Meatstrosities

• Artist Jan Fabre's "Temple of Meat" installation used a near-ton of ham to outfit the entrance to the Modern Museum of Art in Ghent with meat columns (heh).
  
  
  
  

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• Is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? Test your luck and your arteries in Cambridge, Mass. at the Atwood Tavern's annual bacon sandwich eating contest.
  
  
  

  Atwood Tavern

• Denny's Beer Barrel pub in Clearfield, PA will pick up your tab if you finish their 3-lb. Pub Super Challenger. No word if they pay for your funeral if you finish their 100-lb. "Main Event Burger."
  
  
  

  Denny's Beer Barrell

• 21-year-old Pat Bertoletti scarfed down five pounds of turkey in 12 minutes to win the Axia 3 Thanksgiving Invitational. Zzzzzzztryptophan.
  
  
  

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• German Heinz Astoff suffers from "incurable hunger," a rare condition that causes him to eat constantly and not gain weight. To stay full, he eats a strict diet of five pounds of meatloaf and 20 sausages daily (in addition to a pint of mayonnaise, a dozen eggs and french fries).
  
  
  

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• It was a literal sausage-fest in Berlin in March, 2008 when meat company Mago made a record-breaking 60-foot sausage.
  
  
  

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• Meatball Mike's in Cranston, R.I. outdid themselves with a 43-pound meatball that could easily be used to booby-trap priceless idols in ancient temples.
  
  
  

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• The Philadelphia Eagles served a 365-foot cheesesteak outside of Veterans Stadium in 1998. Many "longer than a football field" comparisons were made.
  
  
  

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• The Wicked Hop in Milwaukee makes an annual 4'x5'x5' Giant Reuben sandwich using 100 pounds of corned beef, 80 pounds of kraut and buckets of Russian dressing. Proceeds from the $5 portions go to cancer research. Who says you can't eat meat in good conscience?
  
  
  

  The Wicked Hop Tavern