FEBO fastfood wall machine in Holland

Beer & Buns restaurant to serve $250 hamburger

The Indulgence Burger at Beer & Buns, which will open later this month in The Court Hotel restaurant will sell a $250 hamburger — an unami bomb comprised of Kobe beef, foie gras, crispy pancetta, white truffles and caviar.

Ketchup and mayonnaise are complimentary.

SO TRUE ........ SO TRUE

Fast Food Fasting

So I kick back, relax and try to chill,
my belly rumbles once or twice – perhaps I’m ill?
Nah that’s a grumble not a rumble – I’m hungry still,
what’s easiest? a £3.79 extra value meal …

So yeah, another thing threatening my sanity
is the reality that fast-food is ruining humanity.
Statistics show this ‘food’ is nutritionally crude
and bad diet affects your mood but nothing changes general attitude
towards the companies selling it.
The largest being The Golden Arches,
who keep on clogging arteries everywhere with their modified starches.
How many people died before eyes were opened and fries
and other sides were criticised and no longer sold in supersize?
and since when did apple pies provide a fifth of my daily slice
of fat? despite how nice they taste, there’s clearly something wrong with that.

Macdonald had a little farm,
And a need to fill menu pages.
So he built a fuck-off shed
and filled it with chickens in tiny cages.

Now that chicken ain’t the chicken that is sitting in your cupboard.
The meat in your McNuggets is ‘mechanically recovered’
I discovered that the bones are pressed and squashed
and all the slosh that’s left is off to be re-dressed
and then it’s coated in some bread.
And salt is added, again more salt, and finally some more.
Then some sugar, chemicals, more salt – preservatives galore.

All that I’ve stated is well substantiated
but I’m aware you might be sitting there feeling slightly irritated
because despite eating this shit for years – admittedly uneducated -
you actually feel satiated, not emaciated.

Well, here it is you see, I’ll tell you this for free,
Mcdonalds, Burger King, Dominos, KFC…
Their food isn’t meant to keep you alive or healthy…

It’s meant to be cheap to make, quick to fill you up – and make someone far more wealthy.

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TYPICAL SCOT

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has no intention of giving Robin van Persie a rest and urged him to follow his own father's advice to break his goal drought.

"My dad always used to say 'make sure you batter the ball - don't tap it or try and side-foot it into the net'," Ferguson said.

"That's what I always tell strikers too. If the goalkeeper saves it, you can say 'what a great save'. But if you try to side-foot it and the keeper catches it easily you get criticised.

Here's a few more things that Scots like to 'batter' on a regular basis.

Top row: Battered Mars Bars .... Battered Pizza. Bottom row: Battered Butter Balls ... Battered Cheeseburger

DID YOU KNOW ..............

HMMMMMMMMMM .........

AT LEAST THEY DON'T USE FALSE ADVERTISING

A Las Vegas man who was the unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, a medically themed restaurant that embraces monstrous hamburgers, died Monday after suffering a massive heart attack.

John Alleman, 52, who had come to the restaurant to eat every day, was on life support at the Las Vegas Sunrise Hospital after he had a "massive" coronary at a bus stop last week. He was taken off life support Monday.

Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso, who was in Alleman's hospital room when he died, told ABC News that Alleman said both his parents had died in their 50s of heart attacks.

Basso said Alleman, who worked the graveyard shift as a night watchman for a nearby skyscraper under construction, had been coming in every day for the past year and a half. He would order a "Single Bypass Burger," fries and a drink, usually staying up to six hours. Even though Alleman was never on the restaurant payroll, he came so often that Basso put his caricature on their menus and merchandise.

Basso goes by "Doctor Jon," but he is not a real doctor. Waitresses are "nurses" and orders are called "prescriptions." Customers, who have to don a hospital gown when they walk in the door, are called "patients." Those who weigh more than 350 pounds eat for free but only after they get up on a scale in front of the whole restaurant for a pre-meal weigh-in.

"I absolutely think the food I'm serving is unsafe," Basso said. "The only way what I'm doing would be immoral would be if I were to market it as healthy by throwing a cute little side salad on the menu. ... The Heart Attack Grill is the most moral restaurant on the planet Earth because we are absolutely here to make a statement about obesity, about coronary issues, about death and dying and all those things that are prevalent in the society."

The 8,000-calorie Quadruple Bypass Burger, with four half-pound beef patties, eight slices of American cheese, a whole tomato and half an onion served in a lard-coated bun, has been called one of the "world's worst junk foods." Other menu items include butterfat milkshakes and "flatliner fries" cooked in lard.

Burger chain promotes two different five-patty burgers

A burger chain in Japan is marketing two new massive sized burgers, one beef and one fried shrimp. Both meals consist of five patties each.

The sandwiches are being promoted in honor of the burger chain Lotteria's 40th anniversary, and the burgers will cost 500 yen (approximately US$ 6.30).

You'll be very disappointed if you expect it to look anything like his though

Apparently, these burgers are everyday menu items, the difference is the price is a temporary one, a specially priced promotion to celebrate the chain's 40-year milestone. The beef burger, called the "Super Cheeseday" deal, was available yesterday, Oct. 23. The fried shrimp stacked sandwich, the "Super Fryday", will be specially priced on Oct. 26.

Here's what it really looks like ......... are you hungry ?



Normally the beef burger costs $11 to $17 and the shrimp burger, $7 to $10.

There seems to be a trend for multi-patty burgers in Japan. This past summer, fast food chain Burger King offered a five-patty Whopper as a temporary menu item to celebrate its fifth anniversary in the country.

HISTORY OF THE HAMBURGER

The iconic hamburger that we know and love today is very much an American invention, according to "The Hamburger: A History" by Josh Ozersky. However, the true identity of its inventor is still open for debate. Here is a brief history of the early hamburger.

Hamburg steak

Minced or chopped beef was a popular dish in Hamburg, Germany in the nineteenth century. This so-called Hamburg steak was a familiar dish for the German immigrants that left Hamburg for the United States. It was also perfect for New York City because it was filling and could be easily eaten while standing up or on the go. Hamburg steak can be found on a menu from New York's Delmonico's that was printed back in 1837.

McDonalds store in San Bernadino

Who is the father of the hamburger ?

It is not clear who is responsible for the first hamburger. It may be "Hamburger Charlie" Nagreen, who is said to have sold meatballs between two pieces of bread at a fair in Seymour, Wis. in 1885. He is said to have called this sandwich the "hamburger." However, others believe that Frank and Charles Menches, two brothers from Ohio, sold their ground beef sandwich in Hamburg, N.Y. in 1885, making them the supposedly fathers of the hamburger.

Yet another claim comes from New Haven, Conn. Louis Lassen reportedly served some ground beef trimmings between two slices of toast in 1900. And then there was "Uncle" Fletcher David, a Texan who is said to have created the hamburger in the late 1880s. Legend has it that Uncle Fletcher brought his sandwich to St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair, where it was dubbed the "hamburger." Critics argue that this ground beef sandwich was served on simple slices of bread rather than a bun, so it cannot claim to be the first hamburger.

In April 1995, the governor of Oklahoma proclaimed that Tulsa is, in fact, the real birthplace of the hamburger. Oscar Weber Bilby is said to have served the first hamburger, bun and all, in 1891 at a Fourth of July part just west of what is now Tulsa.

Hamburger becomes a fast food favorite

So, we know that the hamburger was around by the turn of the twentieth century, but Alan Rocke, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University, says that doesn't mean it was respected back then.

"It was considered questionable food except for workingmen's lunches, as hamburgers were commonly 'mystery meat' served in small greasy-spoon short-order diners, often set up near factories," Rocke says.

With the arrival of the automobile and the public desire for on-the-go meals came a reputation makeover for the hamburger. White Castle -- yes, the same one that Harold and Kumar embark on a journey to find -- became the first fast food burger chain. It was founded in Wichita, Kan. in 1921.

"'White' was chosen to escape the public perception that hamburgers were unsanitary," Rocke explains, "[and] 'Castle' to evoke a higher-class product."

The cheeseburger and the golden arches

Lionel Sternberger is said to have added cheese to the burger in the mid-1920s while working as a short-order cook in Pasadena, Calif.

Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill. in 1955, establishing the McDonald's that we know today. As Tom Robbins wrote in Esquire in 1983, "Columbus discovered America, Jefferson invented it, Lincoln unified it, Goldwyn mythologized it, and Kroc Big Mac'd it."

Today, McDonald's restaurants serve 68 million people every day and can be found in 119 countries. Wendy's and Burger King round out the top three biggest hamburger chain by volume.

Wendy's launches lobster and caviar burgers in Japan

To celebrate a new restaurant opening in Japan, Wendy's is adding a limited-time line of "premium" ocean themed food items to its menu.


According to Gawker, there will be three new meals making a debut on Wendy's menus in Japan, which include a Lobster and Caviar burger, Surf and Turf burger and an Ocean Premium Salad.

The Lobster and Caviar Burger will feature Canadian lobster on the bun with the normal beef burger, along with a lobster salad, sprinkled with caviar. The Ocean Premium Salad contains lobster, caviar, tomatoes, red onions, avocado and lettuce.

These high end menu items come as new additions to an already "fancy" menu. The menu already includes foie gras hamburgers, Iberian bacon burger and Porcini grilled chicken sandwich sandwiches.

Brand Eating reports the "Ocean Premium" line burgers cost about "1280 yen or roughly $US 16.28", and the salad is priced at 1580 yen (US$ 20.10).

$16 FOR A BURGER !! ..... FROM A FAST FOOD OUTLET ??
FOR THAT SORT OF MONEY I'D WANT JENNIFER ANISTON TO HANDFEED IT TO ME ........ IN BED ....... NAKED ....... WHILE SITTING ON MY LAP.

1: FAST FOOD OR STREET FOOD ?

Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.

Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants.

NOT A MODERN CONCEPT

Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink sold in a street or other public place, such as a market or fair, by a hawker or vendor, often from a portable stall. While some street foods are regional, many are not, having spread beyond their region of origin. Most street foods are also classed as both finger food and fast food, and are cheaper on average than restaurant meals. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 2.5 billion people eat street food every day

In ancient China, where street foods generally catered to the poor, weathly residents would send servants to buy street foods and bring meals back for their masters to eat in their homes.



Professor Stephen Dyson of the University of Buffalo says "We found numerous fast food restaurants in Pompeii and other parts of ancient Rome, " calling these places a cross between "... Burger King and a British pub or a Spanish tapas bar. Most Romans lived in apartments or rather confined spaces, and there is not much evidence for stoves and other cooking equipment in them."

In the mornings, bread soaked in wine was eaten as a quick snack and cooked vegetables and stews later in the day at a popina.

A traveling Florentine reported in the late 1300's that in Cairo, people carried picnic cloths made of raw hide to spread on the streets and eat their meals of lamb kebabs, rice and fritters that they had purchased form street vendors.



Aztec marketplaces had vendors that sold beverages such as atolli, "a gruel made from maize dough", almost 50 types of tamales (with ingredients that ranged from the meat of turkey, rabbit, gopher, frog, and fish to fruits, eggs, and maize flowers), as well as insects and stews.

French fries probably orignated as a street food consisting of fried strips of potato in Paris in the 1840's.

Street foods in Victorian London included tripe, pea soup, pea pods in butter, roasted chestnuts, whelk, prawns and jellied eels.



Nearly from its inception, fast food has been designed to be eaten "on the go", often does not require traditional cutlery, and is eaten as a finger food. Common menu items at fast food outlets include fish and chips, sandwiches, pitas, hamburgers, fried chicken, french fries, chicken nuggets, tacos, pizza, hot dogs, and ice cream, although many fast food restaurants offer "slower" foods like chili, mashed potatoes, and salads.

In this series I will be mostly dealing with modern day 'Fast Food' items, Burgers, Pizza, Fish & Chips, Chicken, Hot Dogs, kebabs and Tacos.