new Burger King Sandwich Packs the Calories

[no_to_war_economy]

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050328/D8943MJG0.html

The Enormous Omelet Sandwich carries 730 calories and 47 grams of fat and comes with two eggs, sausage, three strips of bacon and two slices of melted American cheese on a bun. It's heftier than a Whopper hamburger, which weighs in at 700 calories and 42 grams of fat.

Officials at Miami-based Burger King Corp. said that healthier choices are also available, but surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches.

[givemebackmycountry]

1. I think....

All Fast Food joints are trying to kill us.

Why else would they release something obviously as unhealthy as this piece of crap?

The only way it could less healthy, is if it had a severed finger in it.

[toopers]

7. Those fast food restaurants are forcing that food down our throats!

Too bad we don't have any free choice!

[FreepFryer]

14. When fast food is all-pervasive, choices are limited.

12-year-old girls with high fast food content in their diets see their menses come far too early.

Diabetes and nutritional deficits afflict and await large numbers of inner-city kids for whom fast food is the only available option.

Don't assume others have the same free choice as you believe you do.

They are being preyed upon by 'Big Food'. And the food they sell is toxic, to boot.

[GOPBasher]

30. You're right.

Many people have to eat fast food for various reasons. At least Burger King has added some healthy choices to their menu in recent years (though it's still the minority), but others have not at all.

[rinsd]

34. Fast food is never the only option....

...sometimes its an easy option, sometimes its a cheap option but it is never the only option.

[toopers]

54. I wonder, where the 12 year old kids are getting the money . . .

to buy the food. Everyone has free choice. Fast food is not the only available option, sometimes it is the easiest/most convenient option. Too much of anything is bad for you.

[Zuni]

61. not true. That is BS. Everyone has options

everyone has a choice over what they eat. There are grocery stores in black neighborhoods.
They may not be able to afford fancy diet foods, but neither can I. But I rarely ever eat McDonalds.
Even at McDonalds, they have salads.

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Speak for yourself!

I don't eat fast food.

You are under no compulsion to eat fast food, either.

It's as easy as not going to a fast food joint.

--p!

[Zuni]

62. exactly

and even McDonalds has salads.

[Postmanx]

26. I'm curious

Many posters to this thread have express outrage over the sandwich.

For those of you who are outraged, how would you handle the situation? Would you allow BK to offer such a sandwich at all? What is your solution?

[toopers]

53. Just to clarify, I agree with you.

I was being sarcastic.

[crispini]

32. ROFL.

severed finger. Tee hee hee!

[Redstone]

46. What, no severed finger?

In that case, I certainly won't be eating one!

Redstone

[ewagner]

2. We're slowly killing ourselves

and driving the cost of health care off the charts....

47 grams of fat? Might as well take super-glue intravenously...

[Merope215]

3. Wow, does that look unappetizing

I think I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at it.

[Wcross]

65. Thats just the "show" model....

Things never look as "good" as they do in the ad. I bet this thing would be a big loaf of grease if you were to buy one.

[WI_DEM]

4. boy that kind of sandwich really turns me off

[freeplessinseattle]

5. gross! now I have indigestion from a photo

remember that recent obesity study claiming that early deaths from obesity could save social security?

[quispquake]

6. Bill Maher has an interesting theory...

That the corporate food industry is in cahoots with the medical industry to fatten us up so that both industries make lots of $$$. I kind of thought Maher was a bit far out when I first heard this, but seeing the kind of death sandwiches these places are making really makes me wonder...

[LoZoccolo]

28. What would the medical industry do for the fast-food industry?

My cardiologist's nurse practitioner is making me come back every two months until I've lost the weight I need to lose. :shrug:

[JohnnyBoots]

8. God bless Hardee's

I live in WV and they market almost exculsively to the redneck,NASCAR, red state, I love bush and hate them damn liberals who are always trying to give me healthcare types of people. These folks eat there all the time, sometimes more than once a day. By my calculations they should all be dead of heart failure by late 2007, just in time for the 2008 election. God Bless Hardee's

[VegasWolf]

9. It's called the Redneck, GED educated, FReeper delight. n/t

[Catfight]

52. their not GED educated, home sckooled up till 4th grade. Duh!

[Mari333]

10. This will sell.

The bottom line is profit, and this will sell.

[tridim]

22. If they let Hootie hawk it, it'll sell

That ad campaign is like crack.

[expatriot]

11. Is this sandwich vegan?

I just became a vegan and want to know if I can eat it.

[flvegan]

13. Almost. I think they cook the bacon and sausage in lard. Sorry.

[ashmanonar]

15. well, bacon is certainly a vegetable.

but the lard is not good. lol

Diesel Sweeties!

[flvegan]

18. Exactly. If they switched to vegetable oil, then it'd be

all good. I have a sausage, bacon and egg garden in my yard, myself.

[Zuni]

64. ROFL

this exchange made my day

[oldtime dfl_er]

19. lol

Don't know why i find that so damn funny!

[MemphisTiger]

12. Aside from the sesame seed bun, that looks good

Make it some sort of biscut bun and I'll at least try it. I love breakfast.

[LoZoccolo]

29. Actually a huge croissant would rock!

That's what I like about the Burger King breakfast, the croissant.

[Endangered Specie]

16. Apparently, if you buy one you can get a 5% discount coupon...

off your next heart sugery.

[Yavin4]

17. Anyone See The Documentary, "Super Size Me"?

You really, really should. It will open your eyes wide.

[blueknight]

20. its what my dad used to call,

a heart attack on a plate!:crazy:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

25. It's what they now call "Food Porn"

Another addiction for Puritanical American folks to cling to so they can still claim moral fitness.

I guess they forget that Gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins...

[woosh]

23. bacon....

[Deja Q]

24. How about a bigger sandwich made with better quality foods? I mean,

beef made from ground up D-grade cattle with toenails is partly why it's so expensive.

Hell, if there are 7 brands of beef jerky out there and only one has low fat quantity, that means the other 6 brands are doing something wrong.

[Democrats_win]

27. Mickey K's commercial: Big Rock Candy Mountain

It was written from the perspective of a "hobo" of the 1920's time period who did not hold a steady job, and instead traveled the roads looking for handouts and possibly getting into trouble with the law.

Funny that the capitalist thieves would steal this song and copy Old Navy's ideas when they made this.

Anyone following the news in 2005 think that big business is anything but scam artists?

[xultar]

31. Reminds me of a Bill Mahr fake commercial...it was a huge ass burger

with the most un Godly stuff like a full package of bacon, a full brick of cheese, etc...

The ending line was...

If you can't finish it the terrorists win!

Buhwaaaaaaa!

[Bzzzz]

33. In a country already full of obese people...

just what we need.:shrug:

[Arkana]

35. Sweet.

[Abelman]

36. Half of one

would be enough for me.

It's really disgusting that surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches. Why does everything have to be bigger? I'm a bit of a hyporcrite because I too enjoy big things. I have big sunglasses. Should I ever get a cell phone, I will do all in my power to get a big one. But really, it has gotten ridiculous.

People aren't happy unless they have the biggest car, the biggest sandwich, and the biggest waistline. Gross.

But really, just don't eat it if you don't want it, I guess.

[LynneSin]

37. ACK!!! Does that come with a side of Lipitor...

or other cholesterol medicine??

[Radical Activist]

38. They're going to change that stupid ranch into a fat camp.

[captain crunch]

39. It doesn't even look that good.

I think i'm going to hurl

[UdoKier]

40. Burger King's breakfast fare is the nastiest.

Their Croissan'wiches are served on croissant-like bread with much more fat than the english muffins McD's uses, and they just taste a lot greasier.

They serve it with little mini round hash browns that also seem a lot greasier (and usually cold) than McD's hash browns.

Not to mention the fact that both the croissan'wich and the egg Mcmuffin are more than enough to satisfy me, and I'm 6'2", 250 lbs. How the hell could anyone NOT be full in the AM after eating them?


I suppose if you're cheap, you could split that thing with someone.

But I agree that sesame seeds are a no-no on a breakfast sandwich.

[BiggJawn]

47. Croissan'wich is greasy crap.

25 years ago, I didn't like 'em because they were SO greasy and once they got cold (like about the ammount of time it took to get back in your car) they were inedible.
Wouldn't touch one now for anything.

And THIS "little" Feller?

The Hardee's "Thickburger"?

OR...The "Hungry Man" dinner...ONE and a HALF POUNDS of FOOD!

About 1100 calories and 50 Gms of fat on average. Yeah, it supposedley is TWO servings, but you ever meet anyone who'd save 1/2 for later? Nope, me neither...

[TalkingDog]

41. 700 is about 1/2 the normal adult calorie needs for ONE DAY.

Add a soda and some homefries to that and you've pretty much eaten all your body can use for the day. And not a vegetable in sight....wait, isn't the cola nut considered a vegetable?

Jeebus.....

[Radio_Lady]

42. Haven't been to Burger King (except to use the toilet) in years...

I wouldn't eat their swill.

[Piperay]

49. Me either, their shakes

are horrible. I was with someone else and got stuck trying to find something edible there and got a shake...I had to toss the thing in the trash it was so bad. :puke:

[Dogmudgeon]

43. Allow me to repeat myself

You are under NO legal obligation to eat it.

If you have kids, you are permitted to teach them about good nutrition, so they can avoid this kind of so-called food.

Burger King will NOT send thugs to your house to force you to eat it.

Congress, as right-wing as it is today, is NOT working on legislation to make the eating of fast-food mandatory.

Do not eat the thing.

--p!

[Ellen Forradalom]

48. I have no intention of getting anywhere near the thing

but there are other business processes at work than simple consumer choice. Corporations do not introduce products quietly and politely, hoping that customers will like it; they go to great lengths to shape people's perceptions and expectations. You can be sure BK will represent this sandwich as perfectly normal, even if it is in fact an obscene grease bomb. The hazard for consumers is that they will come to understand portion size by what is available, even if that standard mutates.

Another motivator for introducing portions this large is that in our cheap-food, relatively high-wage society, restaurant overhead is mainly labor, not ingredients. It takes as much labor, or not much more, to make a huge portion that can be sold at a higher price and profit, than it does to make and sell a reasonably-sized portion. It's not restricted to food, either. Starbucks once had a 'short' 8 oz size, which they removed from their lineup years ago. Later they shifted the whole scale upwards by adding a 'vente' 20 oz size. The time and labor required to produce a vente size drink? Same as a short. The price and profit margin? Higher.

[Dogmudgeon]

59. There's a lot of truth to that

But the solution to these myriad deceptions is to avoid the fast-food industry entirely.

Most people will agree that the food is low in taste and nutrition, and high in unhealthy fats, sugar, salt, and is promoted by misleading ad tactics. Why continue to go to a place that does this?

When I go out to eat "fast food", I go to a local restaurant (and NOT a franchise) that has quick-cuisine foods. Most Chinese, Mexican, many Italian and Japanese and other ethnic foods can be prepared quickly, and they're usually quite nourishing. Even a cuisine that is heavy on the oil, like Chinese cooking, is superior -- the oil is usually undenatured vegetable oil, unlike the hydrogenates preferred by the fast-food industry.

Pizza is even better for you than franchised fast-food. You feel like you actually ate food, and in spite of the milkfat in the cheese, you're still getting a lot of nutrients from the cheese, as well as from the tomatoes and most of the toppings.

Better to eat a naturally-occurring fat than a denatured compounded fat -- your body can metabolize the calories much better. And the improvement in taste leaves you with a sense of satisfaction, not the feeling that you didn't eat in spite of the thousand-calorie excuse for food you wolfed down and didn't really enjoy.

Check out your favorite local eateries where real food is served, and avoid the Burger Kings, McDonalds', etc. And maybe if they lose ten or fifteen percent of their customers, they will decide to offer higher-quality, more satisfying, more nutritious food, too.

As Timothy Leary so famously said, "Just Say 'No Thank You'".

--p!

[Ellen Forradalom]

66. You speak as someone with a basic knowledge of nutrition

Unfortunately that can't be taken for granted. Lots of people don't have a clue. In "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock asks lots of people what a calorie is; he is met with baffled silence.

Also, there are places all over America where it's hard to find anything else. Last Election Day I walked a working-class precinct in Racine, WI to turn out the vote. When dinner break time came, I wound up eating at Burger King because there really was nothing better available along that neighborhood's rundown main drag. I wonder what people in the neighborhood do on a regular basis?


(P.S. A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water one degree Celcius. )

[Skittles]

50. yes, it is really that simple

when I started packing on a few pounds I cut out all trips to fast food restaurants and presto - the pounds disappeared.

[Ratty]

44. Am I the only one that thinks it sounds quite tasty?

I lost about 70 lbs last year and brought my cholesterol down from over 500 to about 170, and lowered my blood pressure to boot. I did it by cooking for myself instead of eating out all the time. I didn't deprive myself, I ate whatever I wanted and as much as I wanted.

Now that I've lost the weight and am much healthier I'm not scared of indulging myself occasionally. I used to LOVE Burger King bacon and egg croissandwiches. Mmm, they were SO tasty and sometimes I'd get 5 or 6 on my way to work. But they closed that Burger King down and I haven't had one of those in probably over a year. If I can find myself another BK I'm gonna check these new guys out!

[DinahMoeHum]

45. Cholesterol City !!

:puke:

[Bouncy Ball]

51. WHOA!!!

My gastro-intestinal tract just winced.

[DrGonzoLives]

55. Hmmmm, I think

I'll eat a lot of them and sue Burger King for making me fat. A case like that is bound to actually succeed sometime, so might as well get on the bandwagon now.

[LadyLeo]

56. So why is Mcdonalds...

the only one that gets fined for all the high cholesterol, fat laden food and supersize drinks. They dont serve supersize meals or drinks anymore (at least here), but Burger king still has king size meals and drinks. I think if one gets punished they all should.

McDonalds just got another hefty fine for not alerting the public that the lower cholesterol oil would not be used in the original time frame, as promised.

[UrbScotty]

57. We Americans need to learn how to eat more. This will help.

</sarcasm>

[cmf]

58. It makes my left arm hurt just looking at it.

I can't imagine eating that.

[Zech Marquis]

60. if you order one of those damn things

they should also give you a coupon for a free heart checkup :evilgrin: Same thing for those Thickburgers at Hardess/ Carl Jrs!

[Zuni]

63. I think that damned thing looks good

I love fatty breakfast meats. I eat scrapple too.