Warhawk’s BodyBlog

Either they just don’t get it or they really don’t care.  Every day you hear about kids being obese.  Hell, most people are.  Hardees does it again!  They laugh in the face of everyone talking about this epedimic.  Read this article.  Yes I know… you dont have to go in there and eat it.  Well, those who think like that probably believe that drug dealers should be allowed to stand on the corner and sell since you don’t have to buy!

Hardee’s fast food chain rolls out its new breakfast burrito: 920 calories and 60 grams of fat

2007 October 15

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By By JIM SALTER (Associated Press Writer)

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

Hardee’s on Monday rolled out its new 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 St. Louis-based 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.

In 2003 the chain introduced a line of big sandwiches, including the Monster Thickburger. The 1,420-calorie sandwich is made up of two 1/3-pound slabs of beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered bun.

Even Hardees’ chicken salad - topped with onion rings and crispy chicken - has 1,100 calories and 83 grams of fat.

The chain does offer some low-calorie options, including roast beef and chicken sandwiches.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocate for nutrition and health, has called the Hardee’s line of Thickburgers "food porn."

The group’s senior nutritionist, Jayne Hurley, said Monday the burrito was "another lousy invention by a fast-food company."

The "country breakfast bomb," as she called it, represents half a day’s calories and a full day’s worth of saturated fat and salt, to say nothing of cholesterol.

"That’s all before 10 o’clock in the morning," she said.

Haley makes no apologies.

"We don’t try to hide what these are," he said. "When consumers go to other fast-food places they feel like they’ve got to buy two of their breakfast sandwiches or burritos to fill up. This is really designed to fill you up."

The government’s Center for Nutritional Policy and Promotion recommends a daily caloric intake ranging from 1,600 calories for sedentary women and older adults to 2,800 calories for teenage boys and active adults. Hardee’s sees its core customers as young men ages 18 to 34, Haley said, though it expects a wider range for breakfast items.

The Country Breakfast Burrito is generally available for $2.69 (€1.9) by itself or $4.09 (€2.88) for a combo that includes hash rounds and coffee.

My kids are young and in middle school and elementary.  Why the hell is it so hard to find p.e. teacher that is actually fit?  And it doesn’t stop there.  As my kids have grown up many of the coaches and the like that they have had are overweight.

 The school systems are so worried about money that they put in soda machines and snack machines so they can get a cut of the profits.  The heck with one that has items somewhat good for you.  Kids won’t use those!  If that is all that was there they would and if they didn’t at least they weren’t sucking down a can of sugar.

 I know I know.  Nothing we can do about it but be role models for them at home.  Just kind a pisses me off!

 Warhawk out.