That’s One Big Burger (11 lbs. to be exact…)
On January 12, 2005 Kate Stelnick, a 115 pound sophomore at the The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State) from the town of Princeton, completed her 96er in 2:54, making her the first person, male or female, to beat the time needed to claim the spoils of victory.
The 96 refers to the number of ounces of meat after cooking, apparently equivalent to 24 Quarter Pounders. Twelve slices of cheese, an onion, two tomatoes, half a head of lettuce, an inundation of condiments and a bun specially prepared by a local bakery increase the total mass to about eleven pounds. This represents about ten percent of the early childhood education major’s weight. When people speak of the “freshman 15″, the period for that approximate weight gain is generally considered to be the whole first year of college and not a single afternoon (and the time required to lose that increase is usually longer than the several days Kate needed to return to her original mass.