# What's the worst (junkiest) food you've ever eaten? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218 "2007-03-23T17:49:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/21 "2007-03-23T20:09:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] In recent memory it’s gotta be Monte Cristo – ham and turkey club sandwiches that are _deep fried_ – with _sweet dipping sauce_ (!) [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the powdered sugar! ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/22 "2007-03-23T20:12:22Z")
My worst regularly eaten food is a Taco Bell horror Mexican Pizza with extra cheese (the blend) & sourcream with about 5 packets of hot sauce drowning the entire thing. (The have to steam it 2x to get the cheese to melt). ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/23 "2007-03-23T20:19:20Z")
Just about any of the [‘Fat’ sandwiches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_Trucks) from the grease trucks in New Brunswick, NJ can clog your arteries in no time (the Fat Cat was my personal favorite in my early 20’s), but the [Fat Darrell](http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-08-19-fat-darrell_x.htm) is now the daddy of them all. On one of my last visits back home it was suggested I try one. I don’t think I was even able to eat an 1/8th of the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/24 "2007-03-23T20:22:47Z")
(Veggie) Sammich O’'Death–A half pound of (soy) bacon on a toasted buttered salt bagel. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/25 "2007-03-23T20:30:02Z")
This isn’t too over-the-top horrible, but the fact that I ate it almost every week day for 4 years makes it much worse. Peanut butter square and a Chili Willi drink for lunch. A peanut butter square is pretty much peanut butter, confectioner’s sugar and butter topped with chocolate. Chili Willi is just a sugary orange drink. It’s no wonder I slept every single day in school. Now, had the pb squares been deep-fried, well I’d be dead by now. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/26 "2007-03-23T20:52:05Z")
I’ll second the Monte Christo sandwich. With waffle fries, please. Even me, with my competition-grade appetite & gastric system, find’s it hard to finish. Yummy, though. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/27 "2007-03-23T21:00:12Z")
Funnel Cake. On a windy day. Lets put it this way: all that powdered sugar became white polka-dots all over me for the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/28 "2007-03-23T21:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] 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. [/QUOTE] A lot of tourists try one of these after a few beers, for some reason. I was in a chippy once and a young local lass was getting a battered and deep-fried Cadbury’s Creme Egg. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/29 "2007-03-23T21:20:25Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Ones I haven’t tried: Deep fried candy bar. [/QUOTE] DO IT! I had the Snickers last time I made it down to the fair. So good. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/30 "2007-03-23T22:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=psycat90] I don’t think I was even able to eat an 1/8th of the thing. [/QUOTE] You’ve changed 😉 . Fortunately, I have not been away from Jersey long enough to be unable to finish a truck sandwich. I would say that my junkiest food is either the fine dining cuisine at the trucks or a Fried Twinkie at the shore. Fried Twinkie’s are delicious but you can definitely taste the unhealthy. ---
**Author:** ![RoniaBorkason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/31 "2007-03-23T22:38:24Z")
Mmmmmm. A Mexican torta from a little family-run shop in Lodi. White bolillo roll, sour cream, avocado, sliced pickled jalapeno, onion slivers, tomato, deep-fried hot dog slices, 2 kinds of ham, milanesa (breaded and fried skirt steak), a fried egg, 2 kinds of cheese. Grilled bun, served hot. Couldn’t even finish, but it was divine (I’m much more into salt and fat than sugar). ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/32 "2007-03-23T22:44:43Z")
Rotel dip & chips Rotel tomatoes and 1 lbs of velveeta cheese, melted together and eaten with Ruffles potato chip. Gotta be a billion calories at least and of course I’m craving some RIGHT NOW. Instead, I’ll go dig through the freezer and try to trick myself with a Lean Cuisine meal - yeah right! ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/33 "2007-03-23T22:56:22Z")
Okay, I just looked it up. 1 lb Velveeta cheese, 1 8oz bag of Ruffles chips, and one can Rotel tomatoes = **2,740**. I can eat this by myself in 2 days, washed down with 4-5 rootbeers at 170 calories a piece = **3,750** total calories. Hmmm … I’m on a 1200 calorie per day diet … if I spread it out over 3 days and eat/drink nothing else but water I should be okay. NOT Geez, I think I just talked myself out of them. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/34 "2007-03-23T23:02:31Z")
A Beavertail(no, not a real Beaver’s tail). Deep-fried pastry coated with brown sugar. You can also get it with a chocolate spread. A favourite on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal. ---
**Author:** ![kivvik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@kivvik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kivvik)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/35 "2007-03-23T23:03:09Z")
I feel so tame after reading some of these. My worst is a simple bacon and cheddar cheese sandwich. Granted, it did involve a whole pound of bacon, and many slices of cheese. And I dipped it in maple syrup… As I have not yet discovered how to properly utilize my deep fryer (translation: I have been forbidden from touching it without supervision.), I am unable to learn how to batter/deep fry things other than frozen french fries. ☹ Someday though, I will do that sandwich right. Might be my last sandwich though. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/36 "2007-03-23T23:06:11Z")
Back in the early 90s Jack in the Box had a double cheeseburger called the Collossus, which also contained bacon. Today they have the Ultimate Cheeseburger, which also has bacon. If I didn’t have them leave off the mayonnaise it would be even worse. I don’t eat fast food like I used to, but back in the day I could just feel my arteries clogging up every time I ate one of these grease-laden monstrosities, along with a large order of fries. So good, but yet so bad… sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/37 "2007-03-23T23:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] In recent memory it’s gotta be Monte Cristo – ham and turkey club sandwiches that are _deep fried_ – with _sweet dipping sauce_ (!) [/QUOTE] That was my first thought as well, they make them like this at Bennigan’s, a chain restaurant/pub. It’s seriously disgusting to look at but oddly tasty…for the first 4 bites or so. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/38 "2007-03-24T00:01:00Z")
I had a curry beef pie? Um…I had MacDonald’s the other week…Normally I come up with sugary monstrosities but I can’t seem to think of any right now! Also; I get a funny cough after I eat fast food, particularly French Fries. I just know it’s my heart shaking its left ventricle at me in rage. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/39 "2007-03-24T00:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=Adoptamom\_II] Okay, I just looked it up. 1 lb Velveeta cheese, 1 8oz bag of Ruffles chips, and one can Rotel tomatoes = **2,740**. I can eat this by myself in 2 days, washed down with 4-5 rootbeers at 170 calories a piece = **3,750** total calories. [/QUOTE] I’m getting queasy. :x I think probably my worst ever junk food was a few bites of a Meat Lover’s Pizza. About forty-three kinds of meat - or at least it seemed so. Grease upon grease with a side of grease. I didn’t get through much of it. My worst ‘sin’ would be a Whopper with Cheese and an order of onion rings. Haven’t had one of those in years, though - last time I was at BK, I couldn’t face the thought of a whole Whopper so had a Junior one. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218/40 "2007-03-24T00:16:19Z")
Not something I’ve eaten, but I’ve watched **Acid Lamp** and an old roommate of ours gobble down Hardee’s Monster Thickburgers before. The sandwich itself is 1,340 calories. They had fries and a milkshake with their burgers. I’m still amazed that both of them finished and neither of them got fat from stuff like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-junkiest-food-youve-ever-eaten/397218.md?page=3)