Man Eats Whopper with 1050 Slices of Bacon

First Conquest: 105 slices of bacon

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Burger King franchises in Tokyo have been advertising Whoppers with “15 strips of bacon” for $1.25. What self-respecting bacon lover can pass up a promotion like that? Evidently, a local reporter found it too good to be true, and ordered 105 slices of bacon for a single burger. When news of the pork-fest got out, he decided to up the ante and went for 1,050 slices of bacon.

From BoingBoing:

Actual Whopper with 1050 slices of Bacon

Mr Sato, a reporter for Rocket News 24 ordered 105 slices of bacon on his burger. Apparently, Mr Sato ate the “grotesque agglomeration of ketchup-soaked meat about 3 times the size of the regular whopper” and then rushed home to recuperate.

To see how far they could push it, the newsroom sent Mr Sato back to order a burger with1,050 slices of bacon. 2 hours later, the 2.7kg treat was presented to him, with an estimated caloric load of 14,300.

Before going to work on the burger, Mr. Sato once again began his primal ritual of psyching himself up, shouting: “This is what real hamburger lovers eat! 10 strips? 100 strips? Like that’s enough! A real man needs 1050 strips of bacon!”

Mr. Sato then plunges his face into the top of the burger, holding on to the top bun and a layer of bacon below the beef patty for support. Eventually he runs out of burger to supplement his bacon and simply begins stuffing bacon into his mouth by the fistful, all the while ranting: “Delicious! This is what meat is all about! This is the taste of a real hamburger!”

But you’re only eating bacon…

In any case, thanks to Mr. Sato’s gluttony, we have learned that there is seemingly no limit to the amount of bacon you can add to a Whopper. Or maybe it’s because this is Japan and they’re just that dedicated to their customers; we’re not sure if we could walk into a Burger King in America and expect the same level of service…