Newest Gut Bomb in Burger Wars Is Audacity on a Bun

[papau]

Hardee's and Carl's Jr. offer more than 1,400 calories burgers, Del Taco sells more than 1 pound Macho burritos, Seattle's 5 Spot restaurant requires a tongue-in-cheek liability waiver ("The 5 Spot will not be held liable in any way if the result of my eating this dessert leads to a 'Spare Tire,' 'Love Handles,' 'Saddle Bags,' or 'Junk in my Trunk.' If I have to go to 'Fat Camp' at some time in my life, I will not mail my bill to the 5 Spot.") before ordering the Bulge, a sugarcoated, deep-fried banana with ice cream, macadamia nuts, whipped cream and chocolate and strawberry syrups.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-big10jan10.story
Newest Gut Bomb in Burger Wars Is Audacity on a Bun
By Julie Tamaki Times Staff Writer

January 10, 2005

The hottest new hamburger at Hardee's is an unabashedly unhealthful mountain of meat called the Monster Thickburger.

Loaded with two 1/3-pound Angus beef patties, four strips of bacon and three slices of cheese, slathered with a generous glob of mayonnaise and encased in a buttered bun, it's not exactly a celebration of calorie counting.

Who's counting? When the 1,420-calorie, 107-fat-gram behemoth was unleashed, people gobbled it up.

"Sales results for this politically incorrect burger have been encouraging," Andrew Puzder, chief executive of Hardee's parent CKE Restaurants Inc., told Wall Street analysts after the big burger's introduction in mid- November. On Wednesday, when CKE reported that December sales at Hardee's were up 5.8% year over year, Puzder credited the burger and "its audacity."

The Monster has been singled out — the Center for Science in the Public Interest called it the "fast-food equivalent of a snuff film" — but the $5.49 4-inch-tall sandwich is just the latest in a heart-clogging trend.<snip>

[Crankie Avalon]

1. MORE decadence...

...is this what the final days of the new Roman Empire look like? O8)

[papau]

2. This is the circus part of the Fall.

Keeps our minds off the rich stealing the future of our kids.

[brainshrub]

3. Wait till Hardees installs a vomitarium in the back of the restaurants.

[Archae]

4. Those are nothing.

Try this gutbomb. :wow:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp

[baba]

5. Revolting.

That is 2/3 lbs. of meat!

:puke:

[ThorsHammer]

6. In the minority here, but I'd like to try it

There's no way I could finish it at one meal, but I would like to try it sometime. For a fast food place, Hardee's has pretty good meat. I don't have a problem with eating crap like this every once in a while, as long as it's not done too often.

[Ekirh]

7. I've eaten it..

Mainly because that day I didn't have lunch or breakfast so I figure why not...

Damn Burger almost took me down for the count.

My fault.. using my "AMAZING MATH SKILLS" I figured 1/3 plus 1/3 is 1/2... so I should be able to handle that..

It was by the time I got the burger when I realized.. you idiot 1/3 plus 1/3 is 2/3 dummy. Needless to say... about half way through the burger, I regretted it very very much :)

You know I don't have too huge a problem with it... the thing is though... It's 1400 calories (I think that's what it was correct) AND THEN you add fries and more than likely a soft drink... and it goes up even more. I just ordered the burger (And admittingly a tea, I gotta have a tea now).

I have nothing against eating it, just if you do... realize it's 2/3 and not 1/2 like I did :)

[Archae]

8. Nothing new here either.

Remember when Pizza Hut (back when they actually still made good pizzas,) had the "Whole Gang" pizza?
If you could eat one by yourself, you got one free.

I did, when I was a teenager. :wow:
Oogh...was I sick though.

[ThorsHammer]

10. True, it will be more than one meal for me

I'd probably be physically ill if I ate that much at one sitting in addition to fries and a coke. Along these lines, I love buffets too, but can't do them that often either. Most of the time I eat extremely clean, so I don't mind splurgeing every now and then.

Archae, I've never heard of the Pizza Hut deal, although it does sound like an interesting idea.

[JVS]

9. The classic triple is 3/4 lbs, come on Dave make the quadruple!

[Cuban_Liberal]

11. I liked it.

It was pretty tasty.:)

[jmowreader]

12. What these writers don't realize...

is that Hardees has had 2/3-pound burgers ever since they started offering the Thickburgers. Move along, nothin' to see here.

I have eaten this burger and even ran a DU thread about it. It's good. I'd eat it again. I wouldn't eat it every day, but once every few weeks would be okay. I also wouldn't get any fries with it--the Monster Thickburger will fill you up. Make sure to ask for ketchup because Hardees, like Sonic, doesn't put it on their burgers. Unlike Sonic, though, the Hardees burgers need it.

They also have Slammers--Hardees' attempt to be White Castle. Those are really good.

[CatBoreal]

13. That is a ....

...days worth of calories and more than a weeks safe allowance of fat.

UUUUGGGGGG!!!!

[Wapsie B]

14. I've had it.

It's very good. But the angus thing is just a gimmick. Almost any breed of cow will be quite tasty if raised correctly. We had holstein steers taste just as good.