Cafe boss Mark Winder claims no-one has yet been able to finish it 
 
 The meal is so unhealthy customers must sign a disclaimer before eating it 
 
 A cafe claims to be cooking the biggest breakfasts in Britain by serving customers seven-pound fry-ups consisting of four times the daily calorie intake. 
 
 Mark Winder's 'The Hibernator' weigh in at seven pounds each and diners have to sign a legal disclaimer before attempting to eat one as it adds up to 8,000 calories - four times the recommended daily intake. 
 
 The meal, named 'The Hibernator', consists of eight rashers of bacon, eight sausages, four hash browns, four fried eggs, a four egg cheese omelette, four waffles, four pieces of toast, four pieces of fried bread, four black pudding, two ladles of beans, two ladles of tomatoes, mushrooms, a portion of large chips, and a two pint milkshake to wash it all down. 
 
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 The Hibernator weighs the same as the average newborn baby and no customer has yet been able to finish it 
 
 The ingredients used in the dish - which includes eight rashers of bacon, two ladles of beans and eight eggs 
 
 Pictured left, cafe owner Mark Winder with the meal which is served on a turkey platter. Right, the disclaimer customers must sign to acknowledge the health risks before attempting to eat it 
 
 The Man Vs Food inspired challenge, sold for £19.95, has only been attempted by 20 people since it was first added to the menu - and no one has since completed it. 
 
 At around 14 times more calorific than a regular fry-up, the big breakfast takes around 30 minutes to cook and a disclaimer must be signed before challengers can dig in. 
 
 Mr Winder, 39, who runs the Bear Grills cafe in Congleton, Cheshire said: 'I reckon with these ingredients you could feed a family for a week. 
 
 'The breakfast alone is around 6,000 calories and the 2,000 calorie milkshake just tops it off. We weighed all the cooked food and it came to a whopping seven pounds. 
 
 'That's the weight of a baby. It's called The Hibernator because if anyone completes it they'll have to sleep for a year. 
 
 'We have a disclaimer which says that no one under the age of 18 can take part and that they know about the very high calorific content and high fat content. We ask people to understand that they know what they are getting themselves into. They have to tick a box to say whether they have any underlying health conditions.' 
 
 The Bear Grills cafe in Cheshire, from where Mark Winder serves his huge full English breakfast 
 
 THE HIBERNATOR: BRITAIN'S UNHEALTHIEST BREAKFAST? Eight rashers of bacon 
 
 Eight sausages 
 
 Four hash browns 
 
 Four fried eggs 
 
 A four-egg cheese omelette 
 
 Four waffles 
 
 Four pieces of toast 
 
 Four pieces of fried bread 
 
 Four pieces of black pudding 
 
 Two ladles of beans 
 
 Two ladles of tomatoes 
 
 Mushrooms 
 
 Chips 
 
 A two-pint sized milkshake 
 
 The breakfast is brought out on a 4ft turkey platter because Mr Winder couldn't find any plates big enough. 
 
 Challengers have an hour to eat the entire breakfast, including the milkshake. 
 
 Those who do eat the whole breakfast win £100, get their name on the Wall of Fame, have the breakfast named after them and also get to add another ingredient to the challenge. 
 
 He added: 'We used to set the time limit as half-an-hour but we realised that no one was ever going to finish it. Although we did have one guy called James who nearly did it in half-an-hour but couldn't make it to the end.' 
 
 The Hibernator was named in honour of the Congleton Bear, a historical tale of the town's attempts to buy a new fiercer bear for bear baiting in the 1620s. 
 
 Mr Winder said: 'I came up with the breakfast to get youngsters to come in and get involved. 
 
 'Most of my customers are in the 60s and 70s and the reason I came up with the Hibernator was to inject some youth into the place and I think it has. 
 
 'Younger guys come in, and it is all men who have tried the challenge, and they look at the ingredients up on the board and say: "I am going to smash that." 
 
 'But then they see it come out on the big platter all heaped high and start to cry on the phone to their friends. They give up after about twenty minutes.' ||||| Breakfast is designed to start your day, not end it. Nor is it supposed to potentially end your life. 
 
 A restaurant in north England, Bear Grills, has ignored those two things. Meet the 8,000 calorie Hibernator. 
 
 Why do you need or want to consume 8,000 calories shortly after waking up? Or at any point in the day? Why is it even a dare? Why would you want to eat something with a really bad name? Why would you want both toast and fried bread? What is black pudding? Why is there a milk shake at breakfast? 
 
 Here's what you get: 
 
 -4 fried eggs 
 
 -8 "rashers" of bacon 
 
 -8 sausages 
 
 -4 hash browns 
 
 -1 cheese omelette made of 4 more eggs 
 
 -4 waffles 
 
 -4 pieces of toast 
 
 -4 pieces of fried bread 
 
 -4 pieces of black pudding 
 
 -2 ladlefuls of beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms 
 
 -French fries 
 
 And a 32-ounce milkshake. 
 
 It weighs seven pounds, and you need to sign a disclaimer before you eat it. It costs 19.95 pounds, or $32.40. Twenty people have tried and failed to eat it. 
 
 Who are those twenty people? 
 
 Are you one? 
 
 Why did you do this? 
 
 What is wrong with you? 
 
 Besides, breakfast is a scam anyway. 
 
 [h/t Grub Street] ||||| The 9 Worst Chain Restaurant Meals of the Year 
 
 By Jayne Hurley and Bonnie Liebman 
 
 
 
 It’s not easy to win an Xtreme Eating award. For starters, most restaurant meals pack around 1,000 calories, so anything in that neighborhood is a yawner. To stand out in the crowd, you’ve got to hit around 2,000 calories—an entire day’s worth of food—even if it’s just dessert. 
 
 But our winners have what it takes...a total disregard for the obesity epidemic and the coming diabetes tsunami. Of course, you can’t blame restaurants for that. That would be so unfair. 
 
 Download the article here. 
 
 The information for this article was compiled by Paige Einstein. 
 
 IHOP's Omelot 
 
 “Take a trip south of the border one bite at a time!” suggests the IHOP (1,564 locations) website. 
 
 Its Chorizo Fiesta Omelette, which is “loaded with spicy chorizo sausage, roasted peppers, onions & pepper jack cheese, then topped with a citrus chili sauce & sour cream and served with a fresh grilled serrano pepper...will have you saying ‘excelente!’” 
 
 “Ay, caramba!” is more like it. A 1,300-calorie sausage omelette alone would strike many as a tad on the heavy side. But this one comes with three buttermilk pancakes (or hash browns, toast, or fruit; but this is IHOP, after all). Remember when three pancakes alone was a big breakfast? 
 
 Add four tablespoons of syrup, and you shuffle out with a day’s calories (1,990), plus a bonus 42 grams of saturated fat, 4,840 milligrams of sodium, and 1,035 mg of cholesterol (two to three days’ worth of each). And don’t forget the passel of white flour and the 12-or-so teaspoons of added (refined) sugar—the kind that doesn’t occur naturally in fruit and milk. It’s your lucky day! 
 
 You might as well have ordered a McDonald’s Big Breakfast (scrambled eggs, hash browns, biscuit, and sausage) with three Sausage McMuffins and five packets of grape jam on the side. 
 
 Time for a siesta. 
 
 Pit Belly 
 
 As Dickey’s Barbecue Pit (416 locations) “continues to expand from coast to coast, customers are wooed by the home-style flavor and family friendly atmosphere,” says the chain’s website. And nothing woos like the 3 Meat Plate. 
 
 “Can’t decide?” asks Dickey’s. “This is the perfect plate to have everything you’re craving!” 
 
 We craved the Polish sausage, pork ribs, and beef brisket (saving the pulled pork, barbecue honey ham, spicy cheddar sausage, and turkey or chicken breast for next time). 
 
 For our two sides, we went with fried onion tanglers and mac & cheese (passing up sides like the chips, fries, barbecue beans, green beans with bacon, baked potato casserole, coleslaw, fried okra, and potato salad). And along with the free roll, pickles, and onions, we tossed in a Big Yellow Cup of Miss Ollie Dickey’s Famous Southern Sweet Tea. (It’s “only” 32 oz., but don’t worry: refills are free.) 
 
 Then we noticed the sign: “Help Yourself to Some ICE CREAM! Cold Creamy Delicious And It’s Free!” Yup. At Dickey’s, you can have free soft-serve while you wait for your order, for dessert, or whenever you feel the urge. Need a palate cleanser mid-meal? Have a cone! Take one for the road! Is this a great country or what? 
 
 With just a half cup of ice cream in a cone (and no refills), your meal comes to roughly 2,500 calories, 49 grams of sat fat and 4,700 mg of sodium (2½ to 3 days’ worth of each), plus 29 teaspoons of (mostly added) sugar. It’s like having three Big Macs with five Vanilla Cones. 
 
 What’s for dessert? 
 
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 Crime Rib 
 
 “No matter your path, a delicious destination awaits,” says the Outback Steakhouse (767 locations) menu. If your destination is the Herb Roasted Prime Rib dinner, you may want to walk home...the long way. 
 
 The 16 oz. prime rib alone delivers 1,400 calories to your rib area. For sides, let’s say you get the dressed baked potato and the classic blue cheese wedge (it’s a “premium side salad,” so it’ll cost you a buck), and that you eat just half the loaf of bread and use just a light schmear of butter. 
 
 The tab: 2,400 calories, 71 grams of sat fat (3½ days’ worth), and enough sodium (3,560 mg) for today and tomorrow. It’s like eating three Outback 10 oz. Ribeye steaks with three sides of garlic mashed potatoes. How do people survive on just one? 
 
 Pastaway 
 
 “Parmesan crusted chicken served over pasta with mushrooms, peppers and onions in a spicy New Orleans sauce” doesn’t sound excessive. Then again, you’re at The Cheesecake Factory (167 locations), which has a knack for turning its patrons into walking (make that sitting) fat-cell factories. 
 
 The Louisiana Chicken Pasta, which weighs an impressive 1½ pounds, comes topped with four slices of heavily breaded chicken (in case you didn’t get enough white flour in the mound of pasta). Add the New Orleans sauce (butter and heavy cream), and your plate is up to 2,370 calories (more than a day’s worth), plus 80 grams of saturated fat (a four-day supply) and 2,370 milligrams of sodium (1½ days’ worth). For those numbers, you could have had two Fettuccine Alfredos plus two breadsticks at Olive Garden. Bottoms up! 
 
 Blast Off 
 
 “All meals should be topped off with dessert: it’s the SONIC way,” suggests “America’s Drive-In” (3,522 locations). Take the Pineapple Upside Down Master Blast. 
 
 “SONIC’s real, vanilla ice cream perfectly mixed with pineapple, salted caramel & pie crust pieces” comes in a 32 oz. cup topped with several inches of whipped cream. 
 
 That’s for a large, which fires 2,020 calories at your midsection, and 61 grams (three days’ worth) of sat fat and 4½ grams (two days’ worth) of trans fat (from the pie crust) at your arteries. And it comes with some 29 teaspoons of added sugar. 
 
 One Master Blast has the calories of roughly four Dairy Queen Banana Splits. Sonic offers “heaping helpings of fun,” says its website. Wouldn’t the equivalent of one banana split be enough fun? 
 
 Red Alert 
 
 For our Create Your Own Combination at Red Lobster (679 locations), we picked three shrimp dishes (Parrot Isle Jumbo Coconut, Walt’s Favorite, and Linguine Alfredo). With french fries as our side, Caesar as our salad, and just one Cheddar Bay Biscuit (such willpower!), our total came to 2,710 calories, 37 grams (two days’ worth) of sat fat, and 6,530 mg (a four-day supply) of sodium. 
 
 It’s like eating an 8-piece bucket of KFC Original Recipe chicken with four sides of mashed potatoes with gravy, four pieces of corn on the cob, and eight packets of “buttery spread.” 
 
 And since we were at Red Lobster, we had to order the chain’s namesake drink. So we added a 24 oz. Traditional Lobsterita (with its 890 calories and 860 mg of sodium). Ahoy, matey! Make room for 3,600 calories under that (newly expanded) belt. 
 
 Pick & Lose 
 
 “One Person, Two Dishes, Tons of Choices.” That’s the deal with the 2 For $12 Pick & Choose menu at Uno Pizzeria & Grill (131 locations), which lets you choose from five salads, four pastas, and three pizzas. Oh boy! 
 
 We started with the Baked Ziti & Sausage Pasta (“ziti and sausage in a tomato cream sauce topped with mozzarella and baked in a deep dish pan”). That’s 720 calories (a third of a day’s worth), which is high-but-reasonable... for an entire meal. 
 
 Then we added a Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza (“a small plate version of our famous Chicago Classic Deep Dish with sausage, mozzarella, chunky tomato sauce and romano”). Yes, it’s small next to Uno’s 1½-pound, 2,300-calorie individual Chicago Classic. But 1,470 calories is small? Really? 
 
 Add ’em up and you get 2,190 calories, 49 grams of saturated fat (2½ days’ worth), 5,420 mg of sodium (a 3½-day supply), and white flour galore. It’s like eating three Pizza Hut Pepperoni Lover’s Personal Pan Pizzas. Our advice: think of Uno as No-no. 
 
 Warm Crapple 
 
 Who gets a dessert other than cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory? Maybe someone who’s trying to avoid overdoing it. The Warm Apple Crisp looks nice. 
 
 Sigh. Between the apples, “delicious crispy nutty topping,” two scoops of ice cream, small mountain of whipped cream, and caramel sauce, you’re looking at 1,740 calories—more than any cheesecake on the menu. And don’t forget the bonus 48 grams (2½ days’ worth) of saturated fat and 32 teaspoons of sugar (much of it added). 
 
 For the same calories, you could (shudder) eat two slices of The Cheesecake Factory’s Original Cheesecake. 
 
 Why Stop at 7? 
 
 “It’s 7 Steakburgers and 7 slices of American cheese—a one pounder!” says Steak ‘n Shake (513 locations). 
 
 Yes, the 7X7 Steakburger ‘n Fries (available from midnight to 6 a.m. on the “Up All Night” menu) squeezes seven beef patties between its buns. The 1,330 calories in the burger make the 240 calories in the small side of fries seem puny. But what’s puny about the plate’s 47 grams of sat fat and 4,570 mg of sodium? 
 
 If that’s not enough to keep you “up all night,” why not add a shake? With the 960-calorie Chocolate Fudge Brownie Milkshake (“What’s not to love?”), you hit 2,530 calories, plus 68 grams of sat fat and 5,060 mg of sodium (about 3½ days’ worth of each) and 26 teaspoons of sugar. 
 
 It’s like polishing off four 9 oz. Outback sirloin steaks, each topped with two halfcup scoops of Breyers Chocolate Ice Cream. 
 
 We can’t wait until Steak ‘n Shake comes out with its 8X8 Steakburger ‘n Fries. Or its 9X9.
– There's waking up hungry and there's, well, this. A British cafe has introduced the queen of all breakfasts, a 59-item spread that packs in 7,778 calories. The Corner Cafe's Monster Mega Breakfast comes across as slightly redundant: It contains eggs and omelets, fried potatoes (four portions) and hash browns, and both toast and fried bread. Plus bacon, sausages, mushrooms, chips, onion rings, black pudding, tomatoes, and beans. The meal costs about $22.50 and has a time limit attached: Those attempting to polish it off have an hour to do so if they want to win a place on the wall of champions, a breakfast coupon, and a key ring. They'll be helped (or hindered?) along the way with one of two drinks: their choice of a milkshake or energy drink, reports the Bristol Post. A manager of the Portishead cafe tells the Post that since being launched earlier this month, five people have ordered it and none have finished. Quirky side note: No one under 18 is allowed to order it. The cafe's Facebook page has photos of those who have made the attempt, along with a message to those who have accused it of being wasteful. Its post begins, "We are just a little family run business who can't save the entire world from famine and starvation!" Could the 8,000-calorie breakfast be the start of a trend? The Bear Grills cafe in Congleton, England, made a splash a few months ago with the launch of its own 8,000-calorie meal, the 7-pound "Hibernator." Sweet tooths may prefer its version, which includes four waffles. More on it here.