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Bigass foodstuffs

rxrfrx — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:31:51 -0800

SupersizedMeals.com - Foodstuffs of Epic Proportions. [via]

By: gagglezoomer

gagglezoomer — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:46:51 -0800

Just looking at those meals make me want to vomit.

By: you just lost the game

you just lost the game — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:47:26 -0800

I've been wavering in my committment to vegetarianism lately, but I think that 100X100 In & Out "burger" is exactly the mental image I need to bring forth the next time I'm tempted by any sort of meat product.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:50:26 -0800

Ick. Appropriately enough, searching for "salad" makes the website hang for me. Anyone else want to give it a try?

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:51:16 -0800

I admit some kind of fascination with watching that mountain of food....there's something appealing in that. Xcept I would NEVER accept to be like her [NSFW,Vile] and have her health problems.

By: Gator

Gator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:51:19 -0800

These things are always lots of fun to look at -- I remember when that giant sandwich on the bread that was cut wrongways was going around, and thought it was nifty -- but then I start to think, "Why do people build colossal things that they then have to take apart in order to enjoy?"

By: danb

danb — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:52:24 -0800

OK, I'll admit it: the 100x100 made me hungry.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:53:41 -0800

I agree, Gator. The "sandwiches" that are really just piles of smaller sandwiches are a stupid idea.

By: JeremyT

JeremyT — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:37:36 -0800

I swear the woman in elpapacito's link is my aunt.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:03:27 -0800

This link won't work for me.

By: Gator

Gator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:17:05 -0800

I think we killed it. I was never even able to get to page three.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:20:37 -0800

I feel pretty terrible now... I figured if it would survive a week on Kottke, it wouldn't have a problem being MeFi'd

By: DieHipsterDie

DieHipsterDie — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:21:50 -0800

Doesn't work. :(

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:48:04 -0800

HURF DURF SERVER EATER

By: duende

duende — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:08 -0800

It saddens me that (almost?) all of those things consist mostly of a huge amount of meat. I'm a vegetarian, and pretty frequently will eat a loaf-of-bread, three-thousand-calorie, four-pound behemoth. Has anyone see any feasible bigass foodstuffs that aren't three ventricles' worth of bacon?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:01:05 -0800

Somebody ate the server.

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:51:54 -0800

I'm glad they included the Saturday Night Live Taco Town Commmercial, what I really like about it is that it actually looks kinda good, and if they stopped right before the pizza with the crepe/sausage/mushroom/egg layer it looks like something I'd like to try.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:03:10 -0800

Found through his blog is the 30,000 calorie sandwich. Sweet Christmas.

By: Relay

Relay — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:46:14 -0800

I'm reminded of this ice cream place that used to be (still is?) in Boston. I want to say Carrow's, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it was an ice cream parlor of the old type, soda fountain, hand made Sundays, that sort of thing ... but then, they also had this menu of "specialty desserts" named after architectural landmarks. It started with "The Eiffel Tower" (feeds 4 - 6) and went all the way up to (and I'm not making this up) "The Great Pyramid" which fed up to 50. My brother (who has lived in Boston since he went to college there) took me to the place. I asked him if he'd ever seen anyone order "The Great Pyramid". "Oh yeah, bunches of frat boys, but never any ONE person. No way. I've seen one guy eat almost all of an "Eiffel Tower" though. Do desserts count?

By: onhazier

onhazier — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:49:00 -0800

My aunt used to own a diner that served the Travis. The Travis is essentially a very large burrito smothered in Red or Green chile and cheese which is then smothered in fries. A quarter Travis coveres a dinner plate. You could ask for a second plate just to hold your fries. A full Travis comes on a serving platter with two Dum-Dum suckers on it because you are either a Dum-Dum or a Sucker to order one. They sell several every day. Well, before my aunt sold out of the business, there was a football player from the local university who ordered a second full Travis as he was finishing up his first. Grandma, my aunt's mother who helped run the diner, went over to him about half way through his second and asked if he was going to finish it. He said "Yes, ma'am." She waited and came back to his table just as he finished it. She picked up his bill and tore it up, saying "You can't afford to feed yourself, boy." As far as I know, that's the only time anyone's eaten two in a day.

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:03:15 -0800

Soooooooo tasty. Why can't there be a way to eat something so meat-and-grease infested but not do damage to yourself? That mega bacon sandwich looks so good.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:18:23 -0800

Last night I dreamed I was eating a 20 pound hamburger. When I woke up, my girlfriend's head was gone.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:30:22 -0800

I got on finally. Only in the States.

By: you just lost the game

you just lost the game — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:39:32 -0800

Not only the States, orange swan (scroll about half-way down). Although, now that I think about it, that burger does look quite puny compared to its American counterparts...

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:43:07 -0800

Only in the States. Then why are so many of the entries from the UK and Australia?

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:43:55 -0800

Mr. Faint "Slow on the Preview" of Butt, that's me...

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:48:15 -0800

These sandwiches may seem novelty but in truth the sync up perfectly with the servings sans bread on the plate of the average large Midwesterner gone mad at the Carnival Buffet inside the Rio Hotel in Vegas. Seven buffets for the price of one! Crab legs, corned beef, boiled and breaded shrimp, Belgian waffle with custom toppings, green beans, macaroni salad and ambrosia all on the same plate.

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:50:37 -0800

Ewww. Maxim had a spread (no pun intended) about huge heart-stopping sandwiches a few issues ago. Couldnt find a link to it but it was actually kind of amusing. My fave was the super-double bacon cheeseburger or something like that served on halves of a grilled Krispy Kreme donut. Before you decide to jump on that bandwagon, however, consider that Chris Penn may have eaten himself to death. Think I'll stick with my (mostly) vegetarian diet, thank you.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:05:55 -0800

From elendil71's link: "Usually he'd think nothing of ordering five steaks, a couple of portions of fish and chips, followed by pints of chocolate milkshake and shots of 130 per cent strength whisky. ... Chris - the brother of Oscar-winning actor Sean Pen - reportedly also regularly splashed out $300 a time on cocaine and also smoked crack. Overlooking for the moment the nonsensical reference to "130 percent strength whisky" (perhaps the speaker means 130 proof?) please note that the late Mr. Penn made a regular habit of consuming inhuman portions of steak and fried foods, and was not felled by a mere donutburger. This is not to mention, of course, the crack cocaine, which I suspect had a much greater impact on his overall well-being than even his atrocious diet. I will continue to eat the occasional 20-ounce cheeseburger without fear.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:07:56 -0800

Ugh! I had a bunch of ribs last night, I'm still trying to clean my system out. This didn't help my stomach any. Nifty link tho.

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:43:15 -0800

Faint of Butt: I will continue to eat the occasional 20-ounce cheeseburger without fear. Chow away, my friend, chow away! This is America! I've been known to put away quite the repast at the very common All-You-Can-Eat Sushi bars around my town when my protein cravings get uncontrollable. Perhaps not the heart-clogging mayhem of the aformentioned meals, but for $12, it's quite a reasonable journey to a food-coma.

By: squarehead

squarehead — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:04:59 -0800

Pizza!! Now that's what I call a taco!!

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:17:42 -0800

As for the monster veggie sandwich ideas, I can't imagine how much food it would take in order to consume 30,000 calories in a single vegetarian sandwich.

By: Mercaptan

Mercaptan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:09:43 -0800

craven: You'd probably be amazed what can be achieved by using avocados or cheese or both. Particularly if there was deep frying involved.

By: ob

ob — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:09:39 -0800

I have heartburn from just looking at these behemoths.

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:36:28 -0800

Taste and research in ingredient combination is replaced by easy multiplication of mediocrity -- this by itself, completely defines America and the other equally culturally empty places that try to copy it.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:16:08 -0800

this by itself, completely defines America oh shut up.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:38:12 -0800

this by itself, completely defines America Is it you, Monsieur Henri-Levi? In that case, I'm disappointed. I'd have expected something more like this: "in the US, it's called supersize, in the rest of the world, it's called bulimia, and that exemplifies the paradoxical character of American culture, turning tragedy into farce, forever juggling between excess and control, gravitas and entertainment, gratification and puritanism, and this is what makes America great, but not too great, forceful, but not too forceful, superpower, but not too super...".

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:36:55 -0800

n that case, I'm disappointed. I'd have expected something more like this: Does not apply. The matter at hand rather exposes plain disappointing mediocrity -- just like a 5 years old who pulls a trick once and then does again and again with only slight variation or repetition of the former trick. It's just embarrassing to watch. This mediocre faux American excess is afflicting -- and yes, it defines today's America, which makes a lot its admirers extremely sad.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:38:53 -0800

NewBornHippy: I was just being silly cos I'd just read that NYT review and it cracked me up (both the kind of stuff they quote from the book and how they react to it) so I was reminded of that... Not saying you're wrong or anything. But I'm not American so I hesitate to venture in this territory.

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:48:12 -0800

mmmmmmmmm, deep fried avacado cheese...