Would you like a Pounder?

It has been a long week. The crazy hours continue at work and I have gone from not eating lunch at work to just not eating much. My wife and I wanted to just splurge and just eat a meal. We decided to go to Cheeburger Cheeburger. Where Big is Better!

I ate there a long time ago and thought it would be good place to go get a burger. If you never have been its a 50's style restaurant that servers burgers, fries, onion rings and shakes and oh yeah Pepsi.

We sit down and look at the menu. Granted I did not even go online to see the points value. I just wanted to go and have dinner. Looking around I see lots of pictures and signs on the wall about the Pounder.

Cheeburger Cheeburger is often recognized for its "Pounder" burger, which is a huge 20 ounces of pure beef. If an individual successfully consumes said burger in its entirety, their picture is taken holding a stuffed fabric "Pounder" and hung on that restaurant's "Wall of Fame." (per Wikipedia).

I am looking at the menu trying to figure out what to get and the waiter of course suggests The Pounder.

Back in the day I would be all about a picture of me and eating a biggie sized 20 oz burger. Nowadays I am no longer that type of guy.

So I order the Serious Burger (10 oz burger) and I splurged on cheese and the Mrs and I decided on getting fries for old time sake.

Amazing how times have changed. In the past I would have killed the basket of fries. This time I think we ate 15 fries. I was just not wanting them. They were good, but I'll take a Sunlite potato any day. Since we do not deprive ourselves on The Plan it really helps with craving or not wanting to over indulge.

Ok back to my story... I ordered and the waiter brought me my Diet Pepsi. One of the waiters screams out loud: "King Aurthur could not dominate the Pounder, but this man has!" At that moment our waiter "Tom" says to me: If you eat a Pounder I could do a speech about you and take a picture of you and put you on the wall.

After he said it, my wife looks at me and I just looked pissed. It bothered me that this guy thinks just cause I am big that I am all about the Pounder and eating. Yes I know good assumption. Yes I like eating and yes I could have eaten the Pounder. However I am not that man anymore.

I was fuming. It did not help that some other guy had a Pounder and "Tom" was all about me ordering one. Maybe "Tom"gets an extra bonus for every Pounder he up sells?

I am a Hispanic man (I look Italian). I have never really been profiled and rarely have experienced racism towards me. I can say however that I have been stereotyped as the "Big" Guy all the time. It sucks!

I still have a long way to go and I cannot wait to shed some more of the Pounders off of me.

To see pics of the Pounder and Cheeburger Cheeburger click here.

PS: This was me about 3 years ago. This was me and my Bachelor party cake.