5/3 = 1.6666667 lbs = 4889 calories

The West Michigan Whitecaps recently announced their new concession items for 2009, we didn't know it was a competition!

MooPig found this story about grand traditions: Minor League Baseball, Concessions, and "local" family fun; even if it contributes to early death.
Retrieved by Pat Darnell [HERE]








Your Minor League "Concession Item Of The Year" is the Fifth Third Burger. 5/3 lbs of beef with lettuce, tomato, salsa, sour cream, chili and Fritos. Calories: 4889.

The Gateway Grizzlies minor league team, known for their caloric foods -- bacon cheeseburger with donuts as buns, deep fried sliders, and the buffalo wing pretzel -- But now they're offering a burger filled with everything under the sun that tops out at almost 5000 calories.

Minor League Concession Item Of The Year
Posted By: Darren Rovell
Topics:Consumers | Marketing | Advertising | Sports Companies: Fifth Third Bancorp

For years, we've given the title of "Concession Item Of The Year" to the Gateway Grizzlies, whose executives seems to have a knack for coming up with the best idea year after year.

In 2006, it was a bacon cheeseburger with donuts as buns. [HERE -- The ballpark sandwich will include a hamburger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon -- all between a "bun" made of a sliced Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut.]

Then came the deep fried sliders.

Last year, it was the buffalo wing pretzel.

But the West Michigan Whitecaps have our eye this year with this — believed to be the single most caloric item ever offered at a ballpark. Here are the important details on this absolute gutbuster. It's called the Fifth Third Burger, named after the bank [FITB 2.38 0.25 (+11.74%) ] that sponsors the team's ballpark.

It's 5/3 lbs (1.66) of beef with lettuce, tomato, salsa, sour cream, chili and Frito's on an eight-inch sesame seed bun. (Ben Hill's)

The team says it feeds one to four people and sells for $20, and if a person finishes the Fifth Third Burger in one sitting, the team will offer up a Fifth Third Burger T-shirt.

Mickey Graham, the team's director of marketing and media relations, told us that they came up with this burger because it's something fun that people can understand.

Graham added that he thinks it's possible that that the burger will be popular enough that people might show up to the ballpark, buy a ticket to get in, buy a burger and go home.

"We've had people come just for dinner," Graham said. "It actually happens pretty frequently. We take our food pretty seriously."

For the less important details, here is the approximate "nutritional" information:

Fifth Third Burger Nutritional Value

		DAILY VALUE
Calorie	4889	244%
Total Fat	299g	460%
Sat. Fat	199g	597%
Cholesterol	744mg	248%
Sodium	10,887mg	454%
Total Carbs	354g	118%
Protein	198g	105%

A shout out to Ben Hill's great minor league business blog, who had this meaty story first.

Who Says: "(Thanks to Whitecaps promotions manager Brian Oropallo for sending this along)

In closing, I would like to ask the following question: If your life depended on it, would you rather eat the Fifth Third Burger, or the Homewrecker Hot Dog? Think hard, and choose wisely." [HERE]