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WotD: Poster child
It’s not very often that I get stumped, but I had a hard time coming up with a way to explain poster child.
Then I got an idea.
In yesterday’s post, I discussed dessert and mentioned that some people eat as much as they want and get away with it.
Well, in this post, I’ll discuss a restaurant that encourages customers to eat until they can no longer eat.
This place is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it’s called Heart Attack Grill.
This restaurant is the poster child for overeating, overindulgence, unhealthy eating and a burger with over nineteen thousand nine hundred something calories.
Before we go any deeper, we should all know what poster child means.
Originally, it was a picture of a sick child.
Charitable movements and causes used the images to encourage people to donate to or volunteer their time.
The meaning has changed over time.
Now, poster child means someone or something, which is an excellent example of something.
Right now, Shohei Otani is the poster child of Japanese baseball in the States.
Now, let me get back to food.
There is an idiom which goes an apple a day and keeps the doctor away.
It means that if you eat healthily, you won’t have to visit the doctor.
Heart Attack Grill is the polar opposite of this advice.
This place is wild.
I guess we could call it a death-by-eating restaurant.
It’s the poster child of unhealthy eating.
Some of their restaurant menu items are Flatliner Fries, as in when you’re on a heart monitor in the hospital, and the green line is flat because you are dead.
Then there’s the Butterfat Shake, and the last one I’ll mention is the Quadruple Bypass Burger.
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Well, if you eat one of those burgers, you may not be able to leave the restaurant or Vegas again.
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