Meet the Ultimate Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt — "Black Angus burger topped with lettuce, tomato and mayo between two whole grilled cheese sandwiches". Friendly’s newest offering, a 1,160-calorie cheeseburger heavenly bliss, is being criticized for it’s "high levels of saturated fat, cholesterol and salt."
The Wilbraham restaurant chain is “thumbing its nose at its customers’ health” and should be “shut down by the health department,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center of Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based consumer health advocacy group.
With 83 grams of total fat and 36 grams of saturated fat, the BurgerMelt well exceeds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recommended daily allowances. It’s also very high in salt, with more than 80 percent of the daily recommended level.
“It’s almost a parody of itself,” Jacobson said. “It’s so high in calories, fat and salt that it’s just shocking that a company, in this day and age, would market such a harmful product. These are the kind of products which show up on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ ”
Thank god this is America. But I’m sure some self-indulgent idiot — the same shithead that mimics a cough walking by a smoker outside — will agree with Jacobson. Some idiot will say, "you know what, we should do more things to limit the free choices of hard working Americans who just want a 1,160-calorie burger on their way home." If this is the best you got, trying to dictate what free Americans can choose, then I almost feel sorry for you. Seriously.
So I did some extensive research (aka, Google search) and found out that Center for Science in the Public Interest is another faction from the group We Love Being Dicks. For example, the CSPI is preparing a lawsuit because McDonalds sells toys to children to promote their happy meals.
“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” said CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner. “McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity—all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”
What. The.
After doing more extensive research (aka scrolling down on my mouse after Google search), a website was created that countered CSPI called CSPIScam.com. The site writes:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and its founder, Michael F. Jacobson, are not as nice, sweet, and unbiased as CSPI’s name might imply. The group routinely uses scare tactics justified by "junk science" and media theatrics as part of their ceaseless campaign for government regulation of your personal food choices.
They also write that "willful manipulations and junk science calculations that CSPI used in its petition to the FDA over acrylamide in food. The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) submitted a reply brief to the FDA, detailing how CSPI arbitrarily “adjusted” government statistics and made faulty assumptions about the minimal risk to consumers from dietary acrylamide."
So CSPI aren’t just dicks, they’re liars.
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