60 grams of fat for breakfast! (AP/CNN)

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- The people who brought you the Monster Thickburger and the 1,100-calorie salad are at it again -- this time for breakfast.

Hardee's on Monday rolled out its new Country Breakfast Burrito -- two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat.

Brad Haley, marketing chief for the St. Louis-based fast-food chain, said the burrito offers the sort of big breakfast item normally found in sit-down restaurants with an added advantage.
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In 2003 the chain introduced a line of big sandwiches, including the Monster Thickburger. The 1,420-calorie sandwich is made up of two 1/3-pound slabs of beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered bun.

Even Hardees' chicken salad -- topped with onion rings and crispy chicken -- has 1,100 calories and 83 grams of fat.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/15/big.breakfast.burrito.ap/index.html

Ok, not really, but morally that is just wrong. That is 3 days worth of fat and a whole days worth of calories. I can just imagine the sodium count on that baby.

:puke:

HOLY HYPERTENSION, BATMAN!

:shrug:

It is most certainly not 3 days worth of fat. Thanks for pointing this out.

nt.

Give me a bacon, green, no cheese anyday (folks in New Mexico will 'get it')

That is obscene.

On a 2,000 calorie diet, the average person should eat between 45-78 grams of fat. It varies somewhat according to age, gender and lifestyle. So, this breakfast is an entire day's serving of fat and then some, even for people who're healthy enough that they can consume up to 78g!

;)

I could so eat that.

But I figured I'd get blasted for it.

Thanks for walking out on that limb, and paving the way for me to follow.

:hi:

and go back for lunch to get on of those thick burgers :)

I swear, I get so sick of explaining the ridiculous ways of the "average American" to all my European friends!

good to see you around, was it Zappa that said, "Never eat anything bigger than your Head.." ?

I got sick just reading this, dead serious..

Maybe the Govt can just fly a bunch of these down to New Orleans next disaster.. Folks could eat their way to the creamy center, and they'd have a sleeping bag then :)

mushrooms, tomatoes, and swiss cheese in a wrap.

Why can't they cook what is healthy and tastes good.

This food is pure poison.

yum!

That works too. I like the smoky flavor of meat. :)

I have just begun adding more avocado to my foods because it's so much healthier and adds an extra layer of flavor. It's a good flavor substitute for meat and/or cheese.

Like maybe a quarter of the size. Standard breakfast burritos aren't too bad but a DOUBLE omelet is ridiculous.

No, any way you slice that up - pure poison. Without significant increases in fiber, you may as well just shoot fat and glucose straight into your veins. I'm not a food nazi, I just never realized how slight the changes would have to be to have a reasonably healthy diet. You like mushrooms and avocados and bell peppers, yes??

I was never able to eat a lot at once, that would kill me.

Those IHOP ads with eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage and who-knows-what-else are nauseating, too.

mikey_the_rat

I used to eat breakfast now and then at Denny's, and it often gave me stomach attacks. I could never figure out why until I had a glimpse in the kitchen. I don't know if it was just the guy cooking that day, but I saw him ladle cooking grease over the top of a pile of hash browns just before serving it. That ruined my appetite. :(

at 3:00am.

They always made us kids sit at the back near the kitchen, and one night Denny decided to drink all the little cream pitchers they had filled (waiting to put them in the fridge).. They did not mix well with all the beer, and he tossed his cookies right there at the table..

They threw us out and banned us forever.. then we walked to the car wash and hosed him down..

there was an oceanview Denny's, down at the far end! Seriously. I got to watch the blue Pacific while Mom scarfed down her "Moon Over My Hammy"!

Alas, it has since been replaced by a more suitably upscale establishment. (sigh)

:sarcasm:

I usually get hungry long before I get tired.

I bet your night wouldn't have ended at 4 AM if you could have gotten food at the venue.


I wouldn't want to eat something like that though. If I ate that and then tried to dance some more I'd :puke:

Swedish pancake...mmmmm lingonberries.

Because that sounds fantastic and I can never eat it due to Diabetes.

The problem isn't that these things are available, but that people try to eat them every day. If a healthy person ate this once every month or so, there's not too much of a problem, provided the rest of their diet IS healthy.

That's just like my Saturday breakfasts used to be as a kid. Eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, and either pancakes or French toast, depending on what my parents felt like making. Top that off with whole milk AND orange juice and THAT was brunch after cleaning from 5 AM.

One of the machines at work sells a single honey bun that clocks in at 640 calories. Just glancing at it will give you diabetes.

and 35 grams of fat.

there was more vegetable oil in them than dairy product.

This is in no way bad because it's based on supply and demand.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

"Drive up to the first window to pay; pick up your order at the second window, and hand over your throbbing gall bladder at window #3."

Just reading about all of that fatty food gives me gall bladder pain.

"We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and then soak it in rich creamery butter. Then we top it off with bacon, ham and a fried egg. We call it . . . the Good Morning Burger."

more yummies at Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/luther.asp

If you eat like this, and wonder why you're fat....here's a hint, you aren't just "big boned".

They melt in your mouth and then head straight for your heart.

Deal breaker.

:puke:



The rest of it sounds okay, but you'd probably have to save half of it for later.

the cholesterol in it... though my kid might like it for a fast school morning breakfast change.

I put it right back immediately.

Cholesterol in that scrambled eggs, with saugage and ham was a whopping 925 mg!!!!

A built-in defibrillator? It cleans out your colon faster? What is it? :shrug:

I quit eating breakfast and eating at fast food restaurants a long long time ago...

some oatmeal and a piece or two of fruit will do nicely.

yum!!!

I saw the calorie content of a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, and it's only 370 calories and 20g of fat. This burrito actually makes McDonalds look healthy by comparison. :puke:

get a can of crisco and eat two heaping tablespoons each morning. Saves on the water use when doing dishes.

I need a run to the fresh veggie section at the local market, just to look at green leafy food.

Hold my calls!

As the first DUer to both eat the Monster Thickburger and live to tell about it, I attest that the sandwich is delicious and filling.

However, I wouldn't recommend eating more than about two of those a month.

It's a good thing my cholesterol count is about three, and I can eat things like this.

you just know it'll happen, alas

How the HELL do you get an 1100 calorie salad??? Even slathered with Ranch dressing and cheese. :crazy:

and crispy chicken.

Yikes.

Sid

Topping it with RAW onion rings and cold, cooked, NOT BREADED chicken would lower that calorie count considerably...

...would be a recession proof profession.

that's disgusting.

It's unnatural, disgusting, and eeeevil! And so are the people who like it!

Food moralism -- what next?


:eyes:

Knuckle dragger or butt crack?

And how did you get gay sex out of my post? :eyes:

I mean, you're actually vilifying people because of what they like to eat for breakfast. Don't you see how fucked up that is?

Which are you ...... ? Knuckle dragger or butt crack?

Because only a knuckle-dragging buttcrack would point out intolerance, I guess...

about quaker oats, and that is the picture of Barbara Bush on the carton.

:rofl:

...with a couple of spoonfuls of Grape Nuts on top. When I'm feeling extra hungry I'll slice a banana or a couple of strawberries into the mix.

About once or twice a month I'll do a sit-down "diner" breakfast of two fried eggs (with plenty of tabasco) and home fries. That Hardees thing was something I'd have eaten back when I was drunk and weighed 230 lbs. It sounds horrid.

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someone above mentioned the carl's jr milk shakes. it's similar of many other restaurants.

i use to think if i just got a shake and something like a grilled chicken sandwich it wasn't too much. but the shake has more than you would eat in total at any meal.

the bbq grilled chicken sandwich at Carl's Jr IS very good though and not too many cals.

these days i try to check out the calorie content online before going to fast food or other places.

My mother's heart attack last year kind of scared me into researching what I eat.

It can be frustrating sometimes, because I've begun to realize how many of my favorite foods/meals are atrociously bad for me. I can't bring myself to have them again after that. It's okay to eat the occasional unhealthy meal, of course, but a lot of this stuff is worth a day's total fat plus change!

it works well so far. I like the Baconator from Wendy's far to much to actually find out what the numbers on it are.

When I got my physical last year, I remember my cholestoral was like 157. When I told my fit-and-trim, 35-year-Army-career, yogurt-eating, health-concious boss what it was, he looked at me with his jaw on the floor and said "They way YOU eat?!?!?"

And my BP is fine, to! :-)

So delicious, though.

I would have to be taken to an ER.

If the burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams fat:

60 grams of fat = 540 calories

920 (total cal) - 540 (fat cal) = 380 (ca's from everything else)

Total % of calories from fat: 58.69%


I for one ain't eating that shit.

Mmm. Great tasting food.

They should change their slogan, "Breakfast! Less healthy than a pack of cigarettes!"

Just kidding! I don't care about the 2 week long cigarette discussion!

But I still do love how their food tastes. Don't eat there often, though. Down to 175 after ballooning up to 230 a few years back.