Just a few brief months after McDonalds released their entirely unnecessary but accurately named "Bigger Big Mac", it seems Burger King have raised the stakes even higher. About 3 times higher.

Yes, in a way similar to how Gillette now sell razors with 5 million blades on ("for added smoothness"), Burger King have brought out a 4-burger bun (for added lumpiness). Christened the "Stacker Quad", for now it's only available in America, but that's not to say it won't be with us in the UK soon. A close examination shows that it's not only the beefburgers that appear in excess.

Along with your bread-thing and 4-up cow bits, you will receive 4 slices of cheese, 4 strips of bacon (some sources say 8) and some sauce. Not much else however, vegetarians should (rather obviously) go elsewhere. There is most definitely no shred of lettuce, withered old bit of tomato or the perennial favourite of uber-heavily pickled "gherkin" there to give the impression of advantageous nutrient content.

"We're satisfying the serious meat lovers by leaving off the produce and letting them decide exactly how much meat and cheese they can handle" say BK themselves, and they're not lying (unless "4 lots of" is not exactly the amount of meat and cheese said lovers love).

Facts and figures: each Stacker Quad contains 1000 calories, 68 grams of fat, 30 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of trans fats and 1800mg of sodium. To put this into perspective, this is getting on for three times the amount of saturated fat as in the now-apparently-tame McDonalds Big Mac. In fact, in one part of one meal, it is about as much saturated fat as you should eat in the course of a day and a half. Diet fans - if you're still reading - this is somewhere around 21 points on the Weightwatchers diet plan, even before you add on the large fries and bucket of sugary liquid meal deal. This, depending on various factors ordained by the Weightwatchers diet, may be in one burger more than you are allowed to eat in a whole day.

It seems the days of McDonalds-esque fast food "restaurants" pretending they are in any way promoting good health are long gone. Well, if you're going to heavily promote health-killing goods to all and sundry, the Poorhouse does greatly appreciate some honesty with it.

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