most calorific single food item ?

Binners full fat thread gets me thinking every week, what is the most calorific single food item ?

out of curiosity rather than greed.

Lard.

Is that by volume, or by mass, or just the most you could eat before being violently sick and throwing up in front of your in-laws in order to prove a point to your wife?

For calories per gram of something you’d actually eat pork scratchings are up there.

But if we’re talking ‘it’s edible and on one container therefore it’s a single did item’ then the biggest tub of butter you can find will possibly be the winner.

I think they lug butter with them when they walk across the Poles just for it’s best bang for buck in terms of calories / weight / mass.

* it probably won’t be spreadable on toast though.

Lard followed by alcohol I think though I might be wrong, I normally am.

I believe marzipan is the high calorie snack de jour of the ultra distance set. Palatable as well.

Gee (butter with the water and protein cooked out) would be the most per gram? Close run thing against lard/dripping I’d guess though.

Something actually edible I’d guess chocolate or icecream? Anything sweeter gets sickly, anything more savoury (pork pies) gets heavy?

On an absolute how many calories could I eat in a sitting, Costco pizza?

Olive oil and avocado.

Some burgers are ridiculous amounts of calories.  Up to around a 1000 IIRC

Nuts take some beating for calorific density. 650/100 grams for walnuts or 720/100g for macadamias vs 550/100g for chocolate

walk across the Poles

Old skool was Pemmican

I was going to say surely burgers are right up there. Just had a look and a Maccy D’s double quarter pounder is 769 calories

Some burgers are ridiculous amounts of calories. Up to around a 1000 IIRC

What are you on a diet?

In Honor of National Burger Day, Meet the 20,000-Calorie Hamburger

“The burger weighs in at 19,900 calories.”

Some burgers are ridiculous amounts of calories. Up to around a 1000 IIRC

Yep, I looked up a regular burger meal once (nothing massive) and all in it was over 1000 Calories (with a diet drink).

I was going to say surely burgers are right up there. Just had a look and a Maccy D’s double quarter pounder is 769 calories

and another 500 for a portion of fries…

Burger in batter or deep fried pizza?

My mate drives for Maccy D’s. When they put the breakfast wraps on the menu, they were christened ‘heart attack wraps’ as a lot of the drivers had started eating them on their rounds and they’d had a wave of coronaries

605 calories…

I do love a double sausage and egg McMuffin though at a mere 550 calories 😃

Aren’t Burgers and fries that calorific cos of all the beef dripping content?

I can’t tell you “what”, but I can confidently tell you “where” it would be located:

AMERICA.

I can eat an unhealthy amount of fudge in one go. But give me a bar of Scottish Tablet and I can go all Homer Simpson.

Sugar, butter, condensed milk. This surely has to be up there.

Aren’t Burgers and fries that calorific cos of all the beef dripping content?

Pretty sure all the major chains use vegetable oil for their fries – beef dripping has a very distinct smell and you notice it as soon as you walk past somewhere using it. Normally up North in the bad lands…

I’m going to offer up a deep fried creme egg.

Normally up North in the bad lands…

Our local chippy (East Lancs) makes a big thing of the fact that the chips are cooked in beef dripping. They’re bloody good too!

I’m going to offer up a deep fried creme egg.

Fried in beef dripping…

The bloody place is a licence to print money. It’s always rammed, so they’re obviously doing something right

What are you on a diet?

My body is a temple

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..To Bacchus 🙂

Mmm no one’s mentioned that old favourite Kendal mint cake.

Never thought about marzipan as a sports food but makes a lot of sense.

I’m sure I’ve had Kendal mint cake with choc coating but I do love choccy covered marzipan.

Them big, square flapjacks you buy from shops are horrific, especially as you’ll eat them as a snack between meals. Nearly 500 kcal each.

https://www.blackfriarsbakery.co.uk/flapjacks/original-flapjack/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw6IiiBhAOEiwALNqncRSJyAZ6FngoZgkFGVw5ke75y95gmcL-wJ4LLfoO3mfpmbeUED1oyRoC_XMQAvD_BwE

+100 for chips cooked in beef dripping, I used to have a local in Bristol , Farrows in kingswood who did it yonks ago I’m not sure it’s as common down south ,and they were definitely way better than the usual chips.

Butteries/Rowies for Grampian or Moray. Flour, butter, lard and salt 🙂 bloody great when toasted with extra butter on top!

Fudge has to be in the running, no?

my local chippy has a sign up declaring ‘ we only cook in dripping ‘.

they are very nice, sadly limited to once a month in our house.

BigJohn
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I can eat an unhealthy amount of fudge in one go. But give me a bar of Scottish Tablet and I can go all Homer Simpson.

Sugar, butter, condensed milk. This surely has to be up there.

I had a couple of bars of my granny’s secret recipe tablet it my top tube bag for Ironman – I swear she managed to get half a kilo of sugar in every 30g bar!

Fudge – 440 kcal/100g. About the same as my flapjack.

Kendal mint cake 379kcal/100g.

Honey roasted peanuts / cashews.
I remember being shockd at how many calories were in a bag.
That I’d just scoffed.
Whoops.

Just checked and honey roasted peanuts (HPR) allegedly contain 561 calories per 100g.
Butter is 717 per 100g. I reckon HRP are far nicer. (Not for taost / sarnies etc obv).

Pringles are 525 per 100g. Still easier to eat 100g of HRP than Pringles though.

Si

Doritos have got to be well up there. 1200kcal for 180g.

On my recent holiday to Scotland I enjoyed a battered pizza. Probably not as high as many mentioned, but I could feel my arteries clogging as I munched through it 🙂

double quarter pounder

wait, is that really how McD label it? A Double… Quarter…

It is. Apart from in France. You know what they call it in France…?

wait, is that really how McD label it? A Double… Quarter…

Americans in not too bright shocker…

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

If they called it a half pounder they’d think it was smaller.

Granted, “Third-of-a-Pound Burger” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But CBC reported the burger flopped for a different reason. More than half of the people surveyed about why they didn’t buy the burger, which cost the same as the Quarter Pounder, said it was because they were being charged the same price for a smaller burger.