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Default U eat 123 pound hamburger??

Dickie Peters said...

> Pa. Restaurant Creates 123-Pound Burger
> By Associated Press
> 4 hours ago
>
> CLEARFIELD, Pa. - The newest addition to the menu at Denny's Beer
> Barrel Pub is one whopper of a burger. The Beer Barrel Main Event
> Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds, a meaty monstrosity that its
> cooks maintain shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two
> restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand.
>
> The sizable sandwich features an 80-pound beef patty, along with a
> pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160
> slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.
>
> It's topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers, then sandwiched
> into a 30-pound bun. Don't forget the garnish of 33 pickles.
>
> There's a pretty hefty price tag, too: $379.
>
> The Clearfield pub unveiled the menu item over the weekend. Restaurant
> owner Denny Leigey said he plans to submit paperwork on his colossal
> culinary creation to the Guinness Book of World Records.
>
> It's not the first time that Leigey has waded into the competition for
> the world's biggest burger. He drew headlines a couple years ago when
> he unveiled the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, which weighed in at a mere
> 15 pounds.
>
> Leigey said he didn't know how many calories were stuffed into his
> latest gigantic entree.
>
> "If you were worried about calories you would be at home eating
> Kellogg's," he said.



Well... so... what's the "CUSTOMER CHALLENGE" for a world record of their
own? 20 folks in under an hour?

Andy

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