In its continuing assault on American health, Burger King will next month debut the NY Pizza Burger at the “restaurant’s” New York City flagship Whopper Bar restaurant. The NY Pizza Burger is four times the size of the Whopper, is served on a nine-and-a-half inch buns and is just over twenty-five hundred calories (which by the way is just about the total daily calorie allowance for an average person). Will you be rushing to New York to get one? Here are ten reasons not to.- There are a hundred an forty-four grams of fat in the NY Pizza Burger.
- There are fifty-nine grams of saturated fat in the NY Pizza Burger.
- There are 3,780 milligrams of salt in the NY Pizza Burger (more than double the daily allowance for adults).
- You have better ways to spend thirteen dollars.
- You do not want to be a part of the culinary suicide that Americans are committing.
- You want to be a role model for healthy eating.
- Your stomach just turned at the idea of this culinary travesty.
- You value your health, both now and in the future.
- You do not want to participate in the methane production related to making that much meat and dairy – if in fact there is real meat and dairy used in that product.
- You don’t have an interest in financially supporting the fast food industry’s belief that they can get rich by feeding America death-food.
Ok, perhaps “death food” is a bit dramatic, but you see where we’re coming from.
Other things you’re better than? The 2000 calorie Cold Stone PB&C milkshake, made with chocolate ice cream, milk and peanut butter and named the “worst drink in America” (by health standards, not taste standards). And, of course, we hope for many reasons that you stayed away from the infamous KFC Double Down.
Fast food used to be bad for people. Now it’s just a ridiculous exercise in competing to see exactly how unhealthy it can be.
