Eat to die, Las Vegas style

When wise men say, ‘eat to live’, pay heed to it, man! If not, you may give up the ghost. That was what exactly happened when 52-year-old John Alleman fell dead outside an eatery.

The unofficial spokesman of an American restaurant - The Heart Attack Grill's – with a slogan "Taste Worth Dying For", had to prove the restaurant management right. Alleman, who dined at the infamous Las Vegas restaurant so often that he became its mascot, was waiting for a bus outside the eatery when he collapsed.

According to www.news.com.au, The Heart Attack Grill gained worldwide notoriety for its high-calorie menu which included the record-breaking 9,982-calorie, 3-pound Quadruple Bypass Burger.

It employs waitresses dressed as sexy nurses who "prescribe great-tasting, high-calorie meals including the Double Bypass Burger, Flatliner Fries, Full Sugar Coke, Butterfat Shake and no-filter cigarettes!"

Mr Alleman was "prescribed" so many burgers - often teamed with cream-laden milkshakes topped with a dollop of butter - that he was nicknamed "Patient John".

Restaurant owner Jon Basso was quoted as saying: "He never missed a day, even on Christmas. He lived, ate and breathed the Heart Attack Grill."

The reports say that Alleman was not the first Heart Attack Grill customer/mascot to succumb to an early death. In 2011, another loyal customer, the 260kg Blair River, died of flu-related pneumonia. Shortly after Mr River's death, a man had a heart attack in the restaurant prompting customers to laugh and take pictures of what they though was a publicity stunt. And in April last year, a woman in her 40s collapsed eating a double bypass burger, smoking cigarettes and having a margarita.