Food monsters at sporting events are like baseball or apple pie in America. There’s a reason wild food concoctions are so popular at the start of every baseball season: Fans love to hate it to see what the country’s twisted culinary minds will come up with next.
But all of this is taken to a new level when you combine America’s pastime with the biggest, most expensive sporting event the country has to offer: the Super Bowl.
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Put it all together, and that explains why the burger at Super Bowl 60 cost $180. No, really.
How on earth do you add enough ingredients to a burger to bring its total value to $180? We’re glad you asked this question. Called the LX Hammer Burger, it features bone-in beef shank, grilled mirepoix demi-glace and blue cheese fondue pouring down all sides of the burger. All of this nestled between two brioche buns.
While there’s some evidence that 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 “the toxic waste dump of Flavor Town.” Of course, Fieri does have a dish called “Trash Can Nachos,” so all things considered, that’s high praise from the mayor of Flavortown.
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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…will you eat it? Is this possible? One imagines that at some point before one eats the entire burger a medical professional needs to be called over. While the burger should probably be split a variety of ways, we’re still not sure how many bites it takes before your arteries start pumping blue cheese.
But maybe that’s for the best. Such a bold dish is not worth just eating. It deserves to live on as a modern work of art and a monument to American ingenuity.