I encountered, today, the biggest icecream cone I have ever seen. Just the cone, not counting any icecream you put in it, was FIFTEEN INCHES tall. So, has anyone else encountered bonkers burgers, stupendous sausages, massive marshallows, or indeed any other form of commercially available huge food ?
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Fifteen inches!?!?! That's a SMALL at my local ice cream shop. In fact, that's their logo: "That's a SMALL?" with large amounts of ice cream on it...mmmmmmm.....ice cream.......
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Wow, such a colossal cone would be about two days' worth of Weight Watcher's points. I once added up a pint of Ben and Jerry's and it really was a whole day's worth of points.
I also notice Dunkin Donuts keeps making a bigger coffee size every couple of years. Now there is The Great One, with enough caffeine for an entire family for an entire week.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
There was once some BBC contest for largest potato chip... I seem to remember the winner being absolutely HUGE, but I can't remember the actual size.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I once had a really, really big wiener.
What, what are you all looking at?
Hobbes Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Oh, the jokes inherent in this thread.
I'm trying to think. I think the biggest food that I've encountered lately has already been mentioned on another thread. I bought Chinese dinner special at some local place for about 3 bucks and opened the tray and was astounded. Easilly enough for two meals.
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
I've always wanted to buy one of those cookies they have at like, Mrs. Fields or wherever, that are the size of a birthday cake and have frosting and candles on them. They're HUGE.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Me too Julie!!
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Well, there's this restaurant called Marge's Diner, just off the 101 in Paso Robles, California, that serves about the biggest portions I have ever seen. We stopped there once on the way home from Southern California (the off-ramp it is near is the exit to Fresno), and I got a half-order of hot roast beef sandwich. It came on a platter that could barely hold the sandwich, with a scoop of mashed potatoes nearly the size of a human head that had to be put on top of the sandwich because there was no room on the plate to put it on the side. I reminded the waitress that I'd only asked for a half order, and she assured me that that was what she had given me. I'd hate to see the full order.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I hear food is smaller in the UK.
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
There's a pizza shop on the Upper West Side of Manhattan whose "jumbo" sized slices of pizza are huge. Two of them are the equivalent of a regular large pizza pie. On the last night of my program this summer, my friends and I ordered a whole jumbo pie and shared it.
~Jane~
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
mmmmm....pizza....
portion sizes really HAVE gotten huge. Like ice cream cones. Usually I'll get a kiddie size 'cause it's a reasonable amount of ice cream.
And the chinese food portions...
But pizzas. *drool* I could eat pizza every day and not get tired of it.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Ralphie, they're very sensitive about the size of their food over there . . . try to be considerate!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
they're compensating for small dingles.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
That was incredibly funny, mack.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
hey, I'm always trying to get Ralphie's dingle. Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
That's scandalous, mack. A girl's dingle is a private thing.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
A girl's dingle is usually a sideshow act.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
You mean this could be PROFITABLE?
I knew it was special. I didn't know it was lucrative.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I didn't say a GOOD sideshow act.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:Pros Superb quality of food, incredible portions, great service
Cons Will offend those who find excess distasteful
quote:I can not speak about their other sandwiches, but when my husband ordered the "Motherlode" during our first visit to the Claim Jumper, it made his jaw drop. He was literally speechless, and so was I. The sandwich costs $11.95, and is composed in part of roast tri-tip steak, turkey, Cure81 ham and the balance is composed of "the works" as they put it. It comes cut in half, with each half standing approximately 8 inches high. My husband was hard pressed to finish one of the halves, and the amount of meat that we brought home from the other half, was over a pound! Did I forget to mention that each sandwich or burger comes with your choice of fresh fruit, fresh broccoli salad, spicy Thai Slaw (the best I have ever had), potato salad or shoestring french fries.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I suppose its too late to point out that Size doesn't matter--Its taste that counts.
and that goes for food too.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I was in a chocolate shop in Geneva and they had - I am not making this up - a Toblerone that was a meter long! It was 150 swiss francs, and I really almost considered buying it, but then I remmebered I had to carry all my luggage with me on the TGV to Paris and then on the airplane to bring home. Looking back, I really should have shipped it to myself; though the swiss mail takes forever, it would have been a nice pacage to open two months later.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh - and those huge cookies? You can make one yourself by just spreading a whole recipe of cookie dough out on a pizza pan. I had a friend once who made a giant cookie shaped like Texas.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
There is a store in Branson Mo famed for selling 1 foot of chocolate for 99cents. That's right. 1 whole Foot of chocolate for less than a dollar.
In realitty, what you get is a five inch long bit of chocolate on a stick, shaped like a foot.
Posted by Professor Funk (Member # 5608) on :
You can make a giant Hershey's kiss by using a funnel for a mold. Big fan of that.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Just remember to clean out the motor oil first.
Anyway, BYU Creamery used to give out enormous portions of ice cream. When I ordered a single scoop I got about half a gallon. Nowadays, they seem to be getting stingier. Must be the shortage of cows.
Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
A steakhouse in Charlotte has a two pound slab of steak, fries, biscuits and green beans. If you eat it all, it's free otherwise it's about 20 bucks
Posted by Ryan_Larsen (Member # 5530) on :
I remember back in Woodburn, Oregon (in between Portland and Salem) there's a place called "Heuber's" (the spelling's probably wrong... but that's beside the point...). Anyway, they had what they called the "Heuber's Challenge. Its the biggest burger I've ever seen! Two pounds of hamburger, a pound of ham, a pound of bacon, all the regular fixings that usually go on a burger, and a mound of fries next to it. It was about 6-8 inches high and the fries were taller than the sandwitch. If you ate everything on the plate you got it for free.
I don't think that I'd even be able to eat half... Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
There's a place like that in Ashton Idaho - Big Jud's. They make a hamburger patty the size of a dinner plate.
I almost want to hurl just driving by...
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
quote: I hear food is smaller in the UK.
OK, we will say this again. A BBC contest for largest potato chip.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*wonders if Jane and Adam are talking about J2*
*salivates at the thought of J2's pizza*
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Oh, by the way afr, BYU has no shortage of cows.
UofUlawguy
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
Nope. It's called Koronet.
~Jane~
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yet more proof that it's been too long since I last visited NYC. Never heard of this place of which you speak -- but I'll have to check it out whenever I next make it East.
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