Sandwiches that Meet the Challenge: The Whole Hog

Are you ready to plow into this one?

Grub Street cited the results of this year’s Xtreme Eating Awards laid out by The Center for Science in the Public’s Interest.


It seems Uno Pizzeria takes the very fat biscuit, belly down:


“The item that blew the others away comes from Uno Pizzeria this time. Appropriately dubbed the Whole Hog, its gut-buster of a burger hopes to entice prospective patrons with this menu description:

Think you can handle this Whole Hog Burger? OVER A POUND OF MEAT. Hamburger, sausage, bacon, prosciutto and pepperoni. PLUS — Four types of cheese, garlic mayo & pickles. With fries & onion rings. Extra napkins free!
The Whole Hog has 2,850 calories, which, if anyone’s counting, takes about a half-day of gym time to burn off. Perhaps worse yet, it also packs in 62 grams of saturated fat, or three days’ supply per the government’s dietary guidelines, and nearly six days’ worth of sodium (9,790 milligrams). “You might as well eat four McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with Cheese and two medium fries doused with 18 packets of salt,” CSPI advises.”