You worry about you and I’ll worry about me
The nannies are all butthurt because KFC has some sandwich that will both make PETA cry and kill you, if you live on a steady diet of them. Like most things in excess, it can be bad for you. And, for normal folks, that would be the end of the conversation. But the nannies obviously envision the head of KFC (no doubt wearing a top hat and monocle, puffing on a Cuban cigar) and his capitalist cronies exploiting the lower classes.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:53 am
The local fishwrap did a series of articles here about how the city conspired with businesses to make poor kids fat by not building enough parks and by not bringing farmer’s markets into their neighborhoods.
Pshaw. My family was able to subsist pretty well under the federal poverty line for years without ever going to a farmer’s market to buy overpriced arugula. And my brother and I actually were *allowed* to exercise during elementary and middle school with dodgeball and tag (the horror! the horror!)
Poverty doesn’t cause obesity, just like poverty doesn’t cause crime. Stupidity does. If you are dumb enough make stupid decisions about what to do with your life (whether it’s boosting a car or chomping down on a Big Mac every day of the week) then you probably aren’t going to end up as a Bill Gates or Warren Buffett.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:01 am
BTW, I had a Double Down yesterday (I find it hard to resist oppurtunities to make hippie food-nazis cry) and it was pretty good. Biggest suprises is that I was expecting the breading to get soggy and it didn’t.
April 14th, 2010 at 11:42 am
EZE 34:11-12 and 16, “For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.”
April 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
The reality is quite surprising. The larger the lipid, the less “bad” it is for you. It appears KFC’s “Double Down” has all relatively large lipids. So eat away.
Now, those “earth saving diet foods” are stuffed with artery killing small lipids. Even one serving a week is bad for you. To add injury to insult, those “organically grown foods” the lefties so love are pretty much killing the planet.
It is indeed fortunate that the “progressives” are killing themselves at a relatively rapid rate. And that many refuse to reproduce. That still does not stop them from telling you how to raise your children. Their way.
Stranger
April 14th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
We need to go easy on these libs who get stressed about KFC, BK, Taco Hell, etc.
They are all Beta male gamers who sit around playing computer games and reading liberal drivel on HuffPo, Kos, etc.
They listen to girly-man music, they read People magazine and TMZ, they glorify celebrities, they distrust our service men and women, they don’t shoot or hunt, they are utterly defenseless to virtually all types of threats, they don’t like boxing and car racing, they do like the NBA, they abhor capitalism, their beliefs are all situational and flexible, and they sit in judgment on the rest of us.
I wouldn’t think of eating at KFC, but, if it would heighten their angst, I may have to get one of these sandwiches before I work out this weekend.
If KFC can make money by selling this stuff, then good for it.
April 14th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
To the food nazis, the proposition that one should eat what one likes, and let everyone else eat what they like, is inconceivable.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Goal: Eat one of these this weekend while on the side lines, Inches away from the speeding cars at the Rally New York.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
If you ADDED bread to the thing, it would be a double chicken sandwich… There are QUAD STACKERS at Burger King, and they make a big deal of a double chicken sandwich? I really don’t get it….
P.S. I cant wait to get back to the U.S. for a lot of reasons (one of which is eating the Double Down)!
April 16th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I looked up the nutrition, and the Double Down is the same as a Big Mac.
Double Down= 540 calories (460 for the grilled version)
Big Mac= 540 calories