No Wonder Americans are Obese

[erpowers]

KFC has unveiled it latest menu item. It is called the double down. For this sandwhich KFC has removed the bread and put bacon, two types of cheese, and sauce between two pieces of either fried or grilled chicken. The original recipe (fried) has 540 calories, 32 grams of fat, and 1380 grams of sodium. The grilled has 460 calories, 23 grams of fat, and 1430 grams of sodium. The link below is to a picture and description of the sandwhich.

http://www.kfc.com/doubledown/

[Kazak]

1. People need to embrace the bicycle...

for the amazing invention it is. I ride as much as possible, but I don't have nearly enough competition on the sidewalk. I'm still a fatty though. I'm not in a hurry to try the double down I have to say.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. Walking is good. My work is little over a mile away from where I live.

[MUAD_DIB]

2. I saw the commercial. They really know how to kill people.

The only way that I would eat there is if I had a gun put to my head.

[slackmaster]

4. But there's no bread, so it can't hurt you

:grouphug:

[louis-t]

5. I can't look.

:hide:

[flvegan]

6. Except that it's not the fault of the sandwich why folks are obese.

It's because there's enough of a market for such an nutritional abomination, since so many are willing to shove this in their faces.

[depakid]

12. The junk food corporations spend billions creating the market

and addicting kids at an early age to their products- and externalizing the public health costs onto everyone else in society.

[flvegan]

15. In the case of KFC, they're only successful at that proposition

if parents take their kids to eat that shit in the first place.

[depakid]

17. That's why they spend so much money on behavioral and child psychologists

Not only do they get to the kids- they make sure to get to the parents as well.

It's an insidious process- and everyone ends up paying for it.

[Missy Vixen]

7. I don't eat it

There was evidently a market for it. If there isn't, KFC will stop offering it.

Perhaps it would be a good thing to spend more time on improving your own life.

[Bluebear]

8. If you're hungry perhaps all those cheap calories are tempting.

Good food is expensive food.

[Electric Monk]

9. thisiswhyyourefat.com

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8120835&mesg_id=8125362
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

[arbusto_baboso]

10. Double Down = Double coming right back up.

That thing looks frickin' nasty to me. No way in hell I'd eat one.

[TK421]

11. It doesn't even LOOK appetizing! Why the fuck would I want to spend

money on food that looks like shit?

I say this as I munch on my porkroll and cheese sandwich I just made...but I'm fine, I'm actually underweight

[Dr Morbius]

13. Dear heaven, this is only one of hundreds of reasons.

Like to begin with, we eat too much meat.

We eat too much red meat, as well.

We don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.

We eat crap made with high fructose corn syrup, which has got to be one of the most popular ingredients in the freaking country.

We expect every moment not filled with gainful employment to be filled with entertainment. Entertainment is not active, it is passive, and therefore we choose sedentary lifestyles.

The internet has brought undescribable riches in terms of personally styled entertainment, and now we can be differently entertained without ever getting off our asses.

And there are many more reasons.

[JI7]

14. adding bread would add more calories, those numbers are low

compared to many other fast food items. isn't big mac over 500 calories ?

[subterranean]

16. It's no worse than a Big Mac, in terms of calories and fat.

The grilled version has fewer calories and less fat than either a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. That's not to say it's healthy. Both the grilled and fried versions are loaded with sodium (largely due to the bacon, I guess).

[unabelladonna]

18. vile....

i can't describe how sickening this abomination is to even contemplate.

[Cirque du So-What]

19. Years ago, I read about liquor advertising

and how they attempted to evoke images of death in photos, either overtly or on a subliminal level. Apparently, the advertisers wanted to tap into a latent 'death wish' that liquor drinkers harbored. The articles would show close-ups of things like tiny skulls depicted in ice cubes and the like. I wonder if something similar is going on with the name of this monstrosity - Double Down - which is a gambling term, as eating this gut-bomb on a regular basis is surely risky business.