How About 8 Pounds Of Foodporn At Your Next Charlotte Hornets Game?

There's nothing quite like eating junk food at the game. For Americans, it's a tradition, and over the years, each sporting event has developed its own foodie culture. Baseball is known for its overly-expensive beers and franks, football is known for barbecue out of the back of a truck, and hockey is known for ice and loneliness. For whatever reason, people just tend to associate one food with one sport.

For the most part, however, basketball doesn't really have its own food. General junk food is eaten at the stadium, of course, but there's no one iconic basketball food. For some people, watching the game may be enough, but for normal people, food is basically a requirement in an arena. Thankfully, it seems that the Charlotte Hornets have stepped up to fill the void.

That is not Photoshopped, and yes, it is real. The Hugo's Boss burger, named after the team's mascot, is absolutely massive. The burger clocks in at approximately eight pounds of meat, and is topped off with both cheddar and swiss cheese, bacon, lettuce, mushrooms and pickles (which probably add a few more pounds to the pile). It's an absolutely massive amount of food, and it's definitely not cheap: one of the burgers will cost you $70. At the very least, it's enough to keep a small family well-fed for a few weeks at a time.

Somehow, the Hugo Boss burger isn't even the largest meal of its kind. The world's largest burger actually clocks in at several hundred pounds, so it seems that the Hugo Boss still has a long way to go if it wants to set the record. While it's not hundreds of pounds of meat, the Hugo Boss is still absolutely massive, and no one person, no matter how determined, would be able to finish it on their own. Then again, if someone was looking to suffer a heart attack, there's nothing to stop them from trying to finish it in one go.

The Hugo Boss burger has debuted just in time for the Hornet's season opener. The burger's run and the team's season will start during this Wednesday's opening game against the Miami Heat.

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