Biggie Gets Bigger

That would be a 577 calories, just in your drink!

Yea, but great news for us diet coke drinkers - - - and I have a feeling there are more of us than regular coke drinkers out there (at least what I've gathered from waitressing at a bistro)

These fast food giants will not go away, unless everyone stops eating at them.

And I am afraid that it's not going to happen.

50 years it used to be that you could eat most things and generally contol your weight. But with fast food giants and big processed food companies marketing everything, and are on every corner,

the normal average citizen doesn't stand a chance.

Now we all have to study nutrition just sort out what is best!

I don’t find it odd at all. They want to hit more than one market. I wish fast food would sell more than one diet soda.

I rarely drink any soda at all now, but when I do it is caffeine free. Try getting that at your average fast food purveyor! If you're lucky, they'll have caffeine-free diet coke or pepsi, but then you still have to watch them. Sometimes you can tell immediately, that they've given you the wrong one (caffeine is bitter). No problem for me, but my wife can have medical problems from it. We just usually have water. It's safer and better for you, and no calories!

Actually I don't think this is a problem. With the fries, it's not like you could specifically order fries without trans fat. If you wanted the fries, you got the trans fat along with them!
With the pop, you could do lots of things if you don't want all the calories from regular pop. Get a diet soda, mix some regular with diet, get iced tea, etc.
I think there are bigger fish to fry.

who the hell can drink 1.24 litres of soda?is it supposed to last for the day?I drink about 3.5 litres(i work out a lot) of water throughout the day, but i rekon 1.24 litres on 1 go would make me sick!

577 calories in a drink (if you're right claire) is more than the amount in breakfast and lunch together!

But, if people keep buying it, thet'l keep making it.. i sure won't be buying it! x

They sell a 44 oz. "Mega Buddy" at the local Kwik Trip stores around here. It's absolutely HUGE. I've gotten it before...I filled it with Diet Coke thinking the caffeine would help me through a double shift. Well, about 3/4 the way through drinking it, I got really shaky and jittery. I swore I'd never drink that much soda at once again. The reason fast food companies sell huge soft drinks is because they can charge 50 cents more for a larger size that probably costs them a whole 1/2 cent more to make. Seriously, fast food companies rake in the dough on soda....it's one of their biggest profit margin items.

you are talking about soda being larger with more sugar did they consider diet drinks and how much more calories they contain and/sugar my comment is people do not have to buy the extra big sodas they can buy small because that is considered to be the medium drink which to me is big enough

I've gotten around the huge soda thing by ordering extra ice. Yeah, I pay for less soda, but at the same time, the soda that's in there stays VERY cold (I HATE warm soda), and I drink the soda quickly and have mostly ice water left over.

544 calories??? it is 765 calories if 51 teaspoons of sugar

Actually there are 16 calories in one teaspoon of sugar. If there is the equivalent of 51 teaspoons of sugar in that drink, it's more like 816 calories!

Oh GREAT!! Now I can order a huge drink from wendys and fries too...
Other than that there's almost nothing on the menu for vegetarians. Unless you ask for the salds without chicken. Frankly, thats all I have to say about this chain. I have a beef(no pun intended) with Wendys and A&W... but more so with A&W.

According to CalorieKing, 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar (2.8 grams) contains 11 calories.

Well... whatever the details are. This is one big drink. It shouldn't be called large. It should be called a monstrosity.

Three cheers for mass-market gluttony.

I took it on the 142 grams of sugar. One gram of sugar is 17 kilojoules, so 142 x 17 = 2414 kilojoules. Divide by a factor of 4.184 to get calories = 577.

At 5'3" and 200 pounds, I consider myself living (barely) proof of the fallacy of driving-thru. Nothing they serve is wholesome food. Nixing the trans-fats is a start, but diet drinks are every bit as unhealthy as regular sodas. So water is the preference here....but is it TAP water??? eeesh. I now eat at home, take my lunch and shop at Whole Foods. It's a start.

All the Wendy's around where I live are notorious for giving you a cup full of ice and maybe a 6 ounces of soda to fit between the ice cubes. That's a good way to limit the calories. If you got "extra ice," perhaps they'd have to shave it to get it all to fit in the cup.

I agree about just getting water, but I hate paying $1.29 (cheapest I've seen) for a small bottle of water (not even 20 oz, maybe 16?). I keep trying to remind myself to keep bottles of water in the car. I'd rather drink it warm than pay that much for so little.

-Danielle

What it really boils down to is that all of the diet foods, drinks are still bad for us. If we took out to really limit the amount of sugar we intake, alot of fast food restaurants would be out of business. I had to learn that the hard way. I went on a natural cleansing of the body for 45 days with no cheating. The only sugar that I recieved was natural sugar from the vegetables, fruits, and nuts that I ate. ( Seriously) I weight 265 and went down to 185. I have beening losting every since. The sugar is not good for us. The subsitute is not better. We have to motivate, and educate ourselves on our body and do was it right by it. So one day at a time, remove the regular, diet, and go natural. It is the best way to go.

You know, the problem isn't the resturaunts offering it. The problem is when you order it they don't give it to you anyway. I can't tell you how many times I've ordered a large root beer with no ice and gotten a medium anyway. Or I've ordered a cheeseburger just ketchup and what do you know, there's everything on it. Fast Food is Frustrating. But for all those health food junkies out there complaining that it's too fatty, there's a simple solution... DON'T EAT IT!

I don't mind at all. The biggest rip-off with fast food bills is the drink prices. I have always got the BIGGIE drink (DIET, I might add) and shared it with my children. One drink saves a lot of wasted cash! Think ahead folks! Complain and this option will be gone. DUH! I agree with the other writer: there are bigger fish to fry.

I am happy they are making the large bigger. As an avid diet coke drinker, larger is always better! I can drink 42 ounces in no time at all.

Possible to ban trans fats at their source? Are they necessary for ANY reason? Anyway, good for Wendy's! First steps are everything. Now, if they'd just hand me a COLD Frosty at the Window, I'd be happy indeed. Why are they so "melty" and half-cold? Figure the Frosty is not nutritionally an "A" either. No matter. I'm tired of the mushy-melty messes I get as I'm wished to "Have a good day."

Hello,
I am a manager for a Wendy's franchise. I can tell you that, yes, even we employees were shocked at the size of our large drink! Most of our regular customers, after first ordering the large, have sized down to what they usually buy.
I have been with Wendy's for 11 years and have had two children in that time. I have to admit that I love our burgers and fries. I am 5'4" and got up to 155 pounds, after my last child.
My new years resolution was to go back to pre-kid weight. Please understand that as a manager I am scheduled FIVE 10 HOUR DAYS! That's alot of time in the restaurant!! I choose to eat our very healthy food. I eat grilled chicken, salads and chilis. I drink only milk, tea and frostys and water. (Frostys, even though high in sugar are made with low-fat milk)
I am now down to 130! So, I guess what I am trying to say is that, even though I LIVE in a fast food restaurant, there are always healthy choises.
Eat right and eat great food at Wendy's!

Where are the people complaing about Whole Foods Market? What if I wanted a greasy hamburger from Whole Foods and couldn't get one? If you don't like what Wendys has to offer don't patronize the place. Life is about choices.Nobody drags you into Wendys or McDonalds or anyplace,we still have grocery stores and decent resturants around to get a healthy meal. Let the consumer decide what to buy and quit complaining about a drink being to big.

I can't believe people still drink full-sugar soft drinks. Ewww. I've been drinking the diet stuff since the 70's when all we had was TaB. Of course nowadays, the diet stuff is so well done, you really can't tell that it is diet - plus more and more of them are coming out with "zero" versions - no calories OR caffeine. Yay! Now if we could only get restaurants to offer more variety then we could order something more interesting than water...

By the way, as I understand it from people in the restaurant industry, it IS the drinks that they make the money on. They could give the food away so long as they sell the drinks that, as someone else pointed out, cost almost nothing per serving in the volumes that the restaurants are serving.

Oh, and those of us who love our soft drinks (or pop, or soda, or whatever you call it wherever you come from) can easily drink gallons of it, no problem. Bring on the "Bladder Buster"!

I actually did some research on food additives for a seminar last year, so I offer everyone a few things to consider.

When it comes to artificial sweeteners:
-natural sugar causes the pancreas to produce cholecystokinin, a hormone that makes your gallbladder empty itself, which makes you feel full and satisfied. Artificial sweeteners mimic the texture and taste of sugar, but not the pattern that I just mentioned. This, in turn, often leads to overeating, because you fail to feel as full or as satisfied.
-artificial sweeteners can also provide sweetness without calories. However, your brain is adapted to use sweetness as a calorie gauge. If it senses all this sweetness, with no calories, it signals that you are short on calories, and can again lead to overcompensation.
-Sucralose (Splenda) is an artificial sweetener that claims to have zero calories. This is because it is not found naturally, and our bodies are not adapted to metabolize it. Therefore it should pass right through us. But it doesn't, not always. We all have a unique biochemical make-up. In one study, one of eight participants did not excrete any sucralose even after three days. Clearly his body had absorbed and metabolized the sucralose. This is what the human body does; it adapts. The average person can actually absorb 15% of their sucralose intake. So much for "zero calories."

Oh yes, and I also agree with Theresa Hurlburt. I worked at Wendy's for 2 and a half years, and I often had to eat there during a long shift. I actually was lighter then than I am now. Even at Wendy's there are healthier choices. When I eat there now, I'll get the medium drink. I never biggie size. It's about choice. I simply choose not to eat a triple cheesburger with biggie fries and a liter of coke.

I'm an old man (83)who has drunk milk at most meals all my life. A few years ago I did an informal survey of milk drinking in fast food places. In the months I did so, I observed only three or four times anyone, even children, drinking milk. My conclusion is that virtually NOBODY drinks milk in fast food places. Most serve
1% milk, so it isn't like whole milk. A half-pint costs about 75 cents. Why don't they push milk? Probably because it costs THEM a lot more than pop, which we middle Americans call it. When my ISP welcome page announced that Wendy's was serving giant "sodas," I thought they were talking about ice cream sodas, which are mostly passe now.

Hello people it's called Wendy's old fashioned hamburgers so to you Yan where did you think that required Wendy's to tailor to your needs as a vegetarian. Maybe you should go to any heath food store and get your soy beans or whatever and leave Wendy's alone.

I'd rather have 42 ounces of water. Thank you.

Hi there I admit I am a bit over weight but I would rather be over weight then super skinny

I'm 14 years old, im about 5'3 and i weigh 138 lbs. My family says im not overweight..but i know i am. This summer, i pretty much slept all the time. I stay up, til prolly..2 and get up around 2 the next day. From then on i just sit around and watch tv. Heres what i think makes me fat. I eat A LOT of fastfood. French fries are like the best thing in the world. Is it the fries that are making me fat? Or is it the fact that im just lazy. Im worried that its gonna take months and months for my body to change. Help?

90% of the time when I order decaf coffee at wendys' it
is so strong cause it's never refreshed regularly'
always there is a I' in the coffee pot/ when served to customers' thus' it always bitter mcdonalds is ALWAYS fresh' I like all of wendys food the best of all the chain fast foods' but' ugh' the coffee needs to be worked on' come on. also' keep making the chicken nuggets I here they are going to stop offering them anymore

Aren't they losing money by giving out so much soda?