Double Whopper: Are You Man Enough?

My personal favorite is not far behind – BK Stackers, large fries, and a large Coke = 1,790 calories -- no, I am not man enough, I prefer water-fasting ;-)

I stopped eating fast food months ago and I feel much better. That stuff will kill you. I wouldn't even consume a salad or diet soda from a fast food establishment - I'm sure that fat, grease, and calories would somehow sneak in!

Many people fail to realize that the FDA allows fast food establishments to serve Grade E meat - the lowest quality meat.

Stop killing yourselves!

Nice Girl is right. It is not so much the calories (well it is also the calories), but it is the fact that it tastes like crap, is full of ingredients not present in nature, and won't fill you up. You can make a burger at home, even on a white bun, and topped with real cheese and bacon, and even make fries that are really deep-fried, and while the calories will only be marginally lower, at least you'll be full and you'll have eaten protein from the patty, not just filler and lard.

Snopes on the "Grade E meat" urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp

Those are men? Looks like a pack of moronic juveniles. Besides the not-so-subtle 'other message' (that this is how 'real' men behave) it seems insulting to men in general. It is enough to put a woman off (men as well as fast food).

Ridiculous what they define/show as 'chick food'.

Those extra large portions just support the fact that most people are not raised to understand the difference between having enough food, being full and the last step - being stuffed.

Tell me - do 'real men' actually identify with such ads?

The ad was amusing, but I couldn't help noticing the incongruity of the slim, muscular, fit-looking models and those disgusting looking burgers. Somehow, I doubt that those models eat at Burger King.

Hi everyone :) I live in the UK and do my best to keep myself (easy) and my son (not so easy) out of McDonalds. I have to say though that they seem to have responded to the market by providing some healthier options lately and I tried a salad and it was yummy.

Demand will always precede supply. When we stop buying the crap and demand healthy I bet you any money they will start supplying it!

Happy Day Everyone ~ Mike.

Sorry I said McD's and the post was about BK. OOps :) I have to say I thought the ad was hilarious. It's done very tongue in cheek. Strange they used Americans for a british ad. Obviously that's the image they want. After all Americans do everything bigger no? :)

Hmmm you left out the carbohydrate content!

161 grams of carbs in that meal!

It might not mean much to you guys, but a diabetic would need to know the carb amount to administer his insulin.

Hmmmmm link with obesity and diabetes....what could that be??

Steven, my issue is not with the grade of beef used. It is with how little beef is used. I believe it is White Castle that uses the highest beef percentage in their patties out of all fast-food chains, and it is a whopping 70% beef. The most common patties are 40% beef. So you got 161g carb, 75g fat, and maybe what? 15g protein, between the mayo made out of non-eggs, cheese made out of non-milk, and patties made out of non-beef. No wonder you are hungry soon after. No fiber, almost no protein.

I did a little rearch on the Mediterranean Diet by interwiewing a hand full of people who grew up in the Medeterranean. I was surprised to hear how important they felt about mothers cooking.

Someone made the comment- with all the fast foods going up even in the small towns they wern't sure the same stats could be found today. The Lyon study was published in 1998 and took 4 years to put together. I'm willing to say just like Japan, the people in the Mediterranean are having new trouble with weight and heart problems.

Passion for Health, they use Americans because that commercial was originally shown in the US, maybe about 6 months ago.

A heart attack in a bun!

Easy on the mustard!

No thanks. A Regular 3 ounce burger is fine with me.

I eat a lean serloin steak once a week for iron, zinc, magnesium, vitamin B12, and such more.

If I would like to have a burger, I do this: Get a fish patty, grill the patty, and put it on a whole grain bun, and have it with a baked sweet potato and peas instead of these trans-fat-laden fries. And for dessert: A Frozen yogurt with walnuts and a pineapple. Particulary, I get a salmon burger on a whole grain bun and ask for steamed veggies.

Nothing like a triple bypass to earn you the coveted man card!

Once I was frantically working all morning and I had to go to Lowes to pick up a huge load of ceramic tiles. I loaded all the tiles onto my blue cart, then into the car. It was about 1:00 and I was starving, so I stopped by Hardees and ordered a Jalapeno Thickburger and a diet coke. It was SO GOOD! It wasn't greasy at all. I was so stuffed I didn't eat anything else the whole day. I looked up the nutrition facts on it, and it's all under 100% of the recommended calories and fat. It's the kind of thing I'd have once a year when I've been too busy to eat right and I'm working too hard for days and burning off lots of calories. I see tons of people eating ice cream all over town, and it has more fat than a hamburger. I'd rather have the hamburger any day.

I'm sick of Low Carb Dave's shit!!

Chris, wow, touchy aren't we?

He just mentioned the carb content in it alongside with what Jim had already mentioned. Jeez.

First of all, I hate this kind of marketing. Frankly, I think all marketing targeted at either gender is horrible.

Women sitting around cackling and gossiping at each other, legs all scrunched up on a sofa in robes rolling their eyes at yogurt, or beer commercials or commercials like this aimed toward the lunkhead male crowd.

Body spray commercials which suggest fairly nakedly, "Use our product and get laid."

All advertising, save that which simply presents a product, its features, and says how good it is without appealing to my lifestyle or attitudes, sucks.

That being said...

I take umbrage with anyone who suggests that an occasional indulgence of an incalculably huge greasy burger with a massive pile of fries and a big-as-the-sea coke is something evil.

The problem are these bizarre stats I hear that people have fast food 3 times a week or more. I have fast food maybe 4 or 5 times a year, and I do without guilt and even some amount of spite.

I would not want to live in a world without Coca Cola, grease-laden dead animal flesh, and deep fried potatoes. A Wendy's triple quarter pounder with cheese is, to me, a wonderful thing.

I've just gotten to the point where I regard plain Coke the way some people regard ice cream - as an occasional treat or indulgence - a dessert. But there is no substitute for it.

A burger and fries is, to me, a victory meal. But I eat red meat, in any form, maybe 8 times a year, maybe half of those in the form of junk food. That's less than once a month and no one is going to convince me that I'm going scorched earth on my body.

My question is how people can peel themselves out of bed in the morning if they're chowing this stuff down on a weekly basis. I remember people I worked with who had this food every day for lunch (bizarrely, none of them overweight - which leads me to believe that Satan is alive and well and walks the planet earth and does do deals with people).

All this being said, these commercials, and commercials like it, are offensive. It's not a matter of gender consciousness as much as it is insulting my intelligence. That this very discussion exists indicates how transparently idiotic this commercial is.

I am not a "meat and potatoes" kind of guy (you wanna get your chilehead codpiece on and battle, you give me a call), I am not a sexist, nor do I base my own sense of manhood on the food I eat. Nor does anyone else I know, frankly, so I have to ask who these commercials impress.

I eat fast food because it tastes good. It has nothing to do with some kind of stupid sexual politics about what "manly food" is. It's about pleasure. Endorphins. Euphoria. Taste.

And if someone wants to call my daily stir fries wimpy, I challenge them to try one, with their requisite 10 dried hot peppers and 12 just-barely-cooked cloves of garlic. There's no rice or noodles to take the edge off, so this one separates the men from the boys (or girls from the women).

Food is not a religion or lifestyle. Food is aggregates of molecules which either keep our machinery working or release endorphins to make us feel good. Period. In its best form, it does both in a balanced way.

Iggy, Your article is making my endorphins release almost as much as that Jalapeno Thickburger did. I love barely-cooked cloves of garlic too, mmmmm!

But about the question of how people eat all that stuff, I know some folks who do it all the time and they are pretty healty older folks. My dad eats at Wendy's every Sunday after church but he also works on a farm all day so he isn't a pound overweight. He thinks chicken is disgusting; he only eats beef, never fish either, only white bread, ham everyday for lunch, etc... I've never told him to eat something else because his grandfather died at 102 (he smoked too, but Dad doesn't). They like raw onions a lot so maybe it protects them from heart disease.

Those yogurt commercials make me never want to touch yogurt again. I would never buy that brand, or the one with the shampoo causing a certain reaction in the shower. The caveman commercials make me laugh until I cry, however.

To mike/Passion for Health:

actually, demand will often follow supple. Humans take what is given...and then some.

sorry, I meant supply*

They have similar ads in the U.S. Burger King seems to be marketing more heavily to men.
Wendy's is promoting its new Mozzarella Cheeseburger - two cheeseburgers PLUS more "cheese sauce" on top - as a "Trophyburger" with shots of football teams, cheerleaders, and beauty queens holding them up as trophies. Just the kind of artery-clogging reward our kids want, right? P.S. I tried it and it was so greasy that the bun was WET. Too much grease, even for me.

Just a quick response to Steven on the above snopes Grade E myth. Snopes has it wrong. USDA does also use letters for meat grading. It was many years ago...(1990), but I personally saw a box in a college cafeteria that was labeled "Grade E but edible". I don't know if the USDA has changed their policies over the years, but you can find all you want to know about it at this link:

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Inspection_&_Grading/index.asp

my favorite combo for burger king is a triple whopper with fries and an orange pop

hey jan get a life

and everyone else that advise would't hurt you too

Lol @ this.

Iggy is right 100%. Anyone who doesn't induldge in fast food ONCE IN A WHILE is a robotic health nut. I don't know anyone (besides that guy a few posts above) who can legitimately say that a salmon burger is better then an all-beef burger. I've had a salmon burger before and it taste like cat food. Lol.

And..you people do realize that plain coke is better for you then diet coke right? I mean all you have to do is burn off the sugar with regular coke and you aren't gonna have any problems. But diet coke is a scam. (As proven by this article below:

http://www.lightparty.com/Health/DietCokeAspartame.html

Although I do think Fresca is one of the greatest drinks ever..