The Biggest Hamburger Ever

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The Biggest Hamburger Ever: The Denny's Beer Barrel Pub Main Event Burger

Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania is proud of its Main Event burger which costs $379, feeds up to 200 people, and takes 9 hours to prepare. The super-sized burger features an 80-pound beef patty, a 30-pound bun, 12 tomatoes and 160 slices of cheese. Denny's Beer Barrel Pub also throws on a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, mustard and mayo, stacks of pickles, and up to five onions. Special molds and stainless steel pans were created by TD Fabricating and Welding of Clearfield to accommodate the colossal-sized sandwich. The pans were designed to suit the behemoth burger's unique specifications and cost $500 to produce.

People from all over the world have visited Denny's Beer Barrel Pub. "Every weekend we have someone new coming through our door," says owner Denny Leigey. "We've had people from Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, England, Ireland and Germany." The restaurant is also a favorite of competitive eating groups like The United Eaters of Pennsylvania. "Denny's is sort of our Mecca," said member Dave Schoffner. "We come here every year." When asked how many calories the world's largest hamburger contained, Mr. Leigey said he had no idea.

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A Few Facts Courtesy of Wikipedia

Denny's Beer Barrel Pub is a small restaurant and bar, opened in September 1977 and located in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Its claim to fame is its large hamburgers. Owned by Denny Liegey Sr., the restaurant keeps expanding the size of their hamburgers to keep the record as having the biggest. It started with a 2-pound burger challenge, working up to its current record of a 123-pound burger. Fame started in earnest in 1996 with the creation of the "Ye Olde 96er" a 6-pound burger with about 5 pounds of toppings. Patrons take the challenge of trying to finish it in the allocated time. College student Kate Stelnick of Princeton, New Jersey, weighing 115 pounds was the first person to successfully finish the 6-pound version.

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A Global Sensation

Guests from all 50 states, and from many countries around the world, have dined at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.

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For Lighter Appetites... The Ye Olde 96er

We Have a Winner!

In January 2005, 19-year old Kate Stelnick of Princeton, NJ became the first person to win the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub Ye Olde 96er Challenge. 115-pound Kate polished off the 6-pound burger and 5 pounds of fixins in 2 hours and 54 minutes, just minutes shy of the 3-hour time limit.

The 6-pound Ye Olde 96er 

Three-hour time limit... Can you do it?

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  • 6 pounds of ground beef
  • Two whole tomatoes
  • A half-head of lettuce
  • 12 slices of American cheese
  • A full cup of peppers
  • Two entire onions
  • Plus, a river a mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard.

Brad Schuillo Sets a New Record 

Brad Finished the Ye Olde 96er in 2 hours and 23 minutes

C'mon... Super-Size Me! 

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The supersized hamburger Italian charm features a big burger with all of the toppings and the words SUPER-SIZED in place of the patty. Stainless steel with glitter, enamel paint, and gold plating.

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Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA

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What's the Buzz on Denny's Beer Barrel Pub? 

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Monroe Files Photography: Denny's 2 pound burger challenge!
Leo and Denny from Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. ZDB did a live remote of the action! The 100 pounder burger was then cut and sold for a $1.00 a piece. with proceeds benefiting local food pantries. ...
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Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, Great food, Great times! ... Click here to see who orders The Beer Barrel Belly Buster!!!!! Couldn't Quite do it! | 8 October 2009. READ MORE · Four More Complete Challenges. Three 2 pounders and One 3 pounder. ...
Light Seeking Light: Bigger Burgers -- A New Arms Race
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world's biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that weighs a whopping 15 pounds. ...
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We stopped at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania? home of, potentially the biggest burger in America? Burgundy: Next time we go through, we're doing one of those challenges. Corduroy: The challenge is only a 2lb ...

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