The Worst Fast Food Creations of 2011: Starbucks Trenta Drinks!

Fast-food excess is hardly reserved for food alone. Take Starbucks' Trenta-sized cups, the veritable Big Gulps of coffee consumption, which each contain 31 ounces of caffeinated brew to pour down your gullet. And if caffeine-induced twitching isn't enough of a health risk, consumers should be advised to pace themselves: The cups are actually larger than the typical human stomach.

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The Worst Fast food Creations of 2011: Denny's Maple Bacon Sundae

What's more horrifying than an ice cream sundae that features vanilla soft serve, maple syrup, and bacon bits? An entire menu of creations based on the same bacon-centric principle. Denny's, however, has gone there: The chain's "Baconalia!" menu included that awful sundae, along with a triple-decker BLT, Bacon Meatloaf, and Bacon Flapjacks.

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The Worst Fast Food Creations of 2011: Burger King Stuffed Steakhouse burger!

If fast food has taught us one thing, it is this: Any food item can be stuffed inside any other. Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse Burger, introduced earlier this year, is a prime example. Not content to simply put cheese atop a burger patty, the chain stuffed bits of Cheddar and jalapeño inside the beef, for "an experience you can see and taste in every bite."

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The Worst Fast Food Creations of 2011: Denny's Mac 'N Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt!

Leave it to Denny's to create a sandwich that has both mac 'n cheese and hamburger meat as ingredients...and sauce and more cheese. This gutbomb was part of Denny's "Let's Get Cheesy" menu, and cheesy it is indeed. We fear what the chain will come up with next, given that this calorie-laden meal has twice the calories as a stick of butter.

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The Worst Fast Food Creations of 2011: KFC Cheesy Bacon Bowl!

Journey with me over the next several days and see which ones made my list of  The Worst Fast Food Creations of all of 2011! Up first, in no particular order, is one from KFC, The KFC Cheesy Bacon Bowl!

A bowl can hardly contain "layers of your favorites" without including bacon. Or so was the logic at KFC, which added bacon as a limited-time topping to the chain's line of "Famous Bowls." How did they do it? Well, they took a 680-calorie combo of mashed potatoes, corn, Popcorn Chicken, gravy, and cheese -- then added bacon.

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