No wonder the Yankees are so fat!!!

Hi,

This is the tail end of an article on Melbourne's best burger joints, which leads on to Yankee burgers. Seriously, once you've finished reading the article, click on the link to the burger joinst website, and navigate thru to their 'burgers' mini-site - you'll be amazed, flabbergasted and disgusted all in one instant!

Tony

The world's biggest burger

Buxton's 20-centimetre tall Cathedral burger ($9.50) is big but it pales into insignificance compared to those contenders in the "bigger is best" burger war currently being waged in the US.

This all started with chains such as Carl Jr's and Burger King launching self-styled "Thickburgers" like one made of 2.6kg of Angus beef. Then Hardee's launched their "monster thick burger" containing two 140g patties and enough cheese, bacon and mayo to push the calorie count over the 1400 mark and the fat reading up to a hefty 107g!

This flagrant nose-thumbing at Super Size Me went down wonderfully in a country in denial about its weight problem where 13 billion burgers are consumed every year.*

Things started to get out of hand when Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Philadelphia put a 2.7kg burger with 2.25kg of toppings on their menu. This was quickly eclipsed by a place in New Jersey offering a 5.6kg burger known as the "Zeus".

The Beer Barrel responded with a $40 Belly Buster burger that weighs in at almost 7 kg. It comes with gargantuan buns - which is something you'd be naïve not to expect after ingesting that much fat.

Visit: www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com