Truth In Advertising!

We have heard, repeatedly, about the dangers of eating fast food. We have been lectured incessantly about the plague of obesity that has swept America. We have been screeched at, over and over and over, by the would-be nannies and the self-appointed health police about the danger we are all in and the impending collapse of the world as we know it unless we, as a nation, slim down. So a restaurant comes out with absolute truth in advertising about its products and warns exactly what risks eating their food entails and what happens?

They get attacked. For telling the truth apparently.

 WASHINGTON (AFP) - A restaurant in the southwestern US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu — the "quadruple bypass burger".

The burger at the "Heart Attack Grill" restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon, and weighs in at only 8,000 calories, more than three times what the human body needs in one day.

Patrons who have no appetite for the "quadruple bypass burger" can opt for the "triple" or "double-bypass".

"It's not good for one's health but it's only a joke," John Basso, who opened the restaurant 10 months ago, told AFP.

Customers who have room for more can also order French fries "fried in pure lard" and can purchase cigarettes off the menu. As a courtesy, the restaurant offers its "best customers" a wheelchair service to their cars by waitresses dressed in slinky nurses' outfits.

The idea, however, has not gone down well with the Arizona State Board of Nursing which has expressed concern that some patrons may confuse the waitresses with real nurses.

To avoid any confusion, Basso has posted a long message on his restaurant website saying that his employees in no way are medical professionals.

The website for the Heart Attack Grill has the entire controversy detailed. It is really, really funny. Especially the anti-grill nurse who:

….publicly equated the Grill with Hitler and the Klan when she lashed back with this response in defense of her alleged crusade, "…if we don't like (imagine we live in a different time) Jews going to death camps or blacks being lynched should we just change the channel and hope all will get better?"

Arizona, land of limited senses of humor, apparently. I'll have an order of the Flatliner Fries, please. Hold the defibrillator. Just send a nurse.