We ran a story on the front page today about the success of Hungry Jack’s quad stack burger. This was a limited-time promotion where people could buy super-size burgers made to order.
The standard quad stack comprised four beef patties, four slices of cheese and bacon in a standard hamburger bun with no salad.
It contained something like 1080 calories and 71g of fat.
Hungry Jack’s copped a lot of negative flak from health food nazis, but the quad stack was a marketing success.
After today’s story appeared, a reader sent us an MMS message showing a picture and video of a nine-stack burger.
The photo and video sound like the work of kids who work at Hungry Jack’s. Good on them for having a bit of fun.
I can’t say I would fancy eating one of those meals myself.
I liked the Adelaide Advertiser story in which journalist Paul Ashenden took the taste test. He said it really “hit the spot”.
I could see the oil oozing out as I ate but hey – did I really expect anything else? Nope, it was everything a fast food burger has always been – minus lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles, of course – and I was enjoying it. But then, after I had finished, an aftertaste of fat kicked in – and this was a horrible thing.
I reckon your stomach would hate you afterwards.
Twitter: delmerw
says:
Nothing beats a good, greasy cheeseburger.
I don’t have that many these days, but I still have fond memories of them.
Twitter: mgorey
says:
I know what you mean Delmer. Those greasy burgers look incredibly tasty, but I do think my stomach (and my brain) would hate me afterwards.
I was the person who sent this in. I took the photo with manager’s permission, and thought that with all the attention about the quad in the paper, and with the Youtube’s success, a video would be a great way to show it off.
Note that I no longer work there. We were all told when the Quad first hit the media, that we were not allowed to talk to the media about it. Ha ha …