Supersize me! Restaurant offers 338-pound burger

[October 22, 2011]  SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) -- A Detroit-area restaurant has cooked up another giant burger.

The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/oU0PdF) that Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar in Southgate made a 338-pound "Absolutely Ridiculous Burger" on Thursday. A crowd of people gathered to salivate over the unveiling of the massive $2,000 menu item.

The 3-foot-high sandwich packs 540,000 calories and takes 22 hours to cook. Manager Jason Jones says it comes with fries and a drink.

Over the years, Mallie's has drawn attention for cooking up monstrous burgers. In 2008, the restaurant produced a 134-pound burger. Six months later it made one weighing 164 pounds. In 2009, it built 186-pound burger and in January it created one that topped the scales at 319 pounds.

There was no word on how the burger tasted.

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Information from: The Detroit News, http://detnews.com/

[Associated Press]

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