Dallas' Five Best Biggest Gut Busters

Dallas' Five ~~Best~~ Biggest Gut Busters

By Scott Reitz Tue., Jan. 8 2013 at 4:03 PM

Hope you brought your Pepto

Gut bombs frighten me. I have enough of a food handicap because of my line of work, but professions aside, I'm not so good with self control when it comes to eating. I've been known on more than one occasion to follow the Louis C.K. school of consumption mechanics: I don't stop when I'm full, I stop when the plate's clean, or I'm experiencing overwhelming pain.

Still, there's some appeal to mammoth dishes -- I think. They compel our inner desire to explore and conquer. They cater to our need to win.

Here are some of the "best" gut bombs served in and around Dallas. And by best, we mean biggest. Many of them taste like shit.

The Boomstick (pictured above)
Internet browsers from all over the country clicked the heck out of news stories when Rangers Ballpark announced the Boomstick. The two-foot-long link may have gotten more attention than Yu Darvish. It certainly got more attention than the Japanese pitcher's namesake hot dog.

The boomstick won this year's Best, "Are You Going to Finish That?" But don't stop eating now.

*****

Bring your friends

Snuffers Cheese Fries
I tried to go all Man Versus Food on this one and came up way short. A large order of cheddar fries at Snuffers could feed Octomom's whole family and still provide leftovers. In fact it's so big and nasty, we asked owner Pat Snuffer to help us calculate the calories of one of these plates for our Embracing Gluttony feature. His response? Why would I do that?

*****

LDD

Pecan Lodge's Hot Mess
What do you get when you pile everything at the disposal of a notable barbecue restaurant onto a potato the size of a football? Justin and Diane Fourton call the creation a hot mess. I call it caloric torture.

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Herrera's Mexican Restaurant

4024 Maple Ave., Dallas, TX

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Pecan Lodge

1010 S. Pearl Expressway, Dallas, TX

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Serious Pizza

2807 Elm St., Dallas, TX

Category: Restaurant

Snuffer's

3526 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX

Category: Restaurant

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gabe48

The fries at Off-Site Kitchen and Snuffers.......divine!

duderonome

Nothing wrong with this on occasion. It's when you do it all the time that it becomes a problem. I'm talking about Dallas Observer clickbait articles with pictures of snuffer's cheese fries or some tex-mex. Seems like every week you guys slap up another picture of the same old greasers, and call it news.

duderonome

therrick

Snuffers' cheese fries: one the most overrated foods in DFW.

Karen Husted

Yes, promote this poison, make it 'fun'. Hey! How's that diabetes and heart disease comin along?

Marc C. Socolov

Spoken like a true Addison-ite there, chief...

kergo1spaceship

@Marc C. Socolov

This coming from a guy with a self shot? Chief? Oh brother. And Facebook? Is this my granddad?

Jeffrey Curtiss

^ PHAT

Angelo Garcia

like we need more fat people in dallas .. smh

Myrna.Minkoff-Katz topcommenter

Disgusting! Fat slobs shoving mountains of greasy food down their gullets. It's sickening.

kergo1spaceship

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz

Jesus Criminy! WTF? Bring back the cats.

scott.reitz moderator editor

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz please bring back the fat cat, I'm scared.

Mervis

She harvested the foie-gras from that cat and it is no longer.

ChrisYu topcommenter

@Myrna.Minkoff-Katz don't be so harsh. i'm sure C of A writers can also be civilized when the occasion calls for it.

JaniceA

Nothing like a picture of a fat dude eating way too much food to whet the appetite

kergo1spaceship

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Ok, let's start off Sloooow!
When I go to Rangers games (or any other porting event) I go to watch sports, not eat. To capture the experience my hands MUST be free to hold beer, and clap-that's it! Eating at a game when people are spitting sunflowers seeds, puking, etc, is f+cking gross.........but, I am not a yuppie. Note: If you have an urge (like that fatass in the pic) to imbibe on hotdogs, stop at QT, and eat 20, dollar hot dogs-and guess what....save yourself money!
Special Note: Lat time I went to a Rangers game a guy tried to sell me "4-Way", and I thought why would I want to trip balls at a baseball game? You people have baseball wrong; please STAY home!
Snuffer's Cheese Fries.........God does love me!
Pecan Lodge Hot Mess-oy vey, that looks even better than the Snuffer's CF's!
Herrera's..........(slight crying and whimpering).......what is better than that? WHAT?
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OK, so I went hiking at Texoma the other day, and I noticed a sign driving up 75 that said Duck Dynasty is going to be at Choctaw Casino...........my question is, is it the whole band? And what type of music? It would be awesome if it were Techno Trash Rave Spinning Lights. I can just "pitture" the "deddy "with gloves with lights on them; following the tracers.
Side note: I hiked like 10 miles across rocks, prairies, pastures, brambles, "hard patches", etc. and I was frickin' whipped; and I'm sitting on the beach at Eisenhower contemplating taking a swim, when up rambles two GIGANTIC ladies in full snow gear! And I shit you not. There's me in just shorts and a tshirt, laying in the sand, looking up at two 300 pounders, replete with artic gloves, wool hats, waterproof jackets and goggles. Priceless.
Final note: Never wear your 3 year old's "Ladybug" headphones when you are flipping off two dudes in a old farm pickup. Said farm hands would not yield the Kerg's "rightness" to be speedy as hell in the left lane, so when I passed said farmers, I flipped them off-and they both proceeded to point, and LAUGH at me.