Latest Hardee's Sandwich: 930 Calorie Philly-Burger "Meat on top of Meat"

[matcom]

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ST. LOUIS --As if the Hardee's family of Monster Thickburgers didn't offer enough meat, the company's latest version adds steak meat on top of an already large slab of beef.

The meat-on-meat Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger, launched Tuesday, features one-third of a pound of Angus beef, along with both Swiss and American cheeses, green peppers and onions. And piled atop all of that is thinly sliced steak meat.

"We actually found in this case, the only way to make a burger taste like a cheesesteak was to literally put the steak on it," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for the St. Louis-based chain.

Not surprisingly, the sandwich isn't for the diet-conscious. It contains 930 calories, along with 63 grams of fat, and 24 grams of saturated fat. That's a full day's worth of the recommended amount of fat, and almost half the recommended 2,000 calories.

By Hardee's standards, it's not that extreme. The chain's Monster Thickburger has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat. Overall, Hardee's offers five sandwiches with more than 1,000 calories.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocate for nutrition and health, said Hardee's continues to add unhealthy offerings at a time when the nation is suffering from an obesity epidemic.

"What's next -- a pork chop on top?" CSPI senior nutritionist Jayne Hurley asked. "I'm always amazed -- they can always go one step further than I can imagine."

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/04/19/hardees_sandwich_piles_meat_on_more_meat?mode=PF

[Sugar Smack]

1. Ew.

[BreweryYardRat]

2. What she said, with a side of "Ugghhh."

[no name no slogan]

32. My second job out of college was managing a Hardees

Which is the main reason I WILL NOT eat there again-- even though the only Hardee's in my town is on the way to my bands' practice space.

Ew is right. :puke:

[Sugar Smack]

40. This is all so disturbing on so many levels!

:scared:

[SmileyBoy]

3. Meat!! MEAT!!! MEAT!!!!! AND MORE MEAT!!!!

I said I want my steak RARE, dammit!!!

[BreweryYardRat]

4. How can anyone stand rare steak?

Medium-rare TUNA steak, on the other hand... MMM! :)

[SmileyBoy]

5. YUMMY!!! Mercury and Dioxin!!! MMMM-MMMM!!!!

Good eatin...

[BreweryYardRat]

6. I didn't say it was perfect.

There's a reason I don't eat it too often.

[Orrex]

28. On the plus side

Grilling it more or less won't really change the mercury or dioxin levels, so if you want your tuna a little less cooked, go for it!

[RebelOne]

9. I'm a vegetarian, but in my meat-eating days,

I would have my steaks with blood dripping.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. One word: Carpaccio.

Mmmmmmmmm!

[Xithras]

63. Rare meat is more flavorful.

Cooking destroys much of the flavor and even more of the nutrients in meat. It should be cooked just enough to kill the bacteria, no more.

BTW, our distant ancestors really did eat raw meat. Cooking didn't become an issue until people started to store and transport meat, but fresh meat from a fresh kill is perfectly healthy to consume. Since we DO mass process and store food, we do need to cook it somewhat to kill of any bacteria that might have come into contact with the cut surfaces. Depending on the cut and type of meat, that usually translates to "rare". Anything past rare is a matter of taste (or lack of it).

[Crazy Dave]

7. I'm already halfway there to my first bypass surgery so....

...why the hell not. At least while my health insurance is still barely affordable.

BTW - Me and Shepard Smith (FOX News) used to flip burgers together at a Hardees back in 1984.

[SiobhanClancy]

17. Was he as big a jerk back then...

as he seems to be now?:)

Just asking....no offense intended,but he IS a Faux Puppet.

[Crazy Dave]

18. Yes, he was pretty arrogant back then too

A real hot-head but to his credit a real hard worker. It really blew me away the first time I saw him on television.

See his mug shot at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/dsmithmug1.html

[Random_Australian]

8. Study: More and more Americans Obese: Mardi Gras Blamed.

The Centre For AAAAAGH! GAYS IN THE COURTYARD! Research has concluded after a lengthy study that Mardi Gras causes obesity, hurricanes, strange noises in the night and the U.S. National debt.


P.S. That is seven and a half f*ckloads of meat.

[DrGonzoLives]

10. I refuse to eat at Hardee's

Not for any real ideological objection, but simply because their commercials, which consist primarily of the sound of people chewing REALLY FUCKING LOUD, make me want tear my own nuts off as a distraction.

[Sugar Smack]

14. OMG!

:rofl: :patriot:

[electricmonk]

41. Wow, I'm not the only one then.

I can't hit the mute button fast enough when their commercials come on.

[WildEyedLiberal]

42. Oh my God I know

Hardee's commercials have SUCKED for the past 10 years, without exception. They sucked even back before they got that stupid star, and have sucked ever since.

[LostinVA]

11. I grew up by Philly... this is NOT a cheesesteak

This is sacrilege.

[Orrex]

23. Pat's or Gino's?

I worked at a central PA steak-shop for a number of years, and I can state definitively that any ten people from Philly will give at least 15 different descriptions of a "real" Philly cheesesteak.

But beyond that, I agree with you--this ill-conceived monster is not a Philly cheesesteak in any incarnation.

[LostinVA]

25. I grew up across the river in NJ -- we use white american over there

and grilled onions.

OMG! I want one! I'm going to Philly in two months... can I wait???

I have eaten at Pat's, though -- yum.

[Orrex]

27. Road trip!

Personally, I don't care for the "shredded Steak-Um & cheez-wiz" varieties seen elswhere in PA. Give me chopped chipsteak and white american (with the aforementioned grilled onions, of course).

[LostinVA]

39. *drool*

[Ramsey]

12. Completely disgusting

:puke:

[DS1]

13. There will be a pork chop on top within months

and I can point at Jayne Hurley as the one to blame for that idea

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. Anything that pisses of CSPI...

...is something I want to eat. :9

[Left Is Write]

16. Meat on top of meat...

that sounds like something that would get a thread locked.

[Mutley]

19. Oh gross.

:puke:

I should seriously consider vegetarianism.

[realisticphish]

20. I love beef

i love steak, pork, and cheese.

but not all at once, fuck.

I have a big appetite, but i would MAYBE get through 1/4 of that sandwich

[B3Nut]

22. Oh, I could eat it.

I could eat the monster burger, too. Never tried either, however, as the closest Hardee's is down in Dodgeville and I don't get down that way often. Then again, I've pretty much sworn off fast-food burgers, too unhealthy. It's grill season, if I want a burger I'll make one of my own (which kick butt on anything a choke'n'puke fast food chain can come up with!)

Todd in Beerbratistan, incorrigible carnivore

[realisticphish]

24. yeah

hell of a lot less fat, and you can cook it so YOU like it

[B3Nut]

26. Yupyup!

And use real small-town-made Wisconsin cheese, none better! :D

And Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. mMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Todd in Beerbratistan, who is now drooling

[Orrex]

21. I managed a Hardee's in the early nineties

They rolled out "The Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger," a monstrous 1/3 beef pattie with three full strips of bacon, four slices of cheese, and a thick slathering of onion-mayo.

My arteries got clogged just from reading the promo material.

[no name no slogan]

44. We suffered at the same time, then

I managed one for several months in 1993, which was about the time they started rolling out the gigantic artery-busting burgers.

I used to like the fried chicken, though (they got it when they bought out Roy Rogers Chicken, IIRC). Too bad they got rid of it.

[Orrex]

46. You have my sympathies!

My store was located near downtown State College PA, and every single commercial that aired locally featured a trio of geriatric woman tooling around in a series of comic misadventures. This, in a town whose average consumer-age was about 23. Way to nail the demographic, Hardee's! It was like we were fighting against our own advertising.

My location never had the fried chicken, either. Not sure why, but at least we had apple turnovers. :crazy:

[no name no slogan]

47. OMG APPLE TURNOVERS!!!

I once had an irate customer because of those damn things! We normally kept a couple on the heatshelf in reserve, but not much more than that because they didn't sell at our location.

So one guy (let's call him knucklehead) comes in during dinner rush and orders two of them-- right after somebody else had ordered two of them. They took at least 3 minutes in the grease to cook, so we told him he'd have to wait a few minutes to get them, could he please come back in a few and they'll be ready?

So the knucklehead sends his teenage kid to the counter to get them, during rush. Of course my counter person doesn't recognize the kid as the spawn of knucklehead, and tells him to get lost (we had a lot of problems with teenagers trying to scam free food from us, so we were especially wary of them). The spawn of knucklehead goes back to papa knucklehead and tells him we told her to get lost, so the now irate knucklehead comes back up to the counter and starts yelling at me because my staff wouldn't give the turnovers to the kid.

Worse yet, knucklehead sounded/acted drunk, and the last thing I needed at rush was a scene with a drunk. I think I ended up comping the turnovers just to get him to leave.

God I hated that job.

[Orrex]

48. We must have worked at the same location

That, or all Hardee's are one Hardee's.

I have to admit that I liked the Frisco Chicken sandwiches, though.


Where did you manage?

[no name no slogan]

52. I was at three stores in the Minneapolis/St Paul area

I supposedly worked at one, but "floated" to two others when they lost their assistant managers. Most of the time I worked in one that had previously been a Country Kitchen, so our kitchen area was nothing like what I was trained on, and was poorly laid out to boot. Plus, that store was notorious for its bad customers, and even worse employees. It was my first job managing anything, so the franchise operators tossed me into their worst store. Gee, thanks guys!

Thankfully I've learned my lesson and have avoided other management positions. I have a hard enough time managing myself, much less anybody else.

[xmas74]

49. I worked at one as a senior in high school.

Another person here working for Hardees in 1993! I remember the fried chicken quite well. And in my town it was pretty popular-we gave KFC a run for its money.

And it seems like that was the same time that the greasy overload that they called the Frisco came out.

[no name no slogan]

53. Yes, they were about the same time!

On my last night working for them, I worked an 11-8 shift. It was on a Friday night, and that Wednesday they'd just put a coupon in the paper for a 16-piece chicken meal for $7.99. Needless to say, NONE of the managers at our franchise stores were aware of it, and we got SLAUGHTERED. As did the other franchisee in the area.

We literally had people waiting for over an hour just to get the chicken special. We ran out of chicken by 7:30, and couldn't get any from other stores, either, because they had run out, too.

I remember walking out of there at 8:00, and the entire kitchen was trashed. Chicken breading everywhere. Biscuit mix all over the walls. Floors covered in frying oil, and everybody in a severely shitty mood. Good times, good times.

[xmas74]

59. I can remember getting the Friday rushes over chicken.

I can also remember it being so nasty that I would slip and slide all over the back floors. Oil buildup was everywhere.

[tonekat]

29. Special Promo: Free carton of cigarettes included

Heck, why stop halfway?

By now you've all heard about the atrocity known as the Luther Burger:

http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/luther.asp

But, you know, maybe just one....I'll take an extra walk around the neighborhood to make up for it...or a week of salads....mmmmmm.

[meegbear]

30. I felt my arteries clogging up while reading about it ...

no thanks on that one

[LynneSin]

31. Pork chop on top of a burger - yeah, I'd buy that!!

:woohoo: --> NOT!!

[azmouse]

33. What?! No Spam!

Boy am I glad we don't have Hardees where I live. I'd never keep Mr Mouse out of there.

[richmwill]

34. Oh, good old CSPI...

Trying to dictate what people should eat again. (Is it wrong to say that Jayne Hurley choking on a celery stick would make me giggle?)

[Squatch]

36. Can somebody post a picture of this monstrosity?

[underpants]

37. *AHEM* where is the girl on the mechanical bull?

PLEASE!!!!!!

[WI_DEM]

38. these fast food joints are shameless

but then again nobody is forcing anybody to eat there.

[Radical Activist]

43. meat on meat...hmm...nothing at all gay about that.

Maybe they're shooting for the closeted repressed homosexual demographic.

[Initech]

45. Wow, an entire days' worth of saturated fats in one sandwich...

:puke:

[Left Is Write]

51. It's efficient, don't you see?

[Initech]

54. Ah, I see the plan now!

You eat these huge, fattening sandwiches from shitholes like Carl's Jr and Hardees.

You need a bigger car to transport your fat ass.

So you buy a gas-guzzling SUV big enough to transport your fat ass.

It all goes back to oil.

:popcorn:

[BigMcLargehuge]

50. jeebus, what's next?

Hardees Angus Supreme!!!!!

One live Black Angus steer with a bun stapled to its head.
(value meal comes with 32 ounce diet coke and small fries)

[Phillycat]

55. Paging Underpants!

I'm gonna need to see that Thickburger commercial...

[underpants]

56. Nope-can't find it anymore but here is something else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMf2YSVQueI

[MadHound]

57. "Oh, and can I have a portable defibulator on the side with that?"

Who eats this stuff? Seriously,I'm a big guy, 6'5" 220#, and can tuck away a good share of food. But no way in hell do I want to tackle that monstrosity. A full day's worth of fat:crazy:

[kwassa]

58. Does it give you a free Hardee-tack?

[Beelzebud]

60. I smoke 2 joints before I smoke 2 joints...

And then I smoke 2 more!

[Yatar]

61. A 2,000-cal burger is not far behind....

Imagine eating a day's worth of cals in five minutes...if your heart attack doesn't happen first.

[Yatar]

62. BTW

I stumbled upon a blog several months ago in which a kind orders about 20 beef-patties w/ cheese in an In and Out Burger joint (with receipt to prove it), and you see him eat it in the photos on the page....:puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

64. Still not as good as a Wisconsin burger with bacon and a bratwurst on top

Fuck Hardees. Fucking amateurs.