Burger King's Triple Whopper with Cheese
Burger King's gigantic burger has 1,250 calories, although I assume that anyone willing to eat that much beef probably isn't too concerned by the technicalities. Three layers of beef add up pretty quickly, and despite the best effort of the vegetables to make this thing look healthy it's pretty clear from a glance that it will wreak havoc on your body. But hey, at least there's some lettuce, right?
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1600
Triple Whopper with Cheese: 1250
Dairy Queen's Six Piece Chicken Strip Basket
Dairy Queen's basket of chicken strips contains 1,410 calories. I thought chicken was supposed to be good for you, but apparently that gets negated by frying it in batter and serving it with a bunch of fries. Inexplicably, Dairy Queen also adds a couple of slices of toast into the basket.
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Six Piece Chicken Strip Basket: 1,410
Domino's Three Cheese Mac-N-Cheese Breadbowl Pasta
This awkwardly named "pasta" from Domino's has 1,460 calories. For that impact I hope that it tastes a lot better than it looks. It's pretty obvious what went wrong here; there isn't so much pasta as it is a big slug of melted cheese that's been poured into a loaf of bread. Look, bowls shouldn't be edible. Bread was doing a fine job as a staple food, it doesn't deserve to be shanghaied into a secondary role. And while I won't deny that cheese is delicious, it probably shouldn't be the focus of your meal, assuming you want to eat more than one a day without packing on the pounds.
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Three Cheese Mac-N-Cheese Breadbowl Pasta: 1,460
Five Guys Burgers and Fries' Large French Fries
They may look like your typical French fries, but that heap of potato, batter and salt somehow manages to contain 1,464 calories, making this the most unhealthiest item on the menu. I'm pretty sure it's just sheer volume, although even with that in consideration it's hard to explain how so many calories were packed into these bad boys. Obviously no French fries are healthy, but you'd be hard pressed to find another brand that comes anywhere near the calorie count of these. Five Guys must have some sort of horrible secret that, frankly, I don't want to learn.
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Large French Fries: 1,464
Ruby Tuesday's Boston Blue Burger
This burger has 1,466 calories, which is quite impressive considering it lacks the cheese, bacon and extra beef of its rivals. It looks pretty disgusting, but I'm not entirely sure how it manages to be unhealthier than the Monster Thickburger disaster that Hardee's offers. Is it the blue cheese dressing? There are also onion rings and barbecue sauce, but those don't seem like they would screw things up that badly. Maybe it has something to do with being connected to Boston.
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Boston Blue Burger: 1,466
Hardee's Monster Thickburger
Anything with thick in the name can't be good; this baby has 1,420 calories. That makes "Monster burger" a pretty literal name, although I think Abomination burger might work better. Just looking at it, it's a nightmare. Two 1/3 pound beef patties, four strips of bacon, three cheese slices, and a couple of dollops of mayo: it's a heart attack waiting to happen. They're not even trying to pretend it's healthy by adding a leaf of lettuce or something either, it just straight up says "I'm terrible for you, and yet delicious, and we both know you have no willpwer. Now buy me with some extra large fries and a coke, tubby."
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Monster Thickburger: 1,420
Quiznos Large Tuna Melt
Of course, I had to save the best for last. Quiznos innocent looking tuna sandwich manages to hold a staggering 1,760 calories, 93 grams of fat, and 2,120 milligrams of sodium. And in the optional dressing and yo're looking at an extra 370 calories and 40 grams of fat. Isn't tuna supposed to be pretty good for you? Of course, a large anything in fast food is never a wise ideas, but that's only a partial explanation of what's going on here. Being drenched in cheese and mayo doesn't help much, but really, I'm at a loss to explain how so many calories got packed into a single sandwich. It's not the result of some weird Quizno's sorcery either, because most of their other products are pretty average by fast food standards. Maybe you shouldn't question it; just avoid it.
Rachel's recommended daily calorie intake: 1,600
Large Tuna Melt: 1,760
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