This is What a $24 McDonald's Burger Looks Like

Someone actually did it. Someone went to the Downers Grove McDonald’s and used the Create Your Taste kiosk to make the most monstrous hamburger ever served under the golden arches (probably).

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Moshe Tamssot, a Chicago resident, was poking around on the build-a-burger kiosk when he discovered he could get more than two or three pieces of bacon on his burger. He could get 10.

“When I discovered this, the man behind the counter asked if I needed help,” Tamssot said. “I’m going, ‘Unlimited bacon!’ He said, ‘I guess you could get that much bacon, but why would you want to?’ I told him ‘Because that’s what I want.’”

And what Tamssot wanted, Tamssot got. He soon discovered that he could order 10x all the toppings. So that’s exactly what he did.

What resulted was a tearfully beautiful but structurally unsound 3.8 pound hamburger.

Tamssot said at first the man who challenged his bacon desire didn’t want to fill his mega order. He didn’t think it would taste good. But Tamssot argued the Create Your Taste experience promises to let people make the burger of their dreams, and this was his.

One other hiccup almost derailed that dream. That holy grail of hamburgers rang up $890.80.

Tamssot said he was scared. But he did a little mental math and determined the order couldn’t cost that much, even with all the add-ons. Turns out, there was a glitch in the system that charged $280 per cheese, Tamssot said.

The man behind the counter pulled out a calculator and did some longhand arithmetic, finally concluding that the maxed-out Biggest Mac would go for $24.89.

Tamssot said the crew had to call the McDonald’s corporate office for permission to dish out all those toppings. He was surprised when they actually brought his order to the table, complete with a basket of lettuce and tomato, a basket of bacon and a “lake of sauce.” He said they tried to stack as much as they could, but it was up to him to finish the construction.

“They were actually really cool about it,” he said. “This is a huge leap for McDonald’s.”

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He took the burger to go, and by grazing through the day, he ate 2.2 pounds of it, leaving only some sauces and a clump of cheese.

Tamssot said he’s not a mad scientist, he’s an innovator. He said he leads an accomplished global network through his social experiment, Monks of Invention. He founded Make It For Us, a startup “that gets anything made,” and he’s on a mission to save the Chicago Museum of Holography’s collection. He’s also an urban beekeper, a creator of “rooftop gardening technologies” and he makes Liquid Pig BBQ sauce.

What a guy.

This isn’t even his first foray into wild McDonald’s experiments. His #HackTheMac project has produced the following Franken-foods.

The Big SPAMac

The Portuguese Sausage McMuffin

The Beef McRib

and McDonald’s / Boston Market Poutine

Tamssot said he wants to see people build on his ideas in McDonald’s restaurants in other countries with different ingredients, like in Australia, where you can get an egg on a burger.

He said he wouldn’t order the same burger tower again, but if they ever let him go ham with all the food inside a McDonald’s, he could spend a week inventing new crazy creations.

Photos courtesy of Moshe Tamssot.