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The Four Horsemen of the Fatpocalypse

Discussion in 'Archive: Your Jedi Council Community' started by Jabbadabbado, Feb 7, 2012.

  1. Jabbadabbado

    Jabbadabbado Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    White Horse - Pizza

    -3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. every year
    -The average family eats pizza 30 times a year
    -Americans consume 100 acres of pizza a year, or 57 square miles
    -Americans consume half of the world?s pizza

    Red Horse - Soda

    -soft drinks alone contribute more than seven percent of total caloric intake in the average U.S. diet
    -Americans drink an average of more than 50 gallons of soda per person per year

    Black Horse - French Fries

    -Americans eat an average of 29 lbs of french fries a year
    -90% of french fries are sold in fast food restaurants

    Pale Horse - Ice Cream

    -24 lbs of ice cream per person per year

    Other horses that win, place or show:

    -donuts and pastries!
    -chicken nuggets
    -cheese

    No need for Mayan doomsdays with the fatpocalypse already here.
     
  2. Mortimer_Snerd

    Mortimer_Snerd Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    Soda (or "pop" to you culturally backward people from Illinois) is easily the worst. Whenever somebody mentions soda machines in schools I cringe a little. I also believe that French Fries, while bad for you of course, can be somewhat of a lesser evil when one opts for the bottled water that can be substituted for soda on your average fast food value menu. The corn syrup in soda is so abundant that it actually inhibits your body's natural ability to effectively digest all the fat and empty carbs you're getting in your meal.

    If you're gonna eat delicious horrible fast food, at least forego the soda.

    Baby steps, Amurrrca...

     
  3. Lady_Sami_J_Kenobi

    Lady_Sami_J_Kenobi Jedi Master star 6

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    All I have to say about this is: "What did mothers do before fast food restaurants? They cooked!"

    Of course, hamburger helper may be just as bad as pizza/soda.
     
  4. New_York_Jedi

    New_York_Jedi Force Ghost star 6

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    Pizza is the one that is going to get me. There is never a time beer and pizza doesn't sound like a great idea.
     
  5. Darth-Lando

    Darth-Lando Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    This is why we need a "Like" button.
     
  6. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    who said pizza
     
  7. Aytee-Aytee

    Aytee-Aytee Jedi Master star 5

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    What, no gravy?
     
  8. Whitey

    Whitey Jedi Master star 6

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    pizza
     
  9. Jabbadabbado

    Jabbadabbado Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Nugget technology continues to progress by leaps and bounds in the fast food industry. The trick is to replace as much of the underlying food as possible with more batter/breading.

    Hence McDonald's new McBites. The lure is "chicken breast meat" but the reality is more of the deep fried batter, and less chicken. I sense that the holy grail of the industry is a box of deep fried batter chunks sprayed with some kind of chicken flavoring.

    Or better yet, a flavorless batter nugget that can be repurposed for any meal with a spray-on flavor or dipping sauce: pancake-flavored nuggets with maple syrup-flavored dipping sauce. Apple pie flavored nuggets with vanilla-caramel flavored dipping sauce. The secret: one nugget to rule them all.

    But until that glorious day, the McBite comes commendably close. The old Chicken Nugget, or "Chicken Nugget Classic" if you will, is exposed as an embarrassment of surplus chicken, an unwarranted and unnecessarily opulent protein jackpot.

    Also, I think there's a huge opportunity for a fast food restaurant that sells boxes of battered, deep fried pizza nuggets.

    Many years ago there was an effort to market the deep fried cheeseburger nugget, but it never really caught on. Hard to guess why. The deep fried cheeseburger as a whole, however, seems to have found a niche.
     
  10. Kiki-Gonn

    Kiki-Gonn Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    P I Z Z A
     
  11. nostalgia

    nostalgia Jedi Youngling star 2

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    All of those things are available at your average buffet. Looks like it's time to visit the buffet.
     
  12. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    What about beer? The anti-christ?

     
  13. SithLordDarthRichie

    SithLordDarthRichie CR Emeritus: London star 9

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    Deep fried food is undoubtedly popular.

    I think we should go down the Uncle Moe route and deep fry everything.


    "Now that's Moe like it"
     
  14. epic

    epic Ex Mod star 8 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    i think the key thing to fatdom is snacking. fatties are snacking all damn day. if you stick to breakfast, lunch and dinner, and cut out the random, unnecessary **** inbetween, you shouldn't put on weight. end of story.
     
  15. SithLordDarthRichie

    SithLordDarthRichie CR Emeritus: London star 9

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    You still sort of, you know, need a balanced diet too.
    You can't just eat fast food every day and not gain weight (unless you burn calories at Michael Phelps rate), even if you stick to the 3 meals a day system.
     
  16. epic

    epic Ex Mod star 8 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    sure, but let's say you use up 500 calories at breakfast. if you didn't eat anything else all day bar lunch and dinner, that's 1000 calories per meal. that's ****loads. that's a KFC for lunch and a pizza for dinner, for example.

    obv this is reliant on using up 2500 calories worth of energy, and obv eating well has additional nutritional benefits besides not putting on weight, and obv you couldn't just keep eating fast food forever, but just sayin'
     
  17. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    we should get pizza
     
  18. duende

    duende Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    let's get some of that white horse pizza!
     
  19. Evil Incarnate

    Evil Incarnate Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    TIL that I am not an average American. But I also learned that I could die happy if I was one.

    Evil.
     
  20. Jabbadabbado

    Jabbadabbado Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    The calorie bomb of American pizza comes from the cheese. An authentic pizza margherita is dotted with modest lumps of buffalo mozzarella, not buried ankle deep in that fake shredded crap.
     
  21. Katya Jade

    Katya Jade Administrator Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Where do Hot Pockets rate on the Fatpocalypse scale?
     
  22. Jabbadabbado

    Jabbadabbado Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    What is a Hot Pocket?
     
  23. Mortimer_Snerd

    Mortimer_Snerd Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    An extreme form of self-gratification in Alabama.

     
  24. Jabbadabbado

    Jabbadabbado Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Ok, I image-Googled Hot Pockets. So, hopefully I'm getting this right, it's a pepperoni-stuffed Pop Tart?
     
  25. Aytee-Aytee

    Aytee-Aytee Jedi Master star 5

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    They also have breakfast ones with bacon, egg and cheese.

    And are known for royally messing with your digestive tract.