Would you like fries with that? Restaurant creates 'pizzaburger' hybrid containing 1,360 calories

Some would say it's the inevitable merging of two of the greatest foods ever created.

The 'pizzaburger' is a new mega-calorific meal which features a bacon cheeseburger wrapped in a pepperoni pizza.

The 'frankenburger' concept contains a whopping 1,360 calories - over half the daily allowance for men - and is garnished with lettuce, pickle and tomato.

Launched by Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar, the monster snack also contains 2,000 milligrams of sodium - and its owners are under no illusions about the healthiness of the pizzaburger.

Brad Bevill, vice president of marketing for the chain, told USA Today: 'We're not pretending that it's a healthy product.

'You're talking about a hamburger and pizza wrapped together.'

The burger is cooked in a pizza pan along with an uncooked pizza, before being wrapped in the pizza and cooked in the oven.

The calorific food sells for $10.29 at Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar. It also comes in another variety, the 'Five Cheese' pizzaburger.

A spokesperson added: 'They wanted to do something fun and creative, and asked "what if the pizza and the burger had a baby?"'