Minor league team goes for major carbo load
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Great. Just what Americans need.
More fat in their diet.
This season, a minor league baseball team called the West Michigan Whitecaps -- based just outside of Grand Rapids -- is offering the Fifth Third burger, which is named after its Fifth Third Ballpark and is nearly as big.
The $20 snack bar monstrosity includes a beef patty weighing ‘five-thirds of a pound,’ nacho cheese, chili, salsa, crunched tortilla chips, tomato and lettuce on an 8-inch sesame seed bun, the team’s website announces.
Total damage: Nearly 5,000 calories, 300 grams of fat and countless carbohydrates.
As Matt Timon, the Whitecaps’ director of food and beverage, commented: ‘The Fifth Third burger is not for the casual eater.’
There goes Michigan’s reputation for the fit and svelte.
-- David Wharton