Hungry? How About Eating A 5 lb Burger with 54 Toppings. In 30 Minutes!

Published on August 22nd, 2006

TIM ATTEMPTS 5 LB BURGER WITH 54 TOPPING

This past Saturday, a few friends and I went to check out this new burger place called The Counter in Palo Alto. Their whole pitch is that you get to build your own burger: pick your meat, size, cheese, toppings, sauce, and bun type, and you’re good to go. And a bunch of their options aren’t too shabby, either. For example, cheese options include gruyere, herb goat cheese pread, danish blue cheese, and tillamook cheddar. And toppings range from fried onion strings to hard boiled eggs to dried cranberries. Pretty much, there’s something for everyone here.

Their website claims that there are over 312,120 different burger combinations. But as you’ll soon see, as far as I’m now concerned, there’s only one combination worth getting. Here’s the story…

Quite a meal for… $45.50. Plus tax, of course.

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# 1 Improbus said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 am

Remember to have a surgeon standing by to fix your stomach when it ruptures.

# 2 [music] said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 am

What? Only 312,120 different combinations? Here in the South we have the Waffle House. 10 years ago they claimed to have over 844,739 different ways to make a Waffle House hamburger. Today that number is much larger. This place needs a Waffle House chef to show them how to make more burgers.

# 3 woktiny said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 11:59 am

54 toppings?

isn’t 2^54 > 312120?

just… wondering…

# 4 trout said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm

http://www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/archives.htm

i think those big ones weigh 15 lbs or so, they have a 6 or 7 lb one as well… whoa!

# 5 thought police said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 12:12 pm

and some people wonder why obesity is such a problem in this country….

damn it made me hungry tho

# 6 xrayspex said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 1:06 pm

isn’t 2^54 > 312120

n = number of items
k = items in each grouping

n!
———–
k!(n-k)!

Now set n=54, and calculate the summation as k=1->54.

Big number.

I’m not a mathematician, but I think that’s right.

# 7 mandarin said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 2:25 pm

Hey thats just around the corner where I work! Let me check it out.

# 8 Anon said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm

Hey there’s green on top. Green is a vegetable, right? Dig in!

# 9 Angel H. Wong said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 3:52 pm

Ha! That’s nothing.

Once I bought a 2 feet long bagette and stuffed it with ham, baloney, salame, french salame, 2 different types of sausages, lettuce, tomatos, cucumbers, onions, mustard, mayo, tabasco sauce, worcestershire sauce and sliced hardboiled eggs…

…And it took me 45 painful minutes to stuff it all down my gullet.

# 10 Uncle Dave said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 5:16 pm

I believe the green is quacamole. Homemade, according to the list, whatever that means at a restaurant.

And Angel, you’re an impressive woman. Or clinically insane. One or the other. Or both which would make you impressively clinically insane.

OK, I’m going to eat now.

# 11 Johnny B. Good said, on August 22nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm

Wonder what his cholesterol and blood fat levels were after this. ;o) But as a one-time thing… cool! )

# 12 RTaylor said, on August 23rd, 2006 at 4:00 am

Ah the misadventures of youth. I couldn’t go near that without a week of Prilosec in my bloodstream.

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