One Shining Moment -- Would You Like Fries With That?
by srr50 on Apr 2, 2011 3:47 PM CDT
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PrintThis Final Four is the 25th anniversary of the CBS/NCAA Tournament tradition of a video highlight package at the end of the championship game, and CBS has announced that they are going back to the late Luther Vandross as the voice of "One Shining Moment".
Four versions of the have been used over the years: songwriter David Barrett, Teddy Pendergrass, Vandross, and last year Jennifer Hudson.
Luther Vandross was the voice of "One Shining Moment" from 2003-2009.
Somewhere Vandross no doubt is celebrating with a celestial "Luther Burger." What is a Luther Burger? It is a caloric mountain of grease that was one of the late singers' favorite snacks.
The Luther Burger consist of two Krispy Kreme doughnuts, 4 slices of bacon, two 1/4 pound beef patties.
The legend of the Luther Burger begins at Mulligan's Bar & Grill in Decatur, GA. The story goes that they ran out of buns one day and just started to use Krispy Kremes. One version of the story has Vandross suggesting the use of the doughnuts, and it was named after him. The burger is estimated to contain around 800 kilocalories -- or 3,300 calories. It will come as no surrpise that the burger has become a hit at State Fairs across the nation, including Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Indiana and Arizona. I have not stumbled upon one in Dallas, but then again, I haven't gone looking for this gastric wonder.
Luther Vandross suffered a stroke just a few days after his version of the highlight package debuted in 2003. He died of a heart attack in 2005, but his intitial performance of "One Shining Moment," will always be a reminder of a great moment in time for Longhorn basketball
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I’m not following the kilocalorie to calorie conversion. Otherwise, the luther burger sounds delicious.
by CZW on Apr 2, 2011 4:57 PM CDT reply actions
Yeah, I work in American units now, but I’m pretty sure i would have just moved the decimal over 3 times in college. Of course, since a bio or nutrition major probably would have come up with the system I wouldn’t be surprised if nutrition cals needed some stupid conversion to get to kcals
by ut-06 on Apr 2, 2011 8:05 PM CDT reply actions
1 cal in nutrition nomenclature = 1 kcal in thermodynamics nomenclature. If the Luther burger had a nutrition label it would just say 800 kcal. There are much wore burgers out there with regular buns, even turkey burgers. I say skip the erroneous conversion and eat up.
by burntorangejuice on Apr 3, 2011 7:37 AM CDT reply actions
Dammit. I meant the label would just say 800 cal. Not kcal.
by burntorangejuice on Apr 3, 2011 7:38 AM CDT reply actions
Isn’t McNamara still playing at Syracuse?
And yes, I fondly remember watching TJ.
by uthookem on Apr 3, 2011 10:48 AM CDT reply actions
Vandross had one of the best voices in our generation.
by Frozen Horn on Apr 3, 2011 7:19 PM CDT reply actions
3,300 calories?
100 per slice on the cheese, so 200
200 for the doughnut
100 for the bacon (2 slices)
That’s 500 calories, plus the meat. Ground chuck runs 100 calories an ounce, so… 28 ounces of burger on that thing? 1.75 pounds? No way.
by Uhmmm.... Doughnuts on Apr 6, 2011 7:12 AM CDT reply actions
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