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Jesvm Christvm. This is a recipe from Paula Dean, a TV chef who has a voice even more grating than Loyd Grossman and seems to be intent on accelerating the inevitable future of the entire population of the country becoming completely spherical. It's called the Lady's Brunch Burger, but I'm not sure what "ladies" are its target audience - all the ones I know would probably faint at the sight of it. Her other recipes include such delicacies as deep fried butter.

It reminds me of this demotivator - and that isn't a photoshop job, it's a real American freezer-aisle product that I find myself wanting to try out of morbid curiosity. I should have got one of those as a leaflet when I got my permanent residence.

I mean, we're not all that healthy in Scotland - indeed, I used to enjoy lunch at the Central in St Andrews where their speciality was the Cheese and Bacon Fat Bastard Burger - but we wouldn't splat it all between two fscking doughnuts. Cripes.

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From:

kjorteo

And they say Americans lack ingenuity.

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diarytypething.livejournal.com

That is one of the most disgusting excuses for food that I've seen in a very long time. There must be almost an entire day's worth of calories on that plate, and not a vitamin to be seen.

From:

davidn

I know! They're not even unhealthy things that I would consider as going at all well together (looking at it... dripping... like that makes me feel slightly ill). If that's the "Lady's", what's the "Man's" version like? Another layer of meat and wrapped in two pancakes?

From:

davidn

They have ingenuity, all right, but also proof that there is such a thing as the wrong kind of ingenuity. And those aren't even... actual burgers, they're just fast food examples of varying degrees of hideousness slapped on there! Even I could make a better pizza than that.

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diarytypething.livejournal.com

Perhaps "Lady" is the euphemistic way of saying "well, if you didn't need a bra before, you will after a couple of these".

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kjorteo

The Man's version is probably http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0744/ .

And I concur...hamburgers and doughnuts are both on my list of things I used to like but gave up in my (successful!) quest to get in shape, but even at my worst, I'd never have had them together. I actually have a reputation for strange combinations (cinnamon pasta, mac+cheese+ketchup, Goldfish crackers in my bean and cheese burrito-like sandwiches, etc.) but even I don't think there's anything even remotely complementary here.

Edited Date: 2010-01-19 12:11 am (UTC)

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rakarr.livejournal.com

An exercise in fat for fat's sake. In a world that alternately gives us severely unhealthy food and then berates us for eating it, sometimes it can be refreshing to just say "Bugger it" and eat something bad for you.
But this looks disgusting. And also way over the top. But mostly disgusting.

From:

davidn

Absolutely - I never really grew out of a love for really bad food, and I think that you shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying yourself with it now and then, but... there are limits!

From:

davidn

That is hideous (but a good article on it!) - I'd seen it in the supermarket and thought "I really hope this isn't meant to be for one person". But there it is - indeed, it's generous of them to just admit that it has 231% of the cholesterol for the day in it and will severely shorten your lifespan. It says "It's good to be full" on the side. It's good to be a gluttonous bastard - a significant amount of things that are wrong with America in one cheap microwavable tray.

Macaroni cheese and ketchup sounds very Scottish :) For my own part, I think curry on pasta is lovely.

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kibet.livejournal.com

I think the dripping fat is actually the sugar as they are glazed doughnuts. Take out the doughnuts and you just have a bacon and cheese burger. although the sweetness of the sugar may go well with the meat, I am not a fan of doughnuts and only ate them as a child because they were deemed a 'treat'.

The cheese and bacon fat bastard burger, I used to call it the death burger. In fact pretty much any double burger (discounting any fast food chain as you can never feel full after one of those), I tended to class as the death burger. Although it was not until I went to Liverpool and had the Fly in the Loaf's death burger that it was superceded. It cost 8-9 GBP and was Bun, Burger, cheese, bacon, hash browns, burger, cheese, bacon, hash browns, bun and served with coleslaw and chip slabs }(made from 3-4 potatoes). It was so big they had to skewer it.