Behemoth Breakfast Burrito of Champions :

Looking for an eye-opener that’ll clog your arteries? Maybe you want more fat by 10 a.m. than most people eat all day? If city breakfast has become boring with its yogurt and fruit parfaits and low-cal granola bars, then it’s time to break out the banjo, loosen your belt and belly up to Hardee’s newest morning monstrosity – the Country Breakfast Burrito.

Weighing in at a whopping 920 calories and 60 grams of fat, this hearty start to your day will crush the competition (and your calorie counting) with its massive girth.

According to the marketing wizards at Hardee’s, the new Country Breakfast Burrito has all the luxuries associated with a hearty country breakfast found in a sit-down establishment, but with one distinct advantage: “It makes this big country breakfast portable .”Finally, the people who gave us the 1,420-calorie Monster Thickburger and the 1,100-calorie chicken salad with 83 grams of fat have given us a gluttonous way to start our day in a hurry.

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If you’re lucky enough to live around a Hardee’s (which I haven’t seen since the mid 90s), then you can treat yourself to this big burrito which consists of two egg omelets loaded with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese and hash browns -- but it doesn’t stop there… because it “ain’t country” without a healthy dose of sausage gravy. And to make it portable (because who has time to sit down and eat a behemoth like that in the early hours) it’s all wrapped inside a flour tortilla.

I’m excited about the chance to start my day like my country farming forefathers, but I couldn’t help but wonder what the experts would say about this breakthrough in breakfast excess?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which called the Monster Thickburger “food porn,” was not as keen on the country-style breakfast as I was. Their senior nutritionist called the burrito “another lousy invention by a fast-food company.” She further explained that eating it would account for half a day’s calories and a full day's worth of saturated fat and salt.

She obviously didn’t get it, so I asked eDiets Senior Supervisor of Nutrition Support Tracey Ryan her opinion on the new massive morning meal.

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