Record attempt: bodybuilders eat the biggest hamburger in the Netherlands
Top athletes always eat healthily: enough fiber, carbohydrates before the competition and protein for their muscles. Bodybuilders Olivier Richters and Lorenzo Leeuwe are taking a break from their healthy eating habits: they are going for a three-kilogram burger, the biggest hamburger in the Netherlands.
At hamburger restaurant Burgers van Barneveld, a gigantic burger is already on the menu: the Big Daddy, with nine burgers stacked on top of each other, weighing 2.7 kilograms. It is ordered occasionally, but nobody has managed to finish it. A local resident succeeded once and is currently the record holder. But the two bodybuilders will each take on a three-kilogram burger in an attempt to break that record.
Twelve hamburgers in three minutes
The record attempt by these two gigantic men is being filmed and photographed. The official Guinness Record is held by Japanese competitor Takeru Kobayashi, who ate twelve hamburgers in three minutes. These were twelve 50-gram buns, with mayonnaise and a 120-gram burger. Probably a piece of cake for the bodybuilders.
A fellow record holder is Peter Czerwinski, nicknamed ‘Furious Pete’. He wolfed down four hamburgers in one minute, also earning a Guinness Record. The biggest hamburger in the world is on the menu at Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Detroit: 800 kilograms of meat, net weight, on a 100-kilogram bun, with 136 kilograms of cheese, onion, tomato, pickle and toppings. It probably is not ordered very often, because it costs almost 8,000 dollars.
Not exactly healthy
An interesting detail: Lorenzo Leeuwe has a sports nutrition webshop, selling large tubs of whey powder and glucosamine pills. How does the mega-burger fit in among the powders and pills? ‘It’s not really healthy, and we shouldn’t do this every day,’ he tells the newspaper. ‘The next day, we’ll train hard to burn off the extra calories.’
