Year 2, Day 253: Saturday's Monster Thickburger

A really unbelievably beautiful day prompted the family to get out to the park. Most families, I've noticed have the advantage of getting up at 6am because their kids get up with the breaking dawn. Our kids sleep till 8 or 9 so we're not even ready to get out of the house until 10AM if we're lucky. On top of that, Emily only can only take so much park going, because the parent 'types' really get to her. Though I enjoy my share of people-gawking, I love sitting on a bench and doing nothing while my kids make themselves really, really tired. Afterwards, we retired to a little pizza place for what I thought would be a nice lunch. It turned out to be kind of greasy but serviceable.

Breakfast
2 Eggs
1 Slice Balthazar
Green Tea Coffee

Snack
1 Joy Stick
Popcorn, To Taste
2 oz. 50% Jalapeno Cheddar

Lunch: Mark's
Salad with Steak
a few bites of chicken finger

Dinner:
Salad
Turkey Tips
Peppadews

Hardee's has reintroduced its Chili Cheese Thickburger by popular demand, if you can believe that. This is a burger that contains 960 calories (or about half the day's calories for a normal person) with 55g of carbs and 60g of fat and 1570mg of sodium (nearly your entire day's worth). Amazingly, this is not their worst offering calorically. That award goes to the "Monster Thickburger" with 1410 calories. It has lower carbs (47g) but more fat (107g) and nearly twice the sodium at 2740mg. And all this is without the fries and soda. I cannot really imagine the type of person that would go into a Hardee's and order "Monster Thickburger." Either adjective by itself (Monster & Thick) is enough to connote something that's more than just a regular burger, but the Monster Thickburger really takes the cake. The fact that Hardee's presents the nutritional values of these food choices on their Web site proves only one thing to me: they think their core audience does not read their Web site.