History Main / NutritionalNightmare

* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2013/04/18 This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip had Garfield eat a slice of toast with a whole stick of butter on it, much to Jon's disgust.

* The DagwoodSandwich from ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' is probably the UrExample.

* /tg/ (a Website/FourChan sub-page dedicated to '''T'''abletop '''G'''ames) gives us meatbread, which is similar to the Russian kulebyaka. A few different recipes have been collected [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Meatbread here on 1d4chan]] (a wiki about /tg/ and tabletop games). The only veggies in the thing are caramelized onions and mushrooms. The standard recipe is a whole loaf of bread is hollowed out and then re-filled with a combination of ground beef (and/or pork), sausage filling, cheese, fried onions, and mushrooms, plus the bread scooped out while hollowing the loaf to bind it all together, then it's cooked in the oven. It's intended for about six people, although there is a pizza-pocket-sized version made with canned bread dough (basically, the filling is made into meatballs and has the bread wrapped around it). They admit that eating it is quite likely to result in a heart attack. /tg/ also has a dessert called "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Artery-Hardening Death Cake]]", which is actually a sort of fudge, consisting of butter, golden syrup, and chocolate melted, mixed and spread over crushed digestive biscuits. Other offerings include "Satan's Cheese Cock" (an appropriately ungodly hybrid of spicy cheese sticks and sausages), and a soup that is outright called "slop" (a crustless meat-lover's pizza eaten with a spoon). The tamest thing on their menu is called "Birds and Biscuits", and is a whole chicken and mixed vegetables smothered in cheese sauce, eaten on biscuits. If your arteries can handle it, or you have a death wish, check out their [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/List_of_/tg/_Cuisine cookbook.]]

* Two examples occur in ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'':

* [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2013/ga130418.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip had Garfield eat a slice of toast with a whole stick of butter on it, much to Jon's disgust.

** Krabby Patties themselves are noted on more than one occasion to be quite unhealthy and loaded with fat and cholesterol. For example, in "Just One Bite," Squidward refers to it as "a heart attack on a bun." In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', one fish apparently only has a week to live because he's eaten too many of them. Finally, when [=SpongeBob=] meets a talking Krabby Patty in a dream in "Fear of a Krabby Patty," the patty tells him that he'll always be with [=SpongeBob=]... in his arteries, that is.

* [[https://www.smoothieking.com/menu/smoothies/fitness-blends/peanut-power-plus The Peanut Power Plus]] from Smoothie King is a smoothie consisting mainly of peanut butter and bananas, but even in a 20-ounce cup, it contains ''55 grams'' of sugar. It's even worse if you order the chocolate or strawberry varieties. The chocolate variety bumps the sugar content to ''86 grams of sugar along with'' '''''49 grams of added sugar,''''' and the strawberry variety is only slightly better, having 85 grams of sugar and 49 grams of added sugar, both in a 20-ounce cup. Even worse is that it's advertised as a fitness smoothie, meaning unsuspecting people have had it after a workout and unknowingly consumed at least more than '''''130 grams' worth of sugar.'''''

** Special mention goes to Denny's Fried Cheese Melt from the value menu, which is a grilled cheese sandwich stuffed with mozzarella sticks, served with marinara sauce and a side of fries. Totalling over 1200 calories, including 105% daily value of saturated fat and 131% that of sodium. It's only real perk is 40g of protein but it's otherwise nutritionally empty.

* ''Film/{{Fathead}}'' explores this and how so many populist health experts will [[TropeDecay label anything a little greasy]] as "heart attack on a plate." The documentary does a variation of the infamous ''Film/SupersizeMe'' experiment where the host eats a fast-food diet but actually pays attention to portion control and moderate exercise, succeeding in losing weight after a month while feeling healthier and more energized. All this indicates that [[DeconstructedTrope overall eating habits matters more than strictly the type of food or the occasional cheat meal]].

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS34E12MyLifeAsAVlog My Life as a Vlog"]] features one made by Marge for her ''WebVideo/HotOnes''-inspired [=YouTube=] channel that swaps out increasingly spicy chicken wings for increasingly unhealthy food. "The Coagulator", the fourth dish Marge serves on "Deep Fried Thoughts". A tuna melt dipped in funnel cake batter, fried in hot mayonnaise. Eating this, combined with three unseen dishes, causes Krusty a great deal of pain.

* The RU Hungry Sandwich Stand of New Brunswick, New Jersey offers "fat sandwiches": essentially large subs with [[https://www.ruhungrynj.net/menu combinations of just about any foods you can imagine.]] For example, the Fat Darrel is filled with chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, french fries, and marinara sauce. As seen on ''Series/ManVFood'', you can even add a creation of your own to the menu if you succeed in [[BigEater finishing five of them in a time limit]].

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]", Homer stops by the Kwik-E-Mart while jogging, and Apu offers him his usual order of a bucket of ice cream covered in ''miniature pies!'' Having decided to lose weight, Homer instead goes for a Power Sauce Bar, a power snack made from apples that Ranier Wolfcastle endorses. It later turns out the Power Sauce Bars aren't all that healthy either, as they're almost literally made from garbage (apple cores and chinese newspapers), but they're still far healthier than Homer's usual diet. After experiencing some success at the gym, Homer resolves to eat only what he can compress into bar form. He extrudes ''five pounds'' of spaghetti and meatballs into a small bar, eats the whole of said bar, and calmly calls the hospital.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]", after experiencing some success at the gym after becoming hooked on Powersauce bars, Homer resolves to eat only what he can compress into bar form. He extrudes ''five pounds'' of spaghetti and meatballs into a small bar, eats the whole of said bar, and calmly calls the hospital. Earlier in the episode, he stops by the Kwik-E-Mart while jogging, and Apu offers him his usual order of a bucket of ice cream covered in ''miniature pies!'' Having decided to lose weight, Homer instead goes for a Power Sauce Bar, a power snack made from apples that Ranier Wolfcastle endorses. It later turns out the Power Sauce Bars aren't all that healthy either, as they're almost literally made from garbage (apple cores and chinese newspapers), but they're still far healthier than Homers usual diet.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' shows Angelica watching a commercial for her favorite candy bar. We get to hear the beginning of the jingle: "If you like chocolate with gum underneath/If you like caramel sticking to your teeth/[[BreadMilkEggsSquick If you like the dentist drilling cavities]]..."

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]", after experiencing some success at the gym after becoming hooked on Powersauce bars, Homer resolves to eat only what he can compress into bar form. He extrudes ''five pounds'' of spaghetti and meatballs into a small bar, eats the whole of said bar, and calmly calls the hospital.

* ''Series/GhostsUS'': The episode "Sam's Mom" has the "Cheese Hurricane", an appetizer platter served at a restaurant in Ohio that appears to be an enormous plate of nachos with cheese and various other toppings. Apparently, it is designed to be shared amongst six people and is not recommended by the wait staff to be eaten alone because it will literally make your heart explode as one of the ghosts haunting the place can attest to. [[BigEater Jay]] however manages to eat the entire plate and suffers almost no ill effects.

* The food in the world of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' is incredibly unhealthy across the board, as befitting a parody of modern overstuffed America. In particular, Burger Shot stands out as openly advertising a ''6 pound'' burger designed to give you a heart attack.

-->"They're Chewy!"

* In issue 504 of ''[[{{Magazine/MAD}} Mad Magazine]]'', there is a parody ad taking KFC's Double Down, already a pretty ridiculous sandwich, and exaggerating it, resulting in the KFC Triple By-Pass. It includes a whopping 8 chicken fillets, a ton of bacon, a ton of sausage, a slab of pork roll, an obscene amount of cheese, and [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration exactly ONE leaf of lettuce]], all deep-fried several times over.

* Whatever goes into making the Cook enemy's cakes in ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', as well as the Doughnuteer's doughnuts in ''[[VideoGame/WarioLand3 3]]'' (and to an extent, the apples in ''3'' and ''[[VideoGame/WarioLand4 4]]'', are all so fattening that just eating one will cause Wario to swell up into immense portions of morbid obesity.