When I was living in the US years ago, a new Mexican eatery opened near my place. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, but its slogan was unforgettable:“Burritos as big as your head.”
How could I resist?
All my life, my greatest desire is to eat food as big as my head. And let me tell you I have a pretty big head.
So you can imagine my disappointment when I ordered the “burrito as big as your head” only to discover that the burrito wasn’t really as big as my head.
Yes, it was a pretty big burrito, maybe even the biggest burrito I had even seen – but was it as big as my head? No, it was not.
The burrito was at best as big as a baby’s head. However, it was my fully grown adult head I was concerned about.
I was so grief-stricken that I blocked the painful experience out of my memory for years – until last week.
I was flipping through The New Paper on Wednesday and there it was on page five.
An ad for Burger King's BK Quad Stacker.
In the ad was a picture of a burger that frightened and excited me in unspeakable ways. It was four obscene layers of beef and cheese inside a sesame seed bun, topped with a few slutty strips of bacon.Suddenly, the memories came rushing back. Was this the head-size food I had been waiting for ever since my ill-fated dalliance with that Mexican heartbreaker?
Frankly, the BK Quad Stacker didn’t look big enough. There is also a BK Double Stacker and a BK Triple Stacker.
Which begs the question: Why stop at four layers? Why not a BK Quin Stacker? Or a BK Sex Stacker? No, wait, that sounds like something else.
How many layers would it take for it to be as big as my head?
I hurried to Burger King to view the BK Quad Stacker in the flesh when I passed by a McDonald’s and saw something that stopped me in my tracks.
The Mega Mac. Basically, the Big Mac but with twice the beef.
I was dumbfounded and torn. Which one should I choose? The two burgers are virtually alike except that the BK Quad Stacker has bacon and more cheese while the Mega Mac has that slice of bread in the middle.
Then I was struck by an Obama-like epiphany.
There was no Burger King. There was no McDonald’s. There was only the United States of Burgers.
To build a burger as big as my head, I combined the BK Quad Stacker and the Mega Mac to create the Mega Octo Stacker! Behold!
And it still wasn’t as big as my head.
Like I said, I have a pretty big head.
Anyway, I bought some extra bread and managed to make 10 separate sandwiches out of the Mega Octo Stacker, which was enough to feed my family for two days.
And the search continues...
- Published in The New Paper, 23 November 2008
