'Heart Attack Grill' fan has heart attack!

HTML5! · 13-02-2013 1:19pm #1

John Alleman, 52, collapsed at bus stop outside restaurant that sells burgers, fries and drinks with huge calorie counts

The mascot for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas has died of a heart attack. He was the second unpaid mascot to die in the past two years.
John Alleman, 52, collapsed while waiting at a bus stop in front of the diner last week. He was taken off life support on Monday, the Las Vegas Sun reported.

The diner is famous for its huge hamburgers, extra-fat milkshakes and fries cooked in lard. It uses the tagline: "Taste worth dying for."

Its owner, Jon Basso, told the Sun that Alleman came to the restaurant daily and encouraged passing tourists to try its calorie-laden offerings.
"He never missed a day, even on Christmas," Basso said. "People just loved him. He connected with people in a real way."

Alleman became an unofficial mascot for the restaurant, which features waitresses in nurse garb. His caricature as "Patient John" graced its merchandise and menus.

In 2011 another unofficial spokesman, a 260kg (575lb) man named Blair River, died at age 29 from what was said to have been pneumonia.

In 2012 a man in his 40s was hospitalised after he began sweating and shaking while eating a 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass burger at the restaurant.
The diner features tongue-in-cheek health warnings and casts customers as patients. Customers are given surgical gowns as they choose from a the high-calorie menu.

Basso said Alleman weighed about 82kg (180lb) at his death.

It amazes what people will do to their bodies. I mean, maybe go there once a week at most if you like it that much. Give yourself a fighting chance.

Disgusting behaviour in my opinion.

Edit: This quote from the Heart Attact Grill website: "Wow, I've gained 20 pounds in just two months. The Heart Attack Grill Diet really works!"

Micky Dolenz · 13-02-2013 1:21pm

Too young to go in fairness.RIP

Guy:Incognito · 13-02-2013 1:21pm

HTML5! wrote: »

It amazes what people will do to their bodies. I mean, maybe go there once a week at most if you like it that much. Give yourself a fighting chance.

Disgusting behaviour in my opinion.

Meh, people wander around smoking 40 cigarettes a day full in the knowledge that they are giving themselves cancer. At least this guy only killed himself and he wasn't even fat.

razorblunt · 13-02-2013 1:21pm

I kinda want one of those burgers now.

sbsquarepants · 13-02-2013 1:22pm

It's gluttony for sure, but fúck it - it's his funeral. Literaly.

mike65 · 13-02-2013 1:24pm

Monkey see, monkey do, monkey die

13-02-2013 1:25pm

Since I first heard about that place there's few places I'd rather go. Ages since I had chips fried in lard instead of crappy (and more unhealthy) vegetable oil.

13-02-2013 1:28pm

I love how they refer to some guy as an "unofficial spokesman", can we all call ourselves that? I'm an unofficial spokesman for lingerie models.

Where To · 13-02-2013 1:28pm

I looked at the menu once but said fcuk it, I'm here to enjoy myself not kill myself, went across to a bar, got pissed, fell down the stairs, fought with some homeless people and woke up in the morning in a dingy motel a seventy dollar cab ride from Vegas.

Should have went to the Heart Attack Grill.

Son Of A Vidic · 13-02-2013 1:29pm

Here are some sample menus from Heart Attack Grill..

http://omg.wthax.org/heart_attack_grill_menu1.png

http://omg.wthax.org/HAG_menu_001.jpg

I admire their honesty and it certainly beats the likes of McDonalds and their 'MacHealthy' bullshít.

seamus · 13-02-2013 1:33pm

"Butterfat shake"

"Add 4oz of whipped cream flavoured vodka".

Oh moses, how could you not give that a go at least once?

1ZRed · 13-02-2013 1:34pm

Died by the cause, that's dedication ladies and gents!

Lollipops23 · 13-02-2013 1:35pm

Bleaugh that menu makes me feel ill just looking at it!!

But still sad, too young to die

Turtyturd · 13-02-2013 1:35pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Here are some sample menus from Heart Attack Grill..

http://omg.wthax.org/heart_attack_grill_menu1.png

http://omg.wthax.org/HAG_menu_001.jpg

I admire their honesty and it certainly beats the likes of McDonalds and their 'MacHealthy' bullshít.

''Feeling Ghetto'....rather than die from a heart attack at the bus stop we will arrange for some local gangbangers to perform a drive by as you stand there waiting.'

13-02-2013 1:37pm

We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger.

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Yakult · 13-02-2013 1:39pm

Rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI

Drakares · 13-02-2013 1:40pm

'Merica.

HTML5! · 13-02-2013 1:40pm

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Meh, people wander around smoking 40 cigarettes a day full in the knowledge that they are giving themselves cancer. At least this guy only killed himself and he wasn't even fat.

It's more about having a diet that unhealthy as opposed to just being fat.

He was obviously fat on the inside though. His arteries must've been riddled with plaque with all this terrible food.

And the restaurant should be ashamed of themselves serving this. I mean, kids can go into places like this an order what they want.

slavetothegrind · 13-02-2013 1:40pm

bet the fries are nice, couldn't eat the rest of it though

BTW Mickey love the valentines avatar you're rocking!

Son Of A Vidic · 13-02-2013 1:41pm

Deleted User wrote: »

We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger.

I just came while reading that.

osarusan · 13-02-2013 1:45pm

My name is URL · 13-02-2013 1:52pm

There was a bit of controversy in that place last year some time. Apparently people eating at the restaurant believed that the women dressed as scantily clad nurses had actual medical experience. They're all required now to make it known that's not the case before taking orders :pac:

1ZRed · 13-02-2013 1:53pm

I'm sorry but I just have no sympathy for people do this to themselves knowing and seeing all of the consequences long before their eventual demise.

One guy was 260kg (573lbs) and died at just 29! Even so, he mustn't have had any life quality outside of eating and he put himself there slowly, it by bit.

It's like some heavy smokers I know, they have been told they need to take action and cut out the fags because they've had non just one, but two or three health scares because of them but they just refuse to. They just keep adding to the damage full, well knowing where it could put them sooner than they should.

It's sad that same people throw away their lives like that, but it was a gradual process and they could've tackled it much earlier but chose to go ahead with it anyway. The sympathy for them just isn't there for me.

1ZRed · 13-02-2013 1:55pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I just came while reading that.

I'll add those extra 23 calories to the total count so :pac:

anncoates · 13-02-2013 1:58pm

Aorta report some of these posts for showing such disrespect.

Rented Mule · 13-02-2013 1:59pm

I'm going to Las Vegas in April. I'll have to stop by and have a burger in his honour.

Beruthiel · 13-02-2013 2:00pm

He never missed a day, even on Christmas

I call that Darwinism.

CrazyRabbit · 13-02-2013 2:02pm

Deaths like this should be included in the 'Suicide' statistics.

castletownman · 13-02-2013 2:05pm

Seriously, I'd rather spend money on that sorta food when you know that your definitely going to be full after it than on over-priced food in some pretentious restaurant with tiny portions. Want not. Waste not.

Rabidlamb · 13-02-2013 2:07pm

He could have been pope . . . .

LittleBook · 13-02-2013 2:15pm

Alleman came to the restaurant daily and encouraged passing tourists to try its calorie-laden offerings. "He never missed a day, even on Christmas," Basso said. "People just loved him. He connected with people in a real way."

Alleman became an unofficial mascot for the restaurant, which features waitresses in nurse garb. His caricature as "Patient John" graced its merchandise and menus.

Basso said Alleman weighed about 82kg (180lb) at his death.

82kg isn't THAT fat, unless he was three foot tall or something.

He was probably just one of those intensely annoying dumb@sses who accost people outside restaurants and try to drag them in :mad:

13-02-2013 2:21pm

LittleBook wrote: »

82kg isn't THAT fat.........

It's under 13 stone, not fat at all if he was average height.
You can be grossly unhealthy and not obese

Guy:Incognito · 13-02-2013 2:36pm

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Deaths like this should be included in the 'Suicide' statistics.

Then so should smokers, drinkers, risk takers etc.

--Kaiser-- · 13-02-2013 2:37pm

I'm hungry now

--Kaiser-- · 13-02-2013 2:38pm

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Deaths like this should be included in the 'Suicide' statistics.

Why is that?

pabloh999 · 14-02-2013 12:24am

Sun reported.

The diner is famous for its huge hamburgers, extra-fat milkshakes and fries
cooked in lard.

This place doesnt seem too crazy

Burgers and chips
Im fairly sure chippers here use lard to cook the chips...hands up whose had chipper in the past week

Jarrod · 14-02-2013 12:48am

I wonder if they'll do the catering for his funeral. Good mourning burgers all round.

Galwayguy35 · 14-02-2013 1:07am

Saw a bit about this on the news, if people want to shovel that shíte into them let them off, they have only themselves to blame when they end up dead like the half ton 29 year old guy.