Which is certainly what Hardee’s wants us to believe. Is this really a “hungry young man” sandwich? Who is *really * eating these things?
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Oh, sure. I’ve seen a lot of buff young studs eating really awful junk food. It’s just that they tend to grow up into fat blobs.
I agree, hungry young athletic active men can eat a whole heaping amount of garbage and not get fat. When I was in college, and actively exercising, I could eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s icecream in a sitting, eat pizza, hamburgers, chips, and all sorts of garbage, without going over 155 pounds.
Fast forward 15 years, eating like that would send me over 255 pounds.
Only in the “before” picture…
Overweight blobs who have a sincere belief that they can be buff young studs (they’ll start on the exercise program right after the gigant-o-shake and the enormo fries). 
Ahh, I remember the introduction of the Monster Burger. I was a buff young male bartender (no really I was!) and I wandered across the street to Hardee’s and brought my lunch back to the bar. It was TWO Monster burgers and a large curly fries. Several people at the bar expressed shock that i ate that much. It didn’t even occur to me that this was a massive amount of food and the equivalent of about 9 days of the RDA of fat.
But back then I rode my bike all over town and had rugby practice every afternoon. Now, I couldn’t eat that much, and if I did it would just add to my middle.
Yeah, when they see that ad, all those truck drivers, desk jockeys and sit-on-their-ass-heavy-equipment-operstors tell themselves, “Gosh, guess that’s not for me, 'cuz I already have a gut the size of Montana!” Because the ads clearly communicate to us that these sandwiches are only for people with high metabolism rates or who work so hard they need 12,000 calories a day. (Slight hijack: D’ya think the slob in the yellow shirt who won over a half-mil on “Deal or No Deal” Monday night went out and celebrated with a nice poached salmon, veggies and fresh fruit? Yeah, me either. I’ll bet he headed for Hardee’s.)
Has anyone else read the book Red Meat Cures Cancer by Starbuck O’Dwyer? This thing sounds oddly like the Tailburger in that story.
Fat guys with no hope of ever being anything other than fat guys like me. I eat many vegetarian meals (in fact my lunch and dinner today consists mainly of fresh vegetables)-- because I like them, but I am 5’ 11" and weigh 285 lbs and have for years now (though I’ve recently discovered I have a thyroid problem which is likely contributing to my bulk).
How often do I eat these deathburgers? Once, maybe twice a month. Do I eat the fries? No. Do I drink a pop or milkshake with them? No. why? because a burger like that is a meal – all by itself with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles (Here’s a hint, there’s no reason to put those wretched condiments on it–they do nothing to enhance the flavor of a burger like this). I drink unsweetened tea with it.
I find it fascinating that we can sit here and discuss fat, unattractive people as if they all have a say in their appearance (they don’t, in fact many don’t, or lack the education to understand how). Let’s mock them, their dull stupidity, and enourmous guts. But if we were to have a similar conversation about Blacks and certain southern fruits and fried products, we’d all be somehow more bigoted than when we are doing the same thing to an overweight crowd.
Start with the doper in the mirror.
I tried eating one of those ThickBurgers once…just once. I almost puked, it was just too much damn food to eat for lunch, and definitely too much grease.
As for the whole “people can’t help how they look” thing…yes, in the majority of cases, they can indeed. They just don’t. It’s easier to say “I’ll never lose weight” than to do the extremely hard work to make it happen.
Yeah I don’t like them either. Rarely do I crave that much ground beef, and about halfway through it’s getting sickening.
Plus most of the combos on their menu are $6 and up. Geez.
As delicious as they look, there’s no way I could really eat one of those. Even a standard combo meal is generally too much.
I’ve not tried to eat a Monster Thickburger, but I bet if I was really hungry I could put one away. I do like the 1/3 lb. Bacon Cheesburger an awful lot, though I don’t eat them often. I don’t get fries or anything else, just the burger. I’m a 5’3", 120 lb. woman, FWIW.
I’m sure my husband could eat one quite easily, and probably has. The man can eat an amazing amount of food and not gain weight, too (he’s 51, btw). Bastard. 
I don’t know how he does it, but my boyfriend loves to put those things away. He’s not overweight, but he’s got a little bitty layer of pudge on the middle. I just don’t see how it’s even possible to eat the thing. He rarely gets the Monster one - often he just gets two regular Thickburgers. I think that’s, like, 40 Weight Watchers points before the fries and the drink.
I did, dude. I’m an inch taller than you and a year ago weighed 285. I got tired of sitting on the floor at Target digging out 46" pants. I tried “diets,” none of ‘em worked. My wife finally dragged me to Weight Watchers (Yeah, that’s right, I count points. Wanna’ make something of it?) That was last January. I’m at 42". under 265 and falling. I hope to hit somewhere between 38" and 40" before Christmas.
Get the thyroid fixed, ddgryphon, so you can regain control of your body. You owe it to yourself, and you owe it to the rest of us. You’re an intelligent, articulate and probably well-educated man. You are an asset to this world. It would be a shame if we were to lose you to heart disease, diabetes or stroke before you’ve had a chance to make your impact on the world. I’m not skinny, by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m back in control, and I’m staying that way.
If you really are in great health, if you go to your doctor for a checkup and he says, “Hey, your weight is fine,” then I’m obviously full of crap.
If they’d had the Monster Thickburger when I was in high school and college, I’d have eaten it. I had a monstrous metabolism back then – my usual burger was a Wendy’s triple with bacon and cheese, with fries and a frosty. I weighed a whopping 140 at 5’10".
Now? No way. I can’t eat like that any more, and it would be really bad for me if I could.
Gotta agree. I’m a chubby but don’t much care. As you get older and lose a lot of your sex drive you’ll find that body size dosen’t matter as much. Health of course is an exception.
I’m 48, and you’d be surprised how much of your sex drive comes roaring back like a locomotive when you’re in shape.
How old is “older” to you? I know guys in their 60s who are still in great shape. Haven’t asked about their sex life, I gotta admit…