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* Downplayed on Joshua Weissman's "...but Better!" series has him do this with a reverse-engineered Big Mac, which manages to stand many times taller than it's namesake despite still only being a double-decker sandwich, simply by virtue of being made with wholesome store-bought ingedients, such as home-made buns.
* ''Feast of Fiction'' [[{{Defictionalization}} made the Utimeatum]] from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow;'' a burger inside a giant meatball with regular-sized burgers as buns. It's predictably honking big.

* Downplayed on Joshua Weissman's "...but Better!" series has him do this with a reverse-engineered Big Mac, which manages to stand taller than it's namesake despite still only being a double-decker sandwich, simply by virtue of being made with wholesome store-bought ingedients. He also did a philly cheesesteak sub (in another feature, titled "...at Home!," that's about the size of a baby.
* ''Feast of Fiction'' [[{{Defictionalization made the Utimeatum]] from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow;'' a burger inside a giant meatball with regular-sized burgers as buns. It's predictably honking big.

* ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'': Babish actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hi6A5MPVY attempted]] Bubble Bass's infamous "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E6MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyPickles Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a Raft]]". However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the twenty-four patty tower collapses under its own weight]], forcing the sandwich to be rebuilt as six [=4x4=] burgers

* One ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'' gag had the eponymous pre-teen and his friends eat at a fast food restaurant selling such sandwiches. Titeuf's friends eat their sandwiches one layer at a time, but Titeuf takes up the challenge of taking a full bite in it. He ends up projecting the sandwich's content on one of his friends when trying to bite.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'' gag had the eponymous pre-teen and his friends eat at a fast food restaurant selling such sandwiches. Titeuf's friends eat their sandwiches one layer at a time, but Titeuf takes the challenge of taking a full bite in it. He ends up projecting the sandwich's content on one of his friends when trying to bite.

* In one episode of the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Emily Elizabeth tells Clifford the story about how a dog named Speckle made this type of sandwich out of pumpernickel bread, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, etc. But SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs in that he can't fit it into his mouth, so he shares it with his friends.

** WebVideo/BingingWithBabish ''tried'' to make the order, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome but found it was unstable and pretty much impossible to build without falling apart]].

* ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'': Babish actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hi6A5MPVY attempted]] Bubble Bass's infamous "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E6MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyPickles Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a Raft]]". However, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and the twenty-four patty tower collapses under its own weight, forcing the sandwich to be rebuilt as six [=4x4=] burgers

* ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'': Babish actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hi6A5MPVY attempted]] Bubble Bass's infamous "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E6MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyPickles Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a Raft]]". However, RealityEnsues and the twenty-four patty tower collapses under its own weight, forcing the sandwich to be rebuilt as six [=4x4=] burgers

** WebVideo/BingingWithBabish ''tried'' to make the order, [[RealityEnsues but found it was unstable and pretty much impossible to build without falling apart]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LesSisters'': Marine once makes one of these. RealityEnsues and she finds herself unable to fit it in her mouth.

* In one episode of the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Emily Elizabeth tells Clifford the story about how a dog named Speckle made this type of sandwich out of pumpernickel bread, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, etc. But RealityEnsues in that he can't fit it into his mouth, so he shares it with his friends.

** Jake makes one, which he calls his "perfect sandwich", topped with romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cream cheese, hardboiled eggs, sweet yellow onions (organic), pickles "from my boy Prismo", dill, meat cooked sous-vide, bacon, a bird from the window, Jake's own tears for salt and the soul of a boiled lobster.

You know, those ludicrously tall sandwiches that a BigEater makes. Often in WesternAnimation a common gag will be for a character to distend his jaw like a snake and swallow it whole, only for it to expand and leave his neck in the [[DinnerDeformation shape of the towering sandwich]]. Another possibility is for a character to take two or more already made sandwiches and 'shuffle' them together like a deck of cards, creating this.

* Arby’s has an off-menu sandwich known as the Meat Mountain. It comes every single meat the restaurant offers in one sandwich, along with two different types of cheese.

* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'': Denmark's [[http://satwcomic.com/tall-food-is-good-food smørrebrød]]. Humon notes, however, that what's ''in'' the sandwich is just as important as how tall the sandwich ''is''; America's hamburgers are a level of filling comparable to smørrebrød, and an American meal for one can comfortably feed two Scandinavians.

* Dagwood Bumstead of ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' is the TropeNamer, although Dagwood originally created a ridiculously long sandwich rather than a ridiculously tall one by using a long loaf often called a French Loaf. Later, he began to build tall sandwiches as well. The term has entered the English language, as per the [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Dagwoodsandwich.html Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]]. He was once shown using a hand drill to take out the center of one of these... and then inserting a frankfurter into the center as a dowel.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Medic is seen gifting the Heavy one in a [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:HolidaySandvich.jpg promotional Christmas card]].

* In an early ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon, Bluto orders a half-dozen sandwiches in Popeye and Olive's diner (not intending to pay.) Olive shuffles ham and bread like cards and deals them out - Bluto gives the stack a toss and gobbles them all down at once like a hungry dog. Just to give an idea of how early that cartoon was, Popeye and Olive actually believed Wimpy would gladly pay them next Tuesday for that hamburger and the pickles he ate.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "fan club" has a gag where Strong Bad walks past a door carrying a subway sandwich that just keeps going and going for about six feet, until the other end comes into view being held up by The Cheat (who [[OffscreenTeleportation had previously been sitting in on the meeting of the Deleteheads]]).

* Played for Laughs in ''ComicBook/AlanFord'', where former Nazi Doktor Kreuzer makes a sandwich so full of ingredients they promptly pop out of the slices when he tries to bite it. Then this happens over his console, which causes him to push a button that accidentally turns his boss in a HumanPopsicle, while trying to recover the ingredients.

* Franchise/ScoobyDoo and Shaggy both enjoy these (but don't confuse this trope with ScoobyStack). In many of the newer cartoons, however, these sandwiches never contain meat, since voice actor Casey Kasem (who did Shaggy) became a vegetarian and insisted that all his characters eat vegetarian, too. (Although it wouldn't be terribly out-of-character for Shaggy anyway. In early cartoons he would eat hamburgers, tacos, and pretty much anything else, meat or veggie.) Interestingly, Kasem's favorite kind of sandwich is apparently ''eggplant''.

** A memorable issue of ''Fantastic Four Adventures'' involved the Inhumans' giant teleporting dog Lockjaw stealing a cartoonishly enormous sandwich of Ben's, then getting indigestion and uncontrollably teleporting the team to random locations all over the world for the rest of the issue until his tummy felt better.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the Big Bang Burger challenges which pit your character versus an increasingly improbably-sized burger. The first one resembles one of the real life examples below, and it just goes from there. Morgana comments on how just watching you eat makes him feel full.

* A food item (called "Dire Sandwich") in ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'.