Posted on 01/13/2004 8:17:57 AM PST by GeneD
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Burger King Corp. is joining the low-carbohydrate parade by offering bunless Whopper hamburgers and, soon, salads featuring steak, chicken and shrimp.
The bunless sandwiches, which will be available nationwide beginning Tuesday, will come in plastic salad bowls, with knife and fork.
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Its not a diet fad though as its been defined. Its a marketing fad. A diet fad is the "diet patch" or the "green onion diet". Atkins is working for millions and makes sense. I expect Atkins followers will quadruple this year (2004). A diet that has Sarah Lee and other carb panderers seeking alternative markets isn't a fad.
For years, Hubby and I used to order Hardee's big burgers, put the buns in the garbage and eat with a knife and fork.
Home of the world famous best cup of pizza "ever!"
Easy to take with you any where, Cup O' Pizza now comes in six and twenty four packs. All Cup O' Pizza containers are still packaged in easy to handle plastic cups so little hands can drop them and you don't have to worry about lethal shards of glass. Luck for you Cup O' Pizza brand Cup O' Pizza "Microwave Edition" is in the house. Just toss a couple Cup O' Pizza M.E.'s in the family microwave and you and your friends are off and running to the club house with hot eats. Watch your step! Thanks to the glass packaging, Cup O' Pizza "Microwave Edition" can be safely microwaved many times without package degradation. Cup O' Pizza is available in many fine supermarkets and gas stations throughout the United States, Canada and France. Can you say "le Cup O' Pizza, s'il vous plaît?" Cup O' Pizza has signed an agreement with Buena Vista Enterprises making Cup O' Pizza the "only" pizza in a cup product to be sold in the Walt Disney Resorts and Theme Parks.
Over the river and through the wood is hard work...
Mom and Dad aren't home and your hungry...
Frozen, freeze dried and canned...
Not only in the local park being sold by a vendor...
You can see CUP O' PIZZA on the silver screen! Carl Reiner's 1979 comedy classic The Jerk features Steve Martin (The Lonely Guy, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ) eating, thats right, Cup O' Pizza! When asked about the filming of the Cup O' Pizza scene, Martin said that he kept missing his lines just as an excuse to keep downing the best pizza in a cup "ever!" Yes we can! Due to recent advances in the soda fountain industry, Cup O' Pizza has managed to deliver Cup O' Pizza on tap at some of your favorite beer halls. A modified beer tap and fountain unit called the "Tap O' Pizza" developed by Valffös, a German fountain producer, will now allow you to enjoy fresh Cup O' Pizza with any of your malt liquor or hard alcohol beverages. Just say a round of "Tap O' Pizza" for everyone!
Not as seen on T.V...
Tap O' Pizza, you can't mean...
But I waaaaaaas hoping for something a little more inovative, like a tube-o-burger, that I could eat while driving. I guess they're still working on it in the lab.
However, that's the way with all purchased prepared fried things today. Since the fat fanatics had their way, what DOES taste good anymore?
You can't even say "I can't stop eating them" about potato chips in this day and age. I hardly can START eating them now.
Between the anti-smoking fascists and the health fanatics, I hardly eat out now.....doing all entertaining, cooking, baking, and FRYING at home.
Leni
You'd be among the 2/3 of Americans who aren't following a low-carb diet... yet. It's a paradigm shift thing.
Congratulations on figuring out what works for you. However, there's a whole bunch of us out there who tried the low fat method and it caused us to gain weight and be constantly hungry instead. I know for me and a whole lot of others who reduce their carbs start losing weight and are never hungry right after eating. I feel so much better eating low carb, that I will never ever go the low fat high carb route again. Each person has to figure out what works for them and do it.
Much agreed, with emphasis on "do it."
Point taken, but look again at the title of the thread. My reply was about the marketing.
Just an afterthought, the word "fad" does not mean fraudulent. It means "A transitory fashion adopted with wide enthusiasm." I think the Atkins diet meets the definition.
I don't gnow, a piece might flea.
Nope, the ad has some schlep sitting on his tailgate scarfing down the KFC Original Recipie, claiming he's eating "low carb".
BTW, 20 grams of fat per day is plenty. I ate very well and was not hungry, I just had to choose my foods carefully.
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