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A Canadian chef tried to set a new world record earlier this month by grilling up what he hopes is the world's largest hamburger, the Toronto Sun reported.
Barbecue master Ted Reader created the 590-pound behemoth burger in downtown Toronto, using enough meat to make 2,360 quarter pounders.
Reader spent six hours sizzling up the 300-plus pound beef patty, which was then tucked into a 105-pound bun and topped with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, red onions, pickles and barbecue sauce, the Sun reported.
"I'm amazed that we got it out of the grill and onto the bun," Reader told the paper. "That was the whole trickiness to it, but it held together, it's edible, it's delicious."
Reader told the Sun he didn't care if he actually broke the Guinness World Record for burgers of unusual size.
"Whether they say 'yea' or they say 'nay', I don't care. We built it, now we're going to serve it," he said. "We tried to do all the checks and balances and make sure we followed the rules. Let's hope they go, 'Yea'."
The standing "world's largest burger" weighs in at a measly 185.8 pounds.The burger was auctioned off, raising $8,500 Canadian to benefit Camp Bucko, an Ontario-based camp for children with burn injuries, the Sun reported.
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5-21-2010 @3:03PM m smith said... Does it come with fries?
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5-21-2010 @3:04PM clive wayne said... how would you flip that thing?
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5-23-2010 @8:39PM Paula said... Maybe he made it on humongous George Foreman Grill
5-21-2010 @3:21PM Lou said... Too bad he didn't do this in Haiti right after the quake....could have fed a lot of people after the photo-op.
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5-26-2010 @9:30AM Pam said... I completely agree! We (humans, in general) are such an excessive and thoughtless lot. Not to mention all the slaughtered cows that went into this "contest". Idiots.
5-26-2010 @4:28PM Lizard said... Pam, shut your trap. Just because you may not eat meat doesn't mean the rest of us meat eating idiots. Your body needs meat to be healthy. I can tell you already have brain damage. You probably eat chicken and fish you hypocrite. Where the hell do you think those come from? Chicken and fish farms you IDIOT. And if you lie and say you only eat veggies, then you are eating slaughtered living plants for your own personal consumption. It has been proven that plants have feelings. http://www.hindu.com/seta/2004/04/22/stories/2004042200331600.htm
5-27-2010 @10:06AM Greg said... Typical dumb liberal cluelessness. Cows are only alive in the first place because someone went to the trouble to raise them for slaughter...if cows aren't meant to be slaughtered they would have never been born and raised in teh first place. Nobody is starving because a guy made a big burger...the US produces as much beef as people are willing to pay for...the amount goes up and down depending on market forces. If people in Haiti want more food I guess they should look at why America can produce as much as it wants, and then do the same thing where they live so they can have as much as they want. Why do liberals always think it's a bad thing that Americans produce what they need and/or want...it doesn't in any way keep any other country from doing the same.
5-21-2010 @4:06PM steve said... Looks good to me.
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5-21-2010 @4:09PM grant said... ahh the excess of America, another waste of food...
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5-21-2010 @5:05PM kate said... did you relize that it said canada?
6-07-2010 @2:39PM Darryl said... @kate
Did you realize that North AMERICA includes Canada? Anyway, geography doesn't negate his point.
5-21-2010 @6:49PM James said... Yeah, Toronto is TOTALLY in the United States, right? Learn to read before you slander someone.
5-23-2010 @8:09PM Big D said... How stupid are you? CANADIAN CHEF......idiot!!!!
5-23-2010 @9:01PM bottosi said... He is correct Canada is in America. So before you go and correct him pull out a Atlas and know what you are talking about.He did not say United States of America.Which would be the country to the south of Canada in the continent of America.
5-23-2010 @11:08PM Kelly said... Who cares where this was or wasn't. tI wasn't wasted it was auctioned and served, the proceeds went to a childrens charity. The problem is?
5-23-2010 @11:40PM Curious said... Grant sounds like a jealous foreigner. True Canada is in North AMERICA and most people do think of the UNITED STATES when America is mentioned. If they paid for the food and they wanted to throw it away, so be it. It wasn't wasted if it was paid for.
5-24-2010 @3:38AM Blurgle said... @Grant: Since I think it's safe to assume that you meant the United States of America, I will also point out that this is in Canada. But even IF it was in the USA, please note that a) He is serving it to others, thus no food wasted. b) The money he makes serving it to others went to charity. So REGARDLESS of what you meant, there is no waste. EVEN more proof you didn't read the article, Grant.
@bottosi: Most people when they say "America" mean the USA. So your inane nitpicking is just that, inane and nitpicking. But even IF he meant either American continent (there is a South America) or even Central America, even if he was being that intentionally vague, the fact he mentioned it was a waste proves he didn't read the article ANYWAY, as I pointed out above. :P
5-25-2010 @10:30AM jack said... heck, i don't care where it came from- i just want the freakin burger!!!!!!!!!
5-21-2010 @4:21PM mike freres said... Grant ole boy-wake up dude. Canadian chef doing this in Toronto. Sorry that is not America.
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5-23-2010 @11:36PM s said... Sounds like you need an atlas my friend. He did not say 'in the United States of America'. He simply said 'in America' which (as its obvious you don't know) pertains to the contienent not the country. Canada AND the USA are both IN America. There is also two America's; North America and South America (just in case you didn't know).