I read a really fun piece on MSN recently which gave gruesome pictures of some of the most unhealthy foods on the planet. So if you think the Whopper with cheese you had for lunch was unhealthy? Well at least it wasn't a burger that weighs in at an off-the-scale 5,000 calories!

And if you are feeling guilty about knocking back half a tub of Ben and Jerry's how about an 'ice cream' that's mostly seal oil? YUCK!

Many of us eat a diet that's a little too rich in fat and sugar, but at least we don't eat any of the dishes that MSN had in their hall of shame.
Starting with Poutine is a French Canadian delicacy, though 'delicacy' might be a bit of a stretch. Quite simply, it's a plate of fries covered in cheese curd and swamped in gravy. It depends on how much you eat, but an average serving will contain 1,300 calories and 72 grams of fat. Oh, and it's often served with a burger.

I saw that too! And before that I had just been feeling guilty for choosing a sandwich made of white bread instead of brown! One of the ones I remember was the bird binge thing, popular in the Southern States of the USA.

Sp here goes! To make this speciality of the American Deep South, stuff a chicken inside a hollowed out duck, stuff both inside a hollowed out turkey, and separate each layer with a grouting of pork sausage meat. Eat a decent portion and you're tucking away 3,500 calories before you even reach for the potatoes! Wow, I already feel sick!

How about this one then! In saw the same article I think and this caught my eye! The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas, is home to the Texan King, a steak that is effectively as a big as a small baby. The 72oz monster is so daunting, in fact, that the steak and accompanying sides (baked potato, bread roll, prawn salad, beans) are free to anyone who eats the whole lot in an hour. Nearly 50,000 have reportedly tried - and less than 9,000 have succeeded!!


One of our English celebrity chefs, Anthony Worrall Thompson got into a spot of bother when he dreamed up this tasty treat for kids! The dessert mixes five Snickers bars with mascarpone, eggs, sugar, soft cheese and puff pastry, and weighs in at 1,250 calories a slice

Whoops! No exactly the message we are trying to send eh?

I've got one too! At first glance it does not seem that chicken and lemon could be too bad for you, could it? Well this version can. In a list of calorific takeaway dishes, Chinese Lemon Chicken came top with a whopping 1,871 calories per serving, an energy punch that would take over 10 hours to walk off. That really surprised me I would have put my money on sweet and sour.

And then there is a burger served at a minor league baseball ground in Michigan which just might be the world's fattiest.
It is made of five beef patties, five slices of cheese, a cup of chilli, oodles of salsa and a handful of corn chips, which together weigh in at a whopping 4,800 calories and that is just about twice what a man should take in per day, ALL day!

But I should not scoff at my American friends too much. The Super Scooby, that is sold at the Jolly Fryer take-away in Bristol, very near where I live, is loaded with four 1/4lb beef burgers, eight rashers of bacon, eight slices of cheese, 12 onion rings, salad and three sauces. It weighs in at a hefty 2,645 calories.

Beat that then!

Ooooh yes! I saw that article too! I think my favourite was the doughnut burger, the invention of Illinois Frontier League side the Gateway Grizzlies. It's a burger, topped with cheese and bacon, all tucked inside a sliced Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut. If that sounds disgusting, you do at least get dinner and dessert in one.

Coffee? Can't be that bad can it, well get a load of this! When Which? Magazine toured the UK's coffee chains it found plenty of menu items with surprisingly high calorific content.

The Starbucks whole milk white chocolate mocha with whipped cream, for instance, contains a whopping 628 calories. Use it to wash down a Super Scooby burger and you're on the highway to Moobsville.

That article is great! I feel hungry already!