After the Cronut, we now have the Pizzaburger!
This pepperoni pizza-wrapped bacon cheeseburger contains 1,360 calories and 2,000 milligrams of sodium.
Created by Boston’s Restaurant and Sports Bar, it is now available in the chain’s 40 US restaurants
It is baked in the same pizza pans used to make regular pizzas and makes no pretense of being healthy. Brad Bevill, Vice President of marketing for the chain, told USA Today , “We’re not pretending that it’s a healthy product… You’re talking about a hamburger and pizza wrapped together.”
A YouTube video shows the burger being placed in a pizza pan on an uncooked pizza. The burger is then wrapped in the pizza and placed in the oven. The video also shows people enjoying the creation. These potentially lethal heart bombs are garnished with lettuce, pickle, and tomato, but the garnish is ignored and not eaten by the customers.
The MailOnline reports that the Pizzaburger was Initially launched in Canada, at the ubiquitous Boston’s Pizza. “This creation increased burger sales 250 per cent,” a spokesperson said, “Canada’s been huge, and so far, so good, it’s been taking off pretty well.”
The idea for the burger reputedly came when the company decided to capitalize on the country’s fascination with celebrity babies – an obsession mocked in Conan O’Brien’s “If They Mated” skits.
“(The company) wanted to do something fun and creative,” continued the spokesperson, and thought “what if the pizza and the burger had a baby?”
Well now they have, and the result is the Pizzaburger.
But, unhealthy as this burger is, it’s nowhere near the record-holding calorie catastrophe served at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, Nevada. This restaurant serves bypass burgers and flat-line fries deep-fried in pure lard and gives free food to anyone weighing over 350 pounds.
Their quadruple bypass burger holds the Guinness World Record for “most calorific burger,” with almost 10,000 calories. Add a butterfat milkshake and fries, and you get a 12,410 calorie meal – equal to one week of food for the average eater.
Oh, and at least one customer is known to have had an actual heart attack while eating in the restaurant!
Let’s hope that the new Pizzaburger doesn’t aim to beat the record of the Heart Attack Grill where the staff obviously enjoy their work.
