Nick posted about the launch of this burger at GCS Ballpark, home of the Gateway Grizzlies in March, but I hadn't actully seen what it looked like until now. It is hard to find words for this thing. Baseball's Best Burger is a cheeseburger with two strips of bacon, served on a Krispy Kreme doughnut. It weighs in at about 1000 calories and 45 grams of fat. The Grizzlies say that they sell around 150 of the burgers, a $4.50 each, per game.
A deep fried Snicker's bar may be bad for you, but I think that this burger might just be able to knock it off the list of the worst foods you can eat.
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
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6-25-2006 @ 1:21PM
Frank Lynn said...
I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at that thing.
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6-25-2006 @ 2:02PM
Kristina said...
How can that possibly be good. I wouldn't even be mildly curious to try it. I don't see how it's any different than making a turkey sandwich out of two chocolate chip cookies. I wouldn't try that, either. You know, it's not unusual to see blog post after blog post about the unusual dining fare served in Japan and other locales, but we Americans are just as odd. We just make sure our oddities are even less healthy.
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6-25-2006 @ 3:11PM
David T said...
Haha, it's so wrong but I would totally try one of these.
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6-26-2006 @ 9:36AM
matt said...
I can't believe the Bennigan's Monte Cristo isn't on that bad foods list.
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6-26-2006 @ 12:36PM
BG said...
Matt,
My old roommate and I used to hit up a local Bennigan's and always get the monte cristo. It would knock us out for a few hours. We could never finish it.
Once, while a buddy was out to visit we stopped at Bennigan's and bet him he couldn't finish the monte cristo. When they brought it out, it was 1/2 the size of normal, and every time we went back they always had the new reduced size.
Now we can't even mention that sandwich without getting slightly sick. I can't believe how many of them I ate.
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6-26-2006 @ 2:27PM
Qmali said...
Actually the idea for this burger probably came from an episode of Aaron McGruder's "The Boondocks" cartoon which first aired on Cartoon Network in 2005. On the episode in question, one of the characters, Grandad, made a hamburger he called "The Luther" after late soul singer Luther Vandross. The hamburger included two 1/2 pound hamburger patties, 4 slices of bacon, three cheeses, tomato, lecttuce and mustard and ketchup. "The Luther" became the feature food at a restaurant Grandad opened called "The Itis"--named for something Slashfood's African American readers should know a little about...
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