From Japan, it's the 2.65 pound, $26 "Megaburger Pizza" (photo)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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If you thought the whole pizza-meets-burger trend would end with Boston Pizza's Pizzaburger, you were wrong. Japanese pizza chain Pizza Little Party will debut the Megaburger pizza this coming Sunday.

Weighing in at 2.65 pounds, the kooky creation features two 11-inch pizzas serving as buns, with burger patties topped with cheese, ketchup, mustard, and pickle slices sandwiched in-between. According to online reports, the combined weight of the beef patties is 400 grams, or 0.88 lbs, so it's about the same as topping a small pizza with four McDonald's cheeseburgers (minus the buns), then slapping another small pizza, face down, on top of it.

The Megaburger pizza retails for ¥2,580 (about $26 USD) and is a limited-time item, available only until November 22nd.

A quick look at the English version of Little Pizza Party's menu reveals that the Megaburgerpizza might not be the Kyoto-based chain's weirdest creation. That honor goes either to the creamed corn and potato pizza, or the Taramayo,with Tarako (salted cod roe) sauce, squid, asparagus, potatoes, rice cake, and mayo.

[d_r]

1. I had a pizza in Tokyo

with crab, squid and shrimp. It was delicious. The English language menu that they had given me described it as Scallop, squid and shrimp. But it was crab not scallop. I told the server it was delicious and it didn't really matter, but the menu said scallop and this was crab. She said "Hai, Kani, Scallop." and made a little scurrying walk across the table with her fingers. I said, kani is "crab." OHHH, and we had a fun time laughing about that. But good pizza.

[olddots]

2. I had three of them for breakfast

[Bertha Venation]

3. obscene

I know this isn't GD, but if I may opine on this subject for just a line or two: I loathe the growing culture of food porn. It is offensive, and all I can do is think of people who are hungry. One in six Americans don't get enough to eat.

/end

[progressoid]

4. I'm reminded of the Vonnegut character Kilgore Trout and his book "Dirty Movie"

Dirty Movie by Kilgore Trout

It was about an Earthling astronaut who arrived on a planet where all the animal and plant life had been killed by pollution, except for humanoids. The humanoids ate food made from petroleum and coal.

They gave a feast for the astronaut, whose name was Don. The food was terrible. The big topic of conversation was censorship. The cities were blighted with motion picture theaters which showed nothing but dirty movies. The humanoids wished they could put them out of business somehow, but without interfering with free speech.

They asked Don if dirty movies were a problem on Earth, too, and Don said, “Yes.” They asked him if the movies were reallydirty, and Don replied, “As dirty as movies could get.”

This was a challenge to the humanoids, who were sure their dirty movies could beat anything on Earth. So everybody piled into air-cushion vehicles, and they floated to a dirty movie house downtown.

It was intermission time when they got there, so Don had some time to think about what could possibly be dirtier than what he had already seen on Earth. He became sexually excited even before the house lights went down. The women in his party were all twittery and squirmy.

So the theater went dark and the curtains opened. At first there wasn’t any picture. There were slurps and moans from loudspeakers. Then the picture itself appeared. It was a high quality film of a male humanoid eating what looked like a pear. The camera zoomed in on his lips and tongue and teeth, which glistened with saliva. He took his time about eating the pear. When the last of it had disappeared into his slurpy mouth, the camera focused on his Adam’s apple. His Adam’s apple bobbed obscenely. He belched contentedly, and then these words appeared on the screen, but in the language of the Planet:

THE END

It was all faked, of course. There weren’t any pears anymore. And the eating of a pear wasn’t the main event of the evening anyway. It was a short subject, which gave the members of the audience time to settle down.

Then the main feature began. It was about a male and a female and their two children, and their dog and their cat. They ate steadily for an hour and a half–soup, meat, biscuits, butter, vegetables, mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit, candy, cake, pie. The camera rarely strayed more than a foot from their glistening lips and their bobbing Adam’s apples. And then the father put the cat and the dog on the table, so they could take part in the orgy, too.

After a while, the actors couldn’t eat any more. They were so stuffed that they were goggle-eyed. They could hardly move. They said they didn’t think they could eat again for a week, and so on. They cleared the table slowly. They went waddling out into the kitchen, and they dumped about thirty pounds of leftovers into a garbage can.

The audience went wild.