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That’s a Double Bypass from the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, where a woman -- eating a double-patty beef burger mashed between two lard-covered buns -- suffered an apparent heart attack. She was unconscious as she was rushed to the hospital Saturday night; she is expected to recover, KTNV.com reported.
To be fair, the burgers themselves may not be the culprit. The restaurant owner, Jon Basso, noted that the woman was also smoking and drinking a margarita.
"I would say the woman gave her body every single thing it could handle and it finally gave out," Basso told KVVU-TV Fox5.
This is the second time in three months that someone has collapsed while eating a burger at the Heart Attack Grill, where the motto is “Taste worth dying for.” Guests are described as patients in the restaurant’s stated quest against anorexia.
In February, a man in his 40s was eating a Triple Bypass when he began sweating and shaking.
Man stricken while eating Heart Attack Grill burger
"I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt. Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that," Basso told Fox5. He said he heard the man had been hospitalized and getting better.
The restaurant doesn’t try to hide that it serves up fatty fare. A sign there reads, “Caution: This establishment is bad for your health.” Patrons who weigh more than 350 pounds eat free (and yes, there is a scale to catch the skinny minis angling for a free lunch.) The restaurant has explained that yo-yoing weight is unhealthy, so why not keep guests steadily obese?
The burgers range from the Single Bypass to the Quadruple Bypass, which has four half-pound patties and eight slices of American cheese. Add 20 slices of bacon (dripping in its own grease, of course) for $3.69. The quadruple has nearly 8,000 calories.
For good measure, the restaurant parks an ambulance out front.
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By the looks of her...She would have died doing something she loved to do. EAT...
Maybe if she lost a couple hundred pounds she might not be a heart attack risk.
Maybe yes, or maybe no. It could be just her way of getting her 15 minutes of fame. What a way to get it. The burgers and fries are great and you can always take part of it home.
The crazy thing is, I bet this will be good for business!
People have heart attackes everywhere. Including at home while eating Domino's, Hormel ham, Aunt Jemima's pancakes, Mickey D's french fries...so why not find out what ELSE this woman has been eating the past 12 months? Arteries don't clog up from one meal.
Why is this a news story? A very overweight woman who likes to smoke, drink, and eat greasy food has a heart attack. WOW! What a surprise! Or could it be that the mainstream media wants to impose their "healthy" lifestyle on the rest of us? So they pick on this greasy spoon to show the rest of us what could happen to us unless we change our dangerous ways. Ok, we probably should eat a healthy diet, but to blame this restaurant for her heart attack is just STUPID!
Ding ding ding.....WE HAVE A WINNER!!!! Thank you roadrep.
I'm not sorry to say that anyone eating these mega heart attack burgers deserve what they get. Either they are mentally stupid, or suicidal. Neither of these is forgivable. Just keep eating those greasy giganto-burgers folks and don't be surprised when you have an early and easily preventable death. Just think of all the grief stricken family members these folks leave behind because of their dietary stupidity.
What is it to you? Maybe she enjoyed her life the way she knew to enjoy it. You all have to die sometime. Family members will eventually have to deal with your death, too. If you want to be 90 years old in diapers, that is your choice.
Maybe she was a "health care/taxpayer burden", maybe you will be.
News needs to get better. So what if people are risking their lives to get a free meal. The burger looks awsome and its free if you can eat the whole thing. No brainer. Their are people out here doing dumber things that risking a heart attack. You would have more people if you got paid to eat it too.
It's unheard of to blame yourself for something you brought on yourself. Discuss.
Zyro
It wasn't unheard of when I was a kid. I was taught to take responsibility for my actions.
Nowdays, everything is someone else's fault.
Thank lawyers for that.
I don't believe that a healthy person eating this food occassionaly is going to hurt them. The last thing that should happen is to have the government food nazis shut them down.
As Samuel Clemmens said, "I get my exercise by walking the the funerals of my physically fit friends".
My money's on the lady would have finished the whole burger, fires and a couple 20 oz sodas, plus a desert...
had she not had a heart attack that is...
This great, I hope she was a big lard eating sea cow of a woman. When I take a look around at how big my fellow Americans have become I find it amazing that more of these land-whales don't just keel over in public. I'm not trying to be harsh here because I fully support someones right to eat what they please when they please. I just don't want one of these walruses to land on top of me on their way to the floor.
I don't even have a picture of you, and I see an ugly American. I see a VERY ugly American.
I think it is funny that people want to blame the restaurant and their gimmick! Has any one on here been to Ed Debevicks where they insult you and throw biscuits at you? It is their little gimmick and the people have a great time there! I loved it! By the way they serve about anything you want including cheeseburgers!
You gotta love the headline: "Did the Heart Attack burger claim another victim...?" How about, "Another fat slob smoker suffers a heart attack while eating a hamburger." The woman on the stretcher looks like she's a victim of her own poor dicision making, not the burger.
She probably cashed in her food stamps to get the money to buy the burger.
Damn that burger could feed Somalia for a month!
Seems as if our priorities and values are kind of skewed, eh?
This article is simply making me hungry. I want to eat there. The irony: I AM a recovered anorexic. :P
So it's not the restaurant's fault if the vic- i mean customers choose to eat it's admittedly dangerous food? What next, Ricin specials?
No, it's NOT their fault. If no one walked through their front door and ordered their "admittedly dangerous food", they would go out of business. However, that would deprive the people who WANT to treat their bodies that way of the freedom to do so.
What that restaurant serves has had no ill effect on me...
I went to FlameBurger for breakfast Sunday. They do great hashbrowns. I ordered 2 pancakes (full stack is 6) and an order of sausages. Honey had hashbrowns and 2 eggs with toast. We split our meals and had leftovers. Why? Because it was OUR CHOICE. That hamburger could have been dinner for a week, but I value the fact that I have a CHOICE.
Yummy looks good next time in Vegas I will have to order a double 20 slices of beacon seems a little much for me, two or three slices should do. In the mean time can I get a damm in and out burger in the Denver area plzzzzzzzz? Mc D, Wendys, BK, C Jr all suck.
Gpom3
Do you know how ignorant your statement is? Their ads are a gimmick to get people interested in their restaurant. Their burgers are not any worse than the grease soaked burgers and fries you get from any fast food place!
why would anyone eat 8000 Calories in one meal? that's a crap load of energy! that's equal to a 31,000 lb truck moving at 70 miles per hour and hitting you!
Bill
I would call that freedom of choice, right or wrong on the consumers part.
One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
I went searching around and found their menu. If anyone is interested :
1) single bypass burger - 1/2 lb. $7.39
2) double bypass burger - 1 lb. $9.24
3) triple bypass burger - 1.5 lbs. $11.10
4) quadruple bypass burger - 2lbs. $12.94
Seems a little steep to me, I think I'll stick with "What-A-Burger".
Exactly why there should be discrimination.
Next time I'm in Vegas, I'm going there. I'll probably just get the double bypass though. I seriously doubt if I could eat the quadruple anyway. The double looks like it has the same ingredients, just less of them.
The waitresses dressed up like nurses with stethoscopes is pretty catchy.
MSN is so stupid that they don't realize that by publishing this article, they're giving the restaurant free advertising. The owner has to love it.
Buick
I will go with you!
Wow! This is so cool! Look at the size of that thing. That lady who wrapped her jaws around that burger until she had a heart attack...if she survives, I bet she gets a lot of marriage proposals, if ya know what I mean.