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Would you pay $350 for a 134-pound burger? Certainly that depends largely on your appetite and your finances. ­The accidental creation of the hamburger caused a sensation and led, perhaps inevitably, to the creation of fast food restaurants. In 1921, the first hamburger chain, White Castle, opened. Successful burger selling depends upon speed, low cost and ease of portability. But some restaurateurs have gone in another direction, creating large, slow and, most notably, expensive burgers. At Mallie's Sports Grill and Bar in suburban Detroit, Mich., you can pony up $350 for a 134-pound (60.8 kg) bacon cheeseburger. The restaurant asks customers to give 24 hours prior notice for what they call the Absolutely Ridiculous Burger. Amid gasps of "Whoa, that's a big burger," the creation was d­ebuted in February 2008, when the restaurant produced its first. The head chef at the grill spent 12 hours preparing and cooking the burger; it took three men to flip it and the bun alone weighs 50 pounds (22.7 kg).

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Cornish pasty makers get brand name boost

1.LONDON (Reuters) - Cornish pasty makers in Cornwall moved a step closer to securing branding and marketing rights for the traditional snack after the government backed their European bid for regional protection. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs will take the Cornish Pasty Association's (CPA) application for Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to Brussels.If successful, only pasty makers in Cornwall that use traditional methods and recipes for the meat and vegetable snack will be able to use the trademark or "appellation controlee", barring copy-cat like products from branding and marketing their products as Cornish pasties.

2."The importance of the Cornish pasty industry to the wider Cornish economy cannot be stressed enough," said Angie Coombs of the CPA committee. "The application is a genuine attempt to protect the consumer and encourage investment in local economies." CPA members make about 87 million pasties a year, in a growing market. The 60 million pounds of sales represent about 6 percent of the Cornish food economy, it said. Many ingredients are sourced locally and it is estimated 13,000 people are directly or indirectly benefiting from CPA trade, it added.

3.A spokesman for Defra said the application meets all the criteria for a protected food name. It now goes in front of an appeal process before being considered by the European Commission. Any trademark would cover the Cornish pasty's traditional recipe and appearance. A genuine Cornish pasty has a distinctive D shape with the pastry crimped on one side, never on top. It is filled with minced or roughly cut chunks of beef, swede or turnip, potato and onion."We believe it is not unreasonable to ask companies to honestly label their products so that the consumer is guaranteed a level of quality, recipe and origin when they purchase them," the CPA said.