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Those fast food items you listed are usually a part of a meal that includes fries, which add another 400-500 calories.

I must be getting ripped off--they always charge me extra for fries.

Apples to apples. Compare a meal to a meal, or a main item to a main item.

You were comparing their purported meal of 500 calories to a single item within a typical fast food meal.

Nobody was claiming that fries + burger don't cost more than a burger.

This is a weird debate. I went to the Eatsa site. It's organized "Bowls", "Sides", "Beverages". Like every fast food restaurant in the world, the affordance is for people to select one from each category. There are 3 sides, and 2/3rds of them are unhealthy.

Apparently, the standard (non-embiggened) Big Mac meal at McDonalds is their most popular option. If you get a Diet Coke with that meal, it appears roughly comparable with a meal at Eatsa.

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