# What's the unhealthiest food you love **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466 "2005-03-08T01:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/1 "2005-03-08T01:17:14Z")
Inspired by [this](http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/luther.asp) article on Snopes, what is the most unhealthy concoction you like to eat. With me, it’s probably the bacon egg burger. A hamburger topped with bacon, a fried egg, ketchup, pickles and fried onions. In college, my friends and I consumed mass quantities of King Dons covered with whipped cream from a can. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/2 "2005-03-08T01:20:35Z")
Scotch eggs. :eek: We used to say that two Scotch eggs and a cigarette was an “Instant Heart Attack.” ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/3 "2005-03-08T01:28:00Z")
Potatoes with **fixins**. The ungodly combinations of melted cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, butter PLUS either baked, mashed and fried potatoes with ingeniously added toppings like mushroom gravy, fried onions and chili I have devoured in my lifetime could easily make a ravenous boar stop and ask “Got something lighter… like a tub of Crisco?” The toughest part of my current diet has been giving up damn near ALL dairy, potatoes and meat in favor of vegetables, fruits and more exercise. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/4 "2005-03-08T01:28:03Z")
McDonald’s Strawberry Shake ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/5 "2005-03-08T01:28:28Z")
Fried pork rinds. Nutritionally worthless. Loaded with saturated fat. Absolutely delicious. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/6 "2005-03-08T01:31:02Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > The toughest part of my current diet has been giving up damn near ALL dairy, potatoes and meat in favor of vegetables, fruits and more exercise. I don’t diet, but it’s the booze that does for my waistline. [PS **Silenus** , even my wife enjoyed the Mondavi Pinot Noir, so it must be okay. The colour is noticeably paler than a typical red wine. This is reflected in the smoother taste.] ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/7 "2005-03-08T01:31:25Z")
Probably donuts. (Trying to resist Homer Simpson reference) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/8 "2005-03-08T01:34:31Z")
Not meaning to monopolise this thread, but since we’re going out for tea at the Peninsula Hotel today, I’m already salivating at the prospect of a cream tea, i.e. scones with styrawberry jam and clotted cream. (Actually, I like everything mentioned so far - even the stuff I haven’t tried yet!) ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/9 "2005-03-08T01:37:20Z")
Ro-tel cheese dip. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/10 "2005-03-08T01:38:13Z")
I don’t know if they have these in other places, but in New Brunswick, New Jersey, they have fat sandwiches. Fat sandwiches are sold at the grease trucks near Rutgers University. My favorties are the “fat bitch”, “fat moon”, and “fat cat”. Basically each “fat” sandwich is a combination of meats and other fast food products. A typical sandwich might include chinken fingers, cheesesteak, cheese, bacon, and fries, all on a hoagie roll. You can create your own mix of things also. If you can eat 3 of them in one sitting, you get to name the sandwich and post your picture on the truck. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/11 "2005-03-08T01:38:22Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Not meaning to monopolise this thread, but since we’re going out for tea at the Peninsula Hotel today, I’m already salivating at the prospect of a cream tea, i.e. scones with styrawberry jam and clotted cream. (Actually, I like everything mentioned so far - even the stuff I haven’t tried yet!) Bastard. One of the things i really miss, living in the US, is afternoon tea with scones, jam and cream. I introduced my Amierican SO to this little delicacy on a trip home to Australia a year ago, and she was instantly hooked. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/12 "2005-03-08T01:38:55Z")
Here in Oklahoma, there is a chain called Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili. They make a divine 1/3lb cheeseburger that has bacon bits in it, fried onions on top and a big old slice of ham sandwiched between 2 slices of cheese. We need a drooling smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/13 "2005-03-08T02:16:30Z")
I just had low-fat vegetable soup and low-salt spinach for dinner. Then I read this thread. I’m hereby UNSUBSCRIBING, you unfeeling fucks. And I say this as a man on a diet: FUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUCK Yoooooouuuuuuuuu, **brickbacon.** Fuck you like a Fat Bitch stroking a Fat Cat under a Fat Moon! ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/14 "2005-03-08T02:44:03Z")
Mickey D’s sausage egg McMuffins with a hash brown. Tater tots. Pork rinds. Pizza. Hamburgers. Regular chips with an ungodly amount of french onion dip. Sweets. _is now sad_ ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/15 "2005-03-08T02:44:37Z")
Oh, Jeez. Where to start? Well, for our semi-Superbowl trashy party (“semi” as we weren’t really watching) we made a scary meatloaf-- hard-boiled eggs in the middle, and then wrapped in bacon. We were calling it “man-loaf” until we came up with a yet sicker idea of shaping the thing in a bundt-pan, whereupon it was christened “man-cake.” Someone on the boards described the concept of “poutaine” the other day. I am intrigued. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/16 "2005-03-08T02:50:08Z")
Our local greasy spoon makes a “Hawk’s nest”: Take 2 good-sized fresh potatoes and grate them course. Fry the shreds on a grill with really nasty grill-lube to make hashbrowns with plenty of onions. Fill a 12" plate 1-1/2" thick with the result. Scramble 4 eggs with a heapin’ handful or two of crumbled bulk sausage of questionable pedigree. Dump eggs/sausage onto hashbrowns. Pour 2 cups of sausage-ey white gravy over the whole thing. Wheel it out to the table. Awesome. One plate can feed a Vietnamese village for a week. Or me for about 4 hours, 3 of which will be spent snoozing. I can feel my belly expanding and my heart groaning as I power through this thing. Oh yeah, it costs US$5.50. I can hardly wait for Saturday. Diet, my ass. p.s. Never eat in a restaurant unless both the cook & the owner are fat. And NEVER eat in one owned by a corporation. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/17 "2005-03-08T02:50:22Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > [PS **Silenus** , even my wife enjoyed the Mondavi Pinot Noir, so it must be okay. The colour is noticeably paler than a typical red wine. This is reflected in the smoother taste.] Told ya! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/18 "2005-03-08T02:51:37Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Inspired by [this](http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/luther.asp) article on Snopes, what is the most unhealthy concoction you like to eat. Perhaps it’s ice cream, for me. I love ice cream. If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right. _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/19 "2005-03-08T03:43:03Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > Here in Oklahoma, there is a chain called Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili. They make a divine 1/3lb cheeseburger that has bacon bits in it, fried onions on top and a big old slice of ham sandwiched between 2 slices of cheese. > > We need a drooling smiley. Oooh, yes, that is one fine burger. Makes me proud to be an Okie. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466/20 "2005-03-08T03:46:50Z")
French onion dip. Bacon. Adam [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-unhealthiest-food-you-love/293466.md?page=2)