Food monstrosities at sporting events in the United States are as American as baseball or apple pie at this point. There’s a reason wild food concoctions go viral at the start of every baseball season: Fans both love and hate to see what the warped culinary minds of the country will come up with next.
But all of that gets taken to the next level when you combine that American pastime with the biggest, most expensive sporting event the United States can offer: the Super Bowl.
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Put all of that together, and that explains why there’s a $180 burger being sold at Super Bowl 60. No, really.
How, exactly, do you add enough ingredients to a burger to make it total $180? We’re glad you asked. The burger in question — called the LX Hammer Burger — features bone-in beef shank, a roasted mirepoix demi-glace and blue cheese fondue that cascades down the burger on all sides. All of that sits in between two brioche buns.
While there is some evidence the finished product actually looks like a burger, the video above doesn’t do it any favors. Culinary icon Guy Fieri might describe it as a “toxic waste dump in Flavortown.” Of course, Fieri does have a dish called “trash can nachos,” so that’s pretty high praise coming from the Mayor of Flavortown, all things considered.
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When you combine excess with decadence, it doesn’t always look pretty, and the LX Hammer Burger seems to be an incredible example of that.
So, of course, the big question is … would you eat it? Is that even possible? One imagines a medical professional would need to be called in at some point before a person finished the entire burger. And while the burger is probably supposed to be split multiple ways, we still aren’t sure how many bites it would take before your arteries start pumping straight blue cheese.
Maybe that’s for the best, though. A dish this audacious doesn’t deserve to merely be consumed. It deserves to live on as a modern piece of art and a monument to American ingenuity.
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