First.....

KFC brought us the Double Down (bacon and cheese sandwiched between two fried chicken breasts)




Then.....

Friendly's gave us the grilled cheese burger (a hamburger sandwiched between two grilled cheese sandwiches)




And now....

Carl's Jr. brings us the mother of them all....

THE FOOT LONG CHEESEBURGER!!!!!!




Oh man....this shit makes me so happy. The only thing more tantalizing is the sweet, sweet tears of PETA and the Food Police.

...

DAMN YOU TOFU-CENTRIC VEGETARIAN DIET

DAMN YOU AND YOUR SOY BLANDNESS

...Damnit, now I got REALLY hungry *makes pasta*

Doubledown is shit for it's price. End of story. At Carl's Jr for that price I coulda had a medium-sized meal with a BIGGER sandwich.

I hope that footlong is near me, I'd totally buy that and I know a guy who'll probably break his no-fast-food diet to see how many of these he can eat.

The urge to buy a pack of quarterpounders, a large baguette and a whole lot of cheese is practically overwhelming...

(yawn), So the rest of the USA is catching-up with Maine?

We've had "foot-long" burgers for years. Many mom & pop convenience stores (Yes, not all our stores are chain ones yet) have a pizza/sandwich operation. Many of those offer a "burger sub". Yup, basically what this Carl Jr. place is offering.

Not that I could eat that much food these days.

I grew-up in such a store that my folks ran. Their largest sandwich, the "Surf and Turf" involved a Maine-style dagwood sandwich. Need to pause here, 'cause in Maine a Dagwood isn't one of those multi-stacks like in the comic strip. It's a pita pocket sandwich consisting of lettuce, cheese, ham, salami, bacon, tomatoes, onions, green peppers and pickles. Usually weighs around a pound to a pound and a half when done. My folks' large dagwood weighed at the pound and a half end.

Now take that, and add a half pound burger and third pound of seafood salad (basically fake crab mixed with a little mayo). Total weight: usually 2 to 2.5 pounds. Whole thing was wrapped in plastic wrap and served on a Chinet paper plate with plasticware and directions on how to eat it. Last step states, the plasticware is provided for when you ignore the directions and the sandwich explodes on you.

Truckers never finished more than one. We had a couple of high school regulars who could eat two.

These days, if we want a big sandwich, we go to Big G's Deli, which happens to be located where my folks use to run their store. You never order a whole sandwich there unless either you're a starving teenager or want leftovers. Their homemade bread is roughly 10 to 12 inches on a side. Sliced nearly an inch or more thick for sandwiches.

Huh. I wonder how long before it'd start going stale if you can't down it in one sitting? ^^;;

So, do you guys (girls?) have any record eats?
One day when I was in my pre-teens; a particualry hungry day I ate 6 bowls of cereal, 1/4 a medium-sized chocolate cake, and a whole trout.

Also, it takes me like 10-15 minutes to eat a fish. Not a filet; a fish. Grill that sucker, come back in 15 minutes, and there'll be nothing but a skeleton left.

America: Eating itself to death while letting others starve at the same time.

Personally, I would not consider it an achievement.

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Okay, I am not being fair. This sort of behaviour was around long before Leif Ericsson discovered America. But seriously, eating too much just to eat too much?

What he said.

This the LAST thing this country needs while we're going through an obesity epidemic. My chest just hurts looking at that thing, and I'm wondering what on earth Carl's Jr. is thinking. It's like when Subway had a giant, fattening sandwich, and used Peter Griffin from family guy as the spokesperson, urging you to, "Feast your face!" I thought it was rather irresponsible, and in very poor taste, and those feelings are popping up again with this culinary disaster that threatens to harden our arteries even more.

On the other hand though, that Double Down does look tasty...might have just one, and allow two years for my body to recover.

Does eating an entire authentic Chicago 10" diameter, 2" deep dish pepperoni pizza in one sitting count? (And I mean "authentic" -- mom and pop pizza parlor in Northalston (I think it was Northalston?), Chi-town)

...okay, perhaps I'm lucky that I'm not as fat as I theoretically should be.

I feel nostalgia for an entertainment I've never witnessed except in kids comics (seriously, the pinnacle of gratification in those things is a massive blowout, pints of fizzy pop (USA:soda) and heaped plates of mashed potato with bangers (USA:sausages, or what passes for those here) sticking out in all directions) and once in an episode of CSI....
the eating contest:- where the aim is to pack away as much of one food as possible in a minimum time.

A bit like drinking contests where the talent of relaxing the gullet and chucking it down leads to success.

Blow me but I could go a few double cheezeburgers right now...

None for myself, but after my brother graduated high school, he spent a summer working for a landscaper, mostly mowing lawns. He'd eat a big breakfast before heading to the job, ingest nothing but fluids during the day to keep from dehydrating, then when the sun went down he'd hit a pizza place and devour an entire large pie (usually 16" or 18") topped with sausage, pepperoni and green peppers. By himself.

Needless to say, he can't eat like that anymore.



Can't say I agree with the philosophy behind those contests. Apart from the grossness of it all, there's also the moral issues. Now, as an open-minded, libertarian-type fellow, I suppose that whatever one wants to do with their own money, their own food and their own body is entirely their concern; we all have our own quirks and interests and pursuits. But should such behavior be sponsored by foodmakers, spotlighted by the media, cheered by throngs of onlookers and celebrated with the kinds of public spectacle and festivity that we see? No dolphinfuckin' way.

Wing

Weeellll, we actually don't see the spectacle and festivity very often at all, at least from where I see.

And, there are a number of older cultures across the world--- including places that "famine" usually comes to mind-- where (a) day[s are] is put aside for the sole point of engorging themselves, just as much as a social event as it is for sustinance (again, including places where survival is usually a consant struggle, that morale is as big a necessity as sustinance for survival; such gorging feasts serve the purpose of strengthening community and emotional welfare).

I'm not sure which moral issues you're addressing. Like I can kinda see if your position was about obesity, but that's more about long-term behavioral patterns than one-time/occasional events: it's not that one donut that goes straight to the thighs; it's all the donuts you eat over a given length of time. That guy worked as a landscaper, so he needed that much food to keep up.

And that's more an issue of health and biology, not morality, so I'm not sure what your angle is.