Man chews through belly-busting 20-lb. burger
21-year-old finishes meal in less than 5 hours, wins $400 and 3 T-shirts
CLEARFIELD, Pa. - It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is.
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds. The mountain of beef is the product of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.
Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. “About three hours into it, things got tough,” he said.
When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: “I wanted to see if I could.”
The burger included a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish, pub owner Dennis Liegey said.
For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate “and a burger hangover, as I call it,” Liegey said.
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I'm betting that you're off by at least a couple pounds on the cheese slices.
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The Bar I go to play poker at has a 4# burger and that thing is huge. I can oly imagine what that 15# looks like.
If Bill's calcs are right that is slightly over my average calorie consumption for 10 days. WOW
Surprised there wern't any fries with that.
A local restaurant around here has a "mini" 3 pound burger...the "regular" is 5 pounds, and the "large" is 9 pounds. I once ate the "mini" (with fries ) for lunch. I didn't again eat until the next afternoon...
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I want to be pushing weights when I'm 70 instead of a walker in an old folk's home.
A pizzeria here has a 20ish-inch pizza, weighs several pounds, and offers it and some other stuff for free if you can finish it by yourself within an hour. Their regular pizzas are pretty good, though.
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I once got a 32oz steak free by eating the whole thing, including salad, baked potato and garlic bread, in less than an hour. I wasn't able to finish my fourth beer, though.
But I'd have to draw the line at a 15lb burger.
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World record sandwich? Iranians eat evidence
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran failed Friday to register what it said would be the world's largest sandwich in the Guinness book of World Records after people rushed forward and began eating it -- before it was measured.
Event organizers had planned to stuff the 1,500-meter-long sandwich with 700 kg of ostrich meat and 700 kg of chicken, and display it in a park in the capital Tehran.
But as the sandwich was being measured, chaos ensued. The giant snack was gone in minutes, a Reuters witness said, leaving the three Guinness representatives present with a dilemma.
One of the event's organizers said video footage of the sandwich would be sent to Guinness officials.
"We still think the sandwich will be recorded in the Guinness book because of all the evidence and footage that we will send them," Parvin Shariati said.
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I kept looking at that pic - my eyes wanted to think it was a trick of perspective that made the burger look so huge in front of the little guy about to eat it...
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) for lunch. I didn't again eat until the next afternoon...
"I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. So let the winds of change blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."
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