We took a look at the big three burger joints—McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King to locate the most butt-blimping, ass-widening, delicious-but-probably-not-worth-it fast food burgers we could find from a top national chain.
Here are our criteria:
- Had to be from a top nationwide burger chain.
- Had to be on the regular menu.
- Had to be a burger. No chicken.
| Burger | Calories | Total Fat | Sodium | Carbs |
| TRIPLE WHOPPER® Sandwich With Cheese | 1230 | 82 | 1590 | 52 |
| BK™ Quad Stacker | 1000 | 68 | 1800 | 34 |
| DOUBLE WHOPPER® Sandwich with Cheese | 990 | 64 | 1520 | 52 |
| Wendy’s Triple w/Everything and Cheese | 980 | 59 | 2090 | 38 |
| Wendy’s Baconator™ | 830 | 51 | 1920 | 35 |
Special Awards:
Most Ominous New Burger: McDonald’s 1/3 Angus Deluxe with Bacon has 860 calories, but isn’t available everywhere yet. When it’s nationwide, it’ll bump the Baconator™ off the top 5.
Some Burgers With Fewer Calories:
A WHOPPER JR.® has 370 calories. You could eat 3 full WHOPPER JR.® sandwiches (bun and toppings and mayo) and it would still be less calories than the TRIPLE WHOPPER® with cheese. A Wendy’s Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger has 310 calories. [ed. note—In the interest of fairness, a friend who recently ate one says that the Baconator™ is significantly more delicious than the 2.6 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers he could eat for the same calories.]
Best Name for A Butt-Blimping Burger:
Baconator™, duh.
(Photo:MortonFox)
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@Snowblind: No bacon? But it’s nature’s candy….
I abide by the Mix-a-lot doctrine, so a little butt-blimping ain’t bad every now and then.
Hardees/Carl’s Jr are the number four chain in the country, and by far would dominate this list of burgers. Like, you would have to have an entirely new category – “Heart exploding” burgers.
Yeah, Carl’s Junior should belong on the list (or a list) since they go out of their way to make the most gawdawful, over-the-top, gooey-with-liquifed-crap burgers of them all. Ate one once with a group of friends (sigh, their choice) and it was revolting to my taste. Bland. And was queasy for hours afterwards. I really don’t fit their demographic, it appears.
I don’t mind occasional binging, but prefer, y’know, good tasting food. Not the artificial crap they serve at these places…
@gilman: yeah, how did my fave sandwich miss the list?
@ptkdude: holy cholesterol! that sounds damned good actually. . . .
@ptkdude: Ha ha, I miss the Vortex. And so does my cardiologist since I’m no longer putting his kids through college.
This seems more than a bit wrong. I would like to know how the normal, single burgers, fries, whatever compare.
BECAUSE Wendy’s has a triple, (as does BK) it counts higher.
If I want three burgers, I’ll order three.
But how does the BigMac compare with the whopper? There is no double or triple BigMac.
Nor KFC triple chicken sandwiches, wraps. But they have buckets.
Mmmm, a perfect compliment to the 2900 calorie Outback fries. Add a 64 ounce Coca-Cola and make it a (last) meal!
@MickeyMoo: I don’t know what animal fries are, but do want.
@forgottenpassword: “I never quite got why people bought burgers that had double & tripple pattied burgers & the other “way too much meat” type of burgers. I generally buy one or two…” meaning “I never understand why people don’t do things my way. I’m clearly a superior being to all others, and my methods of living life far surpass others’ methods.”
@sshat.
@Grrrrrrrrr:
64 ounce milkshake.
What about Red Robin?
@DJC: The BK TRIPLE WHOPPER® Sandwich With Cheese has 1.8 times the calories of a In-N-Out Double-Double®
[www.in-n-out.com]
@Franklin Comes Alive!: Extrapolating the data, the 100×100 should have, by my crude and unscientific (and probably inaccurate) calculation:
calories = 19290
Total fat(g)= 1413
Sodium(mg) = 44560
Carb(g) = 39 + (99 times # carbs per slice of cheese)
Apparently, I came pretty close on, at least on my caloric calculation: [www.boingboing.net] says it has 19490 calories
@uricmu: Red Robin is also not national.
I remember being kind of depressed that an in-n-out cheeseburger (animal style, no extra spread, chopped chiles, grilled onions plz)/fries/diet coke combo was well under 1000 calories, because it felt like way more sin than that, and that most fast food blew away the caloric intake
That said, i spent one semester at UCSB, ate in-n-out every other day, and lost 30 pounds that semester. And it’s not like UCSB on-campus food is that bad or light either.I did walk and run a lot (the Santa Barbara MTD can kiss my grits, thx…) but still it was the first inkling that dropping McBKBellHutFriedDonalds was probably good for me.
It’s not the calories so much as the other crap in the burgers and the hydrogenated nonsense. In-n-Out was un-hydrogenated years before it was cool, and their buns don’t have the insidious HFCS.
Before i start sounding like a plant, though, Dick’s Drive-In here in Seattle is just as good and just as cheap, and Wendy’s is pretty tasty, too
@B: I read that as “McDonalds really needs that Anus burger”
That sufficiently killed off any craving I had for burgers after reading this thread.
Rabbit Food!
On a recent visit to California I had a Double Six Dollar Burger from Carls Junior (A major chain out there). The Double Six has 1520 calories. I nearly fell asleep in the car after eating it.
Oooh In N Out. How I miss you California……
I have at least one Baconator a week. I’ve lost 40 pounds doing it. *Thanks Atkins*
This post is useless. You could take a BK burger a wendy’s burger and a McDonalds burger and stack them all together and it wouldnt compare to 1 Double half pound angus from Hardee’s/Carl’s
We need a Fuddruckers 1-lb burger for comparison.
@ptkdude:
Vortex tots and cheese dip FTW!
I’m beginning to wonder if this is the healthy-eater-ist blog instead of consumerist. Of course tastier food has more calories. You could eat rice cakes and find a really low-cal alternative.
@Lo-Pan:
Worst foods you can eat are the Hamdog (Go Atlanta!) and the Quadruple Bypass Burger (Heart Attack Grill).
@Morton Fox:
A Quadruple Bypass Burger is 2lbs.
Served with a heaping helping of Flatliner Fries (fried in pure, all-natural lard).
@RvLeshrac:
Forgot to mention the Pabst for refreshment and the Lucky Strikes for dessert (on the menu, no less).
what about the rest of the meal? don’t people normally get a large fry and drink. top that off to like 1600 calories. close to the 2000 youa re suppose to eat in the whole day.
Also that has more fat thatn you are to consume in a entire day.
This is just SICK… It shoudl be illegal to sell a product that has more fat, colories in 1 entree then what your daily requirements are.