And you thought KFC’s Double Down sandwich was unbelievable. The cheese and bacon sandwich that uses two pieces of chicken instead of bread will go down in U.S. fast food history, but, incredibly, it has already met its match. The food website Slashfood reports that the Friendly’s chain of restaurants now offer, for your arteries’ and stomach lining’s consideration, the Grilled Cheese Burger Melt, as psychotic an item as has ever graced a menu. Basically, the GCBM is a Friendly’s Big Beef burger, but rather than a bun, the meat and fixin’s are wedged between two entire, full-sized grilled cheese sandwiches. My only question is this: Who, besides some iron-gut teenager on a dare, eats this kind of glop? The more pertinent question, though, might be “Exactly how disinterested in customers’ health can a restaurant chain be?” We don’t know the answer, but you have to figure the people who run the Friendly’s chain are pretty high on the “Don’t Give A Rat’s Ass” Top 10 list.
This article appears in Jun 22-28, 2010.
Somehow restaurant chains aren’t getting the message about health and obesity. Instead of coming up with more fat inducing, artery clogging, and just plain disgusting slop, they should be offering more tasty and creative vegetarian options other than a plate of steamed veggies; using hormone-free dairy and meat products; products made with real sugar not HFCS; cage-free eggs (real, cage free, i.e. chickens roam outside all or most of the day and aren’t pumped with hormones and anti-biotics); locally sourced and in season foods whenever possible.
KFC never ceases to amaze in their slop glop creativeness. Remember the corn, potatoes, chicken, gravy layered in a bowl? Now the double down sandwich. It was only a matter of time before another chain came up with something equally disgusting. I don’t know what’s sadder – the chains coming up with this crap or the customers who delightedly scarf it down. I think it’s the latter. We the people need to be more discerning – not just in what we eat but in other areas of life as well.
No one said anything about the government psycho.
One can only wonder if this new sandwich will come with a matching scented candle like the White Castle one
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/06/the-quadruple-bypass-otherwise-known-as-the-double-down-is-finally-here/
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