KristiB
10-20-2007, 02:25 PM
I hope the nutritional info on this bad boy is accessible in the restaurant.
As far as the question at the end goes, there's a market for food like this and people should know that if they're eating fast food they're getting fat and calorie laden processed food.
Just because it's available doesn't mean you have to eat it and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know this is a nutritional disaster.
So yeah let these places make their crap food. As long as they disclose what it is then people can't complain about getting fat.
I see it as a form of Darwinism :p
http://epicurious.blogs.com/features__editor/images/2007/10/15/hardees_country_breakfast_burrito.jpg
The Worst Breakfast in America
by Michael Y. Park
What do you get the fast-food chain that has the worst of everything?
Why, America's unhealthiest breakfast item, of course!
And the restaurant chain in question is completely unapologetic about it.
Hardee's Country Breakfast Burrito, which debuted this week, is the $2.69 product of the unholy orgy of two fully loaded cheddar-cheese omelets, five hash browns, numerous bacon bits, countless sausage chunks and a dollop of gravy, all taking place in the confines of a flour tortilla (which gives it an origin story in common with Freddy Krueger). The damage: 920 calories, 500 mg of cholesterol, 1,970 mg of sodium and 60 grams of fat. That's more than half the daily recommended caloric intake for many Americans, and more fat than most of us need to eat every three days.
In a CNN story, The Center for Science in the Public Interest calls it "the country breakfast bomb" and "food porn." (Hey, that's our job. This is more like having repeated unprotected sex with an exceptionally unsanitary needle-junkie prostitute.)
Hardee's spokesman Brad Haley makes no excuses, saying, "We don't try to hide what these are. When consumers go to other fast-food places they feel like they've got to buy two of their breakfast sandwiches or burritos to fill up. This is really designed to fill you up."
Keep in mind that he's speaking for the company that brought us the Monster Thickburger (1,410 calories, 229 mg of cholesterol, 2,740 mg of sodium and 107 grams of fat) and what may be the worst reason for a chicken to have to lose its life, the Southwest Chicken Salad (1,100 calories, 90 mg of cholesterol, 1,910 mg of sodium and 83 grams of fat). Suddenly the Country Breakfast Burrito doesn't seem so bad, does it?
Should Hardee's menu-design staff be branded a terrorist organization, or is the company simply supplying a product that Americans are demanding?
As far as the question at the end goes, there's a market for food like this and people should know that if they're eating fast food they're getting fat and calorie laden processed food.
Just because it's available doesn't mean you have to eat it and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know this is a nutritional disaster.
So yeah let these places make their crap food. As long as they disclose what it is then people can't complain about getting fat.
I see it as a form of Darwinism :p
http://epicurious.blogs.com/features__editor/images/2007/10/15/hardees_country_breakfast_burrito.jpg
The Worst Breakfast in America
by Michael Y. Park
What do you get the fast-food chain that has the worst of everything?
Why, America's unhealthiest breakfast item, of course!
And the restaurant chain in question is completely unapologetic about it.
Hardee's Country Breakfast Burrito, which debuted this week, is the $2.69 product of the unholy orgy of two fully loaded cheddar-cheese omelets, five hash browns, numerous bacon bits, countless sausage chunks and a dollop of gravy, all taking place in the confines of a flour tortilla (which gives it an origin story in common with Freddy Krueger). The damage: 920 calories, 500 mg of cholesterol, 1,970 mg of sodium and 60 grams of fat. That's more than half the daily recommended caloric intake for many Americans, and more fat than most of us need to eat every three days.
In a CNN story, The Center for Science in the Public Interest calls it "the country breakfast bomb" and "food porn." (Hey, that's our job. This is more like having repeated unprotected sex with an exceptionally unsanitary needle-junkie prostitute.)
Hardee's spokesman Brad Haley makes no excuses, saying, "We don't try to hide what these are. When consumers go to other fast-food places they feel like they've got to buy two of their breakfast sandwiches or burritos to fill up. This is really designed to fill you up."
Keep in mind that he's speaking for the company that brought us the Monster Thickburger (1,410 calories, 229 mg of cholesterol, 2,740 mg of sodium and 107 grams of fat) and what may be the worst reason for a chicken to have to lose its life, the Southwest Chicken Salad (1,100 calories, 90 mg of cholesterol, 1,910 mg of sodium and 83 grams of fat). Suddenly the Country Breakfast Burrito doesn't seem so bad, does it?
Should Hardee's menu-design staff be branded a terrorist organization, or is the company simply supplying a product that Americans are demanding?