A gargantuan patty made of a ground bacon and beef, stuffed with bacon strips, topped with bacon bit-studded cheese sauce, topped with a pile of bacon strips, doused in Jack Daniels root beer barbecue sauce, all on a bacon bun. See the Boss Bacon Burger's construction and demise in Epic Meal Time's latest video. More
Last Saturday a woman was rushed to the hospital after collapsing at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas while eating a Double Bypass Burger, reports KTNV. More
RocketNews24 went back to Burger King and ordered a Whopper with 1,050 strips of bacon, or ¥7,000 (about $86) worth of bacon. The burger/bacon mountain weighed 2.7 kilograms (about 5.95 pounds), contained roughly 14,300 calories, and took 2 hours to make. More
As part of a major rebranding effort involving celebrity spokespeople like soccer star David Beckham and actress Salma Hayek, Burger King unveiled singer Mary J. Blige's commercial for Burger King's new crispy chicken snack wraps* at the beginning of this month—and then quickly pulled them down due to, in Burger King's words, music licensing issues, not at all mentioning the criticism the commercial received for promoting racial stereotypes (or just being lame). Last week, members of the comedy troupe The Second City made a series of increasingly over-the-top commercials spoofing the original and the controversy surrounding it. More
From yesterday's episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart riffs on "pink slime," the ammonia-treated beef trimmings product sometimes added to ground beef that started making headlines earlier this year when McDonald's announced their burgers would no longer use "pink slime." Since then, many supermarkets have also announced that they would no longer sell beef containing "pink slime." More
This month Japanese company Kracie released Happy Kitchen Hamburger, a kit that makes miniature burger-flavored snacks just by mixing various powders with water and microwaving them. Unlike the other Happy Kitchen kits that make sweet doughnut and cookies, the result of the hamburger kit is savory, as tasted by Emmymade in Japan in the video above. What does the kit make from water and powders (and included mixing cups)? Fries, patty, buns, cheese, ketchup, and cola. It also comes with a cut-out fries cup, toothpick with a tiny flag, and a label for the cola cup. More
Yesterday former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich started his 14-year prison sentence in Littleton, Colorado, but not before grabbing a final meal at burger chain Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. From Chicago Tribune: "He ordered a double patty melt, fries and a soda but didn't finish the meal." More
In burger documentarian George Motz's latest video, he visits three great Chicago burger joints—Edzo's, M Burger, and Top Notch Beefburgers—with Serious Eats: Chicago editor Nick Kindelsperger. More
