Burger Buds

For those of you who have known me for a few years, you are probably aware of the group known as the "Burger Buds". My senior year as an undergrad, my friend Zach decided to do a documentary for his final thesis project...a documentary on a giant cheeseburger. You see, in my hometown of Clinton, NJ there is a diner (The Clinton Station Diner) which boasts the nation's largest burgers. In the past, they have garnered media attention from across the world for crafting these absolutely disgustingly big burgers. I believe their latest creation was around 200-250 lbs., a burger they fed to a Japanese eating team that devoured the thing like it was a slider. Skinny Japanese people + HUGE Amounts of food= Quality entertainment.



Anyways, Zach wanted to do a documentary on their 50 lb. burger (The Mount Olympus Burger) but needed a group of individuals to actually try and eat the damn thing on camera. Enter his friends Ian, Kevin, Nick, Eugene and myself. For you see, if a group of 5 can eat the burger in under 2 hours (maybe it was 1?) then the whole group gets $1000. This of course is almost humanly impossible. 10 lb's per person in one sitting, of which 5 of those pounds is ground beef. Hellllllo stomach pump. We knew we were going to fail going in but we wanted to make the documentary as hilarious as possible in the process. Zach set up training shoots, weigh ins, a cheesy 80's styled exercise training montage and interviews with loved ones of the participants on top of footage of the actual burger challenge. Simply put, this documentary was fully loaded.

After the dust had cleared and we had all sworn off burgers for life, Kevin ( a very fine tattoo artist) started talking about a "Burger Buds" tattoo design. The day we have all been waiting for has finally arrived, look below to see the absolute MAJESTY of the Burger Buds Tattoo:




It brings a tear to my eye just looking at the beauty.