I was linked to this is why you’re fat in the great debate thread about why people are so fat. Looking through, I found some things that weren’t terrible, or looked good enough to eat anyway.
eggs five ways - I’d prefer to leave off the hollandaise sauce, but isn’t that bad with it
goober burger - I’d like less peanut butter and mayo, but for taste reasons, not health reasons
Duck Fat Doughnuts - look delicious, and small
Year of The Triple Bypass - looks too big, but otherwise I don’t see anything wrong with it
Bacon And Grilled Cheese Egg In The Hole - don’t even know why this is on the site
Banana Peanut Butter Cup And Marshmallow Grilled Sandwich- unhealthy as hell, but sounds delicious
Hamburger Pie - it’s a hamburger with a pie crust instead of a bun. Not sure how that’s worse than a hamburger.
I looked at the first two pages. The only thing I’d consider eating without a gun to my head would be the deep fried chocolate cake, and I imagine it would be less tasty than it looks. And no way would I eat all of that, gross.
I’m intrigued by the burger with two grilled cheese sandwiches for the roll. “Burger” is an understatement but I am afraid to go back and look–I recall much bacon and fried eggs were involved.
I bravely looked at the first 3 pages, genuinely feeling more and more queasy.
Save for the taco on the first page, there is no way you could make me willingly chose to eat anything off these pages, unless on a dare.
almost everything on the site makes me slightly queasy …
I like the occasional burger, or grilled cheese sandwich [especially with tomato soup] and I even like eggs benedict in moderation … but when you start stacking multiples and adding more crap on top of that,
For the love of god, WHY
Almost everything on the site is a horrible mess of crap. I think the only thing I would consider is the Bacon And Grilled Cheese Egg In The Hole … because it is pretty much fried eggs, toast and bacon which is a fairly normal breakfast, just turned into a single sandwich.
I got as far down the first page as the mac & cheese grilled cheese sandwich and felt nauseated and could not continue. My answer is definitely “no” for it and everything that preceded it, though.
I’d eat some of almost everything on that site, though probably not the whole thing, because I’m not hungry enough for three whole pizzas or twelve pancakes.
Well, I got through the first couple of pages… Why is the Hamburger Pie listed? That is just a ground beef cassarole (or hot dish) in a boring crust… not really killer.
As for the rest - I can’t eat dairy without getting pretty ill, so just about everything is out. I’d try a nibble of the few “eggy/bacony” things, but not much more than that. They don’t say you have to eat that stuff by yourself, do they?
First, I propose we, as Dopers, come up with our OWN recipe and send it to the site. I once sent them the Primanti’s website, but they never put it up.
Some of them are so obviously done on the fly – like piling a bunch of Big Macs right on top of the other.
I’ve had cheeseburger pie – it’s basically just a casserole. I don’t think that would count. But they didn’t make it right…(I like the Bisquick version myself)
There was one a while back, where the woman’s mother made her a birthday cake moulded to look like a cheeseburger – it was just your average layer cake – but she used different colored iceing, and shaped the layers to look like a hamburger patty, cheese, tomato, etc. (The lettuce she made from almond paste). It was really neat. But all in all, it was just a regular cake.
Then there were the guys that made a Rice Crispie treat the size of a kitchen table – I’m guessing just for the hell of it. Since you could basically just have a piece of it…
I might taste the Snickers Puff (the puff pastry with snickers filling), but just a bite out of curiosity. I doubt I’d eat the whole thing. And the Cookie Cake pie doesn’t sound too bad – I’d probably try it once while out with my friends or whatever.
(One thing I love about that site – it’s GREAT for dieting. It makes me lose my appetite in a second!)
For the purpose of the thread, I’d say the serving size is the same as the “normal” thing it is based on. Like the hamburger pie would have 1 slice as a serving because a slice of pie is the normal way to eat pie, but the gigantic sandwiches are one serving because a normal serving of sandwiches are 1 sandwich. I mean the Sex Panther looks delicious, if it were a normal sized sandwich, but it is far to big.
And yeah, the hamburger pie really makes me laugh a little at all the eww, gross, you couldn’t pay me to eat any of that stuff posts. I think it really shows how context and presentation effects our opinion on stuff.
And some are clearly the inspiration that comes from drinking and smoking pot–two frozen pizzas as the top and bottom of a creation–when else would you think of that!
The brat loaf is very similar to a dish served at the local German beer garden. Balls of bratwurst wrapped in kraut, and then breaded and fried. Really good with a good spicy brown mustard, or a blue cheese sauce.
And I’d order the Sex Panther just so I could order the Sex Panther. I’d eat about a 1/5 of it though.
The Creamtatos look delicious, though I’m not sure why they’d be “double deep fried”.
I don’t see anything wrong with the Bacon And Grilled Cheese Egg In The Hole. I’ll probably make that this week!
“Where the Buffalo ‘Rome’”- currently the newest posting. I like everything in it (pizzas and Buffalo wings) and I don’t see them clashing too badly, so, taste-wise, yeah, I’d eat some of it. It’s still stupid, though- how the hell are you supposed to eat something with a layer of wings in it? You’d end up just taking the whole thing apart again and eating the pizza and the wings separately. Like you would have if you hadn’t combined them in the first place.
ETA: OK, just noticed that the wings are boneless. Fine, maybe you could just eat this with a knife and fork. I still don’t see why combining everything is better than just eating them separately, except maybe that it gets you on the This Is Why You’re Fat website.
