Thinkyoureyes are bigger than your stomach?Dirigo Public House , a eating house in Yarmouth , Maine , recently celebrated its one - year line anniversary by creating a ground beef that weighed more than 100 pounds , NBC affiliateWCSH6 theme .
The idea of cook a larger - than - life story burger originally begin as a caper . " Everybody is like , ' Haha , the Warren E. Burger are really estimable , you should go bigger , ’ ” restaurant co - owner Ben Grant told WCSH6 . But Grant and his co - possessor , wife Katie Grant , decide to charge to the idea , and on Sunday , July 31 , they cooked the monumental , meaty sandwich for a thirsty crowd .
The sandwich ’s ground - beef cattle patty librate 70 pound , and was site on a homemade bun . After condiment and toppings were sum up , the Warren E. Burger tip the scales at more than 100 pound sign . customer purchase tickets to view the Sunday even spectacle — and to sample the last product , of course .
The Grants will donate a portion of the sale proceeds toGood Shepherd Food Bank , Maine ’s big hunger easing organization .
" It ’s very exciting to celebrate our one - class anniversary , but at the same clip , this is just a monolithic amount of food for thought , and there are some people that do n’t have the luxury of going out to rust , " Katie Grant told WCSH6 .
The eating house ’s owners say the gargantuan hamburger might become a yearly custom . Still , they ’ll need to think a little bigger next year if they want to set a Guinness Record . In 2012 , the Black Bear Casino Resort in Carlton , Minnesota , cooked theworld ’s largest burger : a 2014 - pound sandwich that was top with more than 50 pounds of tomatoes , 50 pounds of kale , 60 pounds of onion , and 40 pounds of American Malva sylvestris , among other bandaging . Since then , no other ambitious fry Captain Cook have achieved a similarly colossal feat .
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