How Many Calories Are Actually In 12 Extravagant Movie And TV Dishes

Breakdown of the Cake: • Semisweet chocolate (16 ounces) - 2,177 calories • 3 sticks of butter - 2,430 calories • 2 cups and four tablespoons of sugar - 1,738 calories • 12 eggs - 936 calories • ½ cup all-purpose flour - 227 calories Breakdown of the Icing: • 16 ounces semisweet chocolate - 2,177 calories • 16 ounces of heavy cream - 1,648 calories • Cook’s blood and sweat - 5 calories Vicious sneak-thief Bruce Bogtrotter is forced to consume an entire 18-inch cake in front of the whole school as punishment for sneaking a slice from Miss Agatha Trunchbull’s personal stash. The 1996 movie was an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel and, very conveniently for this list, gave a recipe for the infamous cake in Revolting Recipes. It's for a mere 9-inch cake, half the size of Bruce’s gargantuan feast. So, all we have to do is double it. The final ingredient is a little harder to define, as no definitive measure of “cook's sweat and blood” is given. We hope it's just a figure of speech, but it would be in character, so we'll base it on the actual caloric content of blood, which is actually hardly anything. Even five calories is seriously pushing it. At more than 11,000 calories total, this mighty cake would stretch even the hardiest competitive eater to the breaking point.

Who hasn’t secretly dreamt of waking up one Sunday morning to find John Candy has made a stack of gigantic pancakes in your kitchen? Just one of them would be a challenge to finish. If we take the snow shovel used to flip the flapjacks to be a typical 18-inch model, the approximate diameter of the Candy cakes is a few inches greater, probably about 24 inches. We can see the batter brand used is Aunt Jemima (now Pearl Milling Company), so working out the calories is just a matter of scale. Not including the syrup, a 4-inch pancake prepared as instructed (with egg and oil) comes to 95 calories. A pancake six times larger works out at 570 calories. Of course, that doesn’t include syrup or butter. There looks to be about a pound of butter (3,200 calories) topping two cups of maple syrup (1,700 calories) for the whole stack, which appears to be 10. If evenly applied, that’s about 1,000 calories apiece. Most of us would probably tap out after one.

“It’s roughly the size of a two-year-old child if the child were liquified. It’s a real bargain at $1.59. So, the calorie count of the biggest Big Gulp really depends on what you put in it. For a cola, that's just under 6,000 calories. For an actual liquified 2-year-old weighing about 25 pounds, you're looking at around 20,000 calories - and trying to find out that information will almost certainly put you on a watch list.

Bobby beat the Panhandler Steakhouse’s Challenge: eating 72 ounces of top sirloin in less than one hour. And he had it rare.

Breakdown of the Dough: • 4 cups flour - 1,820 calories • 4 eggs - 312 calories • 3 tablespoons olive oil - 357 calories Breakdown of the Filling: • 4 cups Genoa salami - 1,472 calories • 4 cups sharp provolone cheese chunks - 1,852 calories • 12 hard-cooked eggs - 936 calories • 4 cups small meatballs - 1,132 calories • 7 ½ cups Tucci Ragù sauce - 2,820 calories • 3 pounds ziti - 3,198 calories • 2 tablespoons olive oil - 238 calories • 1 cup finely grated pecorino Romano - 431 calories • 6 large eggs, beaten - 468 calories “This is so f*king good I should kill you." - One patron's verdict sums up the experience of this veritable mountain of Italian food. Based on the actual recipe provided by co-star, writer, and director Stanley Tucci, you probably wouldn't survive if you tried to finish the whole shebang in one go.

Breakdown: • An entire bag of caramels - 1,170 calories • A generous helping of liquid waffle batter - 690 calories • Most of a bottle of liquid smoke - 675 calories • A whole stick of butter - 810 calories Mmm… fattening.

Breakdown: • A full pound of ground beef - 1,506 calories • 6 slices of American cheese - 624 calories • grilled onion - 44 calories • 5 strips of bacon - 215 calories • 2 Krispy Kreme donuts - 380 calories According to Robert Jebediah "Granddad" Freeman, the ultra-indulgent Luther Burger was invented by Luther Vandross himself. We'd likely have a similar reaction as Granddad's grandson Riley (immediate food coma) if we ever actually tried to eat one - but it would probably still be worth it.

Breakdown: • 1 ½ pounds of ground beef (grilled) - 2,259 • ½ pound ground beef (deep-fried) 665 calories • 3 burger buns - 420 calories • 3 slices of American cheese - 312 calories • 3 tablespoons of Himalayan ketchup - 60 calories You’d have to be a chump to miss out on this indulgent burger. Exactly how much ground beef goes into three burgers plus one mega-burger? Based on real-life attempts to make the Ultimeatum - about 2 pounds. A quarter of that is deep-fried, so that’ll up the calories a bit. As for the Himalayan ketchup, it’s probably akin to regular ketchup, but with some added spices that won’t really add to the calorie count. At almost 4,000 calories, this would best be a treat enjoyed occasionally - about once a century.

Breakdown: • Loaf of Italian bread (hollowed out) - 900 calories (1,229 for the whole thing) • Butter coating - 300 calories (c. 3 tablespoons) • An entire jar of peanut butter - 3,125 calories • An entire jar of jam - 900 calories • 1 pound of crispy bacon - 2,077 calories The Fool's Gold loaf is supposed to serve eight to 10 people, so eating the whole thing alone is probably inadvisable.

Breakdown: • ½ cup maple syrup - 410 calories • ½ cup chocolate sauce - 419 calories • 1 cup spaghetti - 221 calories • A handful of M&Ms - 240 calories • 1 cup marshmallows - 160 calories • 2 crushed chocolate Pop-Tarts - 400 calories Going just by what’s visible on-screen, Buddy’s spaghetti breakfast is not for the faint of heart. You might be surprised by how few calories are in this sugary concoction - at least compared with some other items on this list. A fair bit of the plate is taken up by spaghetti and marshmallows, neither of which is all that caloric. Still, your dentist wouldn’t be happy if you tried to make this one at home.

Breakdown: • Human liver - 2,569 calories • Fava Beans (1 cup) - 111 calories • Chianti (1 glass) - 87 calories Given that the average male liver tips the scales at around 3 pounds, the good doctor would have his work cut out eating the whole thing in one sitting. While such a gory feast is entirely in character, the anecdote might actually just be a gruesome joke. If Hannibal Lecter was prescribed monoamine oxidase inhibitors as part of his psychiatric treatment, three foods he shouldn't have are - you've guessed it - organ meat, beans, and wine.

What better way to cap off a banquet of snake surprise, grilled beetles, and eyeball stew than a generous helping of chilled monkey brains? The gross feast in Indiana Jones is an example of a screenwriting trick sometimes called “Pope in the Pool”- the audience is given something interesting to look at while the plot of the movie is explained. The actual “monkey brains” were just custard in raspberry sauce. A real primate’s noodle would be a lot less appetizing and a bit more caloric. If the primates seen are macaques, or at least similar in size, then their brains are about five times smaller than a human’s. A reasonable estimate would be a little more than 500 calories.