Death By Hamburger

According to an article on Yahoo! News, the West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, is offering a colossal snack that could have you dead by the 7th inning stretch. The snack? A 4,800 calorie hamburger that measures in at 4 pounds in weight and will set back a Whitecaps fan $20, more than the cost of admission to get in.

The hamburger features:
- a sesame seed bun made from a pound of dough
- five (5) 1/3 pound beef patties
- five (5) slices of cheese
- one (1) cup of chili
- lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and nacho cheese
- corn chips
- salsa

According to another article, "In addition to weighing in at more than double the US daily recommended caloric intake, the Fifth Third Burger contains nearly 300 grams of fat, 744 milligrams of cholesterol and more than 10,000 milligrams of sodium"

The benefit of eating such a behemoth sandwich? If you are daring enough to eat the burger in one sitting at the game, the Whitecaps are going to reward you with a free t-shirt. Maybe they should cover the emergency room fee and any impending artery replacement surgery that will need to take place after attempting to kill yourself with this treat. For those that want to split the bodacious burger, the concessions will cut it with a pizza cutter and serve it in portions.

When I first saw this, my jaw just dropped. My question is, is these economic times, who in the hell is going to spend $20 on a hamburger, let alone one that will put in a mini-coma if you attempt to eat it all. The burger weighs just a little less than that of a small newborn baby.

Secondly, how do you even approach this monster to eat it? From the picture, the hamburger looks to be the size of that intern's head and seems as though the normal human couldn't digest this thing even with a chainsaw and a pitchfork. It's no wonder these country has such a problem with obesity.

Well for one, this club has sure generated enough publicity with this hamburger story and maybe that was their plan in the first place. Needless to say, this whole article leaves me feeling bloated just looking at it.

Here is a look at how the Fifth Third burger is made...beware:

Fifth Third Ballpark Burger