Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Extreme Eating


My co-workers have been planning for weeks to take on the Monster Burger at McCann's. It's a 2 lb burger with cheese, bacon, onion rings, BBQ sauce, a few other things, plus enough fries that it totals out to be exactly 5 pounds of food.

Our two mighty munchers took significantly different approaches to the challenge. Jeremy was dismissive and cocky, while Ben was intimidated and did loads of research. Based upon their attitudes, it was pretty much unanymously agreed upon that Jeremy would have no problem, while Ben would fail miserably.

The food was served on a shovel, and Jeremy was prepared.

They were hard at work, knowing they only had one hour to finish 5 pounds of greasy food

Ben read about some stretching techniques online. He looked just as stupid as you'd think he would.


At about the 30 minute mark, Jeremy gave up with roughly half his food left.

Ben persisted, alternating eating and stretching. In the final 10 minutes, he slowed to a crawl, and the waitress showed up to inform him that his time was up.

He finished everything except his fries.

Both culinary competitors agreed that "it's the fries" that did them in. It had to be like 8 potatoes. Rough.

They are both in a world of pain right now!

2 comments:

All The Way Ray said...

Me want big burger too

Tenacious T said...

Start pedaling West on 94. You should be there by dinner time.