{"id":1094,"date":"2009-09-09T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:51:52","slug":"sumo-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Sumo McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/megamacsign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakfast of Champions!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Picture this: You&#8217;re a sumo wrestler, in the throes of a mighty Mega Mac Attack. You hunger for the succulent taste of a McDonald&#8217;s hamburger&#8230; but all the seats and booths at your local restaurant are too small to support your excessive girth. What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you live in Ryogoku, Tokyo, you&#8217;re in luck. The local McDonald&#8217;s has just installed special sumo seats for its plus-sized clients. Now Japan&#8217;s most powerful and respected athletes can have a burger with the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mrt0909061757001-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"371\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mrt0909061757001-p5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mrt0909061757001-p4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mrt0909061757001-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mrt0909061757001-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given that Japenese McDonald&#8217;s offers a wide variety of giant-sized burgers (including the famous Mega Tamago, pictured below), it should come as no suprise that sumo wrestlers enjoy eating there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d199\/Darth_Xor\/mega_tamago_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"536\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanator.com\/sumo-wrestlers-get-custom-double-wide-seat-at-mcdonald-s-11321.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Japanator<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/photos\/sports\/martialarts\/090906\/mrt0909061757001-p4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: You&#8217;re a sumo wrestler, in the throes of a mighty Mega Mac Attack. You hunger for the succulent taste of a McDonald&#8217;s hamburger&#8230; but all the seats and booths at your local restaurant are too small to support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=1094\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[364,74,363,365,368,369,367,2193,366,220],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-culture","tag-big-mac","tag-japanator","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mega-mac","tag-mega-tamago","tag-msn-japan","tag-ryogoku","tag-ryoko","tag-sumo","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}