No Diet Plates Here!
You know, I like a good burger as much as the next carnivore. But I may have to skip this one and just go for the salad...
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Hamburgers to die for at US restaurant
WASHINGTON - A restaurant in the southwestern US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu -- the "quadruple bypass burger".
The burger at the "Heart Attack Grill" restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon, and weighs in at only 8,000 calories, more than three times what the human body needs in one day.
Patrons who have no appetite for the "quadruple bypass burger" can opt for the "triple" or "double-bypass".
"It's not good for one's health but it's only a joke," John Basso, who opened the restaurant 10 months ago, told AFP.
Customers who have room for more can also order French fries "fried in pure lard" and can purchase cigarettes off the menu. As a courtesy, the restaurant offers its "best customers" a wheelchair service to their cars by waitresses dressed in slinky nurses' outfits.
"I am dreaming of opening a restaurant in Paris," he said.
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When I lived on the West coast we used to go to the neighborhood Jack in the Box restaurant for the Pacific NW equivalent of Death in a Bun: They called it the Monster Burger – two half pound patties, four slices of cheese, and four pieces of bacon. Heartburn is not included, but is probably coming for dessert.
It’s embarrassing to think that we were stuffing our faces with burgers big enough to feed a small nation while people are going hungry every night. Fortunately for my arteries, I don’t eat these Bacon Double Giant Grease Bombs with Cheese much anymore, and I do try to pass along some of my good fortune with the food bank.
But one of these days I may have to have one of these Monster Burgers again, for old times sake. Of course, I’ll have to have a cardiologist standing nearby.
Still, if I wash it down with a low-cal milkshake, maybe it’ll all balance out in the end. You think?
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Hamburgers to die for at US restaurant
WASHINGTON - A restaurant in the southwestern US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu -- the "quadruple bypass burger".
The burger at the "Heart Attack Grill" restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon, and weighs in at only 8,000 calories, more than three times what the human body needs in one day.
Patrons who have no appetite for the "quadruple bypass burger" can opt for the "triple" or "double-bypass".
"It's not good for one's health but it's only a joke," John Basso, who opened the restaurant 10 months ago, told AFP.
Customers who have room for more can also order French fries "fried in pure lard" and can purchase cigarettes off the menu. As a courtesy, the restaurant offers its "best customers" a wheelchair service to their cars by waitresses dressed in slinky nurses' outfits.
"I am dreaming of opening a restaurant in Paris," he said.
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When I lived on the West coast we used to go to the neighborhood Jack in the Box restaurant for the Pacific NW equivalent of Death in a Bun: They called it the Monster Burger – two half pound patties, four slices of cheese, and four pieces of bacon. Heartburn is not included, but is probably coming for dessert.
It’s embarrassing to think that we were stuffing our faces with burgers big enough to feed a small nation while people are going hungry every night. Fortunately for my arteries, I don’t eat these Bacon Double Giant Grease Bombs with Cheese much anymore, and I do try to pass along some of my good fortune with the food bank.
But one of these days I may have to have one of these Monster Burgers again, for old times sake. Of course, I’ll have to have a cardiologist standing nearby.
Still, if I wash it down with a low-cal milkshake, maybe it’ll all balance out in the end. You think?
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