Taking Burgers to the Next Level

Even burgers aren't simple anymore. 

Toppings have gone wild. Malewail.com has a list of eight crazy burgers, including the Voodoo Burger from Portland, OR's The Original. It's topped with cheddar cheese and served on a sliced glazed donut instead of a bun. 

Womansday.com has a story on creative burger creations, like the mushroom-shaped vegetarian Super-Mario burger;  the West Michigan Whitecaps' 4-pound, 4,800-calorie Fifth Third Burger and Wisconsin's own dairy-laden butter burgers. 

In the race to set burgers apart, some are going high-end. Over the past few years, stories have popped up about burgers with three- and four-figure price tags, and it seems like someone is always trying to one-up the last price tage. 

The folks at NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me sampled a $777 hamburger in Las Vegas.

And at the top of the price list, the $5,000 FleurBurger. But what are you really paying for? It's a fancy burger made from kobe beef and truffles, but is served with a bottle of 1995 Petrus, and the restaurant shps a pair of Italian wine glasses to diners' homes after the meal.