Fast Food Once Again Looking Out For Your Health
Now Burger King does its part to further the American obesity epidemic, with a 730 calorie breakfast sandwhich.
“The critics will still label it food porn,” Sherri Daye Scott, editor at fast-food magazine QSR, told USA Today, which first reported the story. “But the average male fast-food customer does not have a problem with this.”
Guess they just want to make sure that we bring the US life expectancy back down.
Maybe it’ll be the neo-Cons and “Christian” Conservatives that’ll flock the Burger King and Hardees, and with any luck, they’ll take themselves out of the voting population early.
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March 29th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
People are also taking themselves out of the gene pool at Starbuck’s. There, you can DRINK even more calories than that in a large (I refuse to use the cute size terms) Strawberry & Creme Frappuccino (with whipped cream), which has 770. Those are mostly sugar, though, as it has “only” 19 fat grams. Or if you want your calories on a plate instead — the same number as the Burger King new breakfast — Starbuck’s offers a caramel pecan sticky roll with 730 calories, 40 grams fat (although only 7 of those are saturated). Now imagine if you sit down and have them both — that’s 1500 calories and 59 fat grams. Or you could have a huge cup of coffee and a biscotto for 130 calories.
March 29th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
So I guess we’re killing of liberals as well as conservatives with Starbucks in the mix.
I just can’t begin to fathom what people are thinking when they create items like this–items that I presume they’re marketing not as special treat items.
And personally I’d rather have a cup of tea and a biscotti. :)
March 31st, 2005 at 12:58 am
I don’t know how Starbucks markets stuff; I don’t pay that much attention to them except to run in and out to get a cup of just coffee occasionally. I won’t pay $3.50 for something I can make across the street at home for about thirty cents and less than 100 calories (OK, not 24 ounces of it), 0 of them fat. But I did pick the most-calorie-loaded items they sell; they do have a range of stuff. However, it’s hard to find anything less than 200 calories, at least at 16 or more ounces, except plain coffee or tea — even skim milk in a latte would run 180 calories for 16 oz.
They tell all on their web site. I’d be ashamed to put those numbers on public display… but then, I wouldn’t be selling the stuff, would I?
I think the most calorie-DENSE drink they offer is their “Chantico Drinking Chocolate,” described as “a drinkable dessert.” In only SIX OUNCES they pack 390 calories, which includes 21 grams of fat. Geez, two of those little numbers and you’d top that Burger King omelet bomb! If I were going to indulge to that extent (just the 6 oz. cup), I think I’d just as soon have a brownie. And yes, tea and biscotti (the singular is biscotto; it took some hunting to find that but I’ve been assured it’s correct) would be lovely too.
For breakfast though I’ll stick with my oatmeal concoction.
April 2nd, 2005 at 5:25 pm
I wouldn’t be selling the stuff, would I?
I’m trying to imagine you in food service.
I’m failing.
“You don’t want to eat that! It’s full of hydrogenated-fats!”