Nutritional Nightmare

"Mmm...fattening."^note Just in case you didn't know, it's a waffle made with a mix of waffle batter, melted caramels, and liquid smoke all wrapped around a stick of butter.

"A pizza, stuffed inside a turkey, the whole thing deep-fried and dipped in chocolate!"

—The Mayor, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

We all know what is generally considered unhealthy food: hamburgers, chips, fries, donuts, pizza, bacon, pancakes, and so on. All the fats, oils, and sweets that reside in the top section of the food pyramid.

Combine enough of those things into one food product, though, and you end up with something that's almost lethal to eat. Some examples include ice cream made out of butter instead of milk or a cheeseburger with fried chicken breasts for buns. Despite being so unhealthy, nutritional nightmares can be very delicious and might even cause a Delicious Distraction (or not). Nutritional nightmares are usually seen in comedies. Often the result of a food Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot.

Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs is a subtrope of this regarding very unhealthy (and very sugary) cereals, and Deep-Fried Whatever for already unhealthy things soaked in boiling oil. Compare Big Eater, Delicious Distraction, A Weighty Aesop, Food Porn (this trope is probably the equivalent of Fan Disservice for the last one), and Gargle Blaster (which is an extremely potent alcoholic beverage). Inverse of If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You. Not to be confused with the more literal Acid Reflux Nightmare.

If you want to make this trope even unhealthier, sprinkle it with some sugary examples and grill it over a Flame War.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• In one chapter of Futaba-kun Change!, two characters swell up like balloons after eating a lunch made by Misaki. Her Sweet Tooth somehow crammed tens of thousands of calories into that one tiny box. Later, another character has his face expanded into a beachball after one bite.

Comedy

• Many a Jim Gaffigan routine is dedicated to him discussing his love of unhealthy foods, including a routine on his love of bacon and another on cake. In one routine, he openly admits to enjoying eating unhealthily. (Although that same skit has him go on to discuss Domino's pasta bread bowl, which he lambastes as being so unhealthy that even he doesn't want to touch it.)
• Patton Oswalt's infamous routine about the Black Angus Steakhouse. It may qualify as Food Gorn.
  • Since KFC's Famous Bowls are basically all of their other offerings, chopped up and thrown into a bowl, they may or may not qualify for this trope on their own, and Oswalt's take on them is an entirely different kind of Nutritional Nightmare. But then. KFC came out with the Double Down (see the Real Life section for more information), and he concluded that it was specifically created as a challenge to him. And don't get him started on the Mega-Leg.
• Bill Cosby has his famous routine "Chocolate Cake for Breakfast" (from Bill Cosby: Himself) based on a real incident in which his wife demanded that he cook breakfast for their children. Not knowing what to serve the kids, he gives his youngest daughter the first thing she asks for—chocolate cake. Cosby rationalizes this by pointing out that cakes are made of eggs, flour, and milk, which are all nutritious. This goes on until his wife discovers what he'd done and sends him to his room... which is where he wanted to be in the first place.
• From Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy:
  Danny: I think you can tell a lot about a country by what they have for breakfast. The Scottish breakfast is basically everything in the fridge at that time: Bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, chips, burgers, crisps... bring out your dead, we'll have it! As long as it's deep-fried. It's our way of saying to the rest of the world, "It doesn't matter what you do to us today. It won't be nearly as bad as what we've just done to ourselves!"

Comic Books

• Although its nutrition information is not disclosed, one imagines that the food available at someplace called "Big Belly Burger" to be far from the epitome of health.
• Post-Crisis, Wally West had to consume vast quantities of food to exert his super-speed. This often led to fairly grotesque piles of food on his dinner table.
• Characters in Asterix occasionally indulge in this. Special mention goes to a Roman orgy, where the guests delight in deep-fried innards served with honey, among other things. Their cook reacts with disgust when asked to prepare a simple vegetable soup.
• The Simpsons comic:
  • The donuts Mr. Burns provides at the nuclear plant are genetically engineered to be addictive and have no nutritional value at all.
  • Springfield Cafeteria is shown serving meals such as Cream of Lard, which most of the kids don't buy since Nelson steals their lunch money. When Nelson loses the energy to do that, most of the students quickly become obese after eating such food on a daily basis.

Comic Strips

• Calvin and Hobbes:
  • Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs, which Calvin sometimes makes even more disgustingly unhealthy by adding soda instead of milk or scooping spoonfuls of sugar into the cereal.
    Calvin: They're crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and they don't have a single natural ingredient or essential vitamin to get in the way of that rich fudgy taste!
  • There's apparently a second version of the cereal that adds marshmallows to it, but Mom refuses to buy those for him.
  • In one strip, Hobbes complains about how unhealthy they are, comparing them to eating a bowl of Milk Duds, and Calvin refutes that the company says they're part of a "balanced breakfast" as shown on the box. Said breakfast consists of a dozen bran muffins, five grapefruits, etc.
  • In one strip, Calvin shows Hobbes how he makes hot chocolate. First, he pours as many mini marshmallows as he can into the mug so that the chocolate just fills in the cracks, and second, he doesn't dilute the chocolate syrup with milk.
    Hobbes: I wondered why you eat it with a fork.
• Garfield:
  • This strip had Garfield eat a slice of toast with a whole stick of butter on it, much to Jon's disgust.
  • Another Sunday strip had Jon offer increasingly bizarre condiments (including scoops of pure lard and the burnt crumbs from the bottom of the toaster) to put on Garfield's toast, with Garfield immediately accepting all of it without flinching.
    Jon: YOU'RE DISGUSTING!
    Garfield: Any sauerkraut?
• The Dagwood Sandwich from Blondie (1930) is probably the Ur-Example.
• In one Frumpy the Clown strip, Frumpy was so irritated by the ice cream parlor's attempts to sell him "healthy" alternatives to ice-cream when he tried to order simple chocolate ice-cream that he bought a bucket of chocolate lard. Brad said he could hear Frumpy's arteries hardening. Mike's mother's cooking is also apparently very unhealthy since a physician remarked that she should be sweating gravy given what she eats.
• In a Peanuts strip, we have Linus eating sugar lumps with honey. Cue Lucy turning green.
• In a FoxTrot strip, Roger makes himself a twelve-egg omelet with cheese, ham, bacon, and avocado, despite pledging to lose 20 pounds for New Years. Seems he wanted to gain 300 pounds so he could go on The Biggest Loser and not only meet his goal but win money. (Andy surmises that Peter's resolution was to become King of Evil Practical Jokes.)

Films — Animation

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has the Mayor put in a request for "a pizza stuffed inside a turkey, the whole thing deep-fried and dipped in chocolate."
• In SCOOB!, a Freeze-Frame Bonus in an early scene shows that Scooby Snacks in this continuity contain 850 calories, 37.5 grams of saturated fat, 1,000 milligrams of sodium, and 8,000 grams of sugar each. Not per serving, each.
• The Fairy Godmother demands "something deep fried and smothered in chocolate" after her potion factory is wrecked in Shrek 2.

Films — Live-Action

• Elf: One scene has Buddy eating for breakfast: a plate of spaghetti topped with maple syrup, several fistfuls of candy, and a crumbled Pop-Tart.
• In Fatso, Dominick (Dom De Luise) joins a weight-loss support group consisting of obese men like himself. However, he finds all they do is trade stories about their favourite ultra-fattening concoctions, such as: jelly doughnuts filled with chocolate-swirl ice cream; jelly doughnuts stuffed with chocolate peanut butter cups and warmed in the oven; and peanut butter and jelly on a chocolate-covered graham cracker with bananas on top.
• Fathead explores this and how so many populist health experts will label anything a little greasy as "heart attack on a plate." The documentary does a variation of the infamous Supersize Me 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 overall eating habits matters more than strictly the type of food or the occasional cheat meal.

Literature

• Discworld:
  • In the spin-off Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, we're told that Commander Vimes (who believes Burnt Crunchy Bits are a food group) nearly submitted a recipe for Pork Scratching Cookies before his wife stopped him.
  • Vimes's approach to the BLT (bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich) is, broadly speaking, the former bludgeoning the latter two into submission. At least, until his wife stops him. The rest of the Watchman's canteen is basically similar. (Partially justified, in that their job requires them to work long shifts and have lots of energy without taking many breaks, but still...)
  • Sham Harga's House of Ribs is a perennial favorite among members of the Watch (but especially Vimes). Its offerings are summarized as "good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone."
  • Albert, Death's servant, belongs to the "if it exists you can deep fry it" school of thought. He seems ready to try frying the muesli Susan asked for. Of course, given that he's functionally immortal as long as he remains in Death's employ, health hazards are not his primary concern.
• The meals described in Nero Wolfe are enough to give you a heart attack just reading the description; if you can get a hold of The Nero Wolfe Cookbook, even more so. Just about every dish calls for a quart of cream, a dozen eggs, and a pound of butter. Little wonder the man weighs a seventh of a ton.
• There is a cookbook with recipes from various Roald Dahl books. The Wonka-inspired candies are bad enough, but the cake recipe from Matilda has been nicknamed "cake that kills diabetics". It consists mainly of butter, eggs, chocolate, and lots of sugar. There is a tiny bit of flour in it to give it structure, but not much. (If you're not diabetic, and use good butter, free-range eggs, and dark chocolate, you can survive eating one slice, but eating the whole cake, as done in Matilda is not advisable.)^note If you follow the recipe, the resulting cake should be about ten inches across and an inch deep. It will provide a respectable dessert for between fifteen and twenty people.
• In the third Captain Underpants book, The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space, George and Harold end up having their cafeteria privileges revoked and are forced to bring packed lunches to Mr. Krupp's office. What Mr. Krupp wasn't bargaining on was the boys' lunches consist of peanut butter and gummy worm sandwiches, potato chips with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles, and for dessert? Hard-boiled eggs dipped in hot fudge and Skittles. Mr. Krupp understandably runs out for fresh air.
• In Good Omens, Famine of the Four Horsemen owns a chain of restaurants where the food has been scientifically engineered to not only be the more conventional version of this trope but also to contain no useful nutrients for the body whatsoever. Eating enough of Famine's food will cause a person to become morbidly obese and to suffer from or die due to malnutrition at the same time, a fact that Famine finds very amusing.

Live-Action TV

• Carnival Eats: The entire series takes place at various State Fairs in North America, so there's bound to be extremely unhealthy dishes showcased, including (but not limited to) deep-fried gummy bears, funnel cake cheeseburgers, and "Deep-Fried PB&J Brownies".
• Man v. Food showcases enormous portions of rich and fatty foods that people enjoy immensely. These are exaggerated for the quantity-based challenges, with some being more than enough to feed entire families, let alone a single host with a big appetite.
• Supernatural
  • In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22), Sam and Dean's breakfast is made up of a bucket of fried chicken, a box of pizza, containers of Chinese food, 4 liters of cola, and a bottle of whiskey. Various flashbacks throughout the series show that this is a natural consequence of the two brothers growing up on the road without a mother and with a neglectful father who would leave them alone in motel rooms for weeks at a time. They learned to survive on meals of fast food and junk food.
  • This is revealed to be the Leviathans' plot in Season 7—replace the corn syrup and other flavorings on packaged food with a chemical that inhibits metabolism and higher brain functions, turning humans into fat, dimwitted, apathetic, docile creatures much like cattle (three guesses as to what the Leviathans plan to do). In essence, this would make every edible item (with the exception of water and non-processed foods, like freshly picked fruits and vegetables) a Nutritional Nightmare.
  • Death loves this kind of food so much that you can instantly get on his good side (or at least make him less inclined to kill you) by bribing him with it. When Dean needs a favor from Death, he personally prepares a homemade buffet of unhealthy food ("All with the bad fat."). It's especially notable in that Death is generally dismissive of humans as Puny Earthlings and is one of the few beings able to unnerve Dean simply by being a darkly grim and terrifying figure. One possible justification is that this food is what ends up causing early deaths in many victims, much like the one man that Dean reaps who dies while eating pizza in "Appointment in Samarra", so it's not unreasonable to assume this led to Death developing an interest in this food after seeing the many, many people who literally died eating it.
• Saturday Night Live:
  • The Taco Town sketch has the "pizza crepe taco pancake chili bag", which takes this to Overly Long Gag levels. Listing off all the ingredients would take up a big chunk of this page, but it's essentially a tortilla with extra taco filling wrapped around a taco, with another tortilla wrapped around that until Matryoshka Object is the only real way to describe it. Eventually, the taco gets so big that they're wrapping a corn husk around it instead of a tortilla, then a crepe, then a pizza, then a blueberry pancake, then deep-batter-frying the whole thing, and finally tossing the resulting golden-brown slab into its own personalized bag, which is then filled with vegetarian chili.
  • The Overnight Salad combines this with Cordon Bleugh Chef, being based on disgusting 1950s housewife recipes that combined foods never meant to go together. It starts off with a pretty reasonable combo of lettuce, cheese, and a squeeze of lemon, and then she dumps an entire gallon of mayonnaise on the top. Things just get worse from there, including several dozen hot dogs, corn chips, root beer, mayo again, and the top of a pizza, all left out overnight on the radiator. Contrary to most examples, the recipe in question is depicted as incredibly bad-tasting, to the point of being poisonous in large quantities.
• Mad TV had a sketch called "Reality Check" which was about a BET talk show hosted by two obese African-American women who sometimes start out subsisting on some strange and often fattening items, like lard balls rolled in flour and powdered sugar, deep-fried, dipped in ranch dressing, and then covered in a glaze along with chocolate and sprinkled salt lick.
• A mild example in United States of Tara: Alice's ideas about food come straight from the 1950s. She advises Tara to cut the crusts off, because "all the nutrition is in the white part" of the bread.
• "Food for Thought", an episode of That's So Raven that offered A Weighty Aesop, sees the local high school's cafeteria being replaced with a food court owned by "Trans-Infinity Farms", a company that specializes in producing disgustingly huge portions of incredibly unhealthy food, including a yard-long hot dog, an onion ring bigger than a teenage boy's head, and, as a "healthy" option, deep-fried lettuce. As the food court gains more power, they start offering take-out, sickeningly sweet breakfasts (such as a platter of chocolate pancakes drenched in chocolate sauce) and even fry dispensing machines in the hallways. Amazingly, not a single adult in the school recognizes this as a horrible diet, so it falls to Chelsea and Raven to stop the company.
• Parks and Recreation:
  • The distressingly popular fast-food chain Paunch Burger boasts of its fattening effects. One of their more notable items is the Paunch Burger Dinner-for-Breakfast Burger Combo, which has an ad that simply declares that healthy food tastes bad, if you say it tastes good, you're lying to yourself, and so you might as well enjoy the worst food in the known universe. From what we can see of it, it appears to be a triple-decker cheeseburger with onion rings, bacon, and a fried egg involved, alongside a mountain of fries slathered in chili and nacho cheese and a chocolate shake that looks at least half-gallon-sized.
  "'What's in it?' WHO CARES. 'How many calories?' SHUT UP. It's awesome. Put it in your body, or YOU'RE A NERD."
  • Another episode features their idea of drink sizes. Their Small size is a half-gallon (about 1.9 liters), their Regular is a gallon, and their Child-Size comes in at a whopping four gallons. It apparently takes its name from the fact that it's literally the size of a small child, if that child were liquefied. The only thing they have below the Small-size is the Lil Swallow, which costs only five cents less and is the size of a shot glass (reportedly, its main buyers are little girls who want something for their dollhouses).
  • NutriYum Bars are advertised as healthy snacks because they have Lance Armstrong on the label. Ann points out that they are basically blocks of sugar. The ingredients list explains that they contain eight grams of fat per serving... and each bar contains four servings.
• 30 Rock: One episode mentions and depicts a food called "Cheesy Blasters". The jingle explains it quite clearly: "You take a hot dog, fill it with some Jack cheese, fold it in a pizza... You got Cheesy Blasters!". Tracy refuses to eat it after Liz explains it.
• On an episode of World's Dumbest... Partiers, a drunk woman that gets pulled over says she had a "chicken sandwich sandwich".
  Ted Jessup: You take a chicken sandwich, and you put it in a chicken sandwich, and then you soak it in grain alcohol.
• Ginormous Food, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. In one episode, we have a restaurant serving meatballs the size of ice cream scoops.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: In "The Killer Shrews", Joel and the Bots whip up a drink called the Killer Shrew that combines about a dozen types of sugary food (chocolate ice cream, Captain Crunch with Crunchberries, peanut M&Ms, pancake syrup, circus peanuts, Mr. Pibb, Marshmallow Peeps, Sweet Tarts, vanilla cake frosting, and Good'n'Plenty), shoved into a blender and garnished with a mechanical toy shrew. Joel takes a sip and passes out, while Frank tries some and, hopped up on a sugar rush, starts singing "Ladies Night" and trying to get Dr. Forrester to dance with him.
• Gina kicks off the end to her diet in Brooklyn Nine-Nine with the Sloppy Jessica: Macaroni, chili, and pizza on a bun.
• Britain's Worst Food: A snarky documentary from the noughties about the sneaky tricks food manufacturers use to make awful food taste better. Host and chef Alex Riley challenges himself to make the most unhealthy pies possible, yet for them to taste great. The 'sweetie pie' was this to the point where the nutritionist Alex consulted stated it was so unhealthy it would actually suck nutrients out of the body. Alex even used the leftover filling as paste for his advertising posters.
• Ghosts (US): 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's designed to be shared amongst a group of six and is strongly advised by the wait staff that it not be eaten by only one person because it will literally make their heart explode as one of the ghosts haunting the place can attest to. Jay however manages to eat the entire plate and suffers almost no ill effects.
• Hal in Malcolm in the Middle is fond of gutbusters, which consists of a sausage, stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon, and deep fried in lard. He only makes them when Lois isn't around.
• The Thundermans: The meaturduckballizza, AKA the result of allowing Hank to cook dinner. It's presumably a turducken stuffed with meatballs and garnished with a pizza, amongst whatever other miscellaneous ingredients Hank decided to add. Barb grabs the kids and leaves to get takeout when she sees it, leaving Hank to eat the whole thing by himself.

Magazines

• In issue 504 of 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 exactly ONE leaf of lettuce, all deep-fried several times over.

Video Games

• Level Ate from Earthworm Jim 2 is quite literally made out of fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
• The food in the world of Grand Theft Auto 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.
• Hypnospace Outlaw has a page dedicated to "Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream", a fictional dessert made of butter mixed with ice cream that is frozen and then heated in the microwave. Their jingle has the audacity to claim that their product is "very tasty and healthy too".
• After defeating Midbus in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Bowser is escorted to a dining room full of chicken legs, hotdogs, cakes, and other unhealthy foods half as big as he is. After eating all the food on the dining room table, he's force-fed even more of it by Boos. The food is so fattening and high in calories that eating a plateful of it causes Bowser to instantly gain weight, and the Boos feed him so much of it he breaks through the floor beneath him and gets stuck.
• Mother 3 has pork chips, which the game outright calls "greasy junkfood". Interestingly, despite this, someone actually made a real life version of the food. It's about as healthy as you'd expect.
• In Parkasaurus, this is implied by Butter Thirsty, a food stall that sells butter sticks. It description says, "Is that your heart screaming?"
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: Since Crazy Dave re-eating his taco would cause a Time Crash, Dr. Zomboss stops him by giving him something better: a taco with a waffle in it. Not a waffle taco, but a taco with all the fillings you'd expect, plus a waffle jammed in there, complete with syrup and butter.
• The Pokémon Alcremie has a multi-layered cake-like Gigantamax form that is known to launch cream missiles shaped like cake decorations. Before you think of eating them, bear in mind that each one is worth 100,000 kilocalories; if the projectile itself doesn't kill you, the clogged arteries or explosive diabetes will. Given that Gigantamax Alcremie is over ninety feet tall, this is one dessert you want to avoid as if your life depended upon it.
• According to Slime Rancher's Slimepedia, Honey Slimes' plorts are this, being so sweet that not only will other slimes do whatever it takes to eat them (leading to unintended largos or Tarr outbreaks), refined versions of them are said to score 867 on the Werner-Thompkins-Hong-sacchrino scale, a.k.a. not fit for human consumption.
• Sonic 2 XL is a ROM hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 where all the Gold Rings are replaced by really unhealthy deep-fried onion rings. Unhealthy enough that just collecting five of these will cause Sonic to gain a level of weight, with increasing levels causing him to slow down, jump lower and lower, and eventually become unable to Spin Dash or even jump at all. If he collects 30 without burning the fat off, he becomes so fat that he can't even move, and promptly dies of a heart attack. Not even Super Sonic is immune to this, either.
• Whatever goes into making the Cook enemy's cakes in Wario Land II, as well as the Doughnuteer's doughnuts in 3 (and to an extent, the apples in 3 and 4), are all so fattening that just eating one will cause Wario to swell up into immense portions of morbid obesity.

Web Animation

• A downplayed version happens in Fizzy's Lunch Lab. In one episode, Avril eats a bunch of "candy apples" - which are really just candy lollipops in the shape of apples. Unsurprisingly, she gets sick from having too much sugar.
• In the Happy Tree Friends episode "A Change of Heart", Disco Bear enjoys a deep-fried block of butter after finishing his breakfast; he has a heart attack, and in the hospital, Lumpy performs surgery on Disco Bear and reveals the undigested block of butter blocking one of his arteries.
• In The Most Popular Girls in School, Deandra is rather fond of these. Take, for example, in Episode 46:
  Deandra: [to Bridget] No, I don't want a bunch of little croutons! I want you to crouton this loaf of bread for me! What the fuck is so hard to understand about that?!
• Ollie & Scoops: The first episode has the "Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon Pizza", with "4 times the bacon, bacon cheese, bacon crust, and don't forget the grease dippers!"
• In Sonic for Hire, Eggman becomes rich and famous (as well as even more disgustingly obese) by inventing the Taco Sandwich, which is composed of two tacos serving as bread and ten more tacos sandwiched between them.

Web Comics

• Cursed Princess Club: Prince Jamie loves to eat sugary foods, and his absolute favorite dish is the "Magical Friendship Volcano Surprise", which consists of three stacked waffles with lots of whipped cream and strawberries slathered between them, a hole cut down the middle of the stack filled with sweet toppings and sprinkles, butterscotch sauce drizzled all over, and a ring of marshmallow bunnies on top. Chef Martina is visibly appalled when she hears that Princess Gwendolyn is making such an unhealthy dish for her brother ("My stomach hurts just thinking about it...").
• The Igor Bars from Dork Tower, which have been known to put those who consume them into sugar comas. There is an actual recipe for the bars, and it lists insulin as an optional ingredient. See here.
• Scandinavia and the World: Denmark's risalamande, a Christmas rice pudding mixed with vanilla, whipped cream, and chopped almonds, is delicious but so fattening that King Europe blows up like a balloon after eating two bites. Of course, America has no trouble scarfing down an entire bowl and asking for more.
• Schlock Mercenary:
  • The chupaqueso ("sucky cheese") is a pliable layer of pan-fried cheese, topped with melting soft cheese and rolled into a soft taco or burrito. Bacon is optional. The cast are all mercenaries with a short life expectancy anyway, so they'd rather eat indulgent than healthy.
  • Schlock's own Ovalkwik addiction is treated this way, due to the number of chemical toxins it contains. However, as an artificial lifeform who can eat nearly anything, it's difficult to tell if even that is truly dangerous to him. "Addiction" is no misnomer; it's treated more like a drug habit than an unhealthy snack.

Web Original

• The SCP Foundation has SCP-807, the Heart Attack on a Plate. Any food placed on it will be turned into this trope, and consuming it will invariably cause a heart attack within 5 minutes. In a possible Shout-Out to The Boondocks below, a veggie burger becomes the infamous Luther Burger described below. And then someone tries to put another Luther Burger on it... the specifics are redacted, but there were a lot of casualties.
• /tg/ (a 4chan sub-page dedicated to Tabletop Games) gives us meatbread, which is similar to the Russian kulebyaka or Nebraskan runza. A few different recipes have been collected here on 1d4chan (a wiki about /tg/ and tabletop games). The only veggies in the thing are caramelized onions and mushrooms, plus optional olives. 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), various sausage fillings, cheese, fried onions, stuffed olives, 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 "Artery-Hardening Death Cake", which is actually a sort of low-effort fudge, consisting of butter, golden syrup, cherry pie filling, 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 blood 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 cookbook.

Web Videos

• Binging with Babish thrives on this trope, having attempted to duplicate many of the items on this very page (Moon Waffles, the Luther Burger, Eggs Woodhouse, and the Ultra Krabby Supreme just to name a few )^*We would not be surprised to hear that he or his team have trawled this very page for ideas.. Some are surprisingly edible and even quite tasty; others are nightmarish disasters that barely even hold together on the plate, whereupon Babish goes out of his way to make a palatable 'good' version however he can.
• The Quackity HQ "DISCORD COOKING COMPETITION" series ([1] [2] [3]) features several recepies that are frankly quite disturbing.
• boogie2988 presents DORITOS FLAVORED MOUNTAIN DEW! How is it made? Well, it's done by putting Mountain Dew and Doritos in a blender. Exactly as disgusting as it sounds.
• Brad Tries... is all about Brad Jones trying foods that qualify for this trope, especially if he's at the State Fair.
• The titular "Slav Superstar" from Life of Boris, basically sits between Supreme Chef and Lethal Chef, while the food he makes and shares are no doubt delicious, a whole heaping lot of them tend to be spectacularly unhealthy.
• The Nostalgia Critic and his obnoxious fan Douchey McNitpick love to eat Sugar Frosted Burrito Stuffed Hot Pockets.
  Nostalgia Critic: I'm sure a lot of this comes from spending less time in the kitchen and more time eating sugar-frosted burrito-stuffed hot pockets.
  Douchey: Oh, I love those! With the extra lard on the side? [speaks simultaneously with NC] And the delicious crumbled up things ever!
  Nostalgia Critic: [simultaneously] Yeah, I know! And the creamy buttery tastes for real liposuction.
  Douchey: And the side of oil found in most suntan lotions?
• Epic Meal Time lives off this trope and be sure to expect a lot of bacon in their meals.
• In the Half in the Bag episode where Mike and Jay review The Wolf of Wall Street, there's a subplot about Mr. Plinkett trying to intentionally have a heart attack through eating A LOT of this (mostly burgers that he fills with butter and lots of bacon).
• Jontron has an issue with inventing and then eating things like cheesecake pizza.
• The Channel HellthyJunkFood has plenty of these under their belts. Examples include gigantic nachos, cheeseburgers wrapped inside pizzas, and grilled cheese sandwiches with tons of spaghetti inside them.
• The channel CultMoo isn't any better. Not only do they deep fry a variety of different foods (some of which have already been deep-fried once), but they also make ice cream and waffles from some rather unorthodox ingredients.
• ChefClub is a serious cooking channel. But very often the showcased recipes are straight into this (whole cheese wheels are a common ingredient!), such as the one starting this video, featuring a whole chicken "entombed" in at least eight butter bars.
• While not the normal, one recipe featured on an episode of Rhett & Link's "Good Mythical Morning" was a cheese ice-cream sandwich: 3 scoops of ice cream between two solid blocks of cheddar. And on one episode, Link surprised Rhett on his birthday by making a 5-layer jalapeno-pepperoni pizza.

Western Animation

• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • "The Menu": The secret menu item, rumored to serve as enough to replace all three meals for seven people for seven years, turns out to be a dagwood burger that Gumball describes as "grosser than a normal burger". It's also rumored that if one can finish it within 15 minutes, Joyful Burger will pay for their hospital bills. Apparently, the average kid's meal from Joyful Burger has less nutritional value than the toy that comes with it, as well.
  • There's also the Sluzzlewurst, invented by junk food connoisseur Richard Watterson for a holiday his son made up. Just getting all the ingredients to add to the giant sausage that makes its main body nearly bankrupted him, and it was so fattening everyone in the family that even had a taste (other than Richard himself) started sweating butter.
  • "The Compilation" had Richard inventing "Buttersmear", a mass of butter on a stick mixed with several greasy foods. After eating it for every meal for 11 days straight, he loses all feeling in his body and collapses on his computer desk during a stream after eating another.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "Revenge of the Trees" has a Labor Day barbecue consisting of Frylock's tofu T-bones, and Shake's whole deep fried cow, which he force-fed pork rolled in ranch dressing (which killed it) and later injected its udder with a liquid mix of cheese (the udder exploded into a bloody mess after the flash-frying was done).
• Archer: On a DVD extra, Archer demonstrates how to make his daily breakfast, Eggs Woodhouse, which guest Alton Brown calls a "cholesterol Katrina" as it's made with creamed spinach, Bechamel and Hollandaise sauce, Pata Negra ham, and half a cup of butter (plus saffron and truffles to up the dollar value).
  Alton: What is your cholesterol level?
  Archer: I assume it's awesome - since the alcohol constantly flushes it out of my veins.
  Alton: That... that is absolutely not how that works!
• Big Mouth: Lump Humpman's family recipe for "Lump Soup" is one-part Sunny D and two-parts nacho cheese.
• The Boondocks: In the season 1 episode "The Itis", when Ed Wuncler gives Robert Freeman (Granddad) his own soul food restaurant, every food he serves is absurdly fattening. His most notable creation is the "Luther Burger", which is a full-pound burger patty covered in cheese with grilled onions and five strips of bacon with two Krispy Kreme donuts as buns. Other terrible foods served during this episode included broccoli boiled in ham broth, and "Two pig knuckles glazed in honey; pig tongue marinated in butter for two days; chitlins... soaked in hot sauce, drizzled in mayonnaise, and then set to harden on our back porch in three pounds of cheddar cheese." The food was so tasty and addictive, it made people fat and drove them to rob others to feed their addiction. The restaurant was eventually closed down after a lawsuit. And the ending reveals this was in service to Wuncler's agenda - he was relying on this being the outcome, as it allowed him to buy the subsequent slum for cheap, rather than the near-fortune he'd have to spend otherwise.
• Brickleberry: In one episode, Bobby makes a bet with Bodean that he can come up with a better alternative to Obamacare, only to find himself trying to keep Bodean from landing himself in the hospital because of his total lack of common sense, which includes his diet. His favorite meal is a huge plate of bacon - raw bacon - washed down with a 64 oz Coke.
• Chuck's Choice: "Bawk to the Future" features "Beak O' Chicken Chunks", which is two-and-a-half pounds of heavily seasoned chicken left out in the sun for half-a-day to ripen before being dipped in a bidet full of chipotle and mayo sauce before being served in an actual chicken beak. Chuck is enthralled by the idea, but Misha is understandably grossed out.
• The Cleveland Show: In one episode, Cleveland Jr. and Kendra travel to Wisconsin. One of the local delicacies is "Crazy Butter", which is a mug full of melted butter topped with cheese.
• Disenchantment: "Love's Slimy Embrace" has King Zøg learn that gout is a "rich man's disease" and thinks this means if he gets it, he'll be rich and successful. He enlists Luci to help him get gout, which involves eating tons of fatty foods, drinking alcohol constantly, and injecting fat directly into his veins.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • The Kanker Burger contains an excessive amount of lard and ketchup and, among other things, a cog wheel for some reason.
  • While we never get to see Eddy's omelette, judging by the episode "Who, What, Where, Ed", he uses an absurd amount of butter and salt.
  • The "En-O-Ge" drink from "Over Your Ed", a homemade energy drink that contains an entire bag of sugar Eddy poured into it while Double-D's back was turned, on top of the single teaspoon of sugar that was actually meant to be in it. One taste has Double-D running around on the mother of all sugar rushes for the whole episode until he finally crashes during the ending scene.
• The Fairly OddParents!
  • "Scary Godparents": For Halloween, Dr. Bender gives away "Sugar-Flavored Sugar-Coated Pieces of Sugar"...so he can be "slowly scraping your gums in no time!".
  • "Odd Ball": Various characters eat Farmer Ahab's Blubber Nuggets, chicken nuggets made out of whale blubber.
    "They're Chewy!"
• Family Guy:
  • "Saturated Fat Guy": Fed up with Lois trying to get him to eat healthy, Peter gets a food truck where he sells food of this nature. They include burgers with jelly donuts for buns, milkshakes with hot dogs for straws, Swedish Fish and chili tacos, and "cereal" that's just M&M's in Dr. Pepper (he also mentions a recipe for paella that contains pop rocks). Before he gets the truck, he also makes a panini in his car with sausages, peanut butter cups, Dorito crumbs, and a Cadbury egg. Understandably, he ends up morbidly obese from living inside his truck and eating nothing but his own cooking.
  • "Dr. C and the Women" opens with a commercial for Outback Steakhouse Extreme, for people who like Outback Steakhouse but think the portions aren't big enough. Instead of bloomin' onions, they serve bloomin' pumpkins, their steaks are 50 lbs. of elephant meat, and for drinks, they serve 40 ounces of malt liquor mixed with ranch dressing. The commercial closes with the tagline "Punish -- your -- toilet!"
• Futurama: It's suggested that everything made by Fishy Joe's is this, with a "fried spaghetti dinner breakfast pocket for lunch and a bucket of mixed sodas" being classified as a kid's meal. Also, both the gardener lover's salad and the "froot" cup contain mandatory cheese filling, and the latter has bones in it. When asked what kind of meat is in the buggalo tots, the guy at the register asks if they have a warrant. This causes Leela to resolve to only buy food if the crew knows where it came from. At the end of the episode, after helping clean up a sheep farming operation, Fry orders a bucket of double-fried, triple-salted, boneless sheep tots (with cheese filling). Leela shrugs and asks to make it a double.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Exploited in one episode, when an old bodybuilder named Mighty Moe discovers that stacking a bunch of healthy habits basically lets you live forever due to a loophole in the afterlife system. Mandy eventually figures that if good habits add to your lifespan, bad ones subtract from it; so she and Grim try to get Mighty Moe to eat a giant cheesy puff (as in it's about the size of Grim's skull) in order to counteract his healthy habits and allow Grim to reap his soul.
• hoops&yoyo's Haunted Halloween: While locked in a mall after closing, Hoops and Yoyo jump in shock when they get cinnamon buns and see that a single one is 80,000 calories.
• Kim Possible: The Naco, a Bueno Nacho dish Ron invented by pouring an order of nachos into a taco, resulting in a grease-and-cheese soaked mess.
  Ron: Nacho meets Taco! I call it the "Naco!"
  Kim: I call it gross beyond belief!
• King of the Hill:
  • One episode had Bill and Boomhauer discover a man selling deep-fried bananas at a stall, and it eventually gives them the idea to see what else they can deep fry. This included, among other things; deep-fried fruits, deep-fried fish, deep-fried chocolate bar, re-deep-fried chicken, accidental deep frying of a beer can which started a fire...
  • "Dia-Bill-Ic Shock" opens with Bill at a carnival. He orders a giant lollipop and asks the carny to "put a wig on it", which translates into dipping the lollipop in the cotton candy machine. As Bobby looks on in awe, Bill mentions another secret menu item called a "hugging cow", a hamburger wrapped in pastrami. The cotton-candy-covered lollipop (along with the other junk food Bill was eating at the time) causes him to collapse, and he is then taken to the hospital and diagnosed with diabetes.
• The Looney Tunes Show:
  • "The Stud, the Nerd, the Average Joe, and the Saint": When Speedy Gonzales is helping Daffy train to run a marathon, he asks about Daffy's diet when Daffy drinks root beer sodas as his "energy drink". Daffy reveals that he eats a hot dog with a ton of powdered sugar on it for breakfast, for lunch he eats a deep-fried turkey sandwich on wheat with powdered sugar on it, and for dinner he eats a casserole with powdered sugar on the top and bottom layer and baby back ribs and marshmallows in the center, and, after cooking it in a microwave, he sprinkles more powdered sugar on it. Speedy just stares in horror while Daffy describes this. Also, Daffy's idea of a "protein bar" is a tube of cookie dough. When Speedy tells Daffy to eat eggs for breakfast before his race, Daffy does so by placing the eggs on the bottom layer of his powdered sugar casserole.
  • "Bobcats on Three!": Porky starts a catering business using his grandmother's recipes, which feature heavy use of butter and sausage among other things. When Bugs hires him to cater his parties, he gets hooked on the food, and triples in size as a result. Porky lampshades it when he refuses to cater to any more of Bugs' parties claiming that no one should eat that much butter.
• Pet Alien: Captain Spangley's Tasty Chicken Cookies from "The World Without Hamburgers" are ridiculously greasy (to the point where Gumpers makes one explode from a light squeeze) and apparently made from leftover chicken parts that are then mashed together, boiled in oil and fried extensively.
• Regular Show:
  • Season 3, "The Best Burger in the World", a food truck makes a burger once every century called the "Ulti-Meatum" where they stuff a cheeseburger inside a cheeseburger and has two deep-fried cheeseburgers as buns. They can even make it Idaho-style by stuffing a bag of chips in the burger.
  • The season 6 episode "Death Kwon Do-Livery" has the "Death Kwon-Do Sandwich of Health" which is supposedly a healthier version of a meatball sandwich made with organic ingredients, but the main duo points out it's more like a regular sandwich that looks "even greasier than usual". Death Kwon-Do sensei denies this claiming he's been eating them three times a day, but when he eats his most recent one his stomach explodes.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Many of the fake commercials have this. Sugar Frosted Milk is literally just melted ice cream.
• Rugrats (1991): One episode 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/If you like the dentist drilling cavities..."
• Scaredy Squirrel: "The Madness of King Nutbar" has King Nut Bars, Scaredy's favorite candy bar (that only he likes). While they have over three hundred essential nutrients, they also contain over seven hundred non-essential fats (like butter, lard, and bacon to name a few), which causes Scaredy to turn so morbidly obese from eating so many within a short timespan that he's able to cry nougat. Because of this, the creators start making ones that are one hundred percent nutritious at Scaredy's request, only for Nestor to reveal at the ending that the company went out of business because nutritious food doesn't sell. Although Scaredy doesn't seem to mind much since he decided to swear off Nut Bars entirely anyway.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The cartoons often have Shaggy and Scooby-Doo enjoying such snacks, usually in the form of a sandwich of some kind.
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: "Never Ape an Ape Man" had Daphne whip up a "Shaggy Snack" as part of bribing Shaggy to be part of the plan to catch the titular Monster of the Week, alongside Scooby's usual Scooby Snack bribe. Said "Shaggy Snack" consists of a potpie made of pizza crust and filled with chocolate sauce containing anchovies, pepperoni, and cherries. Of course, being the Big Eater he is, Shaggy can't resist.
• The Simpsons is the king of this trope. Homer in particular tends to get involved a great deal.
  • "Homer the Heretic" has Homer staying at home from church eating a waffle made with a mix of waffle batter, melted caramels, and liquid smoke, all wrapped around a stick of butter. To add insult to injury, the mess carbonizes onto the waffle iron, which Marge is seen digging at with a fork later in the episode.
  • "Lisa the Vegetarian":
    • It's revealed that Homer drinks a glass of pancake syrup every morning.
    • Apu proudly states that his tofu dogs have "only thrice the fat of a normal hot dog".
  • "Bart Star": Somwhere along the line, Homer came under the impression that medicine recommends drinking eight glasses of gravy a day.
    Dr. Hibbert: Your cholesterol level is lethally high, Homer, but I'm more concerned about your gravy level.
    Homer: Now, wait a second! You doctors have been telling us to drink eight glasses of gravy a day!
    Dr. Hibbert: Well, you're a little confused.
    Homer: Oh, confused, would we?
  • "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": The subplot involves Homer trying to lose weight through sleep-learning using weight loss lessons on tape (he got sent a tape about increasing your vocabulary instead). Homer watches commercials for two products: the Good Morning Burger (eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, soaked in rich, creamery butter, and topped off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg) and a candy bar (pure milk chocolate with a layer of farm-fresh honey, sprinkled on four kinds of sugar, and dipped in rich, creamery butter.)
  • "E Pluribus Wiggum", season 19: Homer decides to eat a bunch of fast food before Marge starts him on his diet. Among the foods he eats is a cheese pizza which he adds french fries and a lobster as toppings. He shakes it up in a pizza box and then proceeds to eat the food while it's inside the box.
  • "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can": The Ribwich is so unhealthy that there is a scene (a Shout-Out to Requiem for a Dream) where we see barbecue sauce flowing in Homer's bloodstream and he develops a huge addiction to the product. It gets even worse when the Ribwich has a label with Krusty saying "Will Cause Early Death". Un(?)fortunately, the sandwich gets taken off the market when the creature used to make it goes extinct. We know little about it, except that it was small and had more than four legs.
  • "She of Little Faith":
    • Homer makes Bart add butter to his bacon.
      Homer: So, you think you know better than this family, huh? Well, as long as you're in my house, you'll do what I do and believe what I believe! So butter your bacon!
      Bart: Yes, father.
    • He then orders Bart to wrap his bacon around his sausage.
      Homer: Bacon up that sausage, boy!
      Bart: But dad, my heart hurts!
      [Homer glares at him, Bart reluctantly complies]
  • "King-Size Homer": Homer intentionally wants to gain weight (just to get out of work for being obese) and at least half the stuff he eats is this trope; the rest verging on inedible. Doctor Nick offers the pointer that, if he's uncertain about a food, just rub it on a piece of paper — if it turns clear, "it's your way to weight gain!" At one point in the episode, Bart tests a fish sandwich by rubbing it against a wall. It works.
  • "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 Powersauce Bar, a power snack made from apples that Ranier Wolfcastle endorses. It later turns out the Powersauce 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.
  • "Bart Sells His Soul": Moe turns his tavern into a restaurant where everything is deep-fried. He purchases an Army surplus deep fryer that he claims can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds (which still isn't fast enough for Homer's tastes). He also runs a commercial showing an entire dinner for two, on the tray, being dunked into a fryer. One of the customers then eats part of the deep-fried wine bottle.
  • "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?": Homer becomes a Caustic Critic and is driving restaurants out of business with his reviews, so a bunch of restaurant owners get together and plot to kill him. The French chef proposes using one of these, an éclair dubbed "La Bombe". Over a million calories, with 25 pounds of butter per square inch, and covered in chocolate "so dark light cannot escape its surface". And just in case all of the calories and fat aren't enough to kill him, they poison the thing for good measure. Being told that it's poisoned doesn't dissuade Homer from trying to eat it, but being told it's low-fat does.
  • When Marge tells him he is going to live with regret of not spending enough time with the kids when he is old, Homer shrugs it off as there are a lot of things he doesn't envy future Homer for. He then proceeds to down a mix of vodka and mayonnaise, knocking him out in seconds.
  • The Simpsons Movie gives us Krusty Burger's latest burger, the Clogger. "If you can find a greasier sandwich, you're in Mexico." There's also one of the Burger King tie-in commercials made to promote the movie where Krusty pleads for the viewers to ignore the Whopper in favor of his "deep-fried with love Krusty Burger": As in, the ENTIRE BURGER is deep-fried, bun, toppings and all, resulting in a horrific, grey, fat-soaked mess.
  • When the family visits a boardwalk fair in one episode, there had recently been a "truth in advertisement" legislation passed, forcing the vendors to be open about their products. One of them was deep-fried dough; "America's worst legal food! Never leaves your body!"
  • "The Heartbroke Kid": Springfield Elementary signs a deal with a vending machine company to install their "Scammer and Z-Dog" machines in the school for the children to buy snacks and sodas from. The problem is that the snacks are insanely unhealthy (one of the ingredients is partially de-weaponized plutonium), and Bart ends up becoming morbidly obese after he gets addicted and wants to subsist entirely on them.
  • In one episode, Homer buys a carnival food maker and uses it to create a giant ball of cotton candy covered in caramel and frying oil. He describes it as "85 pounds of tooth-melting sugar".
  • "My Life as a Vlog" features one made by Marge (of all people) for her Hot Ones-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", deserves special mention: it's 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.
• South Park:
  • Double Dew (with twice the caffeine and sugar of Mountain Dew) in "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining". Then, it subverted the trope with Diet Double Dew (with half the caffeine and sugar as regular Double Dew).
  • "Weight Gain 4000", a protein shake marketed as a "bulk-up" formula for people looking to gain weight. It contains 4,000 grams of saturated fats, and according to the very quick disclaimer at the end of the ad, "may cause irreversible damage to the kidneys and liver". Cartman quadruples in size from subsisting entirely on the shake for little over a week, thinking that his massive weight gain is all muscle.
  • "Fat Camp": Cartman makes a "toaster pastry chocolate-mix butter ball", which consists of taking a stick of butter, rolling it in chocolate milk mix, and then sandwiching it between two Pop-Tarts. It should perhaps not be surprising why he ends up sent to the titular camp.
  • South Park (Not Suitable For Children): Cred is a popular sports drink that, in spite of being claimed to be healthy due to having zero sugar, is implied to be made with numerous ingredients and chemicals that don't make it very safe for consumption. A kid even outright mentions in the commercial that he can't feel his face anymore after drinking so much. It is however stated to not be meant for children, not that it stops them from drinking it anyway.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • "Pickles": Bubble Bass's order. Not only is almost all of his Hash House Lingo based in reality, his order has been decoded and even defictionalized. The result is a towering monstrosity consisting of twenty-four beef patties, twenty-four slices of cheese, and extra helpings of toast, onions, and every single condiment, that is so tall that it can't even stand upright by itself, and is much too large for one person to eat in one sitting, producing something that is equal parts this trope and Awesome, but Impractical.
  • "Just One Bite" features a customer ordering "a king-size Ultra Krabby Supreme with the works, double-batter deep-fried, on a stick." It appears to be a very well-stacked hamburger fried until it looks more like a golden-brown cylinder. He also eats it with mayonnaise... as in, he squirts the mayo into the back of his throat. Squidward regards the guy with absolute contempt.
  • "Greasy Buffoons": Mr. Krabs and Plankton end up in a war of increasingly greasy foods. This includes a Krabby Patty with twice the grease of a normal Patty poured onto it and then the buns are also soaked in grease. Eventually, the two are just serving pure grease on a plate. Spongebob eventually puts his foot down when he sees what such disgustingly unhealthy food is doing to the customers and calls in the health inspector to shut it all down.
  • 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", and gorging himself on them caused his thighs to swell up before exploding. In The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water, 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.
• Teen Titans Go!: "Real Boy Adventures" gives us the "El Burdigato Supreme", a fusion of a taco, a burger, a hotdog, and a pizza.
• Totally Spies!: Passion Patties are made with a "highly concentrated sugar extract" that causes them to be ridiculously addictive after a single bite and highly fattening. People who keep eating the cookies gradually become obese after only a few days. In fact, when Dr. Inga Bittersweet, the woman who invented Passion Patties, is force-fed an entire vial of her extract, she grows obese in seconds.
• Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: "Hug Fest", as part of a "Brave the Ride" Plot where Poppy takes Branch to his first Hug Fest and wants to go on a particular ride (a combination drop tower and bungee jump), Branch tries to stall for time by going to the food court and ordering whatever will take him the longest to eat. The server offers him a "Snuggler", which is a hot dog surrounded in a cupcake, which is then covered in three types of cheese, put into a brownie, and the whole thing caked in a massive ball of fried batter. Branch immediately loses his appetite after receiving it.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: "Lucky Duck" features Quacker Jacks, a ridiculously unhealthy snack food sponsored by Quacky the Duck, whose ingredients involve a ton of trans fats and artificial bacon cheese. So unhealthy, that when Dudley wins a lifetime supply of them, he's only given two boxes, because according to Quacky: "Well, with all the trans fats and fake bacon cheese, you can't eat more than two boxes and live."

Real Life

There's a lot of stuff in general that qualifies for this list, so this is merely some of the more notable cases:

• Don't get us started with the Bacon Sundae from Burger King. If you really must know, it's a cup of soft-serve vanilla ice cream wrapped in 2 strips of bacon, topped with bacon bits and caramel sauce.
• Keeping with the deep-fried theme, deep-fried Coca Cola is a thing. Soda is full of sugar and calories already, and the frying simply adds more of the same.
• The deep-fried Mars bar (or other candy bar of your choice), frequently held as a symbol of unhealthy Scottish consumption.
• If it exists, someone has tried to deep-fry it. For example: deep-fried butter and deep-fried Kool Aid.
• One enterprising man figured out how to deep fry water, by encasing it in a membrane made of calcium alginate, then coating it in flour, egg and breadcrumbs before lowering it into the fryer! The end result is quite interesting to see, since the coating is cooked to a perfect golden brown, while the water inside doesn't evaporate.
• The Wendy's Baconator is perhaps one of the more infamous examples, containing literally nothing but two half-pound burger patties, cheese, ketchup, mayonnaise, and six strips of bacon. In fact, it isn't uncommon to see said burger basically melting in the paper due to the sheer amount of fat packed into it.
  • Ironically, Dave's Triple is actually even less healthy than the Baconator, but is significantly less iconic.
  • IHOP's Bacon Cheeseburger is also largely even more unhealthy than the Baconator; due to containing less protein and more saturated fat, along with what appears to generally be a smaller set of nutrients.
• Subway ironically features numerous examples of this, but the most notable and readily available one is easily its (iconic and classic) Spicy Italian sandwich, which (not counting the vegetables and related things that you can add to it) is basically just pure fat, sodium and cholesterol (cheese and salami, to be more precise) in a loaf of bread; naturally, its Ultimate version makes the original look healthy by comparison, especially when the Cheesy Garlic Bread that Subway invented specifically for it is used in order to make it.
  • In some jurisdictions Subway bread has been classified as a pastry due to the amount of sugar it contains.
• Nearly all of the food that is sold at Six Flags parks, complete with being generally terrible and (for non-members) grossly over-priced; major highlights include funnel cakes and their Takis Zombie Nachos.
• Whataburger's Monterey Melt (not counting its grilled onions and peppers) contains basically nothing but hamburger meat and a disgustingly massive amount of cheese and ranch sauce; surely enough, it also contains 125% of saturated fat's Daily Value, along with 120% of regular fat's and 88% of sodium's.
• The KFC Double Down has a reputation as this for being a sandwich where the "bun" is two pieces of fried chicken. However, the only things inside the sandwich are a few strips of bacon and some cheese sauce; perfectly normal toppings you would find on a normal fast-food burger or chicken sandwich. If they added a bun to it, or if they separated the halves and marketed it as the "2-Piece Chicken Fillet Meal" or whatever, then it would not be regarded as anything special despite being just as unhealthy.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic has a penchant for food like this, as featured on UHF and The Weird Al Show. Most famous is his love for Twinkie-Wiener Sandwiches — a hot dog stuffed into a sliced Twinkie, topped with spray cheese. Weird Al has stated that since he's a vegetarian now, he uses tofu dogs these days.
• Double Stuf Oreos, which were eventually exaggerated with Mega Stuf Oreos, cookies with three times the creme filling of a normal Oreo. Inevitably, they were overtaken by Most Stuf Oreos, which contain four times as much creme as the normal Oreo cookie.
• Even more of a nightmare is deep-fried Oreos.
• Chocolate-covered wavy Lay's potato chips. The recommended serving size is just three potato chips. They come in bags that are normally only used for "single-serving/snack-size" (which can fit about 15 or so chips), so if you aren't paying attention (or just don't care), you could very well accidentally eat over 800 calories' worth of grease, salt, potato, and chocolate in one sitting.
• Nevada's Heart Attack Grill is based around this trope. Lard-cooked fries, butter fat shakes, burgers with anywhere from one to eight beef patties with calorie counts easily skyrocketing into the high thousands and ten thousands (they do offer some vegan options, however— they're all packs of cigarettes). Customers who weigh over 350 pounds can weigh in with staff for a free meal—specifically as a way to make them wonder what they're doing with their life. The Heart Attack Grill has actually claimed at least one patron. And at least one employee. What makes this all especially ironic is that it was founded by disgruntled fitness guru Jon Basso as a form of protest towards the fitness industry; he later moved on to advertise with criticism towards the fast food industry as a whole, saying unlike them, he's made it clear that his food will put you in an oversized casket.
• Both the website and the blog called This is Why You're Fat is full of these, ranging from simple deep-fried foods to combinations of already unhealthy foods that become the food equivalent of Frankenstein's monster. Examples of the latter from both sites include breakfast cookies (potato patties filled with ham, bacon, and cheese) and the "El Nino" (A pepperoni pizza folded taco-style and stuffed with ground beef, sauteed onions, sour cream, lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese).
• The Luther Burger (see The Boondocks example above) is basically a hamburger with glazed doughnuts in place of buns.
• A blogger decided to eat all the meals offered by Denny's in their cross-promotion to Fantastic Four (2015), totaling nearly 6000 calories and copious amounts of sugar and fat. He acknowledged most was tasty if overkill, to the point two (a skillet featuring a sausage as long as the fork, and a three-egg/four-cheese omelette) ended up only half-eaten.
  • 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. Its only real perk is 40g of protein but it's otherwise nutritionally empty.
• Death by Chocolate is actually a variety of high-calorie cakes, as seen here.
• The deep-fried Twinkie - as if Twinkies weren't unhealthy enough by themselves. Now in chocolate as well! It used to be only found at county and state fairs, until Hostess released the recipe. (Make them at your own risk.) They even sell them in stores now; check the frozen desserts.
• Any North American stadium will have at least one of those available. Specially baseball parks.
• Somewhere in the mists of Portland, Oregon, there exists a lunch cart called Brunchbox which serves the "Redonkadonk", a legendarily unhealthy sandwich. It's not just the contents of the sandwich—a burger patty, ham, bacon, cheese, egg, and Spam—that put it in the two thousand-plus calorie range; it's the fact that there isn't any bread. The fillings are placed between two whole grilled cheese sandwiches on extra-thick Texas toast. The Redonkadonk even has its own page on The Other Wiki!
• The California-based burger chain In-N-Out allows you to order an "m x n", where m is how many beef patties you want and n is how many slices of cheese you want; for example, a 3 x 3 has 3 patties and 3 cheese slices. Customers used to be able to order ludicrously big burgers such as a 20 x 20, and one customer ordered a 100 x 100. Since then, the chain has limited burger sizes to a reasonable though still incredibly unhealthy 4 x 4.
• There are actually foods that seem unhealthy, but subvert this, at least depending on how you look at it. For example, fried chicken is actually pretty low-carb; it's considered bad for you simply because it's fried. (Granted, frying doesn't make it better, but it does less harm than you'd expect.) Likewise, there are "health foods" that actually aren't that great for your health. Just look at low-fat foods; we assume they're good because we associate "fat" with "unhealthy". Not all fats are bad though, and by removing that fat, the flavor is also removed. So what do they put in there to get the flavor back? Sugar. It's worth pointing out that even without the added sugar, such "health foods" aren't necessarily healthy. "Protein poisoning" (sometimes colloquially called "rabbit sickness", because historically a major way people got it was by eating nothing but rabbit for their meat) is caused by not eating enough fat. It turns out fat tastes good because humans need it (in moderation) to live. Who knew?
  • This extends to salt as well; eat too much of it and you risk high blood pressure, but an unintended effect of companies trying to cut down on using it (sometimes by cutting too much) means the food doesn't taste very flavoursome, so people have to dump obscene amounts of salt on it themselves instead.
    • While excess sodium increases blood pressure and makes your body waterlogged, the lack of sodium is an emergency that can kill you way faster and way more painfully than any cardiovascular disease would, because sodium is vital in transmitting nerve impulses across the body. Hyponatriemia, as the condition is called, can lead to very painful seizures, coma and even death if not treated immediately. And the fact is, without added salt, human diet consists of barely enough sodium to skirt it. Which is why our bodies are wired to see the salt as tasty and seek it out wherever possible, which leads to the same Morton's Fork as with the fats.
• Convenience store chain QuikTrip now offers maple bacon milkshakes. They're as delicious and evil as you'd think.
• Originally considered nothing more than a satirical example of foods like this, Bacon ice cream was made a reality by celebrity chef and gastronomist Heston Blumenthal. It's actually one of the less unhealthy foods on this list, and tastes surprisingly good, despite seeming like it wouldn't work as a combination.
• The francheezie, served at some restaurants in Chicago, consists of a hot dog split in half, filled with cheese, wrapped in bacon, and deep-fried.
• Before they closed, Hot Doug's Sausage Superstore and Encased Meat Emporium had some creative offerings as well. The standout was probably the duck-meat sausage sprinkled with chunks of foie gras (even after it was banned in Chicago—long story). With a basket of duck-fat fries, if you were a truly proud American.
• Arby's has an item called the Meat Mountain. From the website: "Stacked ridiculously high with almost all the meats. Two chicken tenders, slices of roast turkey, pit-smoked ham, corned beef, 13-hour smoked brisket, USDA-choice Angus steak, roast beef, and pepper bacon. There’s also cheddar and Swiss cheese somewhere in there." The finished product contains at least 3 grams of sodium amid a mound of deli meat so big it tends to destroy the wrapping it comes in.
  • Which is not as bad compared to other examples on this page — basically, about 1.5 times the whole recommended daily intake. The fats department is even more benign — the whole >1 lb sandwich contains barely two ounces of fat — right on the line for the recommended daily intake. So if you only eat one Meat Mountain a day, and nothing else, the only bad thing it would do to you is limiting other usable nutrients like dietary fiber (it contains enough carbs as it is).
• State fairs are infamous for selling foods like this, usually a deep-fried dessert of some kind (which is where the deep-fried twinkies originated). Two writers from Cracked sampled copious amounts of fair food. Notable examples are the deep-fried bubblegum, deep-fried peanut butter cups, donut grilled cheese sandwiches, corn dogs as long as your forearm (not including the stick), fried chicken breaded with Red Velvet cake mix...
  • It doesn't even have to be deep-fried. Try a large slab of cheesecake, dipped in chocolate, and then wrapped in multiple slices of bacon. You can gain weight just thinking about it...
• The Defibrillator sandwich; its ingredients are an angus beef burger, topped with deep-fried pickles, deep-fried cheese curds, deep-fried bacon slices, and cheddar cheese, all stuffed between two grilled cheese sandwiches.
• The Munchy Box, a popular food among young adults in Glasgow, is a large box stuffed with a variety of foods, usually quite greasy and salty, such as fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, doner kebab, chow mein, onion rings, and garlic bread. Naturally, Munchy Boxes contain a pretty large amount of calories, namely from fat, and a lot of sodium. US chain Jack in the Box spun off the concept into their Munchie Meals, similar in spirit and consists of an appropriately-themed sandwich (such as a hamburger whose bun is buttered sourdough, or a chicken sandwich with tater tots, cheese, a cream sauce, and with a croissant for a bun), French fries, curly fries, and their signature deep-fried tacos.
• Speaking of Scotland, there's also the Scotch egg, which is a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat or bacon, then coated in bread crumbs and deep-fried. It is not actually Scottish though, having been invented in England, likely inspired either by Kofta or similar dishes encountered by British soldiers in India. That being said, it's one of the UK's most beloved snack foods; both full size and miniature Scotch eggs around a quarter the size of the original are a familiar sight in British supermarkets.
• The RU Hungry Sandwich Stand of New Brunswick, New Jersey offers "fat sandwiches": essentially large subs with 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 Man v. Food, you can even add a creation of your own to the menu if you succeed in finishing five of them in a time limit.
• Big Mama and Papa's pizza has the infamous Giant Sicilian: a colossal 52 x 52 pizza made from 20 pounds of dough and topped with 1 1/2 gallons of tomato sauce, 12 pounds of cheese, and up to 30 toppings!
• For those with a massive Sweet Tooth, Ben & Jerry's has the Vermonster: A bucket filled with 20 scoops of ice cream, 4 bananas, 3 cookies, a brownie, 2 servings of hot fudge and/or caramel sauce, 10 scoops of chopped walnuts if you aren't allergic, whipped cream and 2 spoonfuls of 4 of your favorite toppings.
• Denny's Beer Barrel is a pub in Pennsylvania known for making some truly massive burgers. Their biggest burger, the "Main Event" Burger, is 125 pounds!
• The "Fool's Gold loaf", a sandwich from the Colorado Mining Company (a restaurant in Denver, Colorado) was made famous by Elvis, when he discussed it one night with his friends, the two police officers from Denver, and felt a sudden craving for it. The men then flew all way from Graceland to Denver in Elvis's private plane, had a bunch of sandwiches delivered to a special hangar — since all three were basically the friends of the restaurant's owners — and ate them for three hours, washed down with Perrier and champagne, before flying back to Memphis without ever leaving the airport. The encore; a single Fool's Gold Loaf is a whole loaf of Italian (or French) bread, hollowed out and filled with a whole jar of smooth peanut butter, a whole jar of grape or blueberry jelly and a pound of crispy fried bacon, clocking at about 8000 calories and costing (in '76) a whole 50 bucks, about $230 in current dollars. Elvis and the gang ate at least TWENTY FIVE of them among the five (Elvis himself, his friends the cops, and his two pilots).
• While somewhat tamer than most of the IRL examples, the Monte Cristo sandwich consists of a grilled ham and swiss cheese sandwich made with French toast instead of regular bread, then dusted with powdered sugar, and served with jam or maple syrup. Also one of Elvis' favorites.
• The "Croque Monsieur" is a grilled ham and cheese with cream sauce, and its Distaff Counterpart, the "Croque Madame" has a fried egg on top (which resembles a lady's fancy hat, hence the name).
• The Noah's Ark burger, so named because it uses every kind of meat the restaurant has available, including two of every available burger patty type. A Something Awful member once bought one of these from Burger King. The best he could say about the purchase and attempted consumption of it was that he managed to not throw up.
• The Hot Brown is an iconic Louisville, Kentucky sandwich. Found in several restaurants around town, it originated at the Brown Hotel, hence the name. It consists of turkey, bacon, and sliced tomato on Texas-style toast, drenched in Mornay (cheese) sauce and served in a casserole dish. The original Chick-Fil-A in Hapeville, Georgia (also known as the Dwarf House) has a few items not on the regular chain menu, one being a variant of this sandwich — a small casserole of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and cheese with an appearance resembling a bowl of lard, topped with bacon and toast. Some of the local college students consider it a ritual challenge to eat one sans utensils.
• The Horseshoe Sandwich is a specialty unique to Springfield, Illinois. It's a belly-busting monster consisting of some kind of meat (traditionally hamburger patties) placed on top of Texas toast and french fries and covered with cheese sauce. A more manageable version, called the Pony Shoe Sandwich, is often available at establishments that sell this.
• Poutine is Quebec's most notable contribution to unhealthy eating. It's a dish consisting of french fries covered in cheese curds and blanketed in chicken gravy.
• A viral tweet of a photo of a Starbucks iced coffee drink with a comically long list of special requests, including but not limited to caramel drizzle, caramel sauce, caramel crunch, honey blend, extra whipped cream, extra ice, extra Frapp chips, and cinnamon topping.
• 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. ^note It should be noted that these types of protein-rich, high-calorie smoothies are marketed toward the bodybuilder crowd looking to bulk up after intense muscle-building, and most of Smoothie King's competitors offer similar products, but even by their standards it still packs quite a lot of sugar.
• While fruit juice is normally thought of (and marketed) as healthy, the truth is that it's essentially just a cup of sugar, without any of the fiber of actual fruit. Even 100% fruit juice is rather unhealthy. This article compares the calories and sugar between soda and juice, and the resemblance is striking. For example, Dole 100% pineapple juice has about 12 more calories per 100 mL than Dr. Pepper does, and the exact same amount of sugar.
• The milanesa is a well known popular food in Argentina which is made by pan rallado, garlic, parsley, salt and it is deep-fried. In fact, the milanesa was invented in Austria before the food became insanely popular in the former country.
• A secret item on the menu for the Canadian chain Tim Horton's is called the "Wayne Gretzky", in which a coffee has nine creams and nine sugars put into it based on Gretzky's 99-number hockey jersey; this clocks into about 1,000 calories, 78 grams of sugar, 84 grams of fat, and 276 milligrams of cholesterol.

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