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[maxcriden]

This might be one of the more laughable rationalizations I've read in a long time.

In a conversation with Yahoo Health, Basso (who noted that the “7 Deadly Sins” episode was shot two years ago) maintained that he is actually a performance artist who is simply resorting to shocking means in order to get across his message: that obesity will kill you. “I do more to combat the obesity epidemic than any other individual in the country, including the Surgeon General,” claimed the white-coat-wearing proprietor, who began his career, ironically, as the owner of a fitness center before finding his true calling.

“For every Alleman who dies, we can hopefully help 10,000,” he said, noting that he keeps the bag of the cremated man’s ashes on his desk as a reminder to keep going with his message that obesity kills. Basso freely admits that the restaurant’s message is designed to be “as unhealthy as possible” and noted in a recent segment of Bloomberg News, “I am probably the only restaurateur in the entire world who is unapologetically telling you that my food is bad for you, that it will kill you, and that you should stay away from it.”

However, as Basso noted in the Showtime series, “We’re selling a lethal but legal commodity. And we’re selling it and selling it and selling it.” And he readily admits to making a good living while he’s at it. “I may snicker my way to the bank,” he told Yahoo Health, “but I’m the luckiest guy in the world, because I’m able to be an artist.…Burgers are just the price of the ticket for the show.”

More at the link:

https://www.yahoo.com/health/heart-attack-grill-owner-says-hes-combating-obesity-94449812722.html

Consider this thread performance art, brought to you by our friends at the Freaky Fred corporation, if old.

 

[BronsonLee]

Well, if people keep dying at his restaurant, he'll be technically correct!

 

[Guevara]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

 

[Jagxyz]

Haven't 2 of their spokespeople died from weight related ailments?

 

[SolsticeZero]

Haven't 2 of their spokespeople died from weight related ailments?

Performance art to the extreme

 

[Raxus]

Haven't 2 of their spokespeople died from weight related ailments?

Yes, one had an AMI at the grill and lived.

 

[maxcriden]

Haven't 2 of their spokespeople died from weight related ailments?

Yep. (It's covered in the full article.)

 

[sixteen-bit]

This place sounds so tacky.

 

[WalkMan]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

Right, because they're enabling your choice of beverage being soda. I'd probably point towards the lard cooked patties and french fries.

 

[optimiss]

Right, because they're enabling your choice of beverage being soda. I'd probably point towards the lard cooked patties and french fries.

The latest science shows that sugar is a bigger contributor to diet related health issues than saturated fats.

 

[Freaky Fred]

Why not just serve healthy food?

if he successfully turns people off of junk food with his "art", won't his business go to shit?

 

[kick51]

Why not just serve healthy food?

if he successfully turns people off of junk food with his "art", won't his business go to shit?

everybody already tries to ride the health food train

an agonizing few are serving up lard burgers and lard fries.

 

[Wthermans]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

http://sodadispenserdepot.com/pics/soda-fountain-542a.jpg[/IM][/QUOTE]
Bullshit. They have a water tap on the Dr. Pepper dispenser.

 

[Easy_D]

I don't care what anyone says, that burger looks fucking delicious.

 

[Damaniel]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

Not a chance. At nearly any other restaurant, sure - but we're talking about a place with menu items pushing 10,000 calories! That's a lot of Coke...

 

[Konka]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

I think the unfiltered cigarettes are probably worse but hey...

 

[Wthermans]

Please stop pic quoting.

 

[BigAl1992]

Having read the article and have properly thought about what this guy has said, I'm just going to park this here and leave it at that.

 

[Admiral Bone to Pick]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

Seem to remember reading that they don't have diet soda at their restaurant.

Or were you just trying to make the tired statement that soda is the worst thing on the planet earth?

 

[Malvolio]

I want to be upset, but he kinda has a point. A dirty, disgusting, 'Merica filled point, but a point nonetheless.

 

[djplaeskool]

This place sounds so tacky.

It's a Theme restaurant in Vegas.
Tacky is par for the course.

Also, I thought their tagline was literally, "Fighting Anorexia Since 2005"

 

[Stet]

The latest science shows that sugar is a bigger contributor to diet related health issues than saturated fats.

The latest science shows that eating 10,000 calories in one meal is bad for you regardless of what you wash it down with.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Oh my god. I busted out laughing and can't stop at that load of crap.Just be honest. I serve the worst crap known to man and I love doing it. Trying to paint yourself as some sort of dietary saint is downright hilarious.

 

[jts]

How do you even eat a tower-like burger like that one? With a knife and fork?

 

[Giolon]

“For every Alleman who dies, we can hopefully help 10,000,” he said, noting that he keeps the bag of the cremated man’s ashes on his desk as a reminder to keep going with his message that obesity kills.

Hold up. WHAT!?

 

[GungHo]

How do you even eat a tower-like burger like that one? With a knife and fork?

I always figured their typical patrons could distend their lower jaw like anacondas.

 

[freenudemacusers]

huh, I thought this was a chain; now I feel bad about walking past it in Fremont and not trying some of the food.

 

[Konka]

Hold up. WHAT!?

It's no different than keeping an urn around the house.

 

[Xelinis]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

Except that they're probably using partially hydrogenated lard that's past the point of rancidity and cooking the meat until all the fat and cholesterol is oxidized.

 

[God Dayumm]

How do you even eat a tower-like burger like that one? With a knife and fork?

Meat is 75% water, so you compress that and voila.

 

[Giolon]

It's no different than keeping an urn around the house.

I think keeping the ashes of an employee in a bag on your desk is pretty weird.

 

[tokkun]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

The menu: “flatliner” fries, full-sugar colas, unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes, and four sizes of meat towers ranging from the “single” to the “quadruple bypass burger.”

I know Dr. Atkins is out in full force around here, but really? Soda worse than unfiltered cigarettes?

The latest science shows that sugar is a bigger contributor to diet related health issues than saturated fats.

I think portion sizes are probably a bigger issue with the diet this place espouses than macronutrients. The quadruple burger is 8000 calories. Even a 64-ounce soda is going to be nowhere near that.

 

[studyguy]

Meat is 75% water, so you compress that and voila.

So you're saying I drink it....

 

[SquiddyCracker]

He is actually doing something in putting the spotlight on obese individuals who are obese because they eat junk food which might encourage less fat people to take a close look at the food they're putting in their bodies.

 

[Snakepit]

I ate there for the first time about a month ago, the food was good but goddam did I feel like shit the rest of the day

 

[maxcriden]

The latest science shows that eating 10,000 calories in one meal is bad for you regardless of what you wash it down with.

Legit LOL'd at this.

 

[Team Top Hat]

I'm going there in a month and ordering the octuplet burger

Can't wait!!

 

[EBCubs03]

the dumb starbucks defense?

 

[jts]

That burger alone is not 10K kcal though. Not even close. Looks like 3K at most.

So basically, remove the buns, don't get a side, wash it with Coke Zero, and there you go. Great post-workout meal, brehs 💪👍

#doyoueven

 

[bengraven]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this:

Anti-Soda GAF makes me laugh every time. I can't even take it seriously anymore, like so many Bloombergs.

 

[God Dayumm]

That burger alone is not 10K kcal though. Not even close. Looks like 3K at most.

So basically, remove the buns, don't get a side, wash it with Coke Zero, and there you go. Great post-workout meal, brehs 💪👍

#doyoueven

People don't realize that hamburger is healthier than most because the meat to bread ratio is higher

#iEven

 

[SolsticeZero]

People don't realize that hamburger is healthier than most because the meat to bread ratio is higher

#iEven

 

[studyguy]

The most dangerous thing in that restaurant looks more like this

This whole thread needs to get with the times.
Old 'n busted, meet the new hotness.
This thing has like 40 different flavors of diabetes.
The one at my local pizza store even has weird ass European sodas in it.

 

[Samara]

He offers free meals to anyone over 300 pounds, so he's not really helping.

Always wondered, since when you work at a restaurant, you get discounts/free meals: Im pretty sure neither him or his waitress eat there with these bodies

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I'm gonna combat cancer by selling cigarettes.

 

[AAAnonymous]

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