Quasi-OT: "The Luther" Is Served At A Ballpark

[Jeff Harris]

Saw this on The Colbert Report last night and looked up more info online. From WQAD in Moline, IL via the AP: (http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4619809&nav=1sW7)

Here's a warning to people who are counting calories or watching their cholesterol -- don't visit G-M-C Stadium in Sauget (SAW'-zhay) this summer.

The ballpark, which is home to the Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League, will be featuring something it calls "Baseball's Best Burger."The new treat is a thick hamburger, topped with sharp cheddar and two slices of bacon. But instead of a bun, it will be served on the grilled halves of a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut.It weighs in at one thousand calories and 45 grams of fat, and will sell for four-and-a-half dollars.Don't these people know that this sandwich could cause . . . death?

[Tienshin]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Tienshin/230.jpg

Yeah, see, that ain't right.

[livingfruitvirus]

The team looking into the crowd and noticing everyone's sleeping can't be good for their morale.

[Rolling Cloud]

So, it's suicide?

[Artimus Gigan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Tienshin/230.jpg

Yeah, see, that ain't right.
Bah, it doesn't have nearly enough meat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/00pie/theluther.jpg

[Nin-Nin69]

Even before this episode, since when did doughnuts and hamburger meat go together?

[Delthayre]

Well, it got Stephen Colbert to approve of a team named after bears, which should indicate what we're dealing with.

I try to refrain from being judgemental about food, but that's just insane. That's not even one of those, "I'll try it once," sorts of things, the sight of it makes my eyes glaze over in disbelief.

What you really need is four deep fried corn-fed beef patties with four cheeses, four slices of bacon, ranch dressing, and mayonaise on each pattie, all between slices of butter and grease soaked cheese biscuits. Only at Tico McWarbie's!

[Rurouni Kenshin]

Wait, what exactly does this have to do with AS, this is really funny, don't get me wrong, but why is it on this forum?

[Delthayre]

Wait, what exactly does this have to do with AS, this is really funny, don't get me wrong, but why is it on this forum?

And episode of The Boondocks, "The 'Itis", featured with some prominence a sandwichy abomination very much like this, which it dubbed, "The Luther."

[Rurouni Kenshin]

And episode of The Boondocks, "The 'Itis", featured with some prominence a sandwichy abomination very much like this, which it dubbed, "The Luther."

Thank you, now that you mention it, I think I remember the previews for that episode, never got around to watching it though.

[shoujoaifan]

And yet, it still has (slightly) less calories than a Double Whopper from Burger King, with or without cheese, LET ALONE a Triple Whopper with or without cheese.

You know, its individual's own damn fault if they spend their money on this stuff, and their own fault if they get fat, or they own fault when they, you know, die from a heartattack, but its time's like this I can't help but agree, to a degree, with people who blame fast food restuarants for selling food to willing customers, only to a degree.




BOTH of them are at fault: The restuarants, who even if legally, have a moral obligation to sell better food, or 1/2 way decent stuff that isn't 1/2 a day's calories, ANNNNNNNNNND the customers who buy and eat this stuff, who shouldn't expect other people to take care of their bodies for them.

[Ultra Mike]

Shoujafan brings up a very good point. However.... actually there is no argument for that. It's the people's fault for being stupid enough to eat the calory inducing and generally bad for you food at fast food resturants or whatever. And it's not like they HAVE to either. But I think that's another topic best left for another board.

I think I would like the idea of the "Baseball Best Burger" instead of the Luthor, since I"m not really a fan of onions and the like and would just want the burger, the bacon, the cheese and yeah the donuts. But yeah I'd eat that only if I want to expierence death/extreme obesity/going around at midnight and stealing money from non addictied civilians.

[Demonic Raven]

Oh man...the stadium is going to have a bad bad case of Chronic Itis....

Really though...meat and doughnuts don't quite mix so well. I'm not so sure I want to try it, but...it's just so crazy, I might have to. I doubt I'll even run into the Luther at any point, I'm not so sure I'll be ready (ever, that is).

[raykremer]

Looking this up via google news, I learned (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/1-0&fp=441bedf6b2cea450&ei=FRMbRIrGDNCSaaWtocED&url=http%3A//www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/living/food/14119494.htm&cid=1105132899) that Boondocks didn't even actually invent it:

A bun? Please, we use Krispy Kremes

KATHLEEN PURVIS

Food Editor

How did we get beat on the Krispy Kreme burger?
After all, racing was born here and Charlotte fought to get the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Well, Krispy Kreme is based in Winston-Salem. So why was a minor league baseball team near St. Louis the first to snag this idea?
The Gateway Grizzlies call it "Baseball's Best Burger": Topped with sharp cheddar and bacon, served on a bun made by slicing open a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut.
The burger is estimated to weigh in at 1,000 calories and 45 grams of fat. That compares with 760 calories and 47 grams of fat for a Burger King Whopper with cheese.
The Grizzlies apparently got the idea from the Luther Burger, served at a restaurant near Atlanta and inspired by the late singer Luther Vandross, who said he was making a burger late one night when he ran out of buns.
The secret, testers say, is using sharp cheddar, which melds with the sugar glaze. Milder cheeses don't work.
Ballparks around the Carolinas have no plans to add a doughnut burger, although we did learn that many ballpark spokesmen can moan just like Homer Simpson.
There is one possibility, though: Chris Ward of the Winston-Salem Warthogs says they've sold Krispy Kremes and burgers separately.
We'll let you take it from there.
At least they're using a donut cut in half instead of two separate donuts like in the show and that picture Artimus Gigan found. I don't know how you would even go about putting that version in your mouth.

[Zyzzybalubah]

I've been on a diet for awhile, but this summer, as disgusting as it sounds, I might actually try a Luther just to see what the hell these people are thinking. LOL. Honestly, what's next? Chocolate-caramel french fries?

[Rabi~en~Rose]

I don't know how you would even go about putting that version in your mouth.

eat a lot of Honeycomb to get a big mouth :p

but really that looks gross :eek: seperately most of that food is okay but together?? :(

[Fresh V]

Yuck.

Krispy Kreme donuts and meat put together isn't my idea of a tasty burger.

God, that's just disgusting.

*throws up*

[Beat]

True. Sweet and salt generally do not mix, especially if it's sugar like that.

http://www.thegreenhead.com/watercooler/images/15-pound-cheeseburger-4.jpg

I'll have that instead.

[Master Moron]

I think I would like the idea of the "Baseball Best Burger" instead of the Luthor, since I"m not really a fan of onions and the like and would just want the burger, the bacon, the cheese and yeah the donuts. But yeah I'd eat that only if I want to expierence death/extreme obesity/going around at midnight and stealing money from non addictied civilians.

Yeah, the onions are just empty vitamins.

Anyway, did I ever tell you that time I got a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich on a donut at Dunkin Donuts? It wasn't all that great...

[Zyzzybalubah]

Okay, so my friends and I went to Wendy's for a burger and the Krispee Kreme donuts next to it and made a Luther. I took one bite from it, not too good, but hey at least I sampled it. My one friend ate the whole thing.
http://photos-561.facebook.com/n12/85/27/30400667/n30400667_30431561_1948.jpg
Introducing our Luther. Consisting of a Wendy's Jr. Bacon Burger with cheese. The top donut was a regular glazed, the bottom was a lemon filled. The buns remain inside, the sandwich contained: a burger, bacon, cheese, lettuce, mayonaise, mustard, and I think ketchup. Also added was a chicken nugget in the center of the donut hole.

[Artimus Gigan]

Okay, so my friends and I went to Wendy's for a burger and the Krispee Kreme donuts next to it and made a Luther. I took one bite from it, not too good, but hey at least I sampled it. My one friend ate the whole thing.

http://photos-957.facebook.com/n12/85/27/30400667/n30400667_30429957_2517.jpg
Introducing our Luther. Consisting of a Wendy's Jr. Bacon Burger with cheese. The top donut was a regular glazed, the bottom was a lemon filled. The buns remain inside, the sandwich contained: a burger, bacon, cheese, lettuce, mayonaise, mustard, and I think ketchup. Also added was a chicken nugget in the center of the donut hole.
I'm going to call that phone number you have on your hand and tell them to buy you a notepad:)

Also that is not an accurate luthor, you have veggies on it, you should have gotten a triple cheeseburger with bacon and had all the vegitables removed. A Triple has far more meat and cheese so the donut/meat/cheese ratio is more balanced.

Yeah the Suger coating on the dounuts reallly doesn't do anything for flavor, allthough Crepes are a similar concept of pastry sandwhich

[Zyzzybalubah]

I'm going to call that phone number you have on your hand and tell them to buy you a notepad:)

Also that is not an accurate luthor, you have veggies on it, you should have gotten a triple cheeseburger with bacon and had all the vegitables removed. A Triple has far more meat and cheese so the donut/meat/cheese ratio is more balanced.

Yeah the Suger coating on the dounuts reallly doesn't do anything for flavor, allthough Crepes are a similar concept of pastry sandwhich

LOL that number was on my friend's hand. :) But yeah, we should have got rid of the vegetables. :)

[Tienshin]

Okay, so my friends and I went to Wendy's for a burger and the Krispee Kreme donuts next to it and made a Luther. I took one bite from it, not too good, but hey at least I sampled it. My one friend ate the whole thing.
http://photos-561.facebook.com/n12/85/27/30400667/n30400667_30431561_1948.jpg
Introducing our Luther. Consisting of a Wendy's Jr. Bacon Burger with cheese. The top donut was a regular glazed, the bottom was a lemon filled. The buns remain inside, the sandwich contained: a burger, bacon, cheese, lettuce, mayonaise, mustard, and I think ketchup. Also added was a chicken nugget in the center of the donut hole.

RIP Steve Janes. :crying:

and his friend too! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Tienshin/emot-911.gif