That's One Juicy Burger!

I found an interesting question in the "Call the Courier" section of today's Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. "Call the Courier" is a daily column in the Courier which invites people to call the paper to ask questions. The paper will then research some of the questions and report on the answers. A lot of the questions simply serve to show people's stupidity, such as the question asking what number to call in order to temporarily stop delivery of the paper. How about checking the phone numbers inside the first page? Duh! Another large share of the questions are asked in such a way that they reveal the motives of their questioners. Anyway, there was one question in the paper that I found interesting. It wasn't so much that the question was interesting, but the editorial comment in the answer that made the item amusing.

Q: Who is the woman who plays on the Hardee's commercial riding the mechanical bull?

A: The actress in that commercial --- which, if Courier office opinion is any guide, women tend to hate and men tend to love --- is Cameron Richardson, according to a staff member at the Hardee's PR department.

In case you haven't seen the commercial, it features a rather attractive woman riding a mechanical bull while holding a Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger. I have to say that I would definitely agree with the paper's office opinion poll. The commercial, while it has a burger in it, does not focus too much on it, but this seems to fit in with Hardee's latest advertising campaign which tends to target men. It must be working. I had one of these burgers last week, and I probably will have one again. I just can't eat them too often as each one has 876 calories. Add a small order of french fries (which was "medium" when I worked there years ago) to that and the meal has a whopping 1270 calories! That's over half of the calories that I allow myself to eat in a single day.