It has been identified as one of the fattiest foods in the U.S. by Health.com[3][4] The sandwich is featured on the Cooking Channel's Eat St. show in its second episode.[5][6][7] The Cooking Channel includes the recipe on its website.[8][9]
The Redonkadonk competed on Portland's food truck and food cart scene against the Big-A** Sandwich's Gutbomb: "a basic Big-A** with double the meat, double the cheese and the girth of a fishbowl", as well as the Original Cheesus from the Grilled Cheese Grill: a Colby Jack and grilled onion grilled cheese sandwich and an American cheese grilled cheese sandwich with pickles encasing a one-third pound burger with lettuce, tomato, ketchup and mustard.[10]