morning meating....

Another view of the site we got married at.. this was below the deck where the ceremony was, facing south...

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5 House FOX 18.03
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19. Law & Order: SVU NBC 12.30
20. Extreme Makeover: Home Ed. ABC 12.22

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TVSis sent along this photo of another example of Chinese Toy Recalls...
























That's both evil and very funny....

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As longtime readers of TVGuy know, we are a fan of unearthing horrific and disgusting food items offered to American Consumers... Previous "meaty" columns can be found here and here... Generally the folks at Hardee's are the biggest purveyors of this crap, and they've struck again...

This from various wire stories....

The people who brought you the Monster Thickburger and the 1,100-calorie salad are at it again — this time for breakfast.

Hardee's on Monday rolled out its Country Breakfast Burrito — two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat.

Brad Haley, marketing chief for the fast-food chain, said the burrito offers the sort of big breakfast item normally found in sit-down restaurants with an added advantage.

"It makes this big country breakfast portable," he said.

Well, thank god for that... because not being able to lug around a plate of gravy with meat was truly one of the great concerns the citizens of this great country have faced now for decades with no resolution in sight...

...here's a picture of this breakfast monstrosity....

Honestly, that's just awful... look at that thing! I've gained 4 pounds just writing about it!!

My favorite sentence I came across while "researching" this breakfast abomination...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest calls the burrito "food porn"....

That's gotta make you feel good if you're a Hardee's executive this morning doesn't it??

Here is one person's account of giving this latest food crime a looksee....

Funny, I was in a hurry on Monday and hadn't snagged Fast Food Breakfast in quite a few months, also I have never sampled the offerings of Hardee's in the Breakfast Domain. This thing was advertised front and center on the menu, and the order receiver asked promptly if I would like to try it - it was new, after all. I looked over the menu for two minutes in silence, finally reserving myself to check the thing out.

Imagine you have just drank a fifth of your favorite spirits, you are in the middle of a keg party in a crackhouse, it is 4AM, you are hungry and unable to leave. The only materials to make yourself breakfast are:

1) a moldy tortilla
2) a box of instant mashed potatoes
3) mystery meat with freezer burn in the broken ice box
4) a can of cream of mushroom soup

Throw all of this together under these circumstances and you would come up with an approximation for how this thing tastes. My mouth has never been more offended and I'm sure my stomach was thanking it all day for rejecting such a blatant crime against humanity. It should be a prominent feature for the Advertising Photo vs Real Life study as well, because you basically get a pile of steaming (RADIOACTIVE GRAVY) shit "folded" in a tortilla by a 16 year old degenerate...

That's today's Hardee's!! Feel the Pride!!!

This isn't their first breakfast crime however... I proudly present the "Monster Breakfast Biscuit"...

Do we need bacon, sausage and ham on one sandwich?? Really?? The whole Pig has to be represented? There wasn't room for Pastrami also? Pepperoni couldn't be wedged in there??

So well done Hardee's.. well done... America may not lead the world in science, or education.. or diplomacy... but by god we'll be the fattest!! U.S.A.! U.S.A!

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Continuing with today's food theme...

We've tackled large burgers here before as well... but I've never seen one served in a shoebox...

...Until today...















What is going on here? Is any explanation going to be adequate?

Why not just hook up a gravy IV and be done with it.. (to be fair, they did include one slice of tomato and a piece of leaf lettuce.. so at least you're getting your veggies...why even bother with the bread and fixins at this point..... this isn't a sandwich .. it's a Meat Trough...)

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And finally, I've uncovered the winner of this week's "Things You Wouldn't Order at a Restaurant on a First Date" Award...




















I'm not even sure what to say about that sandwich... other than I'm sure you'll be seeing it on a Hardee's Menu anyday now...

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Jules: Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast....
--"Pulp Fiction" (1994)