By Erin Ferrell, Columnist
Erin Ferrell
It’s a general rule of thumb that if an item of food is bigger than your head, it is probably bad for you. Another good rule to follow in the quest for health:if your hamburger is served betwixt two grilled cheese sandwiches in lieu of a bun,don’t eat it.
This burger is the latest offering in what seems to be a battle between purveyors of the greasiest and gooiest to see who can produce the most artery-blocking meal. From a chain called Friendly’s which I think we may have escaped here in OKC, this behemoth burger is going to deliver you 97 grams of fat and 1,500 calories. I love hamburgers and I love grilled cheese sandwiches, but together? No, thank you.
I myself am a larger lady and not at all averse to enjoying the culinary arts, but people, this is not art. This is a fat and calories orgy turning your stomach into a den of cholesterol iniquity and your arteries into Dallas rush hour traffic.
The only fast food more abhorrent to me than this business is the KFC Double Down.
I cannot see an ad for this without wondering who the heck thought this was a good idea. If you haven’t seen this little slice of blasphemy it is two fried chicken filets filled with cheese, bacon and cringe-inducing “special sauce.”
I toyed with the idea of sampling the Double Down for scientific purposes. Those purposes basically being this column, until my stomach reached up and smacked me in the face. No, my tummy hasn’t done anything to deserve that kind of treatment.
I wonder if this trend is indicative of an American (and maybe just Western) penchant for excess. Maybe for the grotesque. Does our consumerist society encourage us to take in as much as possible, even in terms of fat and calories? Whatever this trend means, it contributes to an increasingly confusing mind set where we are encouraged to eat 1,500 calorie meals and still look waifish.
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