Here’s a way to double-down into cardiac arrest
You know, the most perfectly designed and generously funded health-care system in the world won’t help us much if we keep doing things like this to ourselves:
That’s the “Double Down Chicken Sandwich” now being test-marketed by KFC for the low low price of $6.99. In case you can’t believe your eyes, that’s two chicken fillets — fried of course — with cheese, bacon and sauce in between.
American ingenuity, at its best.
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Brad Steel
August 26th, 2009
11:57 am
It doesn’t come with gravy? What a shame.
USinUK
August 26th, 2009
12:01 pm
… and a Diet Coke, please.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
12:03 pm
Looks like something from Hardee’s.
Question
August 26th, 2009
12:07 pm
See the below and remind me — who will running ObamaCare???
One day after the Herald reported some surprised Bay State inmates – including murderers and rapists – were cashing in $250 stimulus checks, federal officials revealed the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.
A federal watchdog is now probing how the cons were cut the checks. The same cash also may have been sent to fugitive felons, people kicked out of the country and even individuals now deceased.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
12:09 pm
I remember walking into a Burger King when they first had to start posting nutritional information. It was on a poster by the door. I looked at the Whopper and saw if I ordered it without mayonnaise I could cut a fourth of the calories and half the fat grams.
Such a simple thing.
And I saw I could about halve both AGAIN by ordering a Whopper Junior. Which is plenty of food and costs a lots less.
They give us the information. We make choices.
Boy, talk about implications for health care costs…
thomas
August 26th, 2009
12:11 pm
But I was blasted on here by other posters for wanting a FAT tax for any health care reform.
More people die as a result of bad diet and its effects than smoking and drinking combined.
Those without a medical condition who choose to be obese are doing nothing if not raising the Premium for the rest of us.
And USinUK, the person ordering this would most likely order a diet coke or water. Not worrying about the 2500 or so calories involved in this fat mass.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 26th, 2009
12:12 pm
Hot damn that looks good.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 26th, 2009
12:13 pm
This is just what you would expect from a democrat-
One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.
Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.
They were going to blame this on Conservative “hate groups” but instead they got busted.
How many more incidents like this have they gotten away with?
Normal
August 26th, 2009
12:13 pm
It looks a little like something I was served in Austria. It must be yummy!
RealityKing
August 26th, 2009
12:13 pm
Sure, blame the food rather than the lazy people eating it. How progressive..
Paul
August 26th, 2009
12:15 pm
thomas
I think a more effective way to address this would be not to tax after the fact, but to reform our entire $$$ and political support of agribusiness and the resultant supply of calorie dense, nutritionally low, extremely cheap food. It’s worth looking into.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
12:18 pm
Wow…I bet Teddy could inhale about 3 of those then wash them down with a liter of Cutty Sark. BLEH!!
stands for decibels
August 26th, 2009
12:24 pm
I think a more effective way to address this would be not to tax after the fact, but to reform our entire $$$ and political support of agribusiness and the resultant supply of calorie dense, nutritionally low, extremely cheap food. It’s worth looking into.
Cue Swampy Dave and how the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace always knows best and how dare you, sirrah, think otherwise?
USinUK
August 26th, 2009
12:25 pm
thomas –
“And USinUK, the person ordering this would most likely order a diet coke or water. Not worrying about the 2500 or so calories involved in this fat mass.”
I know – that’s why I said that! I think we’ve all seen that in line at McDs, Wendys and the like …
Reality –
no one is blaming the FOOD, fercryingoutloud …
TnGelding
August 26th, 2009
12:27 pm
Actually, KFC is doing some grilling now. I’m literally starving to death, but this particular concoction doesn’t look appetizing. Reporter has been trying to tell us Jay, it’s not our health care system that’s the problem.
USinUK
August 26th, 2009
12:27 pm
… and this one goes out to the numpties …
later taters!!! have a good evening!!!
Normal
August 26th, 2009
12:28 pm
My fellow Americans…Remember, as a nation, we are what we eat. Therefore, America is fast, cheap, and easy…
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 26th, 2009
12:28 pm
Well, where’s the grits and red-eye gravy with that thing, is what I want to know? Looks like they cut out a whole bunch of calories by just getting rid of the bread but without the gravy it ain’t worth much. A person could starve to death that way.
Reminds me of the local story that showed up in the AJC in the late 60s. This Atlanta woman was on a diet and on her lunch break she seen a sign that said Topless Sandwich Shop. So she figured without the top piece of bread she might could save a few calories. Then she found out it was the waitresses, not the sandwich, that was topless.
Anyhow, I know a bunch of weenies on this blog will be blowing off steam and wanting to tax rich food and great big people and think that will make people healthier. Well, as the husband of a 360 lb. woman I can tell you it won’t work. It’s the big bones that cause people to get real heavy. If you want to tax something then tax people that buy a bottle of water for 2 bucks and coffee for 4 bucks. And make the bicycle riders and runners pay a big tax for using up our streets so fast and getting in our way while we’re trying to get to the burger joints.
Have a good p.m. everybody.
Jefferson
August 26th, 2009
12:30 pm
If you just stick your head in the sand, life is bliss.
Bud Wiser
August 26th, 2009
12:31 pm
Do you have to count the calories if no one is watching you eat it?
Heart attack on a paper plate.
I am astounded Obamacare maniacs aren’t in the preemptive strike mode, and should never have allowed this to happen! Surely one of the snitches the WH Gestapo is recruiting could have advised them this was about to happen; if you promise a 17 year old chicken fryerperson a beach house in Bermuda perhaps – hell, it worked for the Chinese terrorists at Gitmo.
What is next, governmental fast food menu control?
Oh, the humanity!
Matilda
August 26th, 2009
12:35 pm
“Gross!” (Repeat until you believe it. Self-talk helps!) That fat blob reminds me of the old Wendy’s Monterey Ranch Chicken Sandwich that would come and go from the menu. Man, I loved those! But if you’re over 30 still eating that crap, you’re gonna pay, one way or another. “Thin feels better than fat tastes!” Repeat.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
12:37 pm
yuck-a-roo
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
12:39 pm
Matilda
“Thin feels better than fat tastes”
You said a mouthful! (of fresh spinach of course)
Shawny
August 26th, 2009
12:41 pm
I am sure that there will be a fat tax on it as per the govt sponsored healthcare bill.
Finn McCool
August 26th, 2009
12:42 pm
Maybe once a year…
Midori
August 26th, 2009
12:42 pm
that sandwich looks utterly disgusting.
thomas
August 26th, 2009
12:43 pm
Paul,
But do we not currently tax smokers, drinkers, and other tobacco products? This is done both to the consumer, and to the supplier.
So would it be that hard to tax the distributors, and also the purchase of any type of fatty foods. Or even better just simply add a tax on if a person is obese. Because how do you tax inactivity?
Thats what this is about is inactivity, not bad eating.
Eat what you want but be willing to burn whatever calories you eat.
If not the rest of us will be forced to pay for those people’s lazy decisions
joe matarotz
August 26th, 2009
12:44 pm
Good point, Jay. It will not matter what kind of health care we have if we insist on killing ourselves slowly. Just looking at that makes my arteries harden. Yuck.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
12:46 pm
Oh USinUK beat me to it!
(Thank God a new thread) –
That’s a sandwich? Where’s the bread? Or does the fried chicken replace the bread?
One day I was flipping through the channels and watched Paula Deen against my better judgement for a few minutes and I swear to God, she used two glazed donuts as a hamburger bun – plus the cheese bacon, etc. It took me a good 30 minutes before I could speak after watching that.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
12:47 pm
thomas, thomas, thomas – the people are not taxed, the products are.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
12:48 pm
Oh thomas, didn’t see that last sentence.
Guess what? You already ARE paying for people who make bad decisions about what they eat.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
12:49 pm
And I think, I’m not sure, but I think Paula also put a fried egg on that burger.
Bud Wiser
August 26th, 2009
12:55 pm
I know that some of our heavier libtards will hit the drive-thru tonight, wearing dark glasses, and order a bag full of the beasties.
It is tempting…….
random acts of kindness
August 26th, 2009
12:58 pm
Looks like one of those “This is your brain on drugs” commercials
JokesOn
August 26th, 2009
1:00 pm
Just dropping in to say hello to USinUK and any other irregulars.
Public Option or No Bill
August 26th, 2009
1:03 pm
I’ll be running Obama Care. Got a question? Do you have a clue what it is? Tell me how that obscure Medicare Oversight Board will work?
Still think H1N1 is a manufactured crisis?
Public Option or No Bill
August 26th, 2009
1:04 pm
How many of you repubos think that H1N1 is such a delusion that you’ll refuse vaccination if and when it’s available to you?
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
1:04 pm
Someone probably slipped Teddy this “Double Down Chicken Sandwich” and thats what took him from us…
Bobby killed Jack.
Public Option or No Bill
August 26th, 2009
1:05 pm
Jokes on –
Do you mean regularly irregular or irregularly irregular–as in what could happen to your heartbeat if you eat too many of those big sandwhiches up top?
Matilda
August 26th, 2009
1:06 pm
JokesOn, HEYYYYYYY!
Peadawg
August 26th, 2009
1:06 pm
“… and a Diet Coke, please.”
LMAO!!
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
August 26th, 2009
1:06 pm
Teddy, G-d rest his soul, would have loved these.
Public Option or No Bill
August 26th, 2009
1:07 pm
Turd Ferguson–
Tell me how you’re immune from cancer or catestrophic illness? What’s your secret? Tell me how you’re immune from a glioblastoma IV which is not caused by that pretty sandwhich up top?
Mr. Snarky
August 26th, 2009
1:15 pm
Yuck! Barf on a bun!
My stomach churns just looking at it.
Bruno
August 26th, 2009
1:15 pm
“You know, the most perfectly designed and generously funded health-care system in the world won’t help us much if we keep doing things like this to ourselves”
Which is why I think the attempted takeover of our health care system by the government is completely misguided. I have seen various estimates through the years, that anywhere from 30-60% of “health care” dollars are spent on preventable illnesses related to poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, excessive drinking, etc. Add to that a substantial amount of fraud and waste, and maybe some of you can understand why I prefer to self-insure, rather than subsidizing all of the nonsense. Government involvement is not the answer, personal responsibility is.
Mr. Snarky
August 26th, 2009
1:19 pm
And I’m sure that “personal responsibility” will cure that cancer…who needs medical insurance? So Bruno, I take it you turned down the medical insurance from your employer, right?
Bruno
August 26th, 2009
1:22 pm
“Tell me how you’re immune from cancer or catestrophic illness? What’s your secret? Tell me how you’re immune from a glioblastoma IV which is not caused by that pretty sandwhich up top?”
Yes, Public Option, there is a certain probability that you can be struck by an unforseen, catastrophic illness. Which is why catastrophic health insurance makes sense (i.e. $10,000 deductible or more). Once you start including routine medical care as part of your “insurance plan”, it is no longer insurance, it becomes a cost-sharing scheme. And, as I referenced in my above post, because so many people are completely irresponsible about their health, I don’t wish to share costs with them. As a free person, I feel that that should be my choice. Obama plans to fine me 2.5% of my income for choosing my own path.
Mr. Snarky
August 26th, 2009
1:25 pm
Bruno, if you purchase health insurance at all, you’re sharing the costs with the “personally irresponsible”. So, you’re better just opting out entirely. Good luck ’til you’re 65.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
1:25 pm
Public Option or No Bill
August 26th, 2009
1:07 pm
NO. I will not tell you. Its my personal secret. Now get back in THAT TOILET!
*FLUSH*
Bruno
August 26th, 2009
1:26 pm
“So Bruno, I take it you turned down the medical insurance from your employer, right?”
Believe it or not, Snarky, not everyone in the world is a company lackey. Some of us have the courage to start our own businesses and blaze our own trails.