The world is divided into two types

Those who read this story and are appalled at its subject, and those who read this story and are appalled at the acceptance of the rabid, nannyish Puritanism exhibited by the author and every single expert quoted in it. And this from Australia, which last I heard was still a continent of real men:

Monsterburger.

Mike G wrote:And this from Australia, which last I heard was still a continent of real men:

Yeah, but at the bottom of the article, it says it was picked up from the London Telegraph.

A review of Hardee's Monster Thickburger.

I always thought it was divided into two types of people (of which I'm the latter): People who divide people into two types, and people who don't.

I always thought there were 10 types of people in the world -- those who know binary, and those who don't.

Maybe it should be three types. I don't see what the big deal is with a 2/3 pound hamburger (though if you're going to spend almost $6, you really ought to go to Smith & Wollensky, fork over a few more dollars and get a really good, big burger with excellent fries).

But the Ethyl Burger, a two-pounder (four pounds with bun & trimmings) served at R Place in Morris IL, does trouble me a bit. Here's a link to a photo of Ethyl, from the Taipei Times of all places. The burger costs $19.95 but is free if you finish it within an hour (only one in four succeed).

In my younger days I could finish off a 1 pound Dutch Inn Burger and a pitcher of Old Style. Couldn't do that today, especially Old Style :yuk:
The place was in Elgin, don't even know if it's still the the same as it was in the 80's.

Having grown up down south, I can say that I have eaten at Hardees many times. They began by springing up in towns that were too small to attract a McDonalds or BK.

Jerry Richardson,the former Colts player and present owner of the Carolina Panthers, made his fortune opening Hardees in small town in North and South carolina.

All that said, I have never seen an actual burger from Hardees come to look nearly as presentable in the one in that review. It is the lower end of fast food dining in the south.

The foundation of Hardee's is its biscuits at breakfast, which are known to be better than other chain's. I was in a meeting at [large burger chain deleted] once and somebody said something very solemn and portentous about how, in order to challenge Hardee's dominance in this area, the food scientists were "working on a new biscuit." It took all my career preservation instincts to avoid saying "Have they considered using flour, shortening and water?"