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Article: 47 grams of fat for breakfast _ and it's not even tasty.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- April 4, 2005
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Byline: Phil Vettel
Attention, food police: We've got another scofflaw.
The Enormous Omelet, Burger King's new entry into the fast-food world's ongoing Lardbucket Sweepstakes (unofficial title) arrived recently, checking in at a gut-wrenching 730 calories and 47 grams of fat.
This pales by comparison to the reigning king of wretched fast-food excess, Hardee's Monster Thickburger, a 1,420 calorie, 107-fat-gram precursor to the double-wide hospital bed, but it's considerably better (make that worse) than the Big Mac, a comparatively svelte 490 calorie, 25-fat-gram snack.
And the Enormous Omelet, it must be noted, is a breakfast sandwich. ...