Fast Food and Faster Women

Sizzling hot: Kate Upton as fast food femme fatale in Carl Jr.'s latest commercial.

 Oh and there's a burger in the ad too.

Just as I was starting to feel good about skipping meat this Friday here comes Kate Upton. The 19-year old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2012 cover girl stars in a tantalizingly slow minute-long Carl's Jr.and Hardee's drive-in commercial where she loses herself (and some articles of clothing) while savoring their new Southwest Patty Melt Thickburger.

See Kate as she lustily unwraps her burger. See Kate as the camera wanders up and down her body, beads of sweat collecting between the folds of her polkadot dress. Watch as she smacks her glossy lips between bites of  a charbroiled beef patty with sliced jalapeños, onions, pepper-Jack cheese, and all of it bathed in a spicy Santa Fe sauce. Grilled sourdough bread is used for the buns. 

Buns...

Ahem. Yes. Anyway. Check out the video.

In the meantime I'm having tofu and steamed broccoli for dinner. Life isn't fair.

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KaBLAM! for your Buck: KFC Double Down Zinger

by Jon

Some writers dilly-dally over the minute details of food - the tiptoeing of flavor in their mouths or the niceties of tableware. Sometimes they might whine about how the food is not too authentic, too 'gourmet'. *cough* Ryan *cough*. This is not that blog series.

Welcome to KaBLAM! for your Buck, my personal segment here at Forkplay. You've heard from Twinkle, Bianca, and Ryan, but it's taken me some time do my own research. What that research is involves the return of a fearsome beast! It's the Meat that Repeats! The Dean of Protein!  The Chicken that Takes a Biting and Keeps on... uh... Fighting! I am of course referring to KFC's heart-stopping Double Down. A "sandwich" which KFC claimed had so much chicken, there wasn't room for a bun.

The beast is back and better than ever

When the Double Down first came out in 2010, people were shocked. Puny mortals. They don't know true power when it's theirs to be claimed in calorie-laden splendor. But where others would back off or take a few measly bites, I knew a new king had arrived. Hide your children - the Double Down is back in a spicy Zinger variant.

I could go on about health facts, calories, sodium levels and whatnot, but honestly, if you're even thinking about eating a Double Down Zinger (DDZ), the only two things in your mind should be 1) how fucking awesome it'll be, and 2) how much exercise you're gonna have to do to make up for eating it. Seriously. You'll have to go through some serious punishment at the gym just to cancel this bad boy out, but if you ask me, it is damn worth it at just Php 120.00. Nowhere has meat been so packed since that video I downlo- Anyway that's besides the point. You haven't lived until you've had the DDZ.

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