tl;dr

This time, unlike the Luther burger and chicken fried bacon, the stupidity is not in the concept. No, this is just a cheeseburger. Nothing daft there, right? Wrong! The stupidity comes with the scale of this cheeseburger:

ABCNews sent a reporter to try and eat this monster. He even took a competitive eating champion with him to help him out, who — unlike that tiny Japanese guy who can eat a squillion hotdogs a second — looks exactly how’d expect an American competitive eating champion to look. Right down to the meat sweats:

SPOILER WARNING: they failed. Some bafflingly huge numbers:

• 50 pounds of beef — so that’s 800oz, or 3.6 stone, or 22.6kg.
• a whole catering size packet of American cheese
• an entire head of lettuce
• several whole beef tomatoes
• a custom-baked bun big enough to hollow out and live inside
• it costs $160 — but if you, and up to four of your mates, can eat the whole thing in less than three hours you get it free and a $1000 prize on top. That’s still the equivalent of 40 standard quarter-pounder burgers each though. No-one has ever done it.

Still, if you’re not hungry for burgers, the same ABC article brings news of the biggest pancakes I’ve ever seen, several restaurants that do 72oz steaks, and some place that that does a 21-scoop ice cream special sundae where ” our scoops are really big, they’re like baseball sized”. Again, in all cases, if you can finish the food, you dine for free.

And yet America has an obesity problem! What an odd coincidence that is.

Bacon, Food