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TIME reporter Claire Suddath and friends check out how some of the new fast food mega-meal calorie bombs rank in flavor_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:05 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Study: Fast Food Calorie Content Has Steadily Increased Over the Past 30 Years](/video/VlOV7qcC/) ### Study: Fast Food Calorie Content Has Steadily Increased Over the Past 30 Years [Know Right Now: High Rates of Fast Food Consumption](/video/CEIFuLOb/) ### Know Right Now: High Rates of Fast Food Consumption [Fast Food Workers To Strike Again](/video/AliaB4Gj/) ### Fast Food Workers To Strike Again --- ## Transcript >> I'm Claire Suddath for TIME. com and today we are going to be eating what one might call over- sized, creative hamburger. With me, I've got Tyler and John. They are two very hungry individuals. I got to start with the [ unk ], which is only in New York, flipped from the shake- shack which is a little [ unk ]. It is cheeseburger with [ unk ] and with a portobella mushroom burger on top of the cheeseburger. It's very cheesy. >> I like the mushrooms, it's very thin. >> There it goes. >> Any flavors that really-- that you've drawn out. >> Deliciousness. >> Yeah. >> It's what I'm saying. >> Uh- hmm. Let's do the double- down. >> Oh, boy. KFC Double- down seems to be two pieces of chicken. That's the bread >> Right. >> And then in the center you have bacon, cheese and that's it. >> It's not really-- >> Seems like it's almost too much chicken. >> It's lots of chicken and the spices and the breading. So let's [ unk ] burger. I'm gonna let you to go first. Are you ready? >> Yeah. >> I love this one too. >> Okay, much more manageable. This is what I'm nervous about. >> Would you same right chop that thing already? >> Really, it's kinda lame. >> What are you talking about? >> What? [ unk ] delicious. >> What do you like about that? >> It's got a combination of so many different things, the doughnut and the meat, it's sweet and savory at the same time. >> And cheese. >> I like to keep my sweet and savory, you know, same distance from each other. >> False. The other day I saw you dip a steak in your milkshake and then eat it. -[ unk ] open now at Burger King cheeseburger, which is the equivalent of almost four [ unk ]. -[ unk ]. >> Are you really sure you'd be like that. So, overall consensus, nine out of ten, I like the four out of ten. 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