Well Isn't This Healthy

[dr_phil_physics]

The Latest Big Food Outrage... In West Michigan!

The West Michigan Whitecaps Single-A minor league baseball team has a really nice ballpark and one helluva great park management operation. Originally named Old Kent Park, when the venerable and local Old Kent Bank was snapped up by Fifth-Third Bank, the new bank couldn't leave well enough alone and had the name changed to Fifth-Third, despite there already being another Fifth-Third park in the Midwest League.

Now they've always done great food. One tasty treat is the Loaded Pig Swimming -- a BBQ pork chop sandwich which Mrs. Dr. Phil and I usually split, rather than trying to choke them down by ourselves. But their new item...

Behold The Fifth-Third Burger



The stats: Five one-third pound patties (Fifth-Third, get it?), "with lettuce, tomato, salsa, sour cream, chili and Fritos on an eight-inch sesame seed bun" and is intended to serve four for twenty bucks. Or one person can try to eat it all in one sitting and get a T-shirt.

Need calories? Have 4889. Want some fat? We got it -- 299 grams. Sodium? 10.887 grams. No, really, not milligrams... grams. Even before the baseball season starts, this has made news -- even on CNBC. Maybe the Travel Channel's Man vs. Food guy will come here. I may be very large and fat, but I couldn't possibly consume one by myself. It'd hurt, I'd explode, I'd die.

The T-shirts don't come in my size anyway.

Dr. Phil

Comments

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

See, I don't know whether to congratulate you on your excellent view of reality that you know you couldn't eat this by yourself, castigate you for being concerned that you couldn't eat this by yourself -- or tell you to go into training. (grin)

Dr. Phil

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

I think I could have made a good stab at it when I was eighteen, but that kind of training now would kill me! :)

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

At eighteen you might've thought it was a good idea.

Dr. Phil

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

I remember I once put down two footlongs, a plate of fries, and a box of Nutter Butters at one sitting. I also used to order six tacos as a "normal" meal at Taco Bell, and maybe toss in a burrito if I felt hungry.