# Most caloric food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743 "2003-01-15T15:13:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mith)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743/41 "2003-01-17T12:11:11Z")

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Do you want to gain weight…  
Or do you want to gain mass and be heatlhy?

Adding globs of fat around your upper body can be risky.  
If you just want to gain mass, weight lift and eat regularly from a WIDE variety of foods.

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**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743/42 "2003-01-17T13:09:03Z")

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Nobody beats [The King](http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s689019.htm).

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> With Elvis, you can forget about your average 1,500 to 1,800 calories per day, or even the 5,500 calories per day of your average Antarctic explorer. Before he died, Elvis was eating about 100,000 calories per day! That’s more than enough to keep your average multi-tonne Asian elephant alive - or, enough to keep you or me alive for nearly 60 days!
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> The basic element of Elvis’ daily food intake was a 30-cm long bread roll, stuffed with bacon, peanut butter and strawberry jam. Each one had 42,000 calories, and in his final days, he ate two of them per day, together with little midnight snacks of hamburgers and deep-fried white bread.

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**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743/43 "2003-01-17T13:50:07Z")

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I can’t imagine just eating nice, fatty things to gain weight would be the best idea…

Avocado has something like 400-500 calories per fruit, and is packed full of nutrients.

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**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-caloric-food/148743/44 "2003-01-17T13:56:56Z")

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Also, check out [http://www.fitday.com](http://www.fitday.com) - they have nutritional values of almost any food you can imagine.

Another thing I just thought of - Hungry Man brand pot pies. According to fitday, they have 976 calories each (!!). High in saturated fat, but also nice and high in protein and a decent amount of nutrients.

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