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The 580 slice of pizza

Posted Dec 19th 2007 11:42AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Restaurants, On the Blogs, New Products, Health & Medical

I'm beginning to think that fast food companies are in some sort of secret competition to create the highest-calorie, most artery clogging food ever. You'd think that in these times where obesity and the health-risks associated with poor eating that someone would stand up and say enough already.

Apparently, today is not that day, as Pizza Hut has just released a pizza called the Double Deep Meat Lover's Pizza and a single slice of that pizza contains 580 calories (330 of those are from fat). This pizza claims to have so many toppings that Pizza Hut had to invent a new style of crust (it folds over the toppings) in order to get it all on the pie. As my mother would say, it is something of a coronary on a plate.

[via Fast Food News]

Nutritional info finally available from Quiznos

Posted Nov 16th 2007 5:08PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: On the Blogs, Health & Medical, Fast Food

Most of the fast food chains out there are forthcoming about how bad their food is for you. Most places will give you a brochure that contains the nutritional information of their sandwiches, salads and fries. If they don't have a paper copy, they'll point you in the direction of their website. However, Quiznos has been holding out on their customers for some time, refusing to make public their fat and calorie statistics.

Last Friday, Quiznos finally released their data and it's not pretty in a couple ways. First off, they didn't design an easily navigated site, so you have to hunt and peck for the data. Second, their food is not particularly health conscious (not that that should be a surprising fact). According to the blog Fast Food News, the "Quiznos Tuna Melt has the highest calorie and fat totals of any of their sandwiches! The large Tuna Melt has over 2,000 calories and 175 grams of fat!! (The regular size has 1,420 calories and 118 grams of fat, the small 770 calories and 60 grams of fat!)" Now that's a hunky sandwich.

Deconstructing the McRib

Posted Feb 20th 2006 7:00PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Lunch, Restaurants, Pork, Food Oddities, On the Blogs, America

For those of you who have never encountered a McRib Sandwich, it is a boneless, rib-meat pork patty that is shaped, dunked in BBQ sauce and sold by McDonald's. The McRib bizarrely appears to have bones in it, due to its shape, though this is merely to give the product recognizability. McDonald's actually maintains a spoof site about boneless pig farmers, poking fun at the boneless nature of their patties. Processed meat patties are inherently unattractive on their own and McDonald's knows this. It is for this very reason that the McRib patties are dunked in hickory barbecue sauce before being served with onions and pickles on a 6-inch bun. For anyone wondering what the patty looks like on its own, Fast Food Facts has kindly deconstructed the sandwich for your viewing pleasure. And if, by some chance, you do not find processed meat to be pleasurable, it's at least very interesting.

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The 580 slice of pizza

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Deconstructing the McRib

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