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Krispy Kreme Burger: the 'Craz-E Burger' Packs in 1,500 Calories

by Scott Wu | October 7, 2009 at 09:20 am

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The "Craz-E Burger", or Krispy Kreme burger, was sold at the West Springfield's agricultural fair "Better Living Center" which ended October 4.

The donuts burger is a bacon cheeseburger with buttered Krispy Kreme glazed donuts as a bun. It is estimated to contain 1,500 calories a piece. With fries and a pop on the side, you are pretty much done for the day in terms of daily calories intake. A total of 17,000 of them were sold at the festival.

Krispy Kreme burger is said to be invented in 2005 by a bar owner in Decatur. Ga.

A bar owner in Decatur, Ga., claims to have invented it in 2005 when he ran out of burger buns. He called it a Luther Burger after singer Luther Vandross, who is sometimes credited with inventing it.

The Gateway Grizzlies, a minor league baseball team in Illinois known more for their death-defying ballpark food than their hitting, touched off the craze in 2006 by adding a $4.50 donut burger to the concession lineup.

An online survey on the Krispy Kreme burger is hosted by New York Daily News. As of now, it shows that 65% find the burger disgusting, 8% will split it with friends, and 27% will gladly have one for themselves.

As though an act of defiance against healthy diet, ridiculously high calories cuisines are popping up here and there. Last month we saw deep fried butter in a Texas State Fair, as well as fried coke.

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Amy Judd

at 11:50 on October 7th, 2009

Gosh I need to eat a stick of celery even after reading this...

Roy C

at 13:12 on October 7th, 2009

That sandwich makes the "Sin of Gluttony" look that much more deadly. That is nuts.

rng

at 18:26 on October 7th, 2009

Agreed. Just yet another reason why our health system is so expensive

Patricia Turo

at 05:08 on October 9th, 2009

This is really disgusting and should be on a health hazard list along with smoking as a hazard to ones health. I hope they demand that a health hazard lable be put on the packaging.

jakesylvester1

at 14:34 on October 9th, 2009

What an oxymoron--it was sold at the "Better Living Center!" Who would even enjoy a syrupy sweet donut with a meat patty or fried eggs? How absurd! But so are deep-fried Mars Bars. Here in Canada we only have the "Beaver Tail" to worry about. And we don't want to put beavers on the endangered species list, do we?