HERE’S The Beef!

You remember the "Where’s the beef?" campaign by Wendy’s hamburger chain, lo these many years ago?

It featured octagenarian ordinary woman Clara Peller insistently asking "Where’s the beef?" when presented with various burgers that had tiny hamburger patties and oversized buns.

The implication was that Wendy’s had the biggest burgers around.

They didn’t.

Rival chain Hardee’s did.

I know this because one of my college roommates worked for Hardee’s, andhe was incredibly frustrated by the fact that Hardee’s didn’t seize the day and produce a rival "Here’s the beef!" campaign. Instead, they stuck with their boring "Real food for real people" campaign.

Well, Hardee’s is up to it again.

They’ve now released the "Monster Thickburger":

The Hardee’s fast food chain has rolled out its new 1,400-calorie Monster Thickburger, with 107 grams of fat.

The sandwich boasts two one-third-pound
beef patties, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese, topped with
mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun [SOURCE].

BODACIOUS!

Hold the bun on mine.

Still no word on the "Here’s the beef!" campaign.

C’mon, Hardee’s! Carpe diem!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

6 thoughts on “HERE’S The Beef!”

  1. One day I hope to eat there.
    Lots of people have told me the food there stinks.
    Then someone said that they changed the menu and the food got better.
    Wendy’s is still King in my book though (next comes Chick-Fil-A).

  4. I ate at Fuddrucker’s the other day. I don’t know if they have many restaurants nationwide, but they don’t even make a pretense of having nutritional food. The smallest burger you can get is 1/3 lb., and you can go up to 1 lb. MMMMM!

  5. Reading that was enough for my arteries to clog just a little bit more. I can’t imagine actually eating one of those things!
    yuck!

  6. 1400 calories! That’s not just run-of-the-mill unhealthy, that’s dangerous.
    Unless you are athletically active for several hours a day, stay away from that burger! We are stewards of our bodies.

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