well being in the first place. Who cares if you're fat if the cirrhosis kills you first?
Cue angry mob in 3... 2... 1...
@unobservant: I'd raise my pitchfork in anger, but I'm still hungover from the weekend. You're lucky this time!
@concordia: And yet the British work some of the LONGEST hours in Europe.
Go check your facts before spewing bile please. Thank you.
my English husband who lives in the States points out that the beer/cider etc. will be English Pints, not 12 ounce beers. So he now feels better about the six bottles of beer he had on Friday.
@Green Goth Brit Chick - Also Available in Teal: [www.tuc.org.uk] first thing I could put my hands on, but there are numerous studies out there.
if this thing is trying to make me feel bad about drinking 12 beers and several shots in a night, they're just going to try harder. All it's making me want to do is go get a burger and a slice of pizza.
@Green Goth Brit Chick - Also Available in Teal: That's like replying to an accusation of being short by saying that you're the tallest midget around.
When they say I drink 1750 calories a night in beer, they aren't factoring in that American Light beer has about 90 calories a pop. Nor are they factoring the calories burned from yelling, lifting and throwing objects, and punching.
@The Name's Ash78, Housewares:
My roommate went home to get his N64 and Goldeneye. We all rushed the thrift stores in the tri county area looking for controllers!
i'd end up being the annoying person watching my friends drink, tallying it up and emailing them the calorie results the next day.... muahahaha!
@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Nice redirect, and I concur. Also, I will beat your ass at Goldeneye. Oddjob rocket launcher to the face.
@AshleyKeen: I agree, the site is worthless. Vodka has far fewer calories than Whiskey but it treats them the same! And good call; martinis are calorie free.
@nataku83: I thought the "Indeed" would be enough of a StarGate hint. I think I just proved to myself I'm a nerd.
What's onion bhaji?
@youbastid: I was at about 1270 for Saturday night/Sunday morning.
But I don't drink often, so...I don't feel so bad about it.
... *goes to sob in the corner*
*with a bottle of Jack*
*downward spiral continues*