The 15 pound hamburger

May 3, 2005

Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger

May 3, 8:05 AM (ET)

CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny's

Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world's biggest

burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that weighs a

whopping 15 pounds.

Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5 pounds

of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes,

two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup,

mustard and banana peppers - and a bun.

It costs $30.

" It can feed a family of 10, " said Denny Liegey Sr., the restaurant's

owner.

Denny's Beer Barrel Pub had offered a 6-pound burger - with 5 pounds

of toppings.

In February, a 100-pound female college student became the first to

eat the burger within the three-hour time limit. Kate Stelnick, of

Princeton, N.J., was awarded a special certificate, a T-shirt and other

prizes and Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab for the burger.

One month later, the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, N.J., introduced

a 12.5-pound burger dubbed Zeus.

So Liegey responded, and the Belly Buster was born.

Over the weekend, four men took the challenge, but couldn't get through

the entire burger. They opted for doggie bags, instead.

" It's a little too much for me to handle, " said Steve Hepburn, of

Clearfield. " It's like trying to eat half a cow. "

" This is what is meant by " sacrifice " , literally, the " making sacred "

of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells

on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern

Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs

of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores

the world has ever seen. "

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