The other decadent dining experience I'd like to try is gathering two buddies -- maybe Squeeze and Smiles -- and heading to the Silver Spur Texas Smokehouse BBQ, 13275 Watertown Plank Rd., in Elm Grove, and try to take on the "BBQ Feed Bag." The menu says it feeds four to five people. For $59.95, they'll bring you a slab of ribs, a whole BBQ chicken, a pound of brisket along with cole slaw, potato salad, ranch beans, fries and corn muffins.

Bring it on, I say. Let's get decadent.

Maureen Post
Staff writer
Koppa's Fulbeli Deli's Fluffernutter and Whoopie Pie
Koppa's Fluffernutter and Whoopie Pie aren't particularly large, but they're definitely decadent. Each combining thick cakey bread and a heavy dose of whipped sugar, it's a fight to order both, finish them off and forgo the inevitable stomachache an hour later.

The Fluffernutter, simple as it is, has a great name. Classic Wonder class white bread sandwiching a thick layer of peanut butter and spreadable marshmallow fluff, this sandwich balances somewhere between being a meal and being a dessert.

Likewise, the Whoopie Pie wedges inches of vanilla creme frosting between two Devil's Food cake cookies. Decadently delicious and easy on your pocketbook (99 cents each), I'd argue this is Milwaukee's cheapest taste of gluttony.

Amy Schubert
Food writer
Motor's Big Breakfast, Zaffiro's pizza and Hooligan's Hooliburger
This one's hard for me since I've been known to eat my body weight in both sushi and pizza, and on a good night, Scott and I have actually polished off one small pagoda at Izumi's just the two of us-so, Molly, you probably don't want us to be your guests.

My favorite three then have to be:

The Big Breakfast at Motor, which has the most amazing pancakes I've ever had in my life, paired with two eggs and some crispy slabs of applewood bacon. Experimenting in our kitchen, we still can't figure out how they get the flapjacks to be both crunchy and amazingly fluffy. This is one of those dishes you could probably share with a family of four. A beefy Mary on the side, and I'm in heaven, and don't have to eat for the remainder of the day.

Next up is a large Italian salad and large pepperoni, sausage, mushroom and onion pie from Zaffiro's, in their original location, with a Bud Light chaser. We've made an annual tradition of polishing one of these paper-thin pizzas off the day after Thanksgiving. And it usually lasts us the full year before we get a hankering to stuff ourselves like the T-day bird.

Lastly, I only eat one maybe once every five years, but little is more decadent (and messy) than the Hooliburger at Hooligan's. Who else would think to put BBQ sauce, bacon, mayonnaise AND cheese on top of a poor little (red, fat and juicy) burger? They include some olives, lettuce and tomato to try to mask the fact that your arteries are rapidly closing up with each passing bite. And still I can't bring myself to substitute a salad for fries -- may as well go for the gold.

Andy Tarnoff
Publisher
Café Hollander "Napoleon Dynamite"
The first time, I ordered this breakfast as a dare, but you know what? It's great. A tower of pancakes layered with four slices of smoked apple wood bacon, two fried eggs and white cheddar cheese sauce, then topped with whipped cream and served with maple syrup, it reminds me of Homer Simpson's "good morning burger." Somehow, magically even, all these ingredients work together. It's like a McGriddle on HGH, and for obvious reasons, the breakfast is served without any sides.

I usually order the syrup on the side, just in case -- like that somehow makes this dish more healthy or something. It doesn't. I don't want to guess how many calories are crammed into this meal, but it's certainly in the four digits, maybe even five. Needless to say, order the Napoleon Dynamite for breakfast, and you'll be stuffed until dinner -- or perhaps breakfast the following day.