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What Is This Is Why You're Fat?

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This Is Why You're Fat
  • Website: thisiswhyyourefat.com
  • Monthly Traffic: 227,917 visitors (as of 5/28/09)
  • Description: Pictures of incredibly unhealthy and fattening foods
  • Similar Websites: stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, icanhascheezburger.com

What Is This Is Why You're Fat?:

Sometimes it's best when a website focuses on doing one very simple thing very well. This Is Why You're Fat is one of those sites. It consists of daily updated pictures of insanely fattening foods that always serve to reinforce the site's name—THIS deep fried cheeseburger on a stick or THIS plate of tater tot nachos or THIS slice of bacon crust pizza with bacon is why you're fat. The site picked up a large following right at its inception and is being turned into a book.

This Is Why You're Fat Features:

  • Photos of ultra-decadent, fattening foods that are so disgusting they are funny
  • The option to submit your own photos of gross foods

Why Should I Visit This Is Why You're Fat?:

In an era where fitness and healthy foods rule the day, the mere existence of these dishes is comedy itself—who would ever eat something like the Junkyard Dog? Even if you indulge in fattening foods from time to time, much of what's featured on This Is Why You're Fat will still make you laugh—you won't find chicken wrapped in an entire coat of cheese and strips of bacon at many restaurants. So thank goodness for This Is Why You're Fat.

The Best of This Is Why You're Fat:

Here are some of the funniest dishes featured on the site:

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