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Hmmm, what should we have for dinner tonight honey? Pizza? Cheeseburgers? Why not both?!?!

The MEGABURGERPIZZA is a mashup of burger and ‘zza made by placing 14 ounces of hamburger patties between a couple of 11″ pizza pies. Inside, you’ll also find fixin’s like ketchup, onions, pickles, mustard and cheese. Just try and jam this whole thing in your mouth.

Japan’s Pizza Little Party will be offering this monstrosity from September 1 through November 22, 2013 for ¥2,580 (~$26 USD). And if you don’t live in Japan, just stop by your local McDonalds and Pizza Hut on the way home and assemble your own.

[via RocketNews24]

Dr. Mark Post of the University of Maastricht has carefully cultivated the most expensive burger you will probably never eat. Using stem cells and the science of tissue engineering, Post and his team have developed a method for creating an edible product called in-Vitro meat, which they hope to present in burger form at a special event in London next month. Despite the burger’s artificial origins, Post claims it “tastes reasonably good.”

The in-Vitro burger was designed as a proof-of-concept to address the problem of a growing global population with a rapidly dwindling food supply. Even so, it’s unlikely that lab-grown meat will be as widely available as White Castle anytime soon since creating it is an expensive, time-consuming process — a single burger costs about $325,000 to produce. Each pricey patty begins its life as cells sourced from the necks of slaughterhouse cows, which are then developed in a growth serum comprised of fetal calf stem cells. After three weeks, those cells divide into a strip of meat, about half an inch long. Combine about 20,000 of those tissue strips and you’ve got yourself a burger. If that doesn’t get your taste buds tingling, we don’t know what will.

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Source: The New York Times

In the future, when the inevitable and literal fast food wars break out, we’ll all be too fat and unhealthy to fight for our chain of choice – which is why these fast food chains should start developing their own war machines. Here’s a free idea for McDonald’s, courtesy of Sean and Steph Mayo. Behold! The Big MaK!

The husband and wife LEGO enthusiasts made the Big MaK for Bricklink’s Creations for Charity (and it seems it’s already been bought). I hope the Mayos make more food-themed mechs. I imagine the Taco Bell mech will be able to combine with the Doritos mech to form a smaller but tougher robot, the KFC robot will be a robot sandwiched in between two other robots and the Pizza Hut robot will be stuffed with smaller robots.

[via Obvious Winner]

It’s that crazy time of the year once again. Spooky costumes, haunted houses, bags full of candy, a pumpkin burger from Burger King. Wait, what? That’s right. The Burger King Pumpkin Burger is only available in Japan, and only for a limited time – unless it’s a big hit – then they will just serve it year round and start counting their stacks of money.

I never thought of combining a hamburger with pumpkin before, myself. I’m not sure how that would taste. Guess folks in Japan will soon find out. Starting next Friday, for a limited time only, Burger King Japan customers can buy a seasonal BK Pumpkin Burger.

It consists of two slices of fried kabocha squash (Japanese pumpkin) with bacon, lettuce, a beef patty, and special sauce made from sesame seeds, peanuts, almonds, cashews, and hazelnuts. Wanna give it a try? It’s just 310 to 590 yen (~$4 to $7 USD), plus the cost of a round trip ticket to Japan.

[via Eater via Gawker]

I think hamburgers and hot dogs are fine as they are. But if you’ve ever wanted to eat your hamburgers just as you’d eat hot dogs, then there’s something called the Ham Dogger that’ll help you do it.

The Ham Dogger is shaped like an empty hot dog bun. The space is where you’re supposed to put your raw hamburger patty mixture in so you can shape the patties like – you guessed it! – hot dogs. The product page boasts that you won’t have to buy two different kinds of buns ever again, which is economical (if not a little silly) in a sense.

It’s available online from Amazon for about $10(USD), but if you don’t want to fork over ten bucks for it, then you can probably just roll your patties this way and that to achieve the same hot dog effect.