This Is Why You're Fat
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Food was once the providence of celebrated chefs and critical connoisseurs. Cooking shows featured all gourmet creations and web sites displayed artfully photographed delights.
Then something changed.
Perhaps it was the desensitizing of web culture or perhaps it was a cry for help from the food-loving public. But by God - there came a day when fancy vegetable towers came crashing down and $50 mushrooms were no longer acceptable. Amason and Blakley wanted see the old stand-bys, the carnival foods of their childhoods, the sticky mess of a deep-fried candy bar, the indulgence of a greasy burger with all the fixins.
It was the birth of the nasty food web-trend. And it was delicious.
The website This is Why You′re Fat is an ode to this trend - whether seen as a commentary on North American dietary habits or a celebration of the deliciously bad - Amason and Blakey are devoted to the world′s newfound obsession with over-the-top food. Within its first month the site pulled in over ten million eye balls, and attracted major nation media including CNN. The world cooked, they listened.
www.thisiswhyyourefat.com
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
This Is Why You're Fat
“Warning: Don’t eat before, during or after you’ve seen this blog.”
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Time magazine
“Irresistible”
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Boing Boing
“If you dare to eat any of these, make sure you have a cardiologist on speed dial.”
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CNN.com
“I love me some This Is Why You’re Fat. It’s hardcore, wet and sloppy, extreme, take-no-prisoners, get down and dirty food porn. And I, for one, cannot get enough of it.”
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The Frisky
“This collection of “deliciously gross food” from across the blogosphere is simultaneously disgusting, fascinating, and sometimes perversely drool-inducing.”
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Chow Bella, Phoenix New Times
“The best blog ever”
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Los Angeles Times
“You will actually feel full just from looking at this.”
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MSNBC
“(This is why you’re fat) is exactly the type of hilarious, gross-out site that has to be shared to be believed and is a testament to how powerful social networking can be.”
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College Mogul
“There was one concoction that struck me as the perfect metaphor for Washington’s generational theft recipe... It’s Turbaconducken: A chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all wrapped in bacon.”
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Michelle Malkin, Syndicated Columnist and Commentator for Fox News, MSNBC, C-Span
We typically don’t like to associate with food porn, but the new site making the rounds today—This is Why You’re Fat—is just too good to resist.”
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Eater NY
“The trend here isn’t the food itself. We’ve been eating like crap for a long time. No, the trend is our interest in it—our inability to not read a story about the next big hamburger.”
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Trendhunter.com
“Be forewarned: You’ll experience one of two marked reactions. You’ll want to vomit from the grotesqueness of the “food” shown, or you’ll get an uncanny craving for a scoop of candied bacon ice cream (ew!) or a “McNuggetini,” an alcoholic milkshake garnished with barbeque sauce and chicken nuggets.”
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CityBeat.com
“Forget another day fighting the common cold. We’re not going to survive breakfast.”
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Winnipeg Sun
“This collection of artery-clogging deep-fried concoctions and weird food combinations range from the simple to the downright absurd.”
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Uptown Magazine
“Need a photographic reminder why you can’t fit into your skinny jeans? Maybe it’s the freakin’ Sloppy Joe you sandwiched between a Krispy Kreme. Meet the food blog that’ll make you sick with yourself.”
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Queerty.com
“Okay, maybe the title is a little offensive. But This Is Why You’re Fat is actually an accurate reflection of the blog: an amazing, updated-daily chronicle of the most artery-clogging meals in existence.”
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch Blog
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