Which Burger King burger is the biggest?

Restaurant Brands International's (QSR) Burger King has gone big before. In 2016 it offers a monstrosity called the Egg-Normous Buritto. This 805 calories treat offered sausage, thick-cut naturally smoked bacon, scrambled eggs, golden hash browns, shredded cheddar cheese, and melted American cheese, plus a creamy spicy sauce all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla and served with a side of Picante Sauce.

It served as a sort of a sequel the chain's Supreme Breakfast Sandwich, a sub-like breakfast offering that came with two eggs, sausage, bacon, and cheese on a hoagie roll. Forget English muffins, or even biscuits containing a single egg and only one meat, the Supreme Breakfast Sandwich came in at 880 calories and 59 grams of fat.

Both of these, however, owe a lot to the Meat'Normous Omelet Sandwich two eggs, a sausage patty, two slices of smoky ham, three slices of bacon, and two slices of American cheese on a toasted specialty bun. That sandwich was touted in an ad where the king handed one to a lumberjack. The implication was that this was a working man's sandwich -- a meal for construction workers, lumberjacks, and others fueling up for a hard day ahead.

Now, the chain has gone back to big, but not with a morning meal. It has a new burger that's bigger (and more expensive than anything its has offered before.

Burger King Goes Big, But Not Home

While the United States loves to super-size its food, this time, the massive burger isn't coming from America. In Japan, Burger King just launched the King Yeti Super One Pound Beef Burger: a four-patty and six-cheese slice sandwich with a similarly high price to match.

While Japan is known for its high cost of living, the roughly $15 (or 1,750 Yen) that the King Yeti Super One Pound commands is certainly steep for a Burger King menu item: the most expensive sandwich on the U.S. menu, the Texas Double Whopper commands $8.19.

The King Yeti Super One Pound Beef Burger, in turn, comes with four 100% beef patties, six slices of Gouda cheese, caesar sauce, pickles, onions, and a combination of Parmesan and Camembert cheese on a brioche bun.

As food site Chew Boom first reported, the sandwich giant is a limited-time promotion at select Japanese Burger King restaurants from February 18 through March 3, 2022.

Expensive (And Big) Fast Food Has A Long History

If you track fast food "best of" lists, you'll know that both big and expensive fast food has a long history — in comparison to what chefs looking for a spot on these list come up with, a $15 burger can start to seem like a pretty good bargain.

Dutch Burger restaurant De Daltons once Wagyu beef, Alaskan king crab, beluga caviar and white truffles recently took the spot of "world's most expensive burger" for a 5,000 Euro (roughly $5,665) creation that included Wagyu beef, Alaskan king crab, beluga caviar and white truffles while restaurateur David Chang gives a $100 spin to KFC-style fried chicken at his Momofuku restaurant.

Serendipity 3, a café in New York's Upper East Side known for fancy-fying comfort foods, currently serves both a $100 milkshake (milk, ice cream and 23-karat edible gold) and $200 French fries (sprinkled with truffles and Dom Pérignon champagne).

While enough to stuff a person with a standard appetite, four burger patties is also far from the largest that some restaurants can offer. In Detroit, a restaurant called Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar once made a 1,794-pound cheeseburger: a monstrosity made with 2,000 pounds of raw meat (cooked, naturally, on a custom grill), 300 pounds of cheese, tomatoes, onions and pickles, and a bun weighing in at more than 250 pounds.

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Some foods require subtlety. 

When you sit down to eat Wagyu beef, for example, just a single morsel — perhaps an ounce — provides the full experience. 

In certain high-end restaurants, dishes are small, composed so that a single bite can deliver all the taste and most of the feels.

That's not how Restaurant Brands International's QSR Burger King does things.

The fast food chain slams you over the head with mountains of beef like its King Yeti Super One Pound Beef Burger: a four-patty and six-cheese slice sandwich. It's hard to be subtle when someone has to figure out how to hold, let alone eat, a sandwich.

Burger King — at least in its locations in Japan — believes that the burgers should be monstrosities. Now, in addition to the King Yeti, the chain also has some other really big burgers and some gimmicks surrounding them.

"They have offered things such as the Extreme One Pound Beef Burger, which includes a burger patty that weighs, you guessed it, one pound. It was so big it didn’t come with a bun. They have even offered discounts if you take part in all-you-can-eat challenges," Guilty Eats reported.

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Burger King Goes Beyond Big

The Burger King menu in Japan apparently assumes that Godzilla, or at least people with the legendary monster's appetite, plan to stop by. They are now offering a third, four-patty, one-pound hamburger, the Tokyo Teriyaki Tower Burger.

Available since the summer, this limited-promotion burger (which fits nicely on the Burger King Japan menu where big seems to matter over anything else) includes four quarter-pound patties, for a full pound of flame-grilled meat. All four patties offer a heavy coating of teriyaki sauce.

"And just for good measure it also includes miso paste and green onions. And because this is Burger King, it also comes with pickles, onions, cheese, and mayo," Guilty Eats added.

It's a meal fit for a king or someone looking to gain a lot of weight really quickly. It was also a limited-time item that's not currently available.

Bigger Is Better For Competitors?

While Japan has been putting out giant burger after giant burger, the U.S. is king of the large meal in general — most of the world's biggest fast food chains, as well as phenomenons like "supersizing" your food, all began here. 

To show that they can, a sports bar in Detroit once made a 1,794-pound cheeseburger from 2,000 pounds of raw meat and 300 pounds of cheese.

Some of the biggest burgers recently available for everyday purchase in the U.S. include Burger King's Triple Whopper With Cheese and the Pretzel Bacon Pub Triple from Wendy's  (WEN) . The chain eventually pulled the 1,520-calorie, three patty offering from its menu in 2021. 

Fatburger also sells a XXXL Triple Kingburger, 1,686-calorie sandwich with three patties and 1.5 pounds of beef.

Wendy's currently offers a variety of three-patty "Triple" burgers: The Dave's Triple. the Big Bacon Classic Triple and the Bourbon Bacon Cheeseburger Triple. 

The chain will allow you to add patties to any double, and it does have a secret.

While you won't find it on official menus, the truly supersize-obsessed can ask for a secret, four-patty menu item known as the Quadruple Baconator at Wendy's. 

The largest item at McDonald's  (MCD) , the Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese looks like amateur hour in comparison.

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