OHMIGOD!
OK, do I have your attention? In a recent MSNBC article, I read the nurses are outraged by the "nurse" costumes worn by the staff at the Heart Attack Grill. THAT'S the controversy? The UNIFORMS?
Excuse ME!?
How about the food itself? Just the name should tell you 'stay away!' The article goes on to say, the Heart Attack Grill opened a year ago with a Hooters-like formula of red meat and sexy waitresses. Diners choose from among four cheeseburgers: the Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple Bypass. The Quadruple is a towering monstrosity with four half-pound beef patties, four pieces of cheese and a mound of bacon.
“Essentially, it’s nutritional pornography. It’s so bad for you it’s shocking,” Basso said.
Basso OWNS this place and calls his food "nutritional pornography"? Why nurse costumes, why not have the burger flingers wear undertaker outfits and pass the food out in little coffins? In a day and age where 2.6 MILLION people DIED prematurely last year across the globe because of Obesity and Overweight related causes, do we really need a restaurant peddling sure death and mocking it while they do?
I completely am for clever business ideas and companies making profits, but this just isn't funny and it is a HORRIBLE idea. They even do the extra step and offer wheelchair service to your car after eating their Guadruple Bypass burger! Their motto is "A taste worth DYING for!"--are they serious? They can't be. I swear I am ready to go ballistic on this one!
The only thing I find funny about this is that nurses are upset saying that nursing has too many sexual fantasies connected with it already. Ok, in a day and age where nursing units across the nation hold "Thunder Thigh Thursday" and many nurses are themselves overweight and in poor health--the UNIFORMS are what they are choosing to issue?
My challenge to the nursing profession and those threatening to sue the establishment over the sexy nurse costumes; get a backbone and take a stand on the really important issue! The fact that if people eat this crap, you are going to have more and more patients dying on your watch from Obesity and Overweight related causes and a few of them might even be your own peers.
If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem! I know I am right in what I am saying. I have more teachers and nurses as readers and clients than any other professions collectively. You are all "thanked" by patients, parents, administrative staff with FOOD! You know I am right and you know it is time to take a stand.
Nurses against nutritional pornography needs to be your cause, not nurses against naughty attire!
Carpe Diet!
Julia
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