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What has 920 calories, 60 grams of fat and is designed to "really fill you up?" That would be Hardee's newest addition to their breakfast menu, the Country Breakfast Burrito. One flour tortilla contains two eggs, crumbled sausage, diced ham, bacon bits, shredded cheddar, 5 hashrounds and a big ladleful of sausage gravy. Poking around in Hardee's nutrition calculator reveals that many of their other breakfast items are nearly as nutritionally treacherous (the Monster Biscuit clocks in at 790 calories and 57 grams of fat). And just to confirm that we like our calories cheap and empty, this breakfast burrito is widely available for just $2.69. (For those of you without a Hardee's in your vicinity, it's basically the same thing as Carl's Jr. Oddly though, the comparable breakfast burrito on the Carl's Jr. menu has just 820 calories and 53 grams of fat. I guess they figured folks out west would want a slightly lighter version).
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10-20-2007 @11:51PM crazyone2 said... If you like it eat half of it for breakfast every now and again.You do you you dont have to eat the whole thing of anything .The old you HAVE to clean youre plate bull is out of date.
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10-22-2007 @3:29PM johnclrdsprn said... Who cares! Based on the shocked opinions, one would think a murder was committed! The only murder taking place here is common sense and freedom of choice! Do gooders, eat shit and get out of our lives!! If I want to eat a quart of fat, that is my choice, not yours! Get a life and leave everyone else alone!!!
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10-20-2007 @2:10PM karlakamper said... No one makes people buy this. Stop being food nazis! If it tastes bad, no one will buy it and they will stop selling it.
Remember 'new Coke'?
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10-20-2007 @2:47PM Michele said... This looks disgusting! ick I like egg burritos, but not with all this type of stuff in them. yucko
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10-20-2007 @2:25PM Mike said... It is not the government's job to interfere with the menu of a free market economic system restaurant. The free market will decide whether the burrito is successful. If you have no self control, then you will succumb to this monstrocity, but only socialists or facists think we need protection from ourselves.
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10-20-2007 @2:26PM fonwiz@aol.com said... Oh give me a break with the fat this and the taxes blah,blah blah!!! We make the choice to eat this and put it in our mouth's.The bottom line is if u eat any fast food even subway who does have fat options you risk your health.It's up to americans not to eat it if your poor you should'nt be buying food out anyways you can't afford it remember! Go to the grocery store it's cheaper.People can't say they don't love McDonald's fry's!! LOL!
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10-20-2007 @2:33PM heather said... O.K. enough is enough-with the taxes and fat americans. It's all about self control we have lots of fast food in this country,you can say yea that is alot of calories.It's up to us to not eat fast food if we do well it's our fault.As far as poor people they shuld'nt be in there anyways it's cheaper to be at the grocery store!!
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10-20-2007 @2:41PM gccxanax said... Just cut this bad boy in 1/2,refrigerate, then you can eat the second 1/2 tomorrow morning. Simple...guiltless pseasure. See we can eat what we like as long as we get daily excersise....daily safe sexual activity is advised.
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10-20-2007 @2:42PM jmwall26 said... What are most of you ppl talking bout? Because its wrapped in a burito shell its unhealthier? This is what you will find in most resteraunts breakfast menus , except its on a plate instead of a burito shell? Sure its unhealthy , but at the same point most of us have grown up hearing how breakfast is the most important meal of the day, guess what eggs /bacon sauage, hash browns have been being consumed for well over 50 yrs.And the 6 foot guy weighing 130 lbs , you should have this daily lol..
Bet ya Rosie Odonell has 2/3 of these a morning w/ a diet coke
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10-20-2007 @2:43PM pat said... It might interest readers to know that Dunkin Donuts pumpkin latte and muffin is 18 Weight Watchers points
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10-20-2007 @2:46PM DAVIS said... IT'S OUR CHOSE TO EAT OR NOT TO
BRING IN TTH DOUBLE SUPER SIZER
Country Breakfast Burrito.
WITH A SUPER SODA
AND HASH BROWNS ON THE SIDE
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10-20-2007 @2:51PM Bev said... it does not mean that someone should go and eat that every morning. Everything is in moderation. To blame restaurants and anything else on peoples actions is just crazy. The person has got to have some responsibility of their own. I had hardees this morning and it was great! I am not overweight and enjoy eating out some. People need to take responsibility for what they eat and how they treat their bodies, mind, etc. quit blaming everyone else.
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10-20-2007 @2:51PM pat said... doesn't matter if you're 6ft tall and only 130.the fat in this thing could raise your colesterol!i have a friend that thought she was so healthy,only 29 and 5ft 4in. and a healthy 115.turns out her cholesterol is 250! not healthy.skinny on the outside,but fat on the inside!
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10-20-2007 @3:04PM Tony West said... That looks nasty!
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10-20-2007 @3:06PM 2FatCMe said... We all have the right to choose what we eat. However, we all should not bear the medical burden of the people who choose to eat foolishly. These foods need to have an exorbitant tax applied which will help to pay for the exorbitant medical costs of the foolish consumers who eat them. If something doesn't happen soon, we will all have to work until we die because of health insurance premiums (Medicare will not be able to provide for our needs when we retire).
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10-20-2007 @3:26PM Hollygo said... This is a really horrible thing to create and serve to the already mostly obese population of this country. People in this country are really dumb when it comes to eating properly, and fast food restaurants know this, that's why they come up with these kinds of heart-attack-in-one-meal items. And for those of you who say, "Well, I'm thin and I can eat this, no problem", thin people can die from heart disease just as easily as an obese person. You are not immune to anything just because your weight is proportionate to your height. High blood pressure, high, artery clogging cholesterol, heart disease and diabetes is, more often than not, genetically inherited. You cannot assume that thinness is protection from any of these conditions. I would advise not eating this thing, ever.
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10-20-2007 @3:26PM CeCe said... My goodness! How worried some of you are about the obese in America. Did you know most people who are very poor cannot afford to eat fast food? Did you know many of these people are obese because of the food they buy with food stamps? Those food stamps have to stretch so everyone in the family has something to eat.Fresh veggies are very expensive in many parts of the country, and so is fruit. Eating healthy is cost prohibitive for many of these people. BTW, I know a great many upper wage earners in mid America that are very obese. It isn't restricted to the poor or uneducated.
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10-20-2007 @3:43PM Lee said... Ok so some people forgetthat if you starve your self your body makes even more fat.
I see a lot of people who never eat breakfast (I do this most times) but when I do eat breakfast, and that means your breaking a long fast over night, to getyour body enough energy and neutrients to start work and continue till lunch then you eat a medium light lunch, being much more consienious of your consumpsion and then eating very smartly in the evening.
My grand father was a farmer eating farm meals and at 60 he was diagnosed heart desease and using only 30 percent of his heart but all his "numbers" were perfect, cholesterol, triglyserides, heart rate, etc.
He was walking for the doctor and never got winded and actually felt good enough to run for a bit on the treadmill. The docs were amazed at what his listed diet was and what everything is from tests.
The big problem we have is that too many people have to eat big then sit behind a desk every day and get little or no exercise.
As a mechanic I do heavy labor, and also heavy thought as I am a diag tech too. A meal like this(less the hashrounds)or noe like BKs Enormous omlet keep me going till lunch and then I would eat much less and I always feel better if I eat but time and budget keep me at eating only 2 meals a day. But for the most part I get grief that I am fat but havent changed clothes sizes in nearly 20 years, do I need to loose a few pounds around the middle yes, but my physical appearance does change as my environmental condiditons change.
But sometime I wonder when I see a 5ft 4in 300 lb person gobbling down much more than I ever would eat and I get grief.
And if you want to help with weight issues teach them, and ask why your schools are trying to do away with PE and recess.
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10-20-2007 @3:34PM CeCe said... 2FatCMe, you must not be retirement age. Medicare isn't worth a damn right now!
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10-23-2007 @9:17AM Cosie said... This is absolutely disgusting. As someone who works in the health field I think that it is time for our government to put some calorie restrictions on fast food options. Not with the intent to punish grease lovers but for the sake of the nations obese children.
Here's a senerio.... mom gives little timmy $4 to buy lunch at school.. He could either stand in the long lunch line for blan food out of a box. Or on his walk to school he could stop at hardees for a flavorful, and satisfying heart attack on a plate.
Think about it. If you grow up seeing your parents eat things like that, when you outgrow the happy- meal your gonna want one too.
It's just gross
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