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.

Well Worth the Nine Hour Wait!

A Brief Background on Denny's Beer Barrel Pub 

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For the more well-known chain of American restaurants see: Dennys.

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'Dennys 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.Kate Stelnick Eats 6-Pound Burger

Soon afterwards the restaurant introduced a bigger burger called the Beer Barrel Belly Buster', a two person challenge. This burger contains ten and a half pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a whole head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, 1.5 cups of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard, and banana peppers all between one enormous hamburger bun. On October 17, 2008, Brad Sciullo, a Pennsylvanian chef, became the first person to eat the burger on his own in under five hours.

On February 24, 2007 Denny introduced a 123 pound burger priced at $379. Besides an 80-pound burger, it contains a pound of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard, mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, five onions, 12 tomatoes, 2 pounds of banana peppers, 33 pickles, and a 30-pound bun. Dennys goal is to get the latest burger creation into the Guinness Book of World Records.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070227/ap_on_fe_st/huge_hamburger_1

The burgers and Denny's Beer Barrel Pub have been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Food Network, Travel Channel, David Letterman's Top 10, the Rachael Ray Show, the Tony Danza Show, and Country Fried Home Videos on the Country Music Channel.

Guests from all 50 states, and from many countries around the world, have dined there.

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For Lighter Appetites... The Ye Olde 96er

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.

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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. 100-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.

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papawu wrote...

I can almost guarantee I could handle the 96er minus the tomatoes and lettuce. I might be able to get down a pound of my battered and fried pickles and a 2 liter of Pepesi with also. I can really shovel down some food if necessary. Is it a good idea? Heck no! But it would be fun to try.

ReplyPosted May 15, 2009

kiwisoutback wrote...

Wow that is one huge burger.. bravo to that person who finished in under 3 hours! I'm lensrolling to my homemade burger lens.

ReplyPosted April 01, 2009

poddys wrote...

Wow that is some burger - too big for me even! Very nice lens, just got up and I'm hungry LOL :) 5*****

ReplyPosted January 25, 2009

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EstebanR7

This is just out of hand haha

ReplyPosted January 21, 2009

unique_freak77 wrote...

Great lens! Makes me hungry! I can't believe someone actually managed to eat that 6-pounder in under 3 hours!

ReplyPosted January 16, 2009

 
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