I couldn’t agree with you more. On the rare occasion that I eat food of that nature, I couldn’t care less about the calories.

But when you consider how many people are on a diet right now in the US (about 70% of college age women, and 40% of other women in the US, depending on the study you review), you realize that there’s this whole bizarre culture of calorie counting people for whom 50 or 75 extra calories in a meal/day is a self-imposed devastating event.

10-18%! Look, if you are buying that meal (which I do at times), that percentage is not even significant. I hope my life never needs to be monitored by me or anyone else to that level of accuracy.