'Baseball's Best Burger' - Burger, Cheese, Bacon Served On Krispy Kreme

[matcom]

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Do two great tastes necessarily go great together? And how much of a good thing is too much?

The Gateway Grizzlies will put both questions to the test this spring, when the minor league ballclub unleashes a concoction it is calling "Baseball's Best Burger" at GMC Stadium here.

"Baseball's Best Burger" is a hamburger topped with cheddar cheese and two strips of bacon, served between two halves of a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut. The team plans to introduce the burger at a media event at the stadium Monday. The official debut is the team's home opener May 31.

In this case, the price of indulgence will be $4.50.

Tony Funderburg, the Grizzlies' general manager, says he has had about 10 of the doughnut burgers and swears that they're great. "The sharp cheddar cheese and the sweetness of the doughnut just really go well together," Funderburg said. "That's what really makes it work. If you did it without cheese, I'm not sure it would be that good."

Believe it or not, the burger has something of a storied - some might say mythic - history. It is sometimes called the "Luther Burger" after singer Luther Vandross, who told Entertainment Weekly magazine in 1993 that he came up with the idea one night when he cooked a bacon cheeseburger as a midnight snack. Vandross realized that he was out of buns, so he improvised with a pair of glazed doughnuts.

"It was really good," Vandross told the magazine.

Not everyone is so enthusiastic about the burger, which contains an estimated 1,000 calories and about 45 grams of fat. A Big Mac, by contrast, has 560 calories and 30 grams of fat.

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[MadHound]

1. Each and every year I'm continously amazed

By what various food establishments will put out there. I remember back in the day when the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder first came out, and everybody thought that they were absolutely huge. But graduallly the weight, and the amount of other toppings, have increased. Now most chains offer some burger concoction that has a half pound of beef, along with six strips of bacon and three of four slices of cheese on it. One could get a heart attack just looking at the damn thing. And in some non-chain restraunts the cool thing on the menu is a five, or even seven pound burger, accompanied by an equally obscene amount of fries.

And now, here we are, merging two really, really fatty, unhealthy foods, a large burger and doughnuts:eyes: What, do these people want their fans dropping dead in the stands? This not only sounds like a horrible taste combo, not only is such a concoction radically unhealthy for you, but it is just another sign of how crass and tacky our society has become. While hundreds of thousands worldwide are dying of hunger, we're offering up gross cusine choices like this, and have made eating into a competitive sport:puke:

[underpants]

2. Not for me I like a "Fromunda burger"

you put the tomato slice under the cheese and let the cheese melt on top of it.

Fromunda cheese.

[JackBeck]

3. Did a pregnant woman come up with this idea?

[matcom]

4. don't know. pickles aren't mentioned

:D

[JackBeck]

5. My co-worker is 6 months pregnant and I just sent this to her and

she said the same thing!

[LaraMN]

6. That's like the culinary equivalent of ingesting a giant glycerin

suppository. I think it would literally slide through one's intestines. gross.

[deadparrot]

7. Ew.

I've actually been to Gateway Grizzlies games. The stadium is about 20 minutes from my house.

But yeah. Ew. :puke:

[Maestro]

8. I'm getting ill thinking about eating it.

Blech :puke:

[sakabatou]

9. Sounds like something out of "Boondocks"

Oh wait, it is! The Luther Burger!

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. That has to be the nastiest waste of food ever.

:puke:

[begin_within]

11. Hope they keep the difibrulators handy - that's a heart attack on a plate.