"ms_peacock" > wrote in message
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> "cathy" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:41:29 -0500, Dickie Peters
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Pa. Restaurant Creates 123-Pound Burger
>>>By Associated Press
>>>4 hours ago
>>>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.
>
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>> 80 pounds of hamburger.....that should feed about 150 people....that's
>> a pretty good price, it comes to just $2.50 per person! What a great
>> idea for a big party! Trouble is, there's a lot of variables: how big
>> is the thing and what on earth do they serve it/package it on/in? And
>> how long does it take to cook it? HOW do they cook it? What do they
>> cook it on? Or in? What shape does it take?
>>
>> And....have they ever actually made one??
>>
>> Cathy
>
> Since there was a picture with the original news story I would say they
> made it. I can't find the pic now though. It's big. It just looked like
> a giant hamburger. It looked like it was a good 3 feet across and
> probably at least a foot high.
>
> I don't think the point is to actually serve the thing though, I think the
> world record is probably the point.
>
> Ms P

The town of Penn Yan, NY has them beat, I think. Some years back, at a
festival, some bunch of loonies made the world's largest buckwheat pancake,
which required some fancy handling with a forklift.