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Title: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: John2038 on December 19, 2009, 08:51:22 am
Worst Cheeseburger with Everything
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9885/cheeseburgerweverything.jpg)
Wendy’s Double with Everything and Cheese
700 calories
40 g fat (17 g saturated, 2 g trans)
1,440 mg sodium

Worst Burger and Fries
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5985/burgerandfries.jpg)
In-N-Out Burger Hamburger and French Fries
790 calories
37 g fat (10 g saturated)
895 mg sodium

Worst Plain Cheeseburger
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3473/plaincheeseburger.jpg)
Five Guys Cheeseburger (plain)
840 calories
55 g fat (22.5 g saturated)
1,050 mg sodium

Worst Burger Brand
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9769/burgerbreed.jpg)
Carl’s Jr. Six Dollar Burger
890 calories
54 g fat (20 g saturated, 2 g trans)
2,040 mg sodium

Worst “Original” Burger
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9951/originalburger.jpg)
Hardee’s Original Thickburger (1/3 lb)
910 calories
64 g fat (21 g saturated)
1,560 mg sodium

Worst Fast-Food Cheeseburger in America
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Burger King Triple Whopper Sandwich with Cheese and Mayo
1,250 calories
84 g fat (32 g saturated, 3.5 g trans)
1,600 mg sodium

Source (http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/39713/6-worst-fast-food-burgers-and-what-you-should-eat-instead/)
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: aztecan on December 19, 2009, 11:56:28 am
That Burger King burger that touts 1,250 calories, and 84 grams of fat, is positively immoral.

What are people thinking by eating this crap?

I try to limit myself to about 1,800 calories a day. If I ate one of those behemoth burgers I would be left with a salad to cover the rest of the day.

YIKES!

Mark
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: leatherman on December 19, 2009, 12:20:55 pm
I really love BK and Wendys and hate the bad press they get. As long as you eat their food in moderation it's not bad. I mean it's just food for heaven sake not poison. However, I've never understood how these companies could even market these kinds of burgers. Doesn't it just sound reasonable to think that 1/3 a pound of beef or 3 patties for one sandwich is probably more that you should intake in a day, much less one meal?

But it's gotten that way in most restaurants too, not just the fast food industry. When my Mom, her husband, my GrandMother and myself go out to eat, at over half the restaurants nowadays we order 2 child plates from the menu along with 2 extra drinks  and 2 extra plates. It's actually quite shameful that a "child-sized" serving is enough to spilt between 2 adults.

You should have left off the pictures though, John. ;)
I now have a craving for a good ol' fresh-off-the-grill Whooper with cheese. ;D
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: mecch on December 19, 2009, 03:20:53 pm
If those burgers are a special treat, like birthday cake, I don't see the problem.  Shouldn't be a weekly regimen for anyone except maybe young atheletes with terrific calorie needs.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Rev. Moon on December 19, 2009, 03:24:18 pm
I'll take the third one.  Make it a double with bacon.  I'm glad we only have three locations in Miami, otherwise I'd eat these babies on a daily basis.

By the way, that picture does not do it justice. 
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: skeebo1969 on December 19, 2009, 03:53:12 pm
I'll take the third one.  Make it a double with bacon.  I'm glad we only have three locations in Miami, otherwise I'd eat these babies on a daily basis.

By the way, that picture does not do it justice. 

Dude find yourself a Char-Hut, there should be a few left down there.  The burgers are the best and a lot better for you than the rest.  And I'm a poet who didn't know it. ;)
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Rev. Moon on December 19, 2009, 04:01:07 pm
Dude find yourself a Char-Hut, there should be a few left down there.  The burgers are the best and a lot better for you than the rest.  And I'm a poet who didn't know it. ;)

I had them once, somewhere in Broward (while on a bad date).  Don't think we have any in the Dade area.  If we did they may have gone extinct like Miami-Subs (loved those guys with their greasy gyros).  But you are right; they are quite good.   
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: skeebo1969 on December 21, 2009, 07:36:20 am
I had them once, somewhere in Broward (while on a bad date).  Don't think we have any in the Dade area.  If we did they may have gone extinct like Miami-Subs (loved those guys with their greasy gyros).  But you are right; they are quite good.   

No more Miami-Subs?  Damn I leave from down there and the place goes all to hell.   Miami Subs was always good about filling that late night hunger pain.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Boo Radley on December 21, 2009, 09:26:01 am
3 - 12 times a year i buy a double whopper with no mayo and decline addition of the pasteurized processed cheese food product -- as we say in da big easy i get it "dressed, hold the mayo [& square yellow vomit]."

last time i ate at ralleys, probably 9 - 10 years ago, my liver went through the hepatic equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition & barely survived.   now that i'm pre-diabetic (in part thanks to seroquel...) all that white bread is like 100 servings of daily carbs so often i just make a meat cookie (well, quasi-meat) with veggies in the middle but it's so messy.  i call it a sloppy bob.

of course i often cannot shake off a small serving of fries so might as well drink 200 proof alcohol on an empty stomach for a simular effect.

i consider consumption... of fast food as my art and artists must suffer for their art... or at least find some hook to make them salable.  i'm not cutting off an ear or even part of one unless the motivation$ are there...
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: TheRoof on December 21, 2009, 12:17:51 pm
Having this once every three weeks isn't so bad. 3-12 times a year isn't going to cause anything bad.

Burger #4 is  :)
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: aztecan on December 21, 2009, 11:36:27 pm
Having this once every three weeks isn't so bad. 3-12 times a year isn't going to cause anything bad.

Burger #4 is  :)

Back when I was young (damn, I sound old), I used to live in Los Angeles and there were some local burger joints called Fat Burger.

Not the knockoff wannabe fast food places like one I saw in Vegas several years back, but the REAL THING!

These were half-pound burgers, fried, not broiled, on a large steel griddle along with piles of bacon. Yes, hamburgers fried in bacon fat.  ;D

They would put a couple of slices of cheese, plus a few strips of bacon, plus some fried onions, and some tomatoes, with a dab of yellow mustard, on two burgers, all of which was piled on buns spread lavishly, and by hand, with mayonnaise and quick squirt of ketchup.

Now, my dear burger neophytes, that was a burger!  Lordy, they were good! ;D ;D ;D I would usually finish off the burger, some curly fries and a large Dr Pepper for lunch.  :o

Of course, I was young, very active, skinny as a rail and could eat anything, any time, any place, and never gain an ounce.

I also always polished off the meal with at least two Camels.

Ahhh, those were the days!

Now, all I have to do is imagine that pile of food and I gain weight and cholesterol skyrockets. >:(

{{{SIGH}}}

HUGS,

Mark
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: GNYC09 on December 21, 2009, 11:38:20 pm
No more Miami-Subs?  Damn I leave from down there and the place goes all to hell.   Miami Subs was always good about filling that late night hunger pain.

I'm also traumatized.  What happened to Miami Subs?  I used to always go to the one on Collins Avenue on Miami Beach (though not in the past few years).   :(

Edited: Miami Subs is still open with 20 new stores set to launch in Romania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Subs_Pizza_and_Grill)!  Seriously!
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Miss Philicia on December 22, 2009, 12:25:41 am
Five Guys once every six weeks.  Otherwise, no fast food for me.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: antibody on December 22, 2009, 03:32:23 am
I need to eat 3 a day just to put on a pound a week. I'm about 118 used to weigh 135 before the hiv and just can't gain it back. I wish I could afford to eat 3 burgers like that every day.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: J.R.E. on December 22, 2009, 04:32:32 pm
If those burgers are a special treat, like birthday cake, I don't see the problem. 

Unfortunately , too many Americans are having their birthday cake everyday !


Ray
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: madbrain on December 22, 2009, 04:58:37 pm
These burgers look like health foods compared to this one :
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=mostpop_video
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: aztecan on December 23, 2009, 12:11:11 am
These burgers look like health foods compared to this one :
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=mostpop_video


Holy Cow - literally!

That is downright disgusting.

Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Boo Radley on December 23, 2009, 06:12:05 am
These burgers look like health foods compared to this one :
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=mostpop_video

A mix of PG-13 Hooters, William Castle marketing, and a fast food dump that revels in its contribution to execrably non-nutritious crap making obesity popular again.  Where's a 21st century Reubens?  The painter, that is...   
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: leese43 on December 24, 2009, 01:37:56 pm
I don't need dinner today, I just watched him and I'm full..lol
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: WildcatCC on January 11, 2010, 02:05:39 pm
I assure you Miami Subs is alive and "well" ..

http://www.miamisubs.com/ 

Otherwise what the hell did I just eat for lunch?  :P
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: tokyodecadence on January 15, 2010, 02:24:17 pm
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: BT65 on January 15, 2010, 05:14:42 pm
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

Just wait until you get older.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Rev. Moon on January 15, 2010, 05:38:48 pm
I assure you Miami Subs is alive and "well" ..

http://www.miamisubs.com/ 

Otherwise what the hell did I just eat for lunch?  :P

I had not noticed that people had responded to my misleading statement.  I should have said "endangered species" instead of "extinct." 

Truth is that most of the main locations are gone (specifically in Miami).  The ones on US-1 and 67th and US-1 and 163rd are gone, the one in the Gables is closed, the one heading towards the Keys, the South Beach location as well, and so on.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: skeebo1969 on January 15, 2010, 06:02:06 pm
I assure you Miami Subs is alive and "well" ..

http://www.miamisubs.com/ 

Otherwise what the hell did I just eat for lunch?  :P

  The one in my old haunts is gone also, corner of 441 and NW 197 St....  use to be a Taco Viva when I was a kid.  Jeez, what I would do for a Wet Burrito right now...
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: leatherman on January 15, 2010, 06:47:16 pm
Where's a 21st century Reubens?
mmmmm Corned beef Reubens.

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Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: phildinftlaudy on January 17, 2010, 11:52:01 pm
Some of the Miami Subs in the MIA have closed (the one on Washington and 9th by the Twist on SoBe is closed) and one of the ones on Biscayne, but there is still one on 167th - North Miami and I have seen others around.

FYI - Arby's has some great subs, as does Dominoes

I like my BK Whopper
But definitely could not even think about eating some of the burgers that started the thread.
Also, love a thin crust Papa Johns meat lovers pizza every now and then and Flannigan's for chicken wings.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Miss Philicia on January 22, 2010, 10:58:07 am
It's a little known fact that I rather like Arby's, but there aren't any close by so I never get to go -- there's one at King of Prussia mall, but it's kind of a dump though surprising since the mall is so upscale.  But I've not set foot in a shopping mall now since 2005 and don't plan to.

Now, I just may pop into Five Guys when I go to the Reading Terminal Market for my week's supply of Poco Fundo ogranic coffee, but then I may not.  I just discovered this stall at the market run by Amish women where you can get a full turkey dinner with gravy and mashed potatoes.

I'm dying to try a In-N-Out Burger Hamburger because I hear such raves, but alas I never get out to the West Coast because that gives me hives.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Hellraiser on January 22, 2010, 01:29:54 pm
When I was a kid we lived in downingtown and I remember going to the King of Prussia mall and eating those massive soft pretzels slathered in mustard.  Damn I wish I were in Pennsylvania for the weekend.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Miss Philicia on January 22, 2010, 01:44:24 pm
When I was a kid we lived in downingtown and I remember going to the King of Prussia mall and eating those massive soft pretzels slathered in mustard.  Damn I wish I were in Pennsylvania for the weekend.

You'd live for my hood then -- here's a sampling (http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/PxG1rLAfbvtoAWrsq5Rhog?select=3e2VgwCV_cW5YOvQUxtM_Q).  It's a mere 10 minute walk from me, though I really don't eat them often.  King of Prussia is just a lame suburban area... it's all about South Philly for food -- I'm also just 7 blocks away from the legendary cheesesteak places and other great hoagie treasures.  Nothing beats a classic Italian hoagie with oil and vinegar, on fresh baked break from Sarcone's bakery.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Jeff G on January 22, 2010, 02:25:39 pm
You guys are killing me ... I have quit smoking and I'm trying to watch my diet until Miss priss ass turned me on to fiveguys heart attack burgers . I'm doing better though . I went to the grocery store the other day just to '' look " . 
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Miss Philicia on January 22, 2010, 03:15:06 pm
I have decided to delay my Five Guys until Monday, as I think I have enough coffee to last me until then.  Plus on Monday it's going to be a balmy 55 F here so it will an excellent opportunity to take in a matinee showing of the new Almodóvar flick, Broken Embraces.

Otherwise I adhere to a strict diet of cigarettes, hot water, and lemons.  It's the only way to still squeeze into a pair of 31" Dior waxed resin treated jeans paired with a pink spaghetti strap tank top.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Rev. Moon on January 22, 2010, 03:35:19 pm
I have decided to delay my Five Guys until Monday, as I think I have enough coffee to last me until then.  Plus on Monday it's going to be a balmy 55 F here so it will an excellent opportunity to take in a matinee showing of the new Almodóvar flick, Broken Embraces.

Otherwise I adhere to a strict diet of cigarettes, hot water, and lemons.  It's the only way to still squeeze into a pair of 31" Dior waxed resin treated jeans paired with a pink spaghetti strap tank top.

I hope you like 'Broken Embraces' as much as I did.  In my opinion it is worth all the praise that it's been given.

In & Out burgers are really good, I think of them as the west coast Five Guys.  Surprised that you're not much of a San Francisco lover. 
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: LBpozguy on February 15, 2010, 11:59:56 pm
I Live in So Cal.

In and Out is an institution here! I love my Double Double!! And the Shakes Rock! In and Out Grinds and Makes their own patties and they are never frozen.   ;D
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: macv on February 17, 2010, 11:30:47 am
That Carls Jnr $6 burger lookks fab!! I am in San Francisco visiting  for a couple of days, Don't have carls jnr were I am from.  Burger King is on one side of the hotel and Carls jnr is on the other, I just can't decide what big gross burger to go for!!! I think its gotta be that $6 mega feast mmmmmmmmm I'm lovin it
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: Hellraiser on February 17, 2010, 03:55:03 pm
That Carls Jnr $6 burger lookks fab!! I am in San Francisco visiting  for a couple of days, Don't have carls jnr were I am from.  Burger King is on one side of the hotel and Carls jnr is on the other, I just can't decide what big gross burger to go for!!! I think its gotta be that $6 mega feast mmmmmmmmm I'm lovin it

Carl's Junior is called Hardee's in the eastern US, so you may have seen them before.
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: aztecan on February 17, 2010, 08:33:31 pm
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

Amen to that!
Title: Re: 6 Worst Fast-Food Burgers
Post by: bryan21 on July 16, 2010, 04:37:36 am
humm that looks soo good.
but my god its soo un healthy
and thats why people in america are fat
have high blood pressure and diabetes
plus tha whole life style thing too..