Op-Ed: The burger that comes with a wheelchair at the Heart Attack Grill

The headline is as literal as it could get: a burger that bypasses all other burgers. It is none other than the Quadruple Bypass Burger, available in Tempe, Arizona. This one's taking you straight to the hospital, with a complimentary wheelchair.

I was planning on writing about Carl Jr's latest breakfast sandwich unveiled last Thursday, a breakfast of 730 calories and 47 grams of fat, and then i stumbled upon the Quadruple Bypass Burger. It has been two years since the burger has been unleashed but for those of you who haven't been introduced, here goes. The Quadruple Bypass Burger is being served at Heart Attack Grill at Tempe, Arizona,USA. Now why anyone would want to take their family for a nice lunch out to a place named that is beyond me. Here's what you've been waiting for, why is this burger called a bypass burger? Because you're probably going to need one after you consume this EIGHT THOUSAND calorie monster burger! And what's more, the morbidly cheeky eatery provides immediate wheel chair assistance if you were to have a heart attack, is this supposed to be funny? Let me break down the burger for you, four slabs of beef weighing 2lbs, three layers of cheese, four bacon rashers, and finally, mocking the health conscious, lettuce and tomato: refer to the image for a more explicit description. The average daily requirement of calories is 2000, so if you eat one of these and survive, you should be starving yourself for the next three days. Taking me to the next level of shock was the website ,the punch line goes "Taste worth dying for" no kidding. The menu consists of four burgers, from single bypass to quadruple, flatliners or fries with a special mention that they are cooked in pure lard, Jolt Cola and finally No filter cigarettes. Reads like the menu for a man with a death wish. Clicking on other links of the website, you find a diet plan, a book by Dr Jon with the aim, " Eat, drink and smoke your way into better health", The Heart Attack Grill Diet, are you serious? Other links include a kinky, Nurses link with a ridiculous illustration and even a link for applications, not to forget, a disclaimer runs down the bottom of the site, "The Government Requires Us To Inform You that Our "Nurses" Do Not Actually Have Any Accredited Medical Training". I am not a kill-joy, not religious, not even calorie conscious, but this is truly outrageous. As a spokesman said to Sun, "You have to be a real man to dine here", a Really nutty man with a will to die is more like it. Sounds like a place the Joker would open!