MONSTER-SIZED McDonald’s hamburgers stuffed with up to eight meat patties and nine slices of cheese have been slammed as “a heart attack waiting to happen”. Some of the fast-food chains sell super-sized Quarter Pounders, which contain about 220g of fat and 11,500kJ each, on request.
The “double pounder” is the equivalent of more than three days’ worth of fat for a grown man – or almost five Pizza Hut deep-pan Hawaiian pizzas or 45 Tim Tams.* At about $18, it is not listed on the menu, nor under nutritional information.
It has developed a cult following as a challenge for teenagers, after a video was posted online of a 17-year-old boy ploughing his way through the burger at a McDonald’s restaurant.
And here’s the video:
*Tim Tams are a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott’s Biscuits, Australia. A Tim Tam is composed of two layers of chocolate malted biscuit, separated by a light chocolate cream filling, and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. And this burger is equivalent to 45 of these? Holy crap!
Next time, use lean meats such as kangaroo, ostrich or horse.
Angel you nutritionist bastard!
Sure, 2500 calories, but the majority of them are going to flow right through, if you know what I mean.
Good think I never thought of that when I was working for McD while going to school. We made plenty of quad cheeseburgers, but not with quarter pounder patties.
I want to see someone eat a quad McRib.
See, I’m a Wendy’s Triple man, but all the Wendys’ in my half of the state went bankrupt and closed last month when the state had the gall to demand that the franchisee pay his unpaid business taxes.
This leaves McDonald’s, but at $18, I think I’ll wait for a discount coupon.
Just buy four double quarter pounders and combine.
#13 I always get the diet drink when I eat fast food, I don’t want the sugar.
I would never have guess the Dagwood Sandwich would look like a kiddie’s meal.
J/P=?
Mc Donalds food always reminds me of dogfood !
Of course it is interesting to note that people will go to an upscale restaurant. While there will pay well over 100 dollars to gorge on butter, cream, pate, wine and other caloric laden food and not THINK a thing about it.
The majority of people will do the same on Thanksgiving. Stuffing themselves with calorie rich foods til they need to sleep.
But for some ODD reason when Mc Donalds provides this kind of caloric overload then out comes the food police in people saying it is wrong, it makes me sick, I would NEVER do that and on and on and on.
Next time you are looking for the extra slice of cheesecake, after having apple pie and a piece of that pumpkin with whipped cream, think of this burger.
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#29 touche!
Hey #7….you talk as if no one has a FREAKING CHOICE as to what the hell they cram down their pie-holes on a daily basis. McDonald’s is an accomplice in thousands of negligent homicides? Check your nut-bag agenda!
People make choices every single day. They can choose to have a fatty, nasty burger that they KNOW is not healthy, or they can opt for the salad. It’s not as if the minimum wage teenager behind the counter is holding a .45 to their head, telling them to get the burger.
There is nothing wrong with McDonald’s, or the fast food industry. They are models of capitalism and prosperity. What’s really wrong here are people such as yourself who seem hell-bent on alleviating any shred of blame from people and their choices. If people want to eat that shit, then by god let ‘em! But it’s not McDonald’s fault if they can’t manage to mix in some fresh greens or a granola bar every so often.
But hey….you’re entitled to your opinion. So more power to yoy in trying to legislate good eating habits. Let’s throw some tax money at the morbidly obese, shall we? After all, it’s not their fault, right?
#23 – I worked fast food as a kid too. We did one once layered like this, chicken pattie, cheese, 2 burger patties, cheese, shaved ham, cheese, bacon, cheese. Took a long time to eat.
I lived near a bar where they cooked a special 2 lb burger that had a specially made oversize bun. If you could eat it in an hour you could have it free. They didn’t give many away but I was there when a guy who went about 4 bills, ate two of them in one sitting.
I would rather eat the 45 Tim Tams
Everyone assumes that China has the most people…only when you look at the headcount.
However…
If one compares the body mass of 300 million Americas to the 1.3 billion Chinese, America wins! WooHoo!
Cheers
34,
THAT I can dought… 10:1 is a BIG number..And I THINk the Last pop count for China was 3 billion…
#28…Fortuna Cooks….I don’t know about you, but after the FIRST time something tasted like dog food, I wouldn’t try it again. But, that assumes I KNOW what dog food tastes like.
#31, David,
Geeze, did they teach you Economic Systems in Grade 10 last year? Cripes, give it a rest and grow up.
#32, iHotAir(YOY)
A friend took me to this restaurant when we visited his home town. Same deal, eat this huge one pounder burg and another plate heaped with fries and it’s free. I almost did it. It was the bun that filled me up.
When I was late teens early 20s most buffets had signs outside telling me I wasn’t welcome. Who would have believed a skinny guy like me could have put away so much. Now that the AARP is sending me letters, I look at a buffet table and get full.
Somebody at Gizmodo thinks Bill Gates is involved with this bloatware.
#38 – tell me about it. I can barely make 1 plate at Thanksgiving now. Frustrating. In my twenties, I could do 3 plates full followed by half a pie and I stayed right at 130.