McGangBang Meet Your Match!

I, like many of you loyal readers, first read about the McGangBang here almost three months ago. I was immediately shocked, disheartened in humanity, and…intrigued.

See, dear friends, I have a problem. Though I am normally pretty mindful of the food I ingest, I have a marked weakness for ingeniously grotesque food items. The creatively vomitastic, if you will. I don’t exactly seek these items out, but they seem to find me. The Luther Burger, grasshopper tacos, Scotch Eggs – all have presented themselves and been summarily consumed.

But I was scared of the McGangBang. True, but not for the reasons one might think. To be honest, I wasn’t terribly impressed by it, and was frightened by the prospect that I might be completely underwhelmed after eating one. What would that say about me?

Well, about a month ago I decided to throw caution to the wind and give the McGangBang a go. I skipped right on down to my local Mickey D’s, slapped one together aaaand…. M’eh.

I’ve been more impressed by the amount of meat in some sushi rolls I’ve inhaled. It seriously wasn’t even worth the blog post I planned to write about the McGangBang experience. What was I to do? Blaine would surely have my head for this. Then, after a month of hiding out, it suddenly came to me...

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, for your culinary delight, a Diary of Fools exclusive menu first – The McDP!!

The McDP (aptly named for its ability to allow the two sandwiches to cause exponentially more pleasure and damage than either could ever dream of on their own) consists of an entire McDonald’s Southern Style Chicken Sandwich jammed tightly between the two buns of the ever-classic Double Quarter Pounder with cheese. Though the semi-coma I fell into while consuming this masterpiece prevents me from remembering most of the appearance, I will share the following which I found scribbled on greasy notepad after awakening:

scrumtrulescent

melted cheese substance coats entire mouth easing ingestion

Pickles!

crunchy and succulent

I feel fat

is this real life?

I'm convinced this is not animal meat

ashamed...

Great Moments in Fat History: The McGangBang

In the grease-stained annals of fat history, very few food items exemplify necessity-as-mother-of-invention quite like The McGangBang.

You see, for the truly devoted, even an historic economic downturn is no reason to board-up the feed trough.

A real saturated fat sycophant will find a way to eat more with less.

The Corpulence Express (passenger service to Adult Onset Diabetesville) will not be derailed.

Not on their watch.

So with $2.16 and a handful of Krackle Bar wrappers in their pocket, they slowly mount their freshly-charged fat scooter and set their course for fatty spendthrift Mecca: the McDonald's Value Menu.

What they come up with is equal parts disgusting and Girl Talk mash-up innovation:



The McGangBang.

An entire McChicken Sandwich slid in-between the all-beef patties of a double cheeseburger.

800 calories. 39 grams of fat. Again, all for $2.16 and whatever dignity you have left.

Truly, another Great Moment in Fat History.

For an extensive bio on the origins of the McGangBang, check out Eat Me Daily.