Country music star Toby Keith unveiled the biggest burger in Las Vegas on last month, but truth be told, his Oklahoma heart belongs to baloney. Keith's co-star at a media event at Harrah's to promote his I Love This Bar and Grill was a 90-pound cheeseburger shaped like a guitar.

But when asked about his favorite menu item, the country star acknowledged that he nudged Harrah's chef into adding a down-home favorite. Keith said he told the chef, "We got to have something that's really out of the ordinary that's really, really country ass" -- a fried baloney sandwich. The chef cringed, Keith said, but added it to the menu.

Shortly after the soft opening a few weeks ago, Keith checked in and got the news: the baloney sandwich was a No. 1 hit.

Keith vowed it would be quality food, and that it was. The baloney sandwich, to my surprise, is a winner, and you'll go ga-ga over the strawberry shortcake and sweet potato pecan pie. "I know when you do these theme kind of things, everything's there but the food," Keith said. "The food (usually) sucks. I told these guys going in I do not want to put up with that. I don't want to be at some football game or a Super Bowl and have somebody say, 'Hey, your steak sucks.' "

By the way, that megaburger would feed a lot of troops:
The ground beef "patty" weighed in at 35 pounds and was sandwiched between an eight-pound burger bun filled with 10 pounds of shredded lettuce, 12 pounds of sliced tomatoes, 10 pounds of sliced onions, six pounds of sliced pickles, eight pounds of American (of course) cheese and three quarts of mayonnaise. from Las Vegas Review-Journal

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