Super Bowl will be a giant game of overeating (Barf Alert)

The Guardian ^ | Sunday February 5, 2006 | Robin McKie

[indcons]

So who ate all the snacks? Even by their gargantuan standards of over-indulgence, couch potato Americans are preparing to outdo themselves during today's Super Bowl, the sporting highlight of the country's year. They will guzzle their way through truckloads of crisps, peanuts, pretzels, popcorn, nachos, pizza, olives, biscuits, cheese and anything else they can find in the fridge. Britons may drink themselves silly during big games - Americans stuff themselves stupid.

According to research by the US Calorie Control Council, gridiron fans will today eat 11 million pounds of crisps, 8m lbs of tortilla chips, 4m lbs of pretzels and 2.5m lbs of nuts. The average armchair quarterback will consume 1,200 calories, and 50 grams of fat, in a three-hour scoffing binge. The average Eritrean struggles to eat that in a day.

For the whole nation, the consumption is staggering. A total of 156 billion calories will be absorbed by the 130 million people watching the Pittburgh Steelers take on the Seattle Seahawks at Ford Field in Detroit. You could satisfy east Africa's 11 million hungry for about a week with that.

[indcons]

"The average Eritrean struggles to eat that in a day. "

"You could satisfy east Africa's 11 million hungry for about a week with that."

I knew it all along.....the Super Bowl is the ultimate expression of American hedonism and sadism. Why, these Americans even steal food from the poor Eritreans and east Africans!! /MEGA SARC

[Dallas59]

OHHHHH PPPPUHHHHLLLEAAAASSSEEE...Please worry about your growing Islamic Nazism. How many soccer matches in England and around Europe have sent spectators to hospital?

[cgk]

50 grams of fat... Uhm, that's about the equivalent of a single pint of Haagen-Dazs. It isn't hard to get 50 grams of fat in a day.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"The average armchair quarterback will consume 1,200 calories, and 50 grams of fat, in a three-hour scoffing binge.

Please! There's gotta be at least that many calories and as much fat in a "full English breakfast" (aka a "fry-up").

[indcons]

Very well said...

[Wage Slave]

They're just jealous 'cause they don't have the teeth to handle crunchy snacks.

[rlmorel]

[LibFreeOrDie]

The author of this dreck is the science editor!

BTW, he doesn't have a problem with American food when it's served at a resort run by a liberal - Robert Redford's Sundance in Utah:

"ate spectacularly"

"plates of venison in berry sauce and buffalo steaks in jus."

"a glorious altar for the worship of alcohol, a particularly welcome feature in a state famed for its misanthropic attitude to drink."

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/ecotourism/story/0,8945,1269430,00.html

Another photo here:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/global/robin_mckie.html

[Supernatural]

I'm going to eat supper before the game, munch and drink wine and rum and coke if I run out of wine during the game. I'm going to have a good time. The article makes it sound like eating good things is a crime. I can't help it if people in other parts of the world are going hungry. How much foreign aid do we give out every year anyway? And to people who hate us and everything about us. Screw them. No guilty feelings here.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Here are 2 known facts:

1. There are relatively just as many fatso's in the UK as there are in the US.

2. The food in the UK is notoriously atrocious in texture, smell and taste.

Now the question is: what does that say about the people in the UK?

And the answer must be: nothing good.

[Allegra]

They're just jealous 'cause they don't have the teeth to handle crunchy snacks.

LOL!

[meowmeow]

You could satisfy east Africa's 11 million hungry for about a week with that

Africa is poor because it's run by greedy and stupid people. Not because I enjoy snacks.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

i will be eating a veggie tray. or pretzels. not much hedonism is that. Have to watch my waistline.

[synbad600]

Americans don't use starvation as a tool in warfare.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Mr. Guardian can just line up his grammas so I can give 'em a good slap.

I've had a 17 lb. turkey in the oven since 8:00 am. Pumpkin and pecan pies cooling on their racks. Home made oyster and chestnut stuffing. Candied yams with pineapple. Cranberry sauce.

Wish I could host all my FReeper pals. We could drink a toast to the spectral figure of the Guardian with his pinched, priggish, hypocritical face pressed to the window.

Got to go peel potatoes . . .

[KC_Conspirator]

I have a date with a bucket of the Colonel's best today myself. The on day a year I get to eat my favorite food (and corn dogs).

[alanthemanc]

Ah yes, those well known appeasers in British history such as Churchill, Wellington and Admiral Nelson. Who did Maggie Thatcher appease?

Britain has never had a socialist government by the way. In recent times, ruled by the Conservative Party 1979-97 and New Labour 1997 onwards. Hardly bastions of socialism. I'll give you political correctness though.

[NZerFromHK]

Bwwwhahahaha!!!

This comes from a country with fans behaving like this?

And with food like this?

Clean up your country first, Britain.

[A knight without armor]

Can we not have any pleasure at all without having a story like this? I doubt people gorge themselves during the Super Bowl anymore than at other foodie circumstances. By the way, I had a dish of Neapolitan ice cream and sliced banana and tea.