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Heart attacks: Now marked down to $10
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
March 9, 2009

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While other restaurants have gotten all soft, offering up "healthy" menu items and banning trans fats, one Arizona eatery is fighting back against the PC food police.

Welcome to the Heart Attack Grill, where you can get a 8,000 calorie four patty burger and if you order a diet soda, you will be laughed at. And should you weigh over 350 pounds, you can eat your Quadruple Bypass Burger, Flatliner Fries (deep fried in pure lard no less) and Jolt Cola for free (and then have an unfiltered cigarette afterward).

God Bless America.

Naturally, with a place that prides itself on just how unhealthy their menu is, public uproar is bound to rear its ugly head. But as the old saying goes, there is no such thing as bad publicity and according to this article, the restaurant is turning the negative press into big business. They are looking into expanding, perhaps even becoming a franchise.

They have even spurred on their own dance craze, courtesy of a YouTube video (which is posted on the left for your viewing pleasure).

With obesity quickly becoming one of America's biggest health problems (pun kind of intended), I can understand why people are up in arms about this. But still, at the same time, it makes me a bit proud to be an American when I see a clever businessman pull off something like this.

America may be fat, but we still got it when it comes to ingenuity.