According to the Daily Telegraph, The Jolly Fryer takeaway near Bristol has decided that a Big Mac or two just isn’t enough for customers down there in the south-west of the UK and has come up with a calorific concoction named the Super Scooby!  It’s six inches tall, 13 inches round, weighs about 3 lbs (1.5 kg) and contains a whopping 2,645 calories.  On top of that you also have a portion of fries and customers receive a free can of Diet Coke if they can completely demolish the meal in one sitting.  This Happy Heart Attack meal costs £10.

The SS contains:

• Four 1/4 lb patties
• 12 onion rings
• Eight rashers of bacon
• Eight cheese slices
• Two lettuce leaves
• Six tomato slices
• Four slices of onion
• BBQ sauce
• Burger sauce
• Mayonnaise
• Relish
• A white burger bap

The owner of the takeaway says that he’s not heard of a bigger burger elsewhere in the UK and it seems that, so far, nobody’s managed to meet the challenge of eating it all in one go.  However, it goes down well as a meal between mates!

So what’s the next mighty meal in the UK going to be?  A whole roast pig with a sack of roast potatoes, a stalk of brussels sprouts, ten cauliflowers, a gallon of gravy and a Yorkshire pudding the size of Wales topped off with an orchard’s worth of apple sauce?  I’ve no doubt that someone in the UK will come up with something novel.

Now, if you survive eating your Super Scooby and fries without having a heart attack, perhaps you’re up for a good old-fashioned British pud!!

The Telegraph (who must have been in a food fest frenzy this last week!), also reported that Hovis, one our  best-loved bakeries in the UK came up with a record breaking beast of a bread and butter pudding at their test bakery in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to celebrate British Food Fortnight.

The pudding weighed 3,300 lbs and measured 7 ft by 5 ft.  It took seven bread experts 49 hours to make and bake this gigantuan goody which contained more than 1,000 slices of bread, 70 apples and 56 eggs.

Unfortunately those outside the confines of Hovis didn’t get to taste this prize pud as it was shared out between the workers.

I’m now going to cook Sunday lunch.  Roast chicken followed by plum crumble and custard.  Maybe I should now be aiming large – how about roast albatross with all the trimmings followed by cheesecake with a sherry trifle topping, or maybe a baked Alaska – no, I mean literally, Alaska covered with meringue!!