"giant burger" news and stories

People have been enchanted by the idea of making exceptionally large versions of food ever since the town of Cheshire, MA gifted President Thomas Jefferson with a 1,200 pound wheel of cheese in 1802. In recent memory there's been that giant ketchup packet that the folks in Collinsville, IL made last summer. A town in Italy made the world's largest tiramisu last spring, just because they could.

Latest on the giant food table is a monster cheeseburger, made by Fat's Grill in Stockton, California. This mammoth burger doesn't break any world records, but it is now the largest cheeseburger to have ever been created in the state of California. And as my father would say, that's nothing to sneeze at.

What do you guys think about giant food? Do you love the spectacle of it or do you have some reservations about using food as a medium to garner a little media attention?

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At the rate at which new "world's biggest burgers" are cooked up by restaurants all across the world, we should probably give up in trying to say which one is the biggest. After all, it will only be a few weeks before it is replaced with something larger. That being said, there is a new giant burger on the block, this one from the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey. The Diner was previously known for its 50-pount Mt. Olympus burger, which is nothing compared to the 8th Wonder of the World. The massive cheeseburger weighs 105 pounds and is 28 inches across and 11 1/2 inches tall. After measuring the heavyweight sandwich for the Guinness Book of World Records, it was carved up and passed out to customers - in 7 pound slices.

More photos after the jump.

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