I don’t mean “worst food” as in poorly cooked or prepared, or food you just didn’t like the taste of the first time you tried it… I mean nutritionally speaking. Fatty, sugary, calorie-laden, enormously oversized, things of that nature.
Last year I resolved to lose weight, part of which effort was to become more conscientious about my food choices. After 8 months of this I’ve trained myself to actually find certain foods revolting that I used to enjoy all the time (except for pizza… I will never renounce pizza! Or pan fried noodles! I’ll just eat less of it.)
For example, on The Drew Carey Show someone once taunted Drew with the line, “You’d better hurry, there’s a guy out on the street selling deep-fried chocolate-covered pork chops” (or something along those lines). Anybody been there, done that?
As for me, I once put together a “wrap” from things at a restaurant buffet consisting of the meat from a fried chicken drumstick (with skin) drizzled with ranch dresssing, folded inside of a “personal size” (8" diameter) pepperoni pizza.
It was mostly as a joke, but I did take a few bites of it (I didn’t finish it).
I suppose the fried Mars bar I had in Edinburgh was pretty junky. It was an interesting experience. I even finished the damn thing - granted, I was pretty drunk at the time.
I’d say that mine was probably the Scotch Eggs that they sell at the local renaissance festival. Hard boiled egg, peeled, wrapped in a thick layer of breakfast sausage, then deep fried. Delicious but heart attack inducing.
I’ve been meaning forever to try a bacon-wrapped hot dog from one of those street vendor carts, but I’ve never actually been hungry when I’ve passed by.
Deep fried Twinkies at the LA County Fair have to be somewhere on the list, as would a Fatburger chiliburger with fried egg on it. I’m sure I’m forgetting something equally monstrous, but I just can’t think of it at the moment.
Not just any cake, mind you. It was more like a pie. Graham cracker and nut crust, with butter and sugar. Chocolate filling. Butter cream frosting. All told, 4 cups of sugar, 5 sticks of butter, and six eggs.
It went bad before I finished even half of it.
As for most calories consumed in a single sitting, I’d have to go with the surf and turf. And yes, this was after I started my diet.
Crackers with salmon-cheese spread.
Bread and butter.
Soda with free refills.
Salad with bleu cheese dressing.
Baked potato with butter and sour cream.
Lobster with a stuffing made of scallops, shrimp, cod, crackers, and butter. With drawn butter.
An 8-ounce steak.
Most recently, it had to be the breakfast sandwich I ordered at the deli downstairs:
Toasted croissant with egg and cheese…and sausage…and bacon…and ham. Too much even for me. Now I go with the sausage McMuffin thingy they do, which is much more reasonable.
I was making homemade fries one day when my husband decided to one up me. He topped the fries with chili, cheese, onions and bacon, God bless him.
There’s a greasy spoon on one of my rides that offers chili cheese onion rings. I haven’t tried them. I know my stomach will never forgive me. Also, I will probably love them too much. Keeping this 40lbs off is hard enough. (This coming from someone who loves to cook with lard. Mmm, lard!)
The junkiest food I’ve ever eaten? Gotta be “fatballs” at the Tulsa State Fair. Fatballs are fist-sized globs of deep-fried dough filled with gooey Bavarian cream. I would not be surprised if each fatball provides 1000 calories of nutrition-free goodness. The guilt is immense. But if I do it only once a year, I can handle it.
Earlier today I had a bite of this brownie concoction one of my employees made. It was two layers of triple chocolate chunk brownies with cream cheese and marachino cherries as the filler. One bite was all I could stomach.
My votes would be for a Hostess Fruit Pie or a Krispy Kreme doughnut. I tried both of these once, and after realizing that I would never understand the appeal, haven’t tried them again. Blech. Deep-fried fat and sugar. Not even tasty deep-fried fat and sugar.
Thank you, featherlou, I was trying to remember who made those pies (came in here to post about the chocolate pudding pies and couldn’t think of it). I loved those when I was a kid. I remember the day I found out how much fat & calories those pies had. I haven’t eaten one since.
I found that on the Domestic Goddess’s blog last year and they’ve become my favorite comfort food. (Although how much my inner organs feel comforted by them, I’m not quite sure.)
The Minnesota State Fair boasts some of the most artery clotting food items I’ve ever been privy to. Once a year I go and eat all my favorites. I’m suprised I don’t have a massive heart attack by the time I hit the exit gate.
Among some of my favorites:
Deep fried Oreos
Deep fried Macaroni and Cheese on a stick
Deep fried cheese curds
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies sold by the bucket.
Fresh french fries by the bucket.
I’ currently enjoying Nachos Bellgrande with extra sour cream, jalepenos and a Pepsi. I do prefer Coke, but there wasn’t any available. MMM-my favorite PMS treat.