Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
The burger arms race has begun.
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world's biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that weighs a whopping 15 pounds. Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers - and a bun. It costs $30.
"It can feed a family of 10," said Denny Liegey Sr., the restaurant's owner.
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub had offered a 6-pound burger - with 5 pounds of toppings. In February, a 100-pound female college student became the first to eat the burger within the three-hour time limit. Kate Stelnick, of Princeton, N.J., was awarded a special certificate, a T-shirt and other prizes and Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab for the burger.
One month later, the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, N.J., introduced a 12.5-pound burger dubbed Zeus. So Liegey responded, and the Belly Buster was born.
How big is a fifteen pound burger? Well, this is their previous champion (six pounds of beef), so adjust upwards accordingly. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the cup and a half of mayonnaise. For what it's worth, Oleg Zhornitskiy still holds the official record for eating mayonnaise, at four 32-ounce bowls in eight minutes. Bon appétit, y'all!
Update: The more I think about this, the less sense I can make of it: how is there no bacon on this burger? Be honest. Wouldn't you have been much, much more impressed if it were topped with 16 ounces of thick cut bacon strips? You're damn skippy you would be. Start writing your letters now, or else the terrorists will have won.
TrackBackI've resisted this accusation for so long, but finally I will admit it: I hate America.
Posted by: bitchphd at May 3, 2005 03:30 PM$30 for 15 pounds of burger? Sounds like a pretty good deal.
Posted by: Ramar at May 3, 2005 03:57 PM
You forgot to mention that Kate Stelnick is hot.
http://www.readinghash.20m.com/kate.html
Posted by: PeterQuince at May 3, 2005 04:02 PMAnd that guy holding the 'previous el hujo burger' is no lightweight!
Seriously though, these guys should have a 'Mr Creosote' competition. Eat til ya guts explode!
As for eating 2 pints of mayo, eeeeyuu! A mint for monsieur?
The terrorists don't need to win; at this rate we will all be fat enough in another generation that, what with the second ice age and all, they walk over here, club us like 600 lb doe-eyed baby seals, and eat our hearts just like the savages they are.
MAN ALIVE I am hungry dudes; time for Cookout...
Posted by: Sterling at May 4, 2005 08:12 AMWhen a friend and I decided to take on El Gigante at Burrito Bunker (it was nowhere near 15 lb., and I wasn't hungry for 48 hours after, but it was tasty!) and finished, I turned to the waiter as he took my empty plate and said, "Well, if nothing else, I now know that I could eat a baby." For some reason that bothered him.
A 15 lb. burger is just grotesque. What's even more grotesque, if you ask me, is that the guy thinks it would feed a family of 10. That's a pound and a half per capita. How old are these kids that are going to be eating a pound and a half of burger? Yugh.
Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at May 4, 2005 11:36 AMI think the RDA for protein is what, a quarter pound? That bad boy should be feeding a family of sixty, at least as far as meat goes.
Posted by: Tripp at May 4, 2005 02:18 PMI think that the previous record holder is the famous eric "badlands" booker. i see him every year competing in the national hotdog eating contest. keep your eye out for sonya thomas. she is going to kick all those competitive eaters asses this year.
Posted by: Charo at May 4, 2005 02:50 PMOn Christmas Eve my family tried cooking a 15lb burger at home! Here's a video of the resulting big burger.
Posted by: Nathan at February 3, 2006 07:36 AM