Big Daddy's Burgers challenge still unmet
Adam Wheeler
Issue date: 3/3/10 Section: Variety
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The burger has been available to customers since this fall and in those few months there has yet to be an appetite big enough to conquer the three-and-a-half pound basket. The dish consists of a two-pound burger with sautéed onions, two kinds of cheese, a slice of ham and several slices of bacon. All that is accompanied by a pound-and-a-half of home-sliced french fries.
"We originally called it the Triple Bypass until customers told me that that was just not cool," said Dave Gonhue, the owner of Big Daddy's Burgers.
After challenging eaters for the better part of a decade, Gonhue decided to take things up a notch by adding a new selection to their menu. The meal is unnamed because the first person to actually finish it will have it named after them.
Other rewards for this feat are a T-shirt and a framed picture of the winner on the wall of the restaurant.
Walking into the building, one of the first things you notice is the "Wall of Fame." A cluster of Polaroid pictures featuring all the people that have beaten the Belly Buster, the previous challenge put forth by Big Daddy's that pales in comparison to the new addition.
"I just got tired of people beating it," Gonhue said.
The brightly decorated poster board where the pictures are taped onto is now overflowing with people claiming to be champions of the Belly Buster.
"I got the idea from an episode of 'Man Vs. Food,'" Gonhue said. "I wanted to make something that could be on that show."
"Man Vs. Food" is a show on the Travel channel that features the host traveling around the world to take on obscure eating competitions.
The new burger's inception came with some resistance from some groups among the community. They claimed that with starving people around the world, these over-the-top portions made no sense.
"People know what they're getting here," Gonhue said. "We're not forcing anyone to eat it."
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