"This Is Why You're Fat" photoblog

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This Is Why You're Fat is a photoblog of foods you really shouldn't eat but are somehow irresistible, to someone anyway. Above, "Meat(in)loaf," "Bacon And Fudge Danish Breakfast Sandwich," and "Deep Fried Tootsie Roll on a Stick." (Thanks, Jill Miller!)

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Tron #1 10:22 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

No ... this is why *you're* fat.

Enormo #2 10:31 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I'm pregnant! Asshole!

codereduk #3 10:33 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Eating is the new smoking.

allen #4 10:34 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

It's always so attractive to see people enjoying the opportunity to be scornful.

Inkstain #5 10:35 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

That page makes my heart hurt :(

clockbound #6 10:36 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Y'know, I've never really felt the need for a unicorn chaser before, but this... this comes close.

Ohhhsnap #7 10:39 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I ♥ food porn.

Fludzone #8 10:48 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I can thankfully say I have never had any of those, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't try some of the "healthier" ones. God only knows which ones those would be.

bookninja #9 10:50 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I understand it's for entertainment value, but the really sad thing is that none of the photos need to be this extreme. Just a package of Kraft Singles or a pizza pocket would be enough, and much closer to the truth.

JoshuaZ #10 10:52 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

So yummy looking...

Jake Bullet #11 10:55 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I'm fat, but I've never had any of these items before. I feel like I'm missing out.

Also, the "Meta-Pizza" from page 2 is ripped from an Onion podcast from a few years back: "Pizza Hut's New Pizza-Lover's Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas".

kengor #12 10:55 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Honestly, I would try some of these if it wasn't for all the sauce, chilli or cheese glopped over everything.

Steve Schnier #13 11:02 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

But surely... anything this delicious couldn't be bad for you. Now could it?

mdh #14 11:04 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

My heart just slowed down looking at those pics.


and @Allen, I see what you did there. Do you?

Big Ed Dunkel #15 11:05 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I like their motto: "Food, folks, and triple by-passes"

Abracapocus #16 11:08 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

"The Slinger" truly looks like a plate a vomit.

allen #17 11:11 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

@3 exactly.

@MDH
yup. it's true I am a hypocrite about that- but unapologetically so, much like I am intolerant of intolerance.

Falcon_Seven #18 11:12 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

The horror...the horror...

Blaven #19 11:12 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Most of that stuff made me want to vomit. But man, I've gotta have some of that chicken skin!

The Unusual Suspect #20 11:13 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Scotch eggs are a delicacy. Don't know why you'd put 'em on a stick though.

Just for the record, what makes you fat in this series of pictures is not the fat so much as the carbs.

The fat just gives you heart attacks.

bokehnon #21 11:13 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I love that tumblr dearly ... I just wish they were less rights grabby:

"You agree that when you send a Submission via email or upload to this Website, you grant Thisiswhyyourefat.com and its owners a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use the work. We may use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, distribute, publish, display or otherwise use it as we see fit, in our sole discretion. By making a Submission, you waive the right to make any claim against Thisiswhyyourefat.com, its owners or any of its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents, directors or officers."

And yes, they are looking a book deal.

Jugglepunk #22 11:31 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Urgh, people really eat like that? Almost everything there looks utterly unapetising. I thought I was unhealthy for having last night's chinese takeaway leftovers for lunch today, but it appears I am a health freak compared to that lot.

mdh #23 11:34 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

@allen - no offense intended, cleverly done.

Zaren #24 11:41 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I dunno, that bacon, ham, sausage, hotdog, bacon sausage, and pork belly creation sounds kinda tasty...

Stefan Jones #25 11:48 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

#6: Deep fried unicorn?

TroofSeeker #26 11:54 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I was pretty dang fat a couple years ago. Now I'm not. Not by dieting, not by an exercise regime.
I control my life by trends, because our lives are governed by trends anyway, so we may as well have a say in it.
I still eat all the same stuff; I just eat less of the bad crap- like one strip of bacon. Three cookies instead of thirty. I simply created a trend of eating less of the crap, and smaller meals. And more cereal. I think it's like tiny brooms sweeping the gunk out of my innards.

nanner #27 11:58 AM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

most of this doesn't even look like american food abominations. the only thing i found interesting was the loaf-of-many-birds...i think it said it has breast meat from 48 different types of birds!

freshyill #28 12:16 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

@20 It's the calories.

Antinous / Moderator #29 12:17 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I am by no means immune to the charms of men with some meat on their bones, but I am not going to kiss someone whose breath smells like Fryolator grease and corn syrup. That food is just gross.

malex #30 12:37 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I believe the correct name for the leftmost item is "meatbread"

Iason #31 12:38 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I admit to being personally responsible for the Corndog Pizza. Allow me to testify. It was delicious.

palindrome #32 12:55 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

How can you deny the beauty of the Taco Town Taco? Look at that, it's genius. This is human ingenuity at its finest.

Or the twinkie weiner sandwich (though its precise and correct name is the twinkie weiner-dog sandwich and the mug of milk for dipping is missing), how can you not love that?

jerkzilla #33 1:15 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

And yet I'd rather attempt to eat any one of these abominations than have "Better Than Cream Cheese" touch my tounge ever again.

t3hmadhatter #34 1:37 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

i second the request for a unicorn. that stuff is sick. bleh...

thekinginyellow #35 1:39 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

good to see a twinkie wiener sandwich on the list. i am totally watching UHF this weekend!

mypalmike #36 1:42 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

#26

When you go from 30 cookies to 3 cookies, that IS dieting.

uberunit #37 3:25 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Food Porn...*drool*

TroofSeeker #38 3:39 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

>"...When you go from 30 cookies to 3 cookies, that IS dieting."

Technically, whatever you eat is your diet.
I just meant that I hadn't eliminated anything. My point was that lifestyle trends can be more effective than attempts at drastic self deprivation.

Zieroh Tardy #39 3:40 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Yes, those things will make you fat.

No, not for the reasons that everyone thinks.

Meat is not bad for you. Neither is fat, for that matter. I am hopeful that someday Americans will have a better understanding of nutrition, including a healthy fear of easily digestible carbohydrates.

It'll happen, someday.

xaxa #40 4:08 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

The meat-in-loaf was made in the UK! (You can tell by the socket in the background.) I was hoping it was all American.

Most of those things make me feel ill, I don't think I could eat more than a mouthful of most of them.

adonai #41 5:12 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Wow, the link has been...Boing Boing'd :)

Lori DiPatri #42 5:28 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I wouldn't even know where to purchase some of the things listed. Just looking at some of the pictures makes one sick :(

apoxia #43 5:45 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I'd totally eat snickers pie.

nottheradio #44 5:46 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Fried guacamole. Oh happy day.

Metlin #45 6:37 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

Am I the only one who thinks that all those things look particularly nasty and disgusting?

Of course, that could be because I'm vegan and all those things seem to contain either meat, eggs or milk.

LOSERKID #46 7:49 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

hells to the yeah food

soupisgoodfood #47 8:25 PM Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Reply

I've had that page bookmarked for nearly a month. Whenever I have a craving for junk food, I visit it. Seems to work for me, but I'm far from big in the first place -- I just have a bad diet.

Jack #48 1:02 AM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

My God, it's full of brown!

dexdoomsday #49 1:09 AM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

Really you had a problem with the meat loaf cake?

Really?

Damn Haters

More for me

minamisan #50 1:34 AM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

the only thing missing from that blog is recipes.

susanberkley #51 12:19 PM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

I am now fatter just for having looked.

MrWest #52 2:28 PM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

My arteries are clogging up just looking at this massive calorie demolition of heart failure.

ridl #53 11:55 PM Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 Reply

I kept hoping it would have a ranch-drenched cheese-and-tater-tots-and-blood-pudding stuffed deep-fried cows' heart, for symbolism's sake. Alas, I was disappointed.

Someone get on that, please.

Also: for some reason I feel fairly certain that site will be the only surviving piece of the internet in 500 years, which is why time travel to our era will be banned, which would explain all the lack of time travelers around.

You have to admit it makes an eerie kind of sense.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden #54 2:33 AM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

You know, it kinda does.

Alternately, we're living in the aftermath of the hugely complicated time travel paradox story that ends with a single fiendishly clever maneuver that wipes out all previous evidence of time travel.

TroofSeeker #55 8:48 AM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

Yes, there are tight restrictions on time travel, but they do it when they must intervene. Like with JFK. After he stood down the commies and made the missile boats return to Moscow, he got a big head, and invaded Cuba, then Kamchatka, and triggered World War Three, and 1/3 of the world's population was wiped out, and the fallout was slowly killing the oceans and flora. The Time Commitee had to intervene and sent a man back to take Kennedy out before the invasions.
Lincoln declared himself Monarch (at Mary's persistant nagging), the South revolted again and won, reinstated slavery, so they had to take Abe out. John Lennon, too. King of Newer York. Bang bang.

TroofSeeker #56 9:10 AM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

I'm sorry. That was way off topic. You're not supposed to know those things, so I'm being ordered to retract those statements and assure you that they were the nonsensical ramblings of a disturbed mind.
We return you now to discussion of obscenely indulgent cuisine.

arkizzle / Moderator #57 10:09 AM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

Too late Troof. We're on our way.

/Setting time machine for Troof's house

TroofSeeker #58 11:52 AM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

Arkie- I suspected you were with them. I invited my evil twin over, while I lay low in the bunker. I just know you won't believe that, so Ha! Shoot him and save me the trouble- he's always infecting my hard drive with viruses from porn sites.

arkizzle / Moderator #59 12:37 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

/Resetting coordinates to "Bunker".
/Awaiting Time Target confirmation.

TroofSeeker #60 1:41 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

HA! I've got no evil twin, but I've got a bunker now! ...except that our kitchen is falling into it. Dang.

arkizzle / Moderator #61 2:22 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

/Fuck it.. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

TroofSeeker #62 6:21 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

I'll stand on the front lawn and catch it if you'll ride the bomb like Slim Pickins. d8^)

Detroit Indian #63 9:39 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

I don't get the deep fried guacamole. Whats the point of that?

brie #64 11:07 PM Sunday, Mar 22, 2009 Reply

Bacon chocolate chip cookies and Baconaise both delicious...I want to try.

Frank W #65 9:14 AM Monday, Mar 23, 2009 Reply

The Great Old Ones raise humans as food for the Shoggoths. That is “Why You're Fat”.

Xopher #66 11:11 AM Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009 Reply

I have the Demetry Martin version of a time machine: it only goes forward at one second per second.

A bit fast for my taste these days, actually.

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