Restaurant Brands International's (QSR) Burger King has gone big before. In 2016 it offers a monstrosity called the Egg-Normous Buritto. This 805 calories treat offered sausage, thick-cut naturally smoked bacon, scrambled eggs, golden hash browns, shredded cheddar cheese, and melted American cheese, plus a creamy spicy sauce all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla and served with a side of Picante Sauce.
It served as a sort of a sequel the chain's Supreme Breakfast Sandwich, a sub-like breakfast offering that came with two eggs, sausage, bacon, and cheese on a hoagie roll. Forget English muffins, or even biscuits containing a single egg and only one meat, the Supreme Breakfast Sandwich came in at 880 calories and 59 grams of fat.
Both of these, however, owe a lot to the Meat'Normous Omelet Sandwich two eggs, a sausage patty, two slices of smoky ham, three slices of bacon, and two slices of American cheese on a toasted specialty bun. That sandwich was touted in an ad where the king handed one to a lumberjack. The implication was that this was a working man's sandwich -- a meal for construction workers, lumberjacks, and others fueling up for a hard day ahead.
Now, the chain has gone back to big, but not with a morning meal. It has a new burger that's bigger (and more expensive than anything its has offered before.
Burger King Goes Big, But Not Home
While the United States loves to super-size its food, this time, the massive burger isn't coming from America. In Japan, Burger King just launched the King Yeti Super One Pound Beef Burger: a four-patty and six-cheese slice sandwich with a similarly high price to match.
While Japan is known for its high cost of living, the roughly $15 (or 1,750 Yen) that the King Yeti Super One Pound commands is certainly steep for a Burger King menu item: the most expensive sandwich on the U.S. menu, the Texas Double Whopper commands $8.19.
The King Yeti Super One Pound Beef Burger, in turn, comes with four 100% beef patties, six slices of Gouda cheese, caesar sauce, pickles, onions, and a combination of Parmesan and Camembert cheese on a brioche bun.
As food site Chew Boom first reported, the sandwich giant is a limited-time promotion at select Japanese Burger King restaurants from February 18 through March 3, 2022.
Expensive (And Big) Fast Food Has A Long History
If you track fast food "best of" lists, you'll know that both big and expensive fast food has a long history — in comparison to what chefs looking for a spot on these list come up with, a $15 burger can start to seem like a pretty good bargain.
Dutch Burger restaurant De Daltons once Wagyu beef, Alaskan king crab, beluga caviar and white truffles recently took the spot of "world's most expensive burger" for a 5,000 Euro (roughly $5,665) creation that included Wagyu beef, Alaskan king crab, beluga caviar and white truffles while restaurateur David Chang gives a $100 spin to KFC-style fried chicken at his Momofuku restaurant.
Serendipity 3, a café in New York's Upper East Side known for fancy-fying comfort foods, currently serves both a $100 milkshake (milk, ice cream and 23-karat edible gold) and $200 French fries (sprinkled with truffles and Dom Pérignon champagne).
While enough to stuff a person with a standard appetite, four burger patties is also far from the largest that some restaurants can offer. In Detroit, a restaurant called Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar once made a 1,794-pound cheeseburger: a monstrosity made with 2,000 pounds of raw meat (cooked, naturally, on a custom grill), 300 pounds of cheese, tomatoes, onions and pickles, and a bun weighing in at more than 250 pounds.
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