The moral of this story? Nate Silver doesn’t know his Bojangles.
Bojangles is famous for its chicken ‘n biscuits — a 1982 Talk story from The New Yorker, about the opening of the first Bo’s in the Big Apple, starts, “Chicken. Biscuits. Chicken ‘n Biscuits. Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits” — so we scraped the nutritional information for a Chicken Biscuit, ignorin’ all the fixin’s that make the meal so much more deliciously unhealthy.
Bojangles’ website doesn’t offer up its trans-fat information — to be fair, Cook Out, the other staple of The ## masthead’s late-night diet, doesn’t even have a website — so the Chicken Biscuit was at a disadvantage from the very beginning. Plus, we’re not factoring in the vat of Bojangles’ sweetest tea that makes you shake with caffeine before even taking a stab at the biscuit. (Another disclaimer: we’re not mathematics majors and we’re not even statistics majors. So this could be completely, utterly, embarrassingly wrong.)
That said, we took the handy-dandy formula and summed the Chicken Biscuit’s Silverian nutritional rating to be merely .534 — unhealthier than only Subway’s 12-inch oven-roasted chicken sandwich.
That’s why you order two Chicken Biscuits, after all.
