Posted May 4, 200520 yr comment_1986353 Burger So Big You Have to See to Believe Amid all the news stories on the American weight problem comes this one for people who can't take it anymore: Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pa., has a new item on its menu. It's a hamburger. It weighs 15 pounds. Hamburger Order this and for $30 you get 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, an entire head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, and a cup-and-a-half EACH of mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, mustard, and banana peppers. On a bun. The Associated Press reports that it's called a Beer Barrel Belly Buster. Eat it yourself or share it. The restaurant's owner, Denny Liegey Sr., told AP, "It can feed a family of 10." The biggest item on the menu until now was a--relatively speaking--paltry 6-pound burger with 5 pounds of toppings that sells for $23.05. The first one to eat that in its entirety in the three-hour limit so she could get it for free was a 100-pound female college student from Princeton, N.J. When a competing burger joint in New Jersey introduced it's Zeus burger at 12.5 pounds, what was Liegey supposed to do? Sit back and let another restaurant claim it had the biggest burger on the planet. No way! Enter the Belly Buster. So far, four men have taken the Belly Buster challenge: Eat it in its entirety and it's free. None of them succeeded. Said Steve Hepburn, who tried and failed, "It's a little too much for me to handle. It's like trying to eat half a cow." WTF? Who in the hell could eat something like that?
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1986601 My God. I'd get it and eat off of it for a week or two if it would hurry up. EDIT: Someone was talking to me when I posted this and I started typing what they were saying. That makes no sense at all. Starting all over ... My God. I'd get it and eat off of it for a week or two if it would stay fresh that long.
May 4, 200520 yr Author comment_1986906 Chuck, you could probably freeze half of it to save for the next week. And Steve, would you need fries with that?
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987048 And Steve, would you need fries with that? No, but you would need tons of soda to rinse it down.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987058 My God. I'd get it and eat off of it for a week or two if it would hurry up. EDIT: Someone was talking to me when I posted this and I started typing what they were saying. That makes no sense at all. Actually, if you REALLY crave that burger and want it now, what you typed makes a lot of sense.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987082 And Steve, would you need fries with that?No, but you would need tons of soda to rinse it down. Wash it down, you mean? Coke with detergent rocks!
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987268 That's like half a calf in just one of those things. I'm actually amazed a company would want their customers dead and the customers would literally buy it.
May 4, 200520 yr Author comment_1987289 I don't think ANY amount of soda is ever going to be enough to wash/rinse/whatever it down. And I thought that Hardee's Monster Burger was a heart attack waiting to happen....
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987383 You're not my friend anymore. You're the one who broke up with me by removing my quote from your sig. I'm officially on the market for a straight boyfriend again.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987406 Hey, I constantly use that quote in my AIM away message. Maybe if someone was ever online, they'd see that.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987419 "*Sweetie pie*, this isn't the place to be having this conversation."
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1987724 Heh, that thing made the front page of the paper today. You should see the cuisine of western PA. The bigger the sandwich, the better. For example, you can't call yourself a real Pittsburgh native until you've eaten at Primanti Bros and had one of their sandwiches with cole slaw and a full order of fries inside. We have to have a extra layer of body fat to go to January Steeler games with no shirt on. On edit, here's the link to the story that was in the paper about this.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1988005 Holy shit. That is one burger I am NOT letting my dad challenge me to eat in one sitting. Hell, I don't think even the both of us could finish that off.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1988979 And Steve, would you need fries with that? They help to round out the flavor palette. That, and a nice pop.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1989183 America's so damn fat. Good god. Some people actually act puzzled as to why the country continues to grow larger. It's because there's a new sandwich that should never be consumed by one person in a sitting hitting the market every couple of weeks.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1989594 Some people actually act puzzled as to why the country continues to grow larger.I don't. Lack of exercise, too much time spent sitting down on a daily basis. I seem to recall mention of there being a time that predated the health food craze, also a time when 1/3 of America wasn't overweight. This may all just be my imagination, but I think those two times coincided with the lack of the computer and television.
May 4, 200520 yr comment_1989596 And Steve, would you need fries with that?They help to round out the flavor palette. That, and a nice pop. Go die in a corner, bitch.
May 5, 200520 yr comment_1991477 You're not my friend anymore. You're the one who broke up with me by removing my quote from your sig. I'm officially on the market for a straight boyfriend again. ::Bats eyelashes::
May 5, 200520 yr comment_1993719 They say that it's basically meant for a family to share. They had it all over the news today. You would think they would have more important things to report, but I guess not.
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