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America’s Unhealthiest Hamburger Grill: The Battle Is Joined<\/h3>\n

Looking at the menus you’d think they could settle it with a simple body count.<\/p>\n

If you are concerned about your weight and seriously trying to control it, there is a generally accepted list of eating establishments that you do not want to go anywhere near: donut shops, ice cream parlors, bakeries and certain hamburger grills that seem almost pathologically dedicated to fattening up their patrons.<\/p>\n

In the latter category, it seemed, until recently, that the current holder of the Unhealthiest Possible Burger Joint<\/a> title, the Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, could withstand almost any challenge. With its multi-patty Single and Double Bypass Burgers, waitresses in abbreviated nurse’s outfits, and its EKG-themed logo, not to mention its offer of free food to anyone heavier than 350 pounds, it seemed impossible that any eatery could be more enthusiastically and profoundly unhealthy for its customers.
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But across the continent, a contender has emerged: the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill<\/a> of Delray Beach, Florida. True, it doesn’t offer any Bypass Burgers, but it does offer a three-pound Heart Stopper burger, a bedpan filled with Chest Pain Cheese Fries and other items so calorie laden that the menu actually features a warning that “consumption of our food will definitely lead to obesity.” The interior decor includes a defibrillator and a dialysis machine, salt and pepper in pill bottles, and a wheelchair motif.<\/p>\n

It’s Like Trying to Decide Who to Root for In “Alien Versus Predator”<\/h3>\n

Does Heart Attack have reason to worry about the Heart Stoppers<\/a> challenge to its supremacy? Heart Attack evidently thinks so, strongly enough to have filed a federal lawsuit to prohibit Stoppers from stealing its “medical disaster dining” concept. The Attack lawyer (a bit of a redundancy) says there are 30 similarities between restaurants, and that doesn’t even include the grievous long-range damage they can do to the human body. It does include such elements as the EKG logo, the free eats for 350+ pounders, the nurse outfit waitresses and the medical clinic furnishings.<\/p>\n

But hold on, say the Stoppers folks, our theme is way totally different. For one thing, we emphasize the medical theme more. Heart Attack is strictly fat, fat, fat; we have a broader menu with healthier — even vegetarian — options. Moreover, our nurses’ dress more modestly, too, none of Heart Attack’s fishnet Hooters looks. This may not sound like much of a difference to you, or to the judge hearing the impending lawsuit; Heart Attack lawyers already shut down a similar-themed restaurant in Pensacola. All that’s certain right now is that the two contenders for the title of most unhealthy burger grill in the U.S. will run up a fortune in legal bills and be emotionally stressed and distracted for months deciding the issue. Couldn’t happen to a nicer couple.<\/p>\n

(By Robert S. Wieder for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)<\/p>\n

From the RSS feed of CalorieLab News<\/a> (REF3076322B7)<\/p>\n

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