
(NBC) - How many of us have been told to eat our veggies, stay away from salt and watch our calories?
Some people are growing sick and tired of being nagged about their eating habits - so much it's created a backlash.
Nothing says ‘I can't wait to stuff my pie hole with that' like a coronary in a cone. It's a deep fried bacon shell crammed with scrambled eggs, hash browns and a little gravy just to keep that biscuit from falling off when you keel over.
It's not exactly a breakfast of champions, but foods like this are winning quite a following, especially on websites like Thisiswhyyourefat.com.
Each day, the site receives 100 photo submissions of culinary freaks of nature. Some are actually served in restaurants, while others are homemade, like waffles infused with bacon or fries made out of spam.
There's also the ‘hurler burger' which one of the founders of the website describes as a burger with cheese whiz in between a jelly donut.
You won't find anything like that in Robert Ashley's fridge.
The writer for Gourmet.com has dubbed this trend towards as the gastronomically questionable gross food movement.
"I think that Americans suffer from having no native food culture. I think we're always coming up with these new bizarre trends and think that's part of what created this," said Ashley.
Christian Williams admits that his bacon invention is just that - an invention.
"Imagine like a long hoagie bun where one-third is breakfast, one-third is lunch and one-third is dinner. That's all burger meat, bacon," said site founder Jessica Amason
The founders of the website had no idea their website would be so popular. They started it on a whim in February, and within days, it was receiving 3 million page views.
Soon, the concept will be moving to old media. The "This Is Why You're Fat" book comes out in late October.
©2009 NBC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Comments Terms of Use: We welcome your participation in our community. Please keep your comments civil and on point. You must be at least 13 years of age to post comments. By submitting a comment, you agree to these
Terms of Service
You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login or register See all comments |