If you watch those shows, do you ever notice how many junk food ads are on during them? It is quite remarkable considering there is always at least one segment on the show about the perils of fast food.
Anyway, I digress.
An advertisement came on for a new burger from KFC, called the Double Down Burger, and I did a double take.
Instead of a bun, you have two crusty fillets of fried chicken which houses a salty hotbed of bacon, cheese and sauce. The thought of a tide of salty, fatty chicken fat oil flooding your mouth when you bite into one of these made me ask myself. "Who would eat that?". And then I dry wretched a bit.
I doubt very much that someone who was trying to limit their carbs in an aim to shift some kilos would eat it. Oh what would Sir Sanders think?
I am not a fast food teetotaller by any means. My guilty indulgence of choice is the good old cheeseburger, which I try to limit to eating after a night out on the tiles where I might be feeling less than fresh, or when driving with the Woogettes over a distance. I feel guilty about it for about 4 seconds before I am either nauseous again or struck in the back of the head with a McHappy Toy. I think that fast food "restaurants" have gone way to far however with what they can offer up to consumers under the guise of "food". Take for example a Subway Seafood Sensations Sandwich.
The few times I have been into a Subway (plastic chicken teriyaki and salad thanks) I always stand behind someone who orders a Seafood Sensations mega sub, toasted with cheese and extra mayo. I have to block my nose and look away. I feel like slapping them and saying "Are you seriously going to eat that?" It does not even look like this. It looks like pink lumpy Perkins Paste which is dished out with an ice cream scoop.
Next up on my McYuk Radar is the McRib. They take all the assholes and snouts of a pig, mash it up and deep fry it, cover it is sauce and onions and done. Foul.