Article: Fast-food burgers pile on calories

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Fast-food burgers pile on calories, fat

By JEFF ELDER Knight Ridder Newspapers

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Q. Which fast-food restaurant's burger has the most calories?

A. Each of the big fast-food chains has its own Hindenburger looming over the horizon.

And the truth is, I would LOVE to take a great big chomp out of each one of them. But then my arteries would begin to clog up like a freeway at 5:15 p.m.

Here's the grease de resistance, according to the chains' Web sites:

-- Hardee's Two-thirds Pound Double Bacon Cheeseburger has 1,301 calories, including 864 calories from fat.

-- Burger King's Double Whopper with Cheese has 1,060 calories, including 620 calories from fat.

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