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The ultimate in grease: The Fried Chicken Double Down Luther. Read on to see what's in it.
On October 25th, take a break from all those wheatgrass shots, fiber cereals and bowls of quinoa you have eaten to stay healthy. Today, fat-loving friends, is National Greasy Foods Day, and in its honor, here is a round-up of some of the craziest, most delectably greasy foods.
Deep-fried hamburger
Hamburgers have never been heralded as a health food , but here’s one that takes the grease-filled cake. At the Ohio Hamburger Festival, in Akron, Ohio, one of the main attractions is a deep fried cheeseburger, where bun and all is battered and deep fried. The batter is in between funnel cake and pancake batter, with enough sugar to give the dish a sweet/salty flare. This is perfect for bringing on diabetes and hardened arteries in one shot.
R.U. Hungry Grill
The Fat Darrell
Now here's a classic in grease lore. Journey to Rutgers University for a trip to “the original grease truck,” R.U. Hungry, which features a score of different sandwiches and fillings that range from the ordinary to the gut-busting. None is more famous that the Fat Darrell, named after the man who invented it, which consists of chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, french fries and marinara sauce all inside a roll. In other words, fried, fried and fried, all inside greasy carbs. Is it any wonder that, back in 2004, Maxim magazine voted it the No. 1 sandwich in the country?
Phil Lees, My Last Appetite
French fry-coated bacon
Deep. Fried. Bacon. In case that wasn’t enough to entice you, how about if it was battered in french fries? That is exactly what blogger Phil Lees behind My Last Appetite created when, in the middle of making french fry-coated hot dogs, he realized “Why not just head straight for the bacon?” Though he admits feeling slightly sick and “very, very dirty,” he has the respect of all who worship at the shrine of greasy over-indulgence.
Chicken fat on the side
Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse in New York offers traditional Eastern European delicacies like garlicky steak, decadent chopped liver and sweet and sour cabbage rolls. All of these are fatty, but none of them are total grease bombs. Then you see the small carafe on the table filled with…is it olive oil? Oh no, it’s pure schmaltz – rendered chicken fat – perfect for mixing into chopped liver or pouring directly onto bread. The Italians have lardo and the Jews? We have schmaltz. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, and don’t tell your cardiologist!
Melt Bar and Grilled
Monster grilled cheese
Grilled cheese might be a guilty pleasure, but you could hardly call it a grease-bomb. Unless, of course, you are talking about the grilled cheese at Melt Bar and Grilled in Ohio. There, the Melt Challenge features a grilled cheese sandwich made with 13 types of cheese, 3 slices of grilled bread, french fries and coleslaw. The plate of food comes out to 5 pounds of gooey melted cheese, deep fried potatoes and carbs galore. If you eat the whole thing, you get a T-shirt, a $10 gift certificate, and your name in the Hall of Fame, so your gluttony will be preserved for posterity.
The Luther
You've probably heard of the KFC Double Down sandwich – a sandwich made with two slices of breaded, deep fried chicken, surrounding cheese and bacon. But have you heard of the Fried Chicken Luther Double Down? That is a Double Down encased by two halves of a glazed Krispy Kreme Donut. Named for Luther Vandross, it is an exercise in excess. Fried chicken, cheese, the Colonel's sauce and deep fried dough -- how could we describe the taste sensation of this sandwich? Top Cultured might have put it best when they call it a “mouth-gasm.” Just take it with a Lipitor chaser, and all should be well.
Deep-fried pizza...and anything else you can think of
Do you like pizza? How about sausage? How about Twinkies? At the Chip Shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., you can have them all deep fried. A take on traditional British chip shops, this goes beyond fish and chips all the way to fried mac-n-cheese, fried burgers and even battered and deep-fried pizza. A meal with these eats could cost you well over 3,000 calories, but can you really put a calorie count on pure, deep-fried goodness?
Tell us in the comments below, what the craziest greasy dish you've tried?
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..Don't ever get between a brother and his bacon!
Amen!!
Unless he's really distracted. LMAO!
Feel like I'm going to have a heart attack just reading this!
I'm torn between a heart attack and serious indigestion. Or maybe both!
Ah MOM!
I just want to remind those people who eat this stuff daily, don't forget your medication(s) after your meal.
It sounds disgusting and unappetizing, to be honest.
It's National Greasy Foods Day and I thought I had nothing to look forward to today.
Greasy foods aren't bad for you -- unless you slather them in carboyhdrates. Per Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat," it is carbohydrates -- sugar, flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, apple juice -- that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat. I eat bacon, eggs, cheese, salami, green beans slathered in butter, salad with full fat dressing, and I'm as slim as I was in high school...a few decades out...and with the health stats of an elite athlete, though I barely need to exercise. What I don't eat is the fattening stuff -- carbs. This means I don't have to count calories...I just eat when I'm hungry, and don't get wildly hungry, either, providing I have enough fat in my diet. -Amy Alkon, syndicated science-based columnist
You may be slim. But you're clogging your arteries. You will die of a stroke if you keep that up. But hey, you'll fit in a slim casket!
Oh stick it. Nice self-promotion there "science-based" columnist. It's a lot more than avoiding carbs and that diet you claim to be on would kill a lot of folks. Thanks for your input.
You should be ashamed of yourself, Amy. There are some people dumb enough to follow your poorly educated lead.
Amy,
By that rationale, the French would be fat...they have a diet very heavy in breads and pastries, and they're all skinny as can be.
Don't be so harsh on Amy. She's got the health status of an elite athlete and could probably beat us all up.
I think it's the lack of glycogen in her brain that's making her crazy. Ketones aren't real good for providing the body with energy.
Sorry Amy, the unfettered scientific truth is that you get fat by taking in more calories than you expend. You slim down by expending more calories than you take in. You've come across a strategy that works for you and congrats on that. That said, a real science columnist ought be engaged in evidence-based research and not the scheme of the latest diet guru.
You ignorance is astounding. There is nothing science-based about what you just wrote. The only thing your post tells me is that you know nothing about nutrition or the way you body metabolizes the food you eat, and you are at least slighty narcissistic. You may LOOK healthy but your arteries probably tell a very different story. In fact there is an article on msnbc today that touches on this. Educate yourself before you spread more BS.
You're promoting heart disease! How do you live with yourself? My conscience is what makes me able to look in my mirror every day, not my weight. Can you say the same?
I follow Amy's suggestion, but I'm diabetic so carbs are poison. LOL
Honestly none of you guys know what your talking about. The Lipid hypothesis, ie the more saturated fats you eat, the higher your blood cholestorol, and in turn the higher your rates of heart disease is simply bogus and has been disproved time and time again.
Ever wonder why Statins (drugs that lower cholestrol) ALWAYS say in the bottom "Has not been proven to reduce heart disease".
Iv recently switched to a high fat, low carb diet (the Atkins Diet) and lost almost 50 pounds. "YOUR ARTERYIES ARE CLOGGED BLAH BLAH BLAH". My mom used to spout the same crap and so I decided to do another blood test (after I lost the weight) and sure enough my cholestrol dropped like flies.
My total was over 300 before(high), now its 158 (normal)
My Triglycerites was 333 (extremely high), now its 86 (normal)
My HDL was 19 (low), now its 33 (normal)
My LDL is ~108 (normal)
So then you may be asking "What does cause the artieries to clog?" When your artieries become damaged and inflamed your cholestrol move in and do its job, to fix the blood vessles. However over time consistantly damaged and inflamed vessles causes cholestrol to keep patching the same wall, and as in real life, it starts to get uneven and blood flow is reduced.
What causes inflamed vessles:
-Smoking
-Caffine
-Elevated blood sugar (Which is caused by the consumption of breads, etc)
Need proof? Look at diabetics they are way more likely to get heart attacks simply because it is much easier for them to have elevated levels of blood sugar for longer. Humans have been made to naturally eat Saturated fats (animal fats), to claim that they cause heart disease, but man made chemically modified starches dont is simply laughable and all of you telling off Amy should get their head out of their ass and actually read current research and not the BS released by health shows.
To say its ONLY calories in, calories out is simply laughable. Thats like saying the only thing that determines gas milage is how much you accelerate. There are thousands of other factors such as tire pressure, wind resistance, idling, etc. Just as with the human body there is hormones (namely insulin which takes carbs and stores it into fat cells), muscles (which at idle burn more calories), etc etc.
years ago on assignment in eastern Texas, there was a breakfast house the served for breakfast, Eggs with a side order of Fat back, grits swimming in butter, biscuits made with whip-cream, hash browns grilled with bacon grease and a short stack of pan-cakes made with heavy cream, I ate there 4-5 times a week for breakfast for about 2 months, I still can not believe I ate the whole thing, delicious( i do not think anyone in the town lived past 40 )
But they enjoyed life. :-)
None of these food are bad for you.....
As long as you only eat them once a year. The problem in America is portion size and frequency of bad foods.
Exactly Mike757! Everybody wants to blame the foods, just workout and get off the couch more often and you can eat something a little crazier every now and then! Exercise is not a dirty word people! lol
The Fat Darrell has to be the greatest sandwich EVER! I used to eat them all the time back when I was at Rutgers...still do actually! (And no, I'm not fat lol but I do workout)
man do I want some bacon now...
Come on, every day is Greasy Foods Day in this country, do we really need to celebrate one day for it? I like unhealthy food as much as anybody, but in moderation. The last thing this bloated country of ours needs is *another* excuse to eat like crap.
Oh and I live down the street from Melt, and while their idea is unique, and their grilled cheese menu is creative, it's overrated and doesn't deserve the hype it gets.
A man was walking up and down the aisles at a grocery store yelling at the top of his lungs, "Crisco! Crisco! Where are you Crisco?" A deli manager ran out to him and said, "Excuse me sir, but you will find the Crisco on aisle 4." The guy replied, "I'm looking for my wife, I call her Crisco when we're in public." The manager asked, "What do you call her at home?"
He replied, "Lard Ass".
National greasy foods day, ummmm, interesting. Didn't know there was such a day. Those suggestions above the comments though were not attractive. I'm the tyoe that eats what isn't good for me and avoid those things that are. I like bacon, well, preferably turkey bacon. I love hot dogs, chili dogs, sausages (Italian preferably,) french fries (deep fried,) and . . . the list is endless. Pastries, love deep fried doughnuts, apple fritters, fried pies . . . y'all drooling by now?
Everything in moderation is a good mantra to live by.
Many have said "These foods are not bad for you." But forgot to add, "If you don't eat them!!!"
There is no "National Greasy Foods Day".
Is this story for real...or was it supposed to be funny in some way?
Irony only works if there's some redeeming quality within it. With almost half the country obese and 50% of deaths every year attributed to heart disease, this story is tragic. No doubt some people will think it's neat, which is sad in and of itself.
...and seriously...fried chicken on a donut is "delectable"? Looking at it made my stomach turn.
Actually you are spouting old information, the CDC made a statistcal boo-boo that artficially increased death from obescetiy, currently its around 24,000 a year. To put it in perspective, car accidents take about 48,000 a year. Meaning if you are healthy weight and drive you are at twice the risk of death then an obese person who doesnt.
What was the statistcal booboo? Basicially they originally calculated that anyone who was obese and died, had died because of obesity. For example if I am obese and get bitten by a snake and die, the CDC attributed the death to obesity, not the snake bite.
I'm goin' to KFC right now.
I nick named my old girlfriend Crisco, because she was fat in the can!!!
Greasy Foods Day ...Is it ok to eat Snooki from the Jersey Shore???Cause Crazy Eyes got to eat it...
Chow down, brother! Lol
The motto for any of these should be, "It's artery-slappin' good!"
#occupyGYM
oh man, i've been eating really healthy all year long but i guess eating heart attack food won't hurt once n a while...
Sounds like a good recipe for diarrhea!
Slides right in...slides right out!
You can't live forever - might as well be happy while you can.
I would try a bite of the chicken and doughnut sandwich...although I'm pretty sure that would still set me back about 300+ calories...man, I'm hungry now.