“Burger King is set to launch the Pizza Burger – a two-in-one dish that contains more than 2,500 calories and is four times the size of the chain’s Whoppers.
The meal will delight fast-food fans when it is exclusively introduced at Burger King’s Whopper Bar in Times Square, New York, next month. Besides the beef and a 9.5-inch sesame bun, the Pizza Burger is topped with pepperoni, mozzarella, Tuscan pesto and marinara sauce. It also comes in six slices, just like a pizza.
According to blogger Me So Hungry, it is the perfect mix between a pizza and a burger. “The visual highlight was the New York Pizza Burger… it’s not bad. Tastes kinda like pizza, but also like a burger,” the blogger said. It has been dubbed the “fat bomb” because, for $13 (£8.40), customers can bite into 2,520 calories – the recommended daily intake is 2,500 calories for men and 2,000 for women.
One Pizza Burger contains 144g of fat – 59g of which is saturated. It also has 3,780mg of salt, which is more than double the daily limit for adults. John Schaufelberger, Burger King’s vice president of global marketing, insisted the Pizza Burger is “intended to be shared”. But he also admitted that it “demonstrates the type of menu offerings our guests can expect”. According to Mr Schaufelberger, the Pizza Burger is a homage to New York, the home of Burger King.”
Read more at Sky News (Thanks Liam R)
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Looks like it is designed to be shared.
Wow! Only in America!
Sounds like something from “man vs food”!
So, it’s nice to see they’re still fighting obesity in the USA!!!!
oh my god I WANT ONE so bad! That could just about be one of the most appetising things I’ve EVER seen.
This looks disgusting :-S
That is absolutely rank.
I feel sick just looking at it – yuuuKKKK!
Oh my god, thats horrendous
This makes me feel sick. Pizza is pizza and burger is burger.. A mix of the two is just sick. Eugh Burger King. Eugh.
That is just the sickest thing I’ve ever heard of in my whole life… Trust americans to come up with something like that :/
I’m having a heart attack just looking at it!
So you can feed a family of 4 for a week in Europe with $13, and you need two a day per person in the US, right?
Imagine the wonders this can do to Africa.
59g of saturated fat? My arteries are hardening just thinking about it…… Bleurghh!
LC x
Feeling inspired now, may pop down to the takeaway to see if they can build me something similar.
I hope they release this in Canada! We never got the KFC Double Down which was the upset of the year.
Yeah, I think this is supposed to be shared. Though I would not be surprised to see one person ordering this *with* the french-fries and soft drink.
Weird huh .. that those calories never show on the outside so well ..
The one on the picture does not make me think of a pizza or something I’d wish to eat I have to say .. it must be all in the stuffing and the little seeds on top .. the calories.
Sharing? Who said something about sharing. We never share our food. That’s against basic dinner rules.
Families? Well, glad I’m not one of those kids who now will have to eat the same as their parents.
Meant to be shared, eh? Like those big bags of crisps fat people are famed for generously passing round the room, or 2 litre bottles of cheap cider those loud yet incomprehensible men on park benches hug to their chests…
does it come with diet drink??