Burger King’s BK Stacker Quintuple
(images via: Discover Buenos Aires and Twicsy/ReydePilos)
The BK Stacker was introduced domestically in 2006 and it’s been a semi-regular component of Burger King’s menu ever since. Stackers contain from one to four grilled beef patties… or so you thought! Meet the new (well, summer of 2011) Beast of the Pampas, Burger King’s BK Stacker Quintuple! Five beef patties, an equal number of cheese slices, lots of bacon and special Stacker sauce. Don’t cry for me, Argentina, cry for the foreigners limited to a mere four beef patties.
(image via: Sir Chandler)
You’ll find no lettuce, tomato, onions or pickles on this or any BK Stacker. According to Denny Marie Post, Burger King’s chief concept officer, “We’re satisfying the serious meat lovers by leaving off the produce and letting them decide exactly how much meat and cheese they can handle.” This is one Mucho Grande you’ll never get over.
Lotteria’s Ebi Tree Burger
(images via: Shimaizumibijintokei, T_Yasudasu and Gigazine)
Remember Lotteria, the Japanese fast food chain that’s serving healthier food? Well, about that… check out the Ebi Tree Burger, a stack of five fried shrimp patties that is to McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish what Godzilla is to the Geico gecko. How any anatomically correct human can possibly (not to mention neatly) eat this precariously balanced tower of breaded shrimp has to be one of the world’s last unanswered questions.
(image via: Gigazine)
Lotteria’s Ebi Tree Burger: the other jumbo shrimp. Over four Fridays in October 2012, Lotteria stores featured the Ebi Tree Burger at the “Super Fry-Day” special price of 500 yen (around $5.50). Not a bad deal if you bring a family of five, dissect and divvy up the burger, and dole out a little shredded cabbage and tartar sauce from under the topmost bun.
Carl’s Jr. 12x12x12 Burger
(image via: Facebook/Carl’s Jr.’s Page)
By now you must be thinking these bodacious burgers just can’t be real but you’d be wrong… until now. American burger vendor Carl’s Jr. created what’s likely the healthiest big burger of the bunch – healthy because it only exists as an image. The stupendous 12x12x12 burger released, as it were, on December 12th of 2012 (12/12/12… get it?) on the company’s Facebook page was merely a ploy to drum up a little social media interest. “If it’s not the end of the world, then it’s definitely the end of your hunger. #burgergeddon #baconpocalypse #cheesetastrophe” read the text accompanying the photo. One wonders what the actual ancient Mayans would have thought if they knew they’d inspired this monumental sandwich but they’ll never know. Eat your hearts out, ancient Mayans!

