This is why you're fat was a
website featuring submitted photos of over-the-top and extremely indulgent food creations. The website of captioned pictures is subtitled "where dreams become
heart attacks", and it has been covered by newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Germany.
["Such gluttonous cravings can apparently be satisfied visually, too: One of the most popular new Web sites of the last month is Thisiswhyyourefat.com, a blog dedicated to photos of outrageously fatty, sodium-drenched, artery-clogging culinary creations." ]["I'm not sure I've ever felt horror and hunger at the same time. But visit www.thisiswhyyourefat.com, and there you have it." ] The website appears to be defunct as it has not been updated since June 2015. The URL now gives a security error when loading.
It was co-created by Richard Blakeley, video editor for
Gawker Media, and Jessica Amason, Viral Media Editor for
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Ken ...
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["Huffington Post Blogger Bio"] In just over a month since it was launched the website had an "astonishing" 10 million page views and its creators are "in talks to create a book version and exploring TV development deals."
Content of website
The items featured on the ''thisiswhyyourefat.com'' website had been described as "culinary
Frankensteins" and "items with no
nutritional value."
They had included a 30 kg rice cereal square and other culinary creations with names like "The Homewrecker" (a deep-fried, mega
hot dog with the works) and Meat Cake (a three-layer
meatloaf patisserie iced with mashed potatoes and ketchup).
Highlights of the website included the "30,000 Calorie Sandwich" made of minced beef,
bacon
Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central ingredient (e.g., the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sand ...
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corn dogs, ham,
pastrami,
roast beef,
bratwurst,
Braunschweiger,
turkey, fried mushrooms, with onion rings and five varieties of cheese, served on white bread, and the Mega Mel Burger made from 1½ pounds of beef, 1 pound of bacon, a quarter pound of cheese and "fixin's",
as well as traditional ethnic dishes like fried chicken skin (
gribenes),
khachapuri,
poutine,
Welsh rarebit, and
lechon kawali
''Lechon kawali'', also known as ''lechon de carajay'' or ''litsong kawali'' in Tagalog, is a Filipino recipe consisting of pork belly slabs deep-fried in a pan or wok (''kawali''). It is seasoned beforehand, cooked then served in cubes. It i ...
.
The dishes pictured caused one writer to be nauseated and to wonder, "How bad could a plate of fried chicken skin be? All the flavor of fried chicken, without the pesky chicken. (Squeal of delight) Is that Spam?!'"
The
fat content and
health considerations are a concern; as one humor columnist remarked, "you probably shouldn't eat an
Oreo with more than 30 layers of double-stuff cream precariously piled between its two chocolate wafers. Probably."
Expanding offline
In March 2009, it was announced that This Is Why You're Fat signed a book deal with HarperCollins' experimental imprint HarperStudio.
["This Is Why You're Fat Gets A Book Deal"]
See also
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Bacon explosion
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Bacon mania
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Bacone
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Chicken fried bacon
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Chocolate covered bacon
Chocolate-covered bacon is an American dish that consists of cooked bacon with a coating of either milk chocolate or dark chocolate. It can be topped with sea salt, crumbled pistachios, walnuts, or almond bits. References on the internet date bac ...
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Epic Meal Time
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List of websites about food and drink
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Turducken
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