Heart Attack Grill Opening in Las Vegas ..... The signature dish is the Quadruple Bypass ( 8,000 calories )

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At the recently opened Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, customers who tip the scales at more than 350 pounds eat free. The eatery specializes in food that's bad for you, including a so-called "quadruple bypass burger." NBC's George Lewis reports.



By George Lewis, NBC News correspondent


It's a place that mixes candor with calories. The Heart Attack Grill that opened last week in Las Vegas blatantly advertises food that's bad for you. And in case you don't get the message, the restaurant has a hospital theme, with an ambulance parked out front, servers dressed like nurses and an owner, Jon Basso, who refers to himself as "Dr. Jon."


"Give people what they want,” Basso told me. "But tell them the truth. And that's what we're doing here."


Never mind that there's an epidemic of obesity in America. The signature dish is the Quadruple Bypass — four half-pound burger patties topped with cheese, bacon and no lettuce (lettuce is for wimps). If you order it with the fries cooked in lard and the triple butterfat milkshake topped with a pat of real butter, you'll be getting 8,000 calories worth of food.


"If you have an 8,000-calorie meal, that's equivalent to five days worth of food for most people," said Laura Kruskall, director of nutrition sciences for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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NBC's George Lewis prepares to try the 8,000-calorie burgers, fries and shake.





Anyone who walks into the Heart Attack Grill weighing in at more than 350 pounds gets to eat free of charge. Basso has been widely criticized for this policy, but he laughs it off. "Hey, we're all dysfunctional."


Basso had similar restaurants in the Dallas and Phoenix area but closed them in the face of protests and community pressure. A spokesperson for one of his previous restaurants, 575-pound Blair River, died in March of obesity-related illness.


Basso is hoping that the more permissive atmosphere in Las Vegas will permit his restaurant to thrive. "The calories you consume in Vegas," he said, grinning, "stay in Vegas."


I tried a few of those calories. The french fries cooked in lard were extremely salty, but tasty. The shake was thick and gooey and impossible to drink through a straw, and the burger meat was nicely done over an open flame. But there was no way I could put my mouth around the whole four-patty creation.


I only ate a few small bites. The pounds you put on in Vegas don't stay in Vegas; they go home with you. The average person burns about 100 calories walking a mile, which means you'd have to walk 80 miles to burn off that Quadruple Bypass with fries and a shake.
 
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I hear the burgers are pretty good but the fries aren't very good. I've heard it's because they are fried in lard and most people aren't used to animal fat fryers anymore.
 

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As far as the 8,000 calories being 5 days worth, it works out to be 1600 calories per day. Most nutritionists say people need between 2,000 and 2,500 calories per day so that's a load of crap.
 

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As far as the 8,000 calories being 5 days worth, it works out to be 1600 calories per day. Most nutritionists say people need between 2,000 and 2,500 calories per day so that's a load of crap.

No way do we need 2,000-2,500 calories a day. 1,200 calories and the proper types of food are more then enough. Trust me I know.....less is better.
 

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calorie intake obviously varies by age and degree of physical activity

also the body doesnt react the same way to eating 8k calories in ONE sitting (it will store the excess) versus eating the same spread over time

if I was to eat 1200 calories /day , I will probably wont have energy to do ANYTHING, I am at about 2500 and I am losing fat %
 

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They got one near my house in Arizona, food is ok but the waitresses wear nice nurse outfits and they were pretty nice. The fat fuc*k died tho, last year.
 

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Wonder how many fat asses that weigh more than 350 pounds come in on a daily basis? Would think they have a bunch of regulars getting free meals.
 

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No way do we need 2,000-2,500 calories a day. 1,200 calories and the proper types of food are more then enough. Trust me I know.....less is better.

I'm always skeptical when someone says "trust me I know". Do you have a link to support your claim?
 

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I love this place! have not been there, but watched a few videos on it. I would try the quad, I just would have to puke out a lot of it after
 
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esp. right in downtown Vegas. Paradise for fat bums.

I dont think i have ever seen a 350 lb bum.

They sort of downplayed the waitresses in nurses outfits. i know a guy who went to the one in arizona, there are mirrors under the tables put there so you can look under the waitresses short nurse skirts. Kinda awkward
 

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