1) Giant Burger
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, already held the title with a 6lb burger; owners thought a 15-pound burger would prove an even bigger attraction, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Diners who can finish the £25 [$44USD] burger in under five hours win £200 [$350USD, a T-shirt and their name posted on the pub’s wall of fame. They also got the burger for free.’ Every restaurant needs a gimmick – ours is big burgers’, said Dennis Liegey III, son of the restaurant’s owner.
Visitors come from as far away as Australia and California just to see the 6-pounders and try to eat them. The new burger, dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, is as big around as the inside of a car tyre. Each one comes with a cup and half of mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup, a head of lettuce, two onions, three tomatoes and 25 slices of cheese.
1a) Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub – Giant Burger Update
Mayor Patty Gilliland poses with Denny Leigey, owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, and the restaurant’s record-breaking burger in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA.
The newest addition to the menu at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub is one meaty monstrosity of a burger. The Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds.[8st.11lbs] 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 records the Houston Chronicle.
It’s topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers and 33 pickles, then sandwiched into a 30-pound bun. There’s a large price tag, too: $379.[Almost £200]
The Clearfield pub unveiled the menu item over the weekend. Restaurant owner Denny Leigey said he plans to submit paperwork on his colossal culinary creation to the Guinness Book of World Records. The burger’s cooks maintain it shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand. Leigey said he didn’t know how many calories were stuffed into his latest gigantic entrée.
Burger King’s left handed whopper
In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing a new item to their menu: a ‘Left-Handed Whopper’ specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers.
The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, ‘many others requested their own ‘right handed’ version.’
3) Trivia about McDonald’s
- McDonald’s sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
- McDonald’s restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald’s purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options.
- Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some time been employed by McDonald’s.
- In India the ‘Big Mac’ is changed into the ‘Maharaja Mac’, a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
- Sälen in Sweden opened the first Ski-through McDonald’s in the world.
- More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with ‘Bachelor of Hamburgerology’ degrees from McDonald’s ‘Hamburger University.’
- McDonald’s three kosher restaurants in Israel are the only McDonald’s in the world where you cannot buy a cheeseburger.
- Since its founding in 1955, McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers.
- The northernmost McDonald’s restaurant is located on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, while the southernmost franchise is located in Invercargill, New Zealand. Also, the world’s easternmost McDonald’s is located in New Zealand, in the city of Gisborne; the westernmost restaurant is in Western Samoa, as they are the closest to either side of the International date line.
Naturally some of the numbers quoted above are out-of-date, however they do give the scale of the McDonald Operation.
4) Where Are We?
A British couple, Sonia and Ray, from Manchester were driving across Wisconsin one holiday and were nearing a town with the name of Oconomowoc. They discussed such a strange and funny name and decided that the sign was probably written by someone playing a joke.
Sonia and Ray continued their conversation as they drove into town about the pronunciation of such an unusual name. As they were hungry, they pulled into a place to get something to eat. At the counter, Ray said to the waitress, ‘My wife, Sonia and I can’t seem to be able to figure out the name of this place. Will you tell me where we are and say it very slowly so that I can understand.’
The waitress looked at him, somewhat perplexed and said, ‘Buuurrrgerrr Kiiiinnnng.’
