[High Praise! to RAML]
I’m a enthusiastic supporter of any restaurant that sells a burger so outrageously caloric that it makes Michelle Obama’s eye start twitching, so here’s the Monster Burger, a British invention, which is being sold at Smokeys Smoke House, a restaurant featuring American cuisine in Walsa, England (a city of about 170,000 located about 100 miles northwest of London):
3 pounds of ground beef
12 strips of bacon
12 slices of cheese
12 onion rings
It occurred to me that this burger is a good metaphor for Obamacare.
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* The first thing you notice is that it’s HUGE.
* You have no say over what’s in it.
* The first few bites are warm & tasty & pleasing (like no pre-existing conditions limitations), but as you get further into it, you rapidly get sick of the taste of cold, congealing, greasy beef (the mandate/tax/penalty)
* If you ever get the whole thing into you, then – healthwise – you will be worse off than you are now.
* It’d be cheaper to buy your own ingredients, put them together yourself, and use them as you needed them.
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The way it’s NOT like Obamacare is that socialists hate it, i.e. per the comments:
do you really think this is a laughable blokey subject? the west is obese and the 3rd world is starving?
i kinda hate to be a “think of all the starving children” sort of guy, but really, sandwiches like these are almost obscene
Yup, nothing worse than some people offensively choosing to enjoy the options provided by a free market.
Another way it’s not like Obamacare: you get taxed if you buy it – not if you don’t buy it.
How could liberals possibly be upset at this gentleman and the ridiculously oversized hamburger he’s selling? He didn’t build that.
You dare to mention Obamacare and Cheeseburger in the same sentence. Her royal highness the queen of the food pyramid will be there soon to start your punishment and reeducation. 100 lashes with a wet scallion not to mention tofu burgers(no buns) and squash fries for dinner, lunch and breakfast. Yum. Then a colon cleanse. Life just keeps on getting better and better.
Man, I hate it that children in the third world are starving! It makes them tough and stringy, and adversely affects the flavor.
What that liberal fool either doesn’t realize or is intentionally ignorant of, is the reason for starvation in those countries is government corruption. All of those countries are Democrat leftist utopias. The first world, particularly the United States sends plenty of food and financial aid to those countries. The money goes into the Swiss bank accounts of the top echelon of the government, and the food is left to rot on the docks, or be eaten and contaminated by vermin. That food that isn’t spoiled is sold on the black market by lower echelon government workers, so the people who actually need the food, the people for whom it was intended don’t receive it, thus starving to death.
That’s a Harveyburger!
I think that’s gross, but hey – if a person’s life goal is to look like Michael Moore then more power to him.
A measly 12 strips of bacon?. I expect a 1/4 pound burger to have 2 strips of bacon, minimum, which would require a 3lb burger to have at least 24 strips.
There’s a burger joint a couple miles from where I now sit that sells both a 4lb and a 6lb burger. And that’s just the weight of the patty…
God bless America.
I noticed that although it’s a British burger, it still has an American flag stuck into the top. I guess some people over their still appreciate us! Go Brits! (and can I have a slice?)
5 – They specialize in American cuisine, not unlike how the occasional “British Pub” in the states will feature fish & chips, etc.
It’s still good PR. “Everything’s Bigger in America!”
Nothing make me more mad than American flags not made in the US
US Flags – I’m a little more forgiving of this guy, since he’s running an American restaurant in England. Real imported-from-America American flags might be prohibitively pricey over there.