On Facebook just now, I discovered a friend posted this:
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/daily-morning-awesomeness-15.jpg (SFW)
When and why have we Americans incorporated as part of our popular culture trying to top each other on inventing the most fattening, grease-laden, and heart-stopping meat-based foods we possibly can? Are we so used to Europe making fun of our collective fatness that we’ve now just started making fun of ourselves? What gives?
You’re late to the (bacon strips, and bacon strips, and bacon strips) party. But if they do anything, these monster feasts actually induce nausea through their creations. I’d wager far more people view these, and think about how out of shape they are vs people actively emulating them.
I actually enjoy watching Epic Meal Time myself, but more for the theatrics than the over-the-top food. However, perhaps I’m part of the issue I’m whining about here. 
Yes. No one, including Americans, ever made fun of fat Americans until recently after it became fashionable because Europe was doing it.
It’s the fall of Rome all over again.
It’s the old conundrum of which came first: the KFC Double Down “chicken patty bun” sandwich or the 6-egg country omelette slathered with sausage gravy.
I think it’s a sterling example of American efficiency, packing a week’s worth of calories into a single meal.
Read the account of what Diamond Jim Brady used to have for breakfast or Henry VIII.
Brady is described as having routinely begun his day “with a hefty breakfast of eggs, breads, muffins, grits, pancakes, steaks, chops, fried potatoes, and pitchers of orange juice. He’d stave off mid-morning hunger by downing two or three dozen clams or oysters, then repair to Delmonico’s or Rector’s for a lunch that consisted of more oysters and clams, lobsters, crabs, a joint of beef, pie, and more orange juice.”
In midafternoon, allegedly, came a snack “of more seafood,” followed by dinner: “Three dozen oysters (the largest Lynnhavens were saved for him), a dozen crabs, six or seven lobsters, terrapin soup,” and a steak, with a dessert of “a tray full of pastries… and two pounds of bonbons.” Later in the evening, allegedly, came an après-theater supper of “a few game birds and more orange juice.”
Or read about accounts of eating a 40oz steak to get a free meal, common for decades.
The French and other Euro nations also have their moments of gluttony too.
WANT!
Woah, Woah, Woah. If were going out Rome style, I’m still due orgies and gladiator death sports. Feasts alone doesn’t cut it.
Think of it as a sort of Rule 34 of Food Porn.
don’t get in the way of a self-hating american.
it doesn’t look much worse calorie-wise than a full English breakfast or Ulster Fry, but I don’t hear any complaining about those.
40? Try 72 ounces, at the Big Texan in Amarillo.
http://www.bigtexan.com/free72.html
OH-MY-GOD, does that look gooooooooooood!!! 
Not to spoil the fun, but I think people invent such things for the publicity. I doubt very many people ever actually eat the thing in the OP, or those weird bacon-on-bacon combinations.
I saw bacon strips woven like the plastic webbing on an aluminum beach chair, into a square, and fried. To put on a sandwich. I was toying with the idea of doing this for the family for Christmas - but if I did it once I would have to cook it that way forever after!
Don’t forget about the glazed doughnut hamburger bun.
You mean you have never seen the dearly departed This Is Why You’re Fat website? Still available in stomach-busting Tumblr form.
Or watched Man vs Food. I am one of those fat Americans everyone makes fun of but I cannot watch that show. It makes my belly ache. How can anyone eat that much food and not die? My lean husband, however, loves it. Go figure.
When I was doing Atkins I would eat the KFC double-down. Not too bad. It is only 540 calories.
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