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Omelet's king of fat food!
NY Daily News ^ | March 30, 2005 | Nancy Dillon

Posted on 03/30/2005 1:26:30 AM PST by jolie560

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Great advertisemnt value in this article.
1 posted on 03/30/2005 1:26:30 AM PST by jolie560
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Is it just me, or is anyone else creeped out by the commercial? The plastic burger king dude is way off in the distance when the guy looks out the window, he looks away a second, turns back and the dude is right at his window with the sandwich. No music, no nothing. I turn the channel if the remote is close enough.


2 posted on 03/30/2005 1:30:56 AM PST by SoDak (hoist that rag!)
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To: SoDak
Is it just me, or is anyone else creeped out by the commercial? The plastic burger king dude is way off in the distance when the guy looks out the window, he looks away a second, turns back and the dude is right at his window with the sandwich. No music, no nothing. I turn the channel if the remote is close enough.

Oh, you're not the only one. It's disturbing as hell. Like a scene out of some Stephen King Evil Clown horror flick or something.
3 posted on 03/30/2005 1:37:02 AM PST by Jaysun (I must warn you, I am a black belt in bullshitsu)
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To: jolie560
Great advertisemnt value in this article.

No kidding. $3.19? And I think I could probably scarf down two of them if I ate fast enough.
4 posted on 03/30/2005 1:38:43 AM PST by Jaysun (I must warn you, I am a black belt in bullshitsu)
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To: jolie560
I saw a picture of this in yesterday's paper, and I agree that it made my chest hurt just looking at it.


5 posted on 03/30/2005 1:40:44 AM PST by Rastus
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To: jolie560
"It's a parody of food."
6 posted on 03/30/2005 1:53:01 AM PST by Lexinom (You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
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To: jolie560
Worst thing about this thing is the "Specialty Bun". Drop the bun and you drop 210 calories and 39 grams of carbs.
7 posted on 03/30/2005 1:53:45 AM PST by dread78645 (Sarcasm tags are for wusses.)
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To: Rastus

Yumm! Wonder if they'd pile all that on a biscuit for me??


8 posted on 03/30/2005 1:55:11 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: dread78645

Most fastfood bread sucks anyway. One obvious exception is Subway, whose bread rises to lofty mediocrity.


9 posted on 03/30/2005 1:58:57 AM PST by Petronski (If Reichskanzler Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
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To: jolie560

There's a reason the Atkin diet works. Take off the bun and you've got a perfectly nonfattening 510-calorie meal. Take off the processed meat (sausage) and you've got a 310-calorie meal of egg, cheese, and bacon; fewer calories than in many prepackaged diet meals.

If we eliminated processed foods from our diet, we'd eat tons more than we do now.


10 posted on 03/30/2005 2:04:58 AM PST by Nataku X (Food for Thought: http://web2.airmail.net/scsr/)
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To: jolie560
People continue to be ignorant about "cholesterol" and "having a coronary" on account of eating foods high in cholesterol.

Fact is that your cholesterol level has little to do with how much cholesterol you eat. Genetic and how you eat and exercise play a bigger role. In fact, it is quite possible to eliminate all cholesterol from your diet and still have high cholesterol This is because in the absence of cholesterol in your diet, you body will simply produce its own!

Since switching to an all-natural diet and exercise plan in 2003, my cholesterol is around 184. This is despite the fact that I eat at least two eggs every single day along with plenty of meat. I don't even think about how much cholesterol is in my food. I will eat chicken livers and eggs sauteed in olive oil, onions and mushrooms. Or I will eat a 3-egg omelet with bacon and cheese. Has no effect whatsoever on my cholesterol level.

As for this Burger King sandwich, the real crime is putting the omelet on a bun. Toss the bun and you have a pretty nutritious and wholesome meal.

11 posted on 03/30/2005 2:21:07 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?)
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To: jolie560
I live in Thailand and the sound of that thing makes my mouth
water.

The only way I can get a good egg dish is to cook it myself.
The bacon and sausage here isn't very good either but I can
make do with the bacon and I make my own sausage.

I make an omelet often but even then the cheese choices are
limited and the standard American cheese isn't my favorite.

I also am one of those people who has to fight to get any
body fat so it is hard for me to understand most of your
eating problems.

Still, I would buy at least one of these guys and maybe two.
12 posted on 03/30/2005 2:25:00 AM PST by cleo1939
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To: Nataku X
You are absolutely right. And, I think most of it comes down to high fructose corn syrup, to be exact. For a long time I wondered how I could eat like there's no tomorrow and gain hardly any fat-weight. I've realized it's primarily because I've hardly ever cared to eat processed foods (granted, I'm sure a got at least a bit of an assist from genetics). A few years ago when I identified and ditched my one regular source of corn syrup (Pepsi) I swiftly dropped the few extra pounds I didn't want without changing anything else. Then, not long ago I concluded that aspartame was very likely a health threat, and I had to ditch colas altogether. =(

But, getting back to the real point, if our government weren't so thoroughly corrupt they would approve stevia and end the sugar cane subsidies and the obesity epidemic would be all but over IMHO.

13 posted on 03/30/2005 2:25:55 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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And how EXACTLY is this sandwich any more deadly than your average restaurant trans-fat ladened 5 mile high super chocolate dessert or a typical Denny's bacon, sausage, AND ham breakfast? Just another scapegoat. Strip off that roll and you have a perfect Atkins breakfast.

Gee, I even made myself hungry.


14 posted on 03/30/2005 2:35:01 AM PST by applpie
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To: applpie
I am not criticizing this sandwich in particular. In fact, I plan to go buy one very soon. LOL I am criticizing high fructose corn syrup (info without the misleading WP slant*), artificial sweeteners (which are totally unnecessary - e.g., stevia), and corrupt sugar cane subsidies.

* By example, there is nothing meaningfully easier about using corn syrup than using cane sugar for soft drinks. That's why the rest of the world uses cane sugar (and because they don't have subsidies jacking up the price).

15 posted on 03/30/2005 2:42:46 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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Sugar coated: We're drowning in high fructose corn syrup. Do the risks go beyond our waistline?

High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked To Obesity, Notes LSU AgCenter Nutritionist

Diabetes and obesity linked to the consumption of high fructose corn syrup

Is high-fructose corn syrup the culprit?

High Fructose Corn Syrup: Danger of Current Era

Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup and the Dramatic Rise In Obesity

16 posted on 03/30/2005 2:47:47 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: cleo1939

Whereabouts in Thailand are you? My brother lived in Thailand for several years, north of Chaing Mai, up near the border.

He married a local woman, who is a very good cook. She makes an excellent sausage, though it's nothing like Western breakfast sausages, and far to spicy for me.

It seems that Northern Thai cooking is quite different from Bangkok cooking, which is what she says is served in most Thai restaurants in the states. Unfortunately, she can't get restaurant managers of the restaurants she has worked in to try any Northern dishes.


17 posted on 03/30/2005 3:06:16 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: jolie560

My stomach's growlin'. When does Burger King open?


18 posted on 03/30/2005 3:09:51 AM PST by benjaminjjones
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To: AntiGuv
......the rest of the world uses cane sugar.......

I don't know about that. When I lived in England, my house (rented) was in the middle of a large sugar beet producing area. The farmers said that nearly all of their beets went for sugar. Only the local people and restaurants actually ate their beets as beets.

One local cook at a restaurant I sometimes ate at admitted that he got many of the beets served at his fine establishment off of the side of the road, after falling from a farmers truck. Of course, he served vegetables in the time-hounoured British way, boiled to within an inch of dissolving, so germies were not an issue.

19 posted on 03/30/2005 3:15:05 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: AntiGuv

Yup, you're exactly right. I keep hearing, "we eat so much more than we do in the past", whereas in reality we eat much less. Who eats three squares a day anymore? It's coffee for breakfast, a salad or soup or sandwich for lunch, and the only square meal is dinner. If you look at the meals people used to eat in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, it's amazing how much they chowed down.

Ruby Tuesday's tried putting nutrition information in their menus for a short while. It was very illuminating. Basically, the steamed vegetable platter withOUT the mashed potatoes had more calories than the 6 ounce sirlion. As long as you don't order more than 16 ounces, and you don't order a T-Bone, you'll lose weight eating steak and salad. Skip the roll. You'll also lose weight eating scrambled eggs & bacon at Denny's.

I appear as a glutton to other people, chowing down fatty foods, simply because I am educated about my food choices. I look like I'm one of those lucky skinny people who can eat whatever they want and not gain weight, but in reality I have inherited hypothroidism.


20 posted on 03/30/2005 3:16:04 AM PST by Nataku X (Food for Thought: http://web2.airmail.net/scsr/)
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