625 Pound Burger to Be Grilled at Alameda Co. Fair

KGO ^ | 6/8/2011

[nickcarraway]

Chefs at the Alameda County Fair will attempt to grill a 625 pound hamburger on July 2. They'll cook up the gigantic ground beef patty on the world's largest barbeque.

It will contain a whopping 1,375,000 calories and will be served up in 99 cent bites.

[nickcarraway]

They can build a giant novelty burger, but they can't save a man friend drowning?

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[CheneyChick]

Want fries with that?

[Rebelbase]

As long as that would take to cook how does the center meat keep from spoiling?

[skinkinthegrass]

..imagine all the Earthfirster / ELF Terrorists showing up...
prime targets of opportunity for (glove wearing / armored :) LEOs.

[Talisker]

They can build a giant novelty burger, but they can't save a man from drowning?

Making the burger is approved policy. Saving the dying man was not.

Don't annoy them - they did nothing wrong, and they can cite all of the necessary policies to prove it. If you keep it up, you will be in violation of other policies.

This is the SF Bay Area - I'm not joking. Not one bit. And either are they.

Oh, by the way - it is also the policy to refer to these policies as "kind, caring and humane."

Seriously.

[momtothree]

“As long as that would take to cook, how does the center meat keep from spoiling?”

I was thinking how charred the outside of the meat would be in order to cook the center.

[skinkinthegrass]

Want fries with that?

sure.
...4 bushel of fried potatoes &/ of like amount of onion rings....

[NormsRevenge]

wow..

I won’t be driving or swimming up there.

hold the lettuce.

[mkmensinger]

Michael Moore’s lunch?

[GraceG]

Yes i can!!!

No you're NOT!!!!

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m sure this is somehow illegal in California.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm betting that CARB will put an end to it, claiming that BBQing it would put too many particulates in the air.

-PJ

[taillightchaser]

Where’s the naked PETA chicks protesting this outrage???

[patton]

That is TWO COWS worth of burger - a cow dresses out to about 300# burger, and 300# steak/roasts.

Amazing.

[G Larry]

We’ve had 155 lb. Weiner being grilled for a week and a half now, and it’s still not done.....

[Tanniker Smith]

Well, they’ve been grilling a giant Weiner for a week, so it makes sense.