One Crazily Caloric Burger

Step aside, batter-dipped fried Mars Bar, and stand down, deep fried peanut butter sandwich. Death By Chocolate, you never even had a chance. There’s a new caloric kid on the block: the Craz-E Burger, a bacon cheeseburger with a buttered, grilled glazed doughnut for a bun.

The burger – all 1,500 calories of sugar and saturated fat – was a huge hit at the Big E Massachusetts fair, which ended this week. Visitors bought some 1,000 Craz-E burgers each day of the fair’s 17-day run, according to the New York Daily News.

The fair's Web site described it as "classic fair food" but noted: "No single ingredient dominates the burger. They all complement each other with artistry expected from a celebrity chef."

It gushed: "The glaze smooths over the burger and oozes into a foreign but delicious combination with the crisp of the bacon."

The burger apparently was invented in Decatur, Ga, in 2005 when a creative bar owner ran out of burger buns.

The Gateway Grizzlies, a minor league baseball team in Illinois, has improved its attendance by serving the burger at games – with a side of extra calories, in the name of deep-frying the Krispy Kreme doughnut used as the bun.

Take that, healthy eating police!

Photo courtesy ccaviness via Flickr.