Chicken is good for you, right? What about two huge chicken filets (Original Recipe or grilled) smothered in two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese, two slices of bacon and the Colonel's Sauce? But wait -- there’s no bun. So that means this super sandwich passes for the Atkins Diet, right? After all, it is low-carb. Well, sort of.
As Congress passes a health care overhaul and first lady Michelle Obama begs us to provide healthier food for our children, the fast-food industry has been gearing up with bigger-and-fattier-than-ever fare.
KFC is touting its Double Down sandwich, which arrives on a crispy crunchy carpet Monday, as the most anticipated product in the fried chicken giant’s history. According to KFC's Web site, the calorie count for one of these fried sammies is 540, with 32 grams of fat and a whopping 1,380 milligrams of sodium. (Independent Internet nutrition gurus are claiming the sandwich, at around $5, weighs in at more like 1,300 calories.)
Newsweek recently reported the annual cost of obesity in the United States is $147 billion. Obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even depression are rapidly rising, especially among children.
Yet Twitter is tweeting away with discussion on who will eat one -- with anticipation approaching urban legend status. One Tweeter even said he’d “sleep out” for one. Sleep out for Tickle Me Elmo? Sure. Play Station Portable? Of course. But gelatinous cheese between two fried chicken slabs? Not even to help our space program.
And YouTube was abuzz last week as taste testers got hold of the sandwich. One blogger compared the sandwich’s “greatness” to the “birth of your first child.”
Your soon-to-be-very-fat first child.
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