{"id":59,"date":"2005-03-29T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/03\/29\/have-it-your-way\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T15:04:19","slug":"have-it-your-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/03\/29\/have-it-your-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Have It Your Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m sure you’ve all heard (and many may have sampled) Burger King’s new breakfast sandwich. Unlike the fast-food breakfast predecessors, the new sandwich is literally a sandwich with a 6 inch loaf of a bread stuffed with two slices of cheese, two omelettes, sausage patties AND 3 strips of bacon. It apparently also contains over 700 calories…more than even Burger King’s signature Whopper sandwich.<\/P>
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Now, personally, I’m curious. This past weekend on our way to clean out Regina’s condo, Rich and I stopped off at McDonald’s since we were running late and needed some sort of food. I never get fast food so their menus always confuse me. We sat in the car at the drive-thru forever as I tried to decipher what things meant. I eventually settled on something on an english muffin with egg and sausage (which Rich explained to me).<\/P>
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But even that greasy little sandwich (and it was little) was rather filling (it came with a hash brown and orange juice, too). I can’t even fathom consuming a huge sandwich like the new one at Burger King in the morning. <\/P>
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The news on three separate television stations this morning was reporting on the sandwich (and how unhealthy it is). Actually, I’m surprised Burger King even developed this sandwich considering the overly politically-correct climate nowadays when it comes to health. Now that cigarettes are taboo and the courts are through with those cases, I think the focus is going to go to food. McDonald’s has already been sued and that documentary “Super-Size Me” didn’t exactly help the fast food industry.<\/P>
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If anything, I would have expected Burger King to develop a low carb bread\/muffin with egg whites and low-fat turkey bacon (or something like that) versus the artery-clogging feast they instead chose to market. <\/P>
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Along with the aroma of bacon, I smell future frivolous law suits*. <\/P>
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*My personal take on things is that businesses should be able to sell whatever they want (the capitalist in me). However, I do think businesses should be socially responsible (the liberal in me) and knowing that our society is becoming so obese, it seems completley irresponsible to market this item. But I am also against those wasteful law suits people are bringing up with the fast food industry (the conservative in me). People need to think for themselves and use logic.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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