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Ballpark offers $20 burger with 4,800 calories, 300 g of fat, 744 mg of cholesterol.

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Continuing my recent string of posts about gluttony, a small town baseball team is serving up a 4,800 calorie burger this summer...

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Whitecaps' Fifth Third Burger not for faint of heart

by Michael Zuidema

COMSTOCK PARK -- The next item the West Michigan Whitecaps might want to consider selling at Fifth Third Ballpark concession stands is antacids. Or cholesterol medication.

That is because their newest menu option is a 4,800-calorie mouthful.

The team's Fifth Third Burger recently garnered attention from ESPN's "SportsCenter" and NBC's "The Today Show," in addition to Web sites and blogs across the country.

"We always try to come up with something new and innovative," Whitecaps president Scott Lane said. "We believe it's very important to the overall experience."

Here's what fans can expect from the Fifth Third Burger:

Start with an 8-inch sesame seed bun that requires 1 pound of dough and is made specially for the Whitecaps by Nantucket Baking Co. of Grand Rapids.

Spoon on nearly a cup of chili and place five one-third pound hamburger patties on top of that. (Get it, 5/3 pounds of beef for the Fifth Third Burger?)

Add five slices of American cheese and liberal doses of salsa, nacho cheese and Fritos. Top it off with lettuce, tomato and sour cream, and you have a burger that can be sliced with a pizza cutter and feed four people for $20. Jalapenos are optional.

If a single person can consume the entire 4-pound finished product in one sitting, the team plans to give him or her a special T-shirt.

"Besides being unique and large and bizarre, it tastes good," Lane said. "I'm sure there are going to be crazies that come down and try to eat the entire thing."

This is not the Whitecaps' first unique menu option. In recent years, the team has offered everything from deep-fried Twinkies and deep-fried Pepsi to entire turkey drumsticks.

Each offseason, team officials brainstorm ideas for their next culinary creation. Potential ingredients for this season included cactus, sausage gravy, Spam, fried eggs and grape jelly. Fortunately, not all on one sandwich.

Eventually, the Whitecaps settled on the Fifth Third Burger because it consisted mostly of items that easily can be found at a ballpark.

Other new food options for the season are a Chicago-style hot dog cart and frozen bananas dipped in chocolate.

In addition to more than 4,800 calories -- potentially the most caloric item ever offered at a ballpark -- the Fifth Third Burger contains nearly 300 grams of fat, 744 milligrams of cholesterol and more than 10,000 milligrams of sodium. The smell alone might be 25 calories.

Not to worry, Lane said. Fifth Third Ballpark has plenty of healthy options, including salads and wraps, although many fans enjoy indulging at sporting events.

"Why hide it?" he said. "At home, people eat healthy. When they come to a game, they might eat a hot dog."
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John Jacob said:
Pics or it didn't happen.

Uh, I mean, pics or it doesn't actually exist. :D
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Inspired by this and the other gluttony threads around here, I decided to go out and make myself a giant burger at home. Who says vegetarians can't have fun with their food?

Toasted whole wheat bun
"Chicken" burger, breaded and grilled
2 slices of "bacon"
"cheese"
Tipsy BBQ sauce
Another breaded and grilled burger
2 more slices of "bacon"
another layer of cheese
Smokey BBQ sauce
Spicy salsa

It ended up being about 900 calories, 70 grams of protein, 24 grams of fat (mostly monounsaturated (the kind that lowers bad cholesterol and raises good cholestorol) and omega 3 & 6) 0 grams of cholesterol, with 105% RDA of iron, 84% RDA of calcium, and 9g of fibre. Clearly I must be doing something wrong!

…and yes, I had a hard time finishing it.
 
I mean it is meant to be consumed by more than one person correct? If I was at a game with a few buddies, I'd give it a shot.
 
This thing sounds absolutely disgusting even from the description...and you can take that from a burger fan!

This is the kind of sandwich which, were real life like the movies, would cause the cows of the world to rise en masse and destroy us in the manner of Hitchcock's "The Birds".
 
IJ Reilly said:
So, what's up with that, anyway?
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I'm fascinated by the recent American pursuit of constantly trying to out-do the last unhealthy, artery clogging creation.

It seems like lines have been drawn where a good portion of restaurants/consumers are going for the organic, whole grain thing and the other extreme are trying to be as unhealthy as possible. Even in the world of fast food, you have the McDonalds and Subways which really try to push their lighter options like salads and wraps and then the Burger Kings and Carl's Jrs which are all about seeing how many beef patties can be placed between a bun without it toppling over.

I'm just wondering where all this will lead to...


Koodauw said:
I mean it is meant to be consumed by more than one person correct? If I was at a game with a few buddies, I'd give it a shot.
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I don't know, I reckon there's plenty of people who will order their own private Fifth Third Burger, don't you?
 
Iscariot said:
Clearly I must be doing something wrong!

…and yes, I had a hard time finishing it.
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Is that because you were using vegetarian "chicken burger" and "bacon" and "cheese", all in quotations? I don't think I'd eat that either. :p


Right now I live near one of the best burger restaurants in Toronto (or just outside of the GTA, actually, although it's close enough), so I've been a bit spoiled with my burgers. I don't claim to eat there often, but when I crave a burger, I never have to succumb to McD.


This burger looks OK, except perhaps the fritos. I don't even know what those are. I can't recall.
 
Abstract said:
To be honest, that looks kind of awesome for a burger, as long as the meat is decent (for burger meat). Share it with 3 friends if you need to. :)
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Saw this burger on a news feed today. I am a big guy, one though that has gone from 350+ to about 230 here as right now in the last few years. So looking at the pic I could not even think of how I could share that with even 5 or 6 friends at a game. :eek:
 
I don't see what the big deal is; of course a hamburger of that magnitude is going to contain many calories and grams of fat.

...When you can pack 4,800 calories, 300 g of fat, and 744 mg of cholesterol in a burger the size of a McDonald's single, I'll be impressed. Not that I'd eat it, or any hamburger for that matter.
 
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