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    This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks
    This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks
    This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks
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    This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks

    By Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley

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    Food was once the providence of celebrated chefs and critical connoisseurs. Cooking shows featured all gourmet creations and web sites displayed artfully photographed delights.

    Then something changed.

    Perhaps it was the desensitizing of web culture or perhaps it was a cry for help from the food-loving public. But by God - there came a day when fancy vegetable towers came crashing down and $50 mushrooms were no longer acceptable. Amason and Blakley wanted see the old stand-bys, the carnival foods of their childhoods, the sticky mess of a deep-fried candy bar, the indulgence of a greasy burger with all the fixins.

    It was the birth of the nasty food web-trend. And it was delicious.

    The website This is Why You′re Fat is an ode to this trend - whether seen as a commentary on North American dietary habits or a celebration of the deliciously bad - Amason and Blakey are devoted to the world′s newfound obsession with over-the-top food. Within its first month the site pulled in over ten million eye balls, and attracted major nation media including CNN. The world cooked, they listened.

    www.thisiswhyyourefat.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 27, 2009
    ISBN9780061986031
    This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks

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    • 4/5
      Excellent photos, and excellent reminders to me that I actually do eat pretty healthy. I can't believe some of this food is actually sold to Americans. It's embarrassing.
    • 2/5
      Oh my goodness!! If the cover is not enough to make you want to re-evaluate your eating the recipes should. No I am not a healthy eating guru by no stretch of the imagination. I like Krispy Kream and burgers just not combined in a Krispy Kreme Burger. Sadly this is the recipe that made me want to barf the least. The auhtor gives us gravy pizza. hanburger and coen dog pizzas, hotdogs with twinkie buns and if that was not enough there are the fried treats. Fried treats include deep fried moon pies, deep fried cadbury eggs and deep fried oreos. After completing this book, I was feeling the need to clean out my pantry, freezer and refrigerator simply because I felt ill by the excess in this book. I am guessing this one will not make the American Heart Association list of recommendations.
    • 3/5
      A funny, if disgusting read, but, even for a short book, the gimmick wears off halfway through and rapidly dissolves into "look, another picture of a bunch of bacon." Interesting enough to flip through.

    Book preview

    This Is Why You're Fat - Jessica Amason

    This Is Why You’re Fat

    Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks

    Jessica Amason & Richard Blakeley

    Contents

    Foreword

    Joe Garden, features editor for The Onion

    Introduction

    Breakfasts of Champions

    Bacon Gone Wild

    Souped-up Sandwiches

    Big-time Burgers

    Acknowledgments

    Contributor Index

    Credits

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    Foreword

    I am not fat. Yes, I have cellulite. Yes, my thighs jiggle. Yes, I have love handles. But by today’s ample standards, I am not fat.

    This is not for lack of trying.

    I have fried banana bread in butter and eaten it. One trip to Ben & Jerry’s saw me get a waffle cone with three scoops of ice cream and, because it was there, a brownie on top of it. Bacon is not a breakfast side dish so much as it is breakfast, and I’ve been known to save the grease to cook or bake with later. I’ve even improved on the low-calorie blandness of popcorn by popping it in said grease. Thanks to a Price Club membership, my freezer is full of ice cream bars, mini quiches, and meat. Lots and lots of meat.

    This is all my right as a Wisconsin native, a state that once led the nation in obesity, but has since fallen to an embarrassing number twenty-five. It is also my right as someone who worked at the Illinois State Fair for twelve years and, while there, ate more fried and stick-based foods than anyone should consume in a lifetime.

    With this pedigree, you would think I had seen it all, foodwise. I thought I had seen it all.

    This Is Why You’re Fat quickly dissuaded me of that notion.

    Day after day after day, Jessica and Richard posted new images of edibles that left grease marks from inside the screen. Some of the items were simply novelty-size versions of existing snacks, some were meat-and cheese-based, some were fried. All of them sent a shudder through my body. All of them made me question the existence of God. At a certain point, I had to hold my head in dismay and scream to an uncaring universe, "Why?!"

    As a nation, we could have stopped at breakfast-sausage links wrapped in pancakes, aka pigs in a blanket, and been plenty satisfied. We had it all right there; a perfect vehicle for delivering meat, salt, starches, and syrup to the mouth, along with the forbidden thrill of Foodstuffs That Should Not Be Combined. But we kept right on going, and This Is Why You’re Fat shows us the evidence, allowing us to wallow in the pornographic temptation without actually consuming anything we’d regret in the morning and, for that matter, for the rest of our lives.

    Like you’d ever be tempted. You have it

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