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Burger King Sandwich Packs the Calories


MIAMI - Burger King began offering two new breakfast sandwiches Monday, including one that packs more calories and fat than a Whopper.


The Enormous Omelet Sandwich carries 730 calories and 47 grams of fat and comes with two eggs, sausage, three strips of bacon and two slices of melted American cheese on a bun. It's heftier than a Whopper hamburger, which weighs in at 700 calories and 42 grams of fat.


Officials at Miami-based Burger King Corp. said that healthier choices are also available, but surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches.


"By expanding our indulgent breakfast sandwich menu, Burger King restaurants now offer even more alternatives for our guests who want a convenient and filling breakfast," said Russ Klein, Burger King's chief global marketing officer.


The other new breakfast item, the Western Omelet Croissanwich, is a lighter pick with 320 calories and 17 grams of fat. It has fire-grilled onions, ham and melted American cheese inside a folded egg on a croissant.


The omelet sandwich will stay on the menu at about $2.99, but the Western sandwich is in stores until May 8.


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Eat one before every ride

gross. why isn't on a croissant or bisquit.

Burger King Sandwich Packs the Calories


MIAMI - Burger King began offering two new breakfast sandwiches Monday, including one that packs more calories and fat than a Whopper.


The Enormous Omelet Sandwich carries 730 calories and 47 grams of fat and comes with two eggs, sausage, three strips of bacon and two slices of melted American cheese on a bun. It's heftier than a Whopper hamburger, which weighs in at 700 calories and 42 grams of fat.


Officials at Miami-based Burger King Corp. said that healthier choices are also available, but surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches.


"By expanding our indulgent breakfast sandwich menu, Burger King restaurants now offer even more alternatives for our guests who want a convenient and filling breakfast," said Russ Klein, Burger King's chief global marketing officer.


The other new breakfast item, the Western Omelet Croissanwich, is a lighter pick with 320 calories and 17 grams of fat. It has fire-grilled onions, ham and melted American cheese inside a folded egg on a croissant.


The omelet sandwich will stay on the menu at about $2.99, but the Western sandwich is in stores until May 8.


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anyone else see this being the healthy option as disturbing?

The nutrition guides on the websites are very helpful. I thought I was eating somewhat healthy with the Arby's "marketfresh" ham & swiss sandwich. Then I found out it's over 40 grams of fat!......

Damn, Now i want to go get one!


MMMMMM breakfast sandwiches, Finagle a bagel: parmeson and roasted garlic bagel, with sausage egg in cheese.....MMMMMMMM

If you have one of those for breakfast, are you breaking a fast or annhilating it?

Be afraid, very afraid. As stated in the article, surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches. Maybe people shouldn't get what they want, no? I've had Arby's croissanwiches. They're not bantam. I don't see how someone could be famished after one.


Eat one before every ride
You pedal. I'll hang on to the top tube. Let me know when we get to the ER.

I'm with ya, hi565!

When I read a thread like this and the Hardee's Thickburger thread I begin craving one of these!

I such a pig! I'm so ashamed!

But I do know better and I've not tried a thickburger. Not yet, anyway.

Eat two of those and there's your dialy intake.... good game.

The really frightening thing is I know people that will go pick up two of these, bring them into the office and consider it a good breakfast. People are so ignorant when it comes to nutrition sometimes :\

People should really go see "Supersize Me" No wonder there are so many fatasses out there... people really need to educate themselves, and not eat this crap!

jeff

The really frightening thing is I know people that will go pick up two of these, bring them into the office and consider it a good breakfast. People are so ignorant when it comes to nutrition sometimes :\
Before or after the first cigarette of the day?

Why is this sandwich such a phenom? All I seem to hear lately is the BK grumble. Give it a rest...there's a pub down the street that's got a burger that would crush the calorie/fat stats of this puny BK offering.

Besides, I hear that a Starbucks frappuccino has more calories than this new breakfast sandwich. Why have I not heard the roar of discontent about that? Well, I probably will now that I mentioned it, eh?

Looks like the Starbucks frappuccinos are a little light in the gut (http://shapefit.com/starbucks.html). Roar. :p

After .. but before they get in their daily exercise by walking around the building once during lunch :rolleyes:

After .. but before they get in their daily exercise by walking around the building once during lunch :rolleyes:

Followed quickly by another butt.

BK now has a double Whopper. We truly are a nation of pigs.

To think I used to have two of these very often in the AM before work! :eek:

Let them eat that crap. Get diabetes, heart probs, thins out the traffic on the streets, makes for fewer oldsters around to collect dwindling SS benefits, and be drains on HMO costs. Slobs will eat what they want cause they are to stupid and lazy to get up a few minutes earlier to eat breakfast at home, brown bag for lunch,then they ***** about about meds and HBpreasure, waist lines,etc, etc.Their option...eat garbage die young. My option? eat healthy
The ole saying , lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Lead a human to a buffet table and you can't tear them away

Let them eat that crap. Get diabetes, heart probs, thins out the traffic on the streets, makes for fewer oldsters around to collect dwindling SS benefits, and be drains on HMO costs. Slobs will eat what they want cause they are to stupid and lazy to get up a few minutes earlier to eat breakfast at home, brown bag for lunch,then they ***** about about meds and HBpreasure, waist lines,etc, etc.Their option...eat garbage die young. My option? eat healthy
The ole saying , lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Lead a human to a buffet table and you can't tear them away

As long as they don't f**k up my insurance premiums, which I'm sure they do by claiming all sorts of werid medication for their obesity problems. Other than that, I actually like people to be as unhealthy as they could. I actually try to convince some people to go after the unhealthy option sometimes. The more fat slobs in this country, the better I look.
I prefer this ol' sayin, "Give a man a fire, keep him warm for a night, set a man on fire, keep him warm for life."

Let them eat that crap. Get diabetes, heart probs, thins out the traffic on the streets, makes for fewer oldsters around to collect dwindling SS benefits, and be drains on HMO costs. Slobs will eat what they want cause they are to stupid and lazy to get up a few minutes earlier to eat breakfast at home, brown bag for lunch,then they ***** about about meds and HBpreasure, waist lines,etc, etc.Their option...eat garbage die young. My option? eat healthy
The ole saying , lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Lead a human to a buffet table and you can't tear them away
you need help

As long as they don't f**k up my insurance premiums, which I'm sure they do by claiming all sorts of werid medication for their obesity problems. Other than that, I actually like people to be as unhealthy as they could. I actually try to convince some people to go after the unhealthy option sometimes. The more fat slobs in this country, the better I look.
I prefer this ol' sayin, "Give a man a fire, keep him warm for a night, set a man on fire, keep him warm for life."
you're beyond help, seek out Dr. Kavorkian.

Cheebah monkey,


HIGH FIVE! :D

we're going to have to start designing bigger toilets if this product really sells well...

:lol:


eeeeeeeeewwwwww :p

Looks like the Starbucks frappuccinos are a little light in the gut (http://shapefit.com/starbucks.html). Roar. :p

Ah, quite obviously I heard wrong, so just a tiny roar....hehe. But, the venti mocha and low-fat cocoa are just over 500, and the regular venti cocoa is 591. Wow!

So when you get the craving for breakfast, get the BK sandwich and top it off with a cocoa from Starbucks for a whopping 1,300 Calories to start the day. Yummy!

On our local Fox news station (our LIBERAL station, that is... ;) ) they brought in the sandwiches on television and made the anchors eat the entire sandwich- each. It was funny watching their faces afterwards. The one guy said he felt like he would only want to eat a celery stick and drink water for the rest of the day. They just weren't impressed at all with that sandwich. I don't think it will last. Those anchors will eat just about anything, so if they didn't like it, then it must really not even taste good enough to gain fans.

Koffee

Cheebah monkey,


HIGH FIVE! :D
*slap*

sometimes you gotta keep morons like those guys in line.

Ah, quite obviously I heard wrong, so just a tiny roar....hehe. But, the venti mocha and low-fat cocoa are just over 500, and the regular venti cocoa is 591. Wow!

So when you get the craving for breakfast, get the BK sandwich and top it off with a cocoa from Starbucks for a whopping 1,300 Calories to start the day. Yummy!

I probably get 1000 calories for my breakfast, which is only a biscuit and a half away from your figure. admittedly, Its a pretty healthy breakfast, but still. I posted it in another thread

I think its better to get a big breakfast, because it makes me full for the rest of the day. Otherwise, I'm nibbling all day, and the crap that I nibble on is worse then that sandwich.

The Fox anchors' reaction reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's in "Supersize Me." He forces down a double cheese quarterpounder meal, supersized, and then throws it up out his car window.

I think that sandwich would appeal to a lot of the guys I knew in grad school, for whom it was a macho kind of thing to eat as much as possible. Many times I went to Wendy's with them and watched them eat doubles, triples, whatever, with fries.

I probably get 1000 calories for my breakfast, which is only a biscuit and a half away from your figure. admittedly, Its a pretty healthy breakfast, but still. I posted it in another thread

I think its better to get a big breakfast, because it makes me full for the rest of the day. Otherwise, I'm nibbling all day, and the crap that I nibble on is worse then that sandwich.

But are most of your calories from fat? There's definitely a difference between your breakfast and getting the McFat breakfast burger.

Koffee

The Fox anchors' reaction reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's in "Supersize Me." He forces down a double cheese quarterpounder meal, supersized, and then throws it up out his car window.

I think that sandwich would appeal to a lot of the guys I knew in grad school, for whom it was a macho kind of thing to eat as much as possible. Many times I went to Wendy's with them and watched them eat doubles, triples, whatever, with fries.


I never saw the movie, but I bet that's exactly where they got the idea from. Tamryn's face was so... crestfallen when she described how she felt after eating that burger. I had to laugh. They are the funniest news anchors in the morning.

Koffee

Its not the calories, it's the fat.

700 odd calories in one sitting isn't a huge deal if you're a fit/active male. I'm 21 6'2 and workout hard 6 days a week. 700 cals of good food is nothing.

700 calories of fried animal fat OTOH isn't good for anyone :)

I'm going to give it a try one day... just for fun to see how bad it is.

Seriously.

Koffee

I could eat that every day and be fine if not for the crappy taste I am sure it has.
I am gluecose intolerant so I get no energy at all from carbs. chuck the bun and burn fat (G) but anymore I don't usualy eat that much in the morning.

I remember eating at this local joint one brunch no one could believe that "I ate the whole thing"

I said "The paul bunyon(or whatever it was called) looks good", What side? "fries." Drink? "huge water" (and I used my hands like I was grabbing a super tanker big gulp to demonstrate)

So she brings my water and wouldn't you know it she found a cup the same size as I mimed must have been about 48oz.
Then the burger... 8inches across, one pound patty, 1/4 pound of ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, etc and next to this dream sandwich, a heap of thick cut fries nearly the size of the burger.
And I cleaned the plate(platter?) and drank all the water just the same as if I had ordered two eggs, toast and a cup of O.J.

I bet that was over a 2500 calorie meal. I ate a couple of regular sized meals later that day too.

And glucose intoerant doesn't meen that you don't get energy from carbs, it means your a step below diebetic.

The human brain, while nearly 50% fat, burns nothing but glucose.

I could eat six of them without breaking a sweat...........
:o

Officials at Miami-based Burger King Corp. said that healthier choices are also available, but surveys showed customers wanted bigger sandwiches.

And, then the customers want to sue the fast food chains for being the cause of their obesity/overweight-ness. I understand the connection between a diet consisting of high-fat, highly-processed, low nutrition foods and a fat body. Funny, that some people don't. Anyway, it's probably true, that customers want that stuff even if it is bad for them (generally). I mean, there are those that drive the biggest, gas-guzzling SUV, but still complain about how expensive gasoline is getting.

We are a society of contradictions. :(

Koffee

I'm going to give it a try one day... just for fun to see how bad it is.

Seriously.

Koffee


Same, I really want to try it to prove it...

And glucose intoerant doesn't meen that you don't get energy from carbs, it means your a step below diebetic.

The human brain, while nearly 50% fat, burns nothing but glucose.

There are several different kinds of glucose intolerance. I could (when I was not so sick) eat 8 pieces of fruit in a day and not have any or very little extra energy. Or a 7oz Hershey bar and not even get a sugar high. Now I get tight lungs and sore and tired muscles for a few days if I ate 15 carbs. My doc had me try a pure glucose energy drink man I suffered for 5 days from that.
I am slowly getting better but I have a ways to go to have normal energy levels. Fat gives me energy but I need a lot to get a small boost in my riding. Far more now then I can handle calorie wise.

I remember eating at this local joint one brunch no one could believe that "I ate the whole thing"

Then the burger... 8inches across, one pound patty, 1/4 pound of ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, etc and next to this dream sandwich, a heap of thick cut fries nearly the size of the burger.
And I cleaned the plate(platter?) and drank all the water just the same as if I had ordered two eggs, toast and a cup of O.J.


That's sick.

People should really go see "Supersize Me" No wonder there are so many fatasses out there... people really need to educate themselves, and not eat this crap!

jeff

I thought "Supersize Me" was great. It's like scared straight for non criminals. I never was a McDonalds person, but I found it very entertaining for sure. The part with his girlfriend being a Vegan chef was pretty good too. :)