Well…Not exactly, but close enough. First up, Fat’s Grill and Bar, Stockton, California lives up to it’s name with a giant cheeseburger. A 222 pound monster with 480 slices of cheese, 40 pounds of tomatoes, and 19 heads of lettuce. That gives them the record for the biggest cheeseburger in California. 

For the record, Fat’s Grill & Bar is located at 4555 N. Pershing Avenue, Stockton, CA 95207. This is their website www.fatsgrill.com and their menu you can access here. It includes the FAT’s Classic 1/2 lb. cheeseburger ($7.95) with 100% ground beef char-grilled to medium-well or well-done, two slices of swiss cheese, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, red onion, dill pickles, mayonaise and mustard. And one more thing about Fat’s Grill & Bar. They let you build your own custom pizza…And their 80z ribeye steak ($23.95) is something which they bet you can’t finish. If the Obesity Society knew about this place, they’d probably burn it down….

Also in the news, Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic unveiled a model of his new spaceship today and announced that the testing of Virgin Galactic suborbital flights would begin this year. Stephen Hawking is one of 150 passengers already signed up at $200,000 a seat to take a space trip.

Sub-orbital flight is the easiest and briefest form of space travel, where the spacecraft technically reaches space - about 62 miles (100 km) above sea level - but then falls back to Earth without completing a revolution of the Earth.

Is it just me or does that model look suspiciously close to Starship Enterprise, Captain Kirk’s galactic explorer? Anyway, if you can add a couple to zeros to your vacation budget, $200,000 for a two and a half hour trip in space with 5 minutes of weightlessness seems like a fair deal, huh? All you gotta do is sell your house, which not be so easy today with the mortgage crisis, but….If you gotta do it, you gotta do it. Or, you could just buy a lightsaber and have a duel with the cat. Imagine he’s Yoda. C’mon - Are you telling me you’ve never done that? If you haven’t, you’re really missing out. A cat is a most worthy opponent for a lightsaber duel. Try it. Much better than Richard Bransan’s galactic flight, and you’ll still have your house intact afterwards, if not your pride. May the force be with you.

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by PLing
Filed under: Travel News