# Hardee's new 1420 calorie "Monster Thickburger! Waifish tree huggers need not apply! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173 "2004-11-17T01:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/1 "2004-11-17T01:57:22Z")
[Hardee’s serves up 1,420-calorie burger - Fast-food giant skips diet craze, concocts fat-filled sandwich](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6498304/) > [@](#): > > As many fast-food chains introduce healthier fare amid fears of being sued, Hardee’s is bucking the trend, serving up a megaburger with 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat. > > St. Louis-based Hardee’s Food Systems Inc. Monday rolled out its Monster Thickburger — two one-third-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun. The sandwich alone sells for $5.49 or $7.09 with a medium fries (520 calories) and soda (about 400 calories). > > In an interview on CNBC, Hardee’s chief executive Andrew Puzder was unapologetic, saying the company’s latest sandwich is “not a burger for tree-huggers.” > > “This is a burger for young hungry guys who want a really big, delicious, juicy, decadent burger,” he said. “I hope our competitors keep promoting those healthy products, and we will keep promoting our big, juicy delicious burgers.” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/2 "2004-11-17T02:04:12Z")
Pfft, that’s nothing. We created far worse monstrosities than that on the night shift in the kitchen at Burger King. Bun, cheese, bacon, cheese, onion, patty, cheese, bacon, cheese, mustard, patty, cheese, bacon, cheese, ketchup, patty, cheese, bacon, cheese, pickle, patty, cheese, bacon, cheese, mayo, bun. Yes, the Quadruple Whopper that stoners speak of in hushed terms. O, for those days… ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/3 "2004-11-17T02:07:25Z")
Fast food is unhealthy no matter how you look at it, so i hate it when certain chains fake a health friendly image to take the heat off. At least Hardee’s isn’t jumping on the wagon and they admit to it…Eat it if you like, just don’t blame the restruant when you pack on the pounds (suprise). ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/4 "2004-11-17T02:12:09Z")
The “not a burger for tree-huggers.” had me laughing out loud for a minute or so. Brilliant, I say. It will definitely sell. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/5 "2004-11-17T02:16:16Z")
> [@ThatGuy](#): > > Fast food is unhealthy no matter how you look at it, so i hate it when certain chains fake a health friendly image to take the heat off. At least Hardee’s isn’t jumping on the wagon and they admit to it…Eat it if you like, just don’t blame the restruant when you pack on the pounds (suprise). Yeah, but I think there’s room for healthy (or not too unhealthy) fast food as well; there’s nothing that says a restaurant has to be completely one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/6 "2004-11-17T02:21:05Z")
You know, that might be the one thing that got me to eat at a Hardee’s (of course, their fries are very good IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/7 "2004-11-17T02:21:27Z")
Can you supersize that? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/8 "2004-11-17T02:29:00Z")
Do they call it the Good Morning Burger? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/9 "2004-11-17T02:30:45Z")
At that point, why not just roast an entire cow on a spit and glue some bread to it? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/10 "2004-11-17T02:44:03Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > At that point, why not just roast an entire cow on a spit and glue some bread to it? With a side of of pootie…poontang… what the hell do you call that Canadian heart attack with the french fries and gravy? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/11 "2004-11-17T03:26:15Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > The “not a burger for tree-huggers.” had me laughing out loud for a minute or so. Brilliant, I say. It will definitely sell. It’ll sell. And the tree huggers will outlive the coronary clique that is so willingly tosses that moniker around. Thinning the herd by force feeding it a herd. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/12 "2004-11-17T03:34:51Z")
I’ve known teenage boys that could put away 3 of those things, easy. Ya’ll are funny. “Oh dear, it’s meat, they’re gonna have heart attacks!” It’s amazing how the human race has survived this long given that meat is so bad for you 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/13 "2004-11-17T03:41:29Z")
> [@astro](#): > > With a side of of pootie…poontang… what the hell do you call that Canadian heart attack with the french fries and gravy? Poutine. But poontang would be good, too. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/14 "2004-11-17T08:13:34Z")
I’m sorry, but “Not a burger for tree-huggers” make me think they really _are_ using cardboard filler now. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/15 "2004-11-17T08:36:35Z")
> [@Abbie Carmichael](#): > > I’ve known teenage boys that could put away 3 of those things, easy. > > Ya’ll are funny. “Oh dear, it’s meat, they’re gonna have heart attacks!” It’s amazing how the human race has survived this long given that meat is so bad for you 😉 Or how people that smoke three packs a day live to be seventy or alcoholics live to be ninety or how kids that went to school with asbestos insulation live to be a hundred. Just because some beat the odds, that doesn’t mean all or even most will. If you make a habit out of eating those (and if I had the money, I probably would – I’m an admitted glutton), you’re more likely than not to die with grease in your veins instead of blood. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/16 "2004-11-17T08:43:52Z")
Sounds Great! Is there an Atkins friendly, lo-carb version? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/17 "2004-11-17T08:45:34Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Hardee’s serves up 1,420-calorie burger - Fast-food giant skips diet craze, concocts fat-filled sandwich](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6498304/) [Crocodile Dundee]that ain’t a burger [_This_](http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp) is a burger [/Dundee] ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/18 "2004-11-17T08:56:41Z")
> [@One And Only Wanderers](#): > > [Crocodile Dundee]that ain’t a burger [_This_](http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp) is a burger [/Dundee] Holy crap! I haven’t been to a Hardee’s since they got rid of the Frisco burger (the only fast food burger I actually liked), but I actually really want to try this. I agree that fast food places have gone way overboard with the health thing. Good on them for having the guts to come out with a politically incorrect hamburger. Now, can I get it with a chocolate shake and pork rinds in place of the pop and fries? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/19 "2004-11-17T11:16:52Z")
I think they ought to dip it in beer batter, deep fry it, and then smother it with nacho cheese and serve it with a side of blue cheese dressing. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173/20 "2004-11-17T13:04:32Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Sounds Great! Is there an Atkins friendly, lo-carb version? 😃 Sure, just don’t eat the bun and skip the fries and soda. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardees-new-1420-calorie-monster-thickburger-waifish-tree-huggers-need-not-apply/275173.md?page=2)