Hardee’s introduces 1,420-calorie burger

[MGKrebs]

"...two 1/3-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6498304/

Mmmmm!

[musette_sf]

1. In other news

Manufacturing jobs increase... at Hardee's.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. the cardiac sandwich

Quadruple bi-pass free with 5 burgers!

[billyoc]

3. I just had one, they're great!

My left arm hurts a little, though. ;)

[9119495]

7. That's funny, I had the same feeling. Did you see Jesus, the Buddha

and David Koresh while you were eating yours?

[billyoc]

10. Just a tall guy with a hood, and

some kind of weedwacker thingy. ;)

[KurtNYC]

4. Heart attack on a bun?

researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston report that eating a very fatty meal increases a person's risk for a heart attack four fold.

http://www.drmirkin.com/heart/8784.html

[yellowcanine]

5. But does it come with biggie fries and a 32 ounce soda?

[Dora]

6. It's just nature's way

of thinning the herd.

Saw it coming with the no-liability fast-food legislation passed last year.

Eat 'em up! And yes, it sounds delicious.

[eataTREE]

9. It doesn't work.

Heart disease'll kill ya, but not before you've had a chance to have a whole bunch of kids and pass many copies of your fast-food-guzzling, non-nutritional-label-reading genes on to the next generation.

It will, I guess, prevent you from being a burden on the Social Security fund if you kick off from a heart attack at age 45.

[JHB]

8. It's the Bush plan to "save Social Security"...

...by making sure one's arteries are gummed shut long before hitting retirement age.

[xultar]

11. Hardee's Fundi-Meal....Buhwawawawawawa!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[southpaw]

12. Hardee's/Carl's Jr. are freepy joints anyway...

This is the fast-food equivalent of the Hummer. Fuck common sense and moderation... GO LARGE!!!

[9119495]

13. You must be mistaken

No Freeper joint would put a woman on a mechanical bull in a commercial doing all sorts of sexual things with a cheese burger like Hardees does. So they must be all liberals.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. Or maybe they are apolitical

Not everyone is ideological.

[southpaw]

23. Carl's Jr. ran some commercials

During the whole ant-France frenzy that pretty well placed them in the camp with those who would fan the flames of Euro-hate for the sake of luring in the 'freedom fries' crowd.

Haven't patronized them since.

Hell with 'em!

[maveric]

34. I havent been there since, either.

[LeftHander]

14. WOn't last - Cut in half feed two for less than price of one...

Bad fast food resturant strategy...

You want two people to come in an spend about 6 dollars each.

A family of three could split this burger and fries for the half the cost of each buying a smaller burger.


VEry dumb...

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. Wendy's has had a 2/3 pound burger for years

But they also have smaller bugers on the menu. I suspect that this is not the only burger that Hardee's will be offering.

[Cheswick2.0]

16. cool, you can get your whole days calories in one sandwich

none of us will have to bother eating more than once a day.

[John_Shadows_1]

18. You know the Republicans are going to love this one...

... they're going to use some type of hummer-style, fuck-the-world-and-those-politically-correct-liberals-I-do-what-I-want marketing - but the funny thing is, this will actually kill you!

I say we send some over to GOP HQ.

[MGKrebs]

22. The ad on Hardee's site says

"Be afraid, Be very afraid." LOL.

http://www.hardees.com/

But will the Yak's like it?

[Huckebein the Raven]

19. dupe

[Huckebein the Raven]

20. Do you get a free triple-by pass with every sandwich ? ...n/t

[AllegroRondo]

21. Do they make you sign a liability waiver?

is this a direct response to the dropping of the McDonalds lawsuits?

[MallRat]

24. Holy. Shit.

Better have your cardiologist on speed dial.

-MR

[Endangered Specie]

25. That, plus large fry and drink equals...

Cal = 2300
Fat = 130
sodium = 2900
carbs = 200
cholestorol = 205


By my calculations

[terrya]

26. There's this movie called "Super Size Me" that these people...

obviously didn't see.

That burger just sounds nauseating, frankly.

[Deja Q]

27. HEY HEY HEY! Give me some of that fat angus beef!

On edit: Oops, didn't type in the 'G'. O8)

[Jack Schitt]

28. I'll take 2 of those, super-sized fries, and a diet coke.

I'm watching my weight. :silly:

[Dastard Stepchild]

29. "it's not a burger for tree-huggers..."

says Hardee's chief executive Andrew Puzder.

So there ya go.

back to my tree......

[Pithlet]

37. Apparently it's only for people with guts of steel.

I love burgers, but just looking at that one makes my stomach hurt. :puke:

[Dastard Stepchild]

30. repeat post deleted (n/t)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

31. Wow.

That's higher than my total recommended caloric intake (mine's about 1200-1300)!!!

Oh but I don't eat bacon or beef, so not to worry :)

[Hobarticus]

32. You can run an internal-combustion engine 35 miles on it...

This is the energy breakthrough that we've been looking for!

[Left Is Write]

33. I've been thinking about this damn burger all day.

They even had a blurb about it on NBC Nightly News - their fluff closer for the broadcast.

Anyway. What IS it with this country? Is no portion EVER big enough? When I go to a restaurant, I invariably get enough food for three meals. I don't WANT that much food. I don't want to eat myself into a greasy stupor. Yet portions keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I'd guess the average American has no idea what an actual portion size of any given food is these days. When you've got a bottomless bowl of pasta, who wants to stop at a half cup to a cup of pasta?

At the same time, the clothing industry has been ever so slowly making their sizes bigger but numbering them smaller in an attempt to fool people into thinking they haven't actually eaten too much. Ten years ago, I wore a size 4. Today, weighing in at approximately the same as I weighed ten years ago, I wear a size 0. Zero. It's insane! That's how much the sizes have changed. Today's size four might have been a size eight just a few years ago, and a ten when I was in high school. I bought a pair of vintage (circa mid-70s) jeans a while back that were marked size 11. The waist was 25 inches. That'd be a 0 or a 2 now.

So. Portions get bigger and bigger. People lose all sense of reality about what a portion size should actually be. And it doesn't affect their clothing size - because the clothes keep getting bigger, and the manufacturers are trying to fool us into thinking they're not.

There should never be a size 0. It makes no sense. Some retailers are now carrying 00.

This is just an odd rant, I guess. Maybe I need caffeine or sleep or something. But this super-size mentality escapes me.

[VTdem]

35. Lets hope Dick Cheney decides to eat a few.

[OneTwentyoNine]

36. Pfffttt....you call that a burger? Here's a burger....

UL

Eat up MEN!! Its so damn big you have to give it time to load...


http://snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp#photo