Eating Contest!

[dr_mabeuse]

My son just saw "Cool Hand Luke" with some members of his wrestling team and made a bet with some of the sophomore wrestlers.

A couple kids bet they could eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in 90 minutes.

A second guy bet he could drink a gallon of milk in half an hour.

I'm excited about this. Anyone want to make any side bets? The competition's tonight.

---dr.M.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Have fun cleaning up vomit.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

No seriously. Never seen the movie (?) but it sounds like something I'd end up watching and have fun with. But honestly now, put down some old sheets or something, or some tarps.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I think the gallon of milk is doable, but the eggs is certainly a killer. Before, during and after. Blech.

Put me down for ten bucks on the kid with the milk, Zoot.

~lucky

Edited to add: Is there something written in the Dad handbook that says this is fun? I only wonder because my Dad used to bet me on the 'Eat 6 crackers quickly and try to whistle in thirty seconds', 'Eat a hot-dog faster than him', 'Slug back a bag of pork rinds without taking a drink', etc...

He always won and I never could resist the challenge.

 

[impressive]

I think the gallon of milk is doable, but the eggs is certainly a killer. Before, during and after. Blech.

Put me down for ten bucks on the kid with the milk, Zoot.

~lucky

I'm with Lucky on this one.

The protein overload from the eggs will make that kid mega sick.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Have fun cleaning up vomit.

Oh no. My house isn't the arena for this one. Nor even my backyard. No way.

Edited to add: Is there something written in the Dad handbook that says this is fun? I only wonder because my Dad used to bet me on the 'Eat 6 crackers quickly and try to whistle in thirty seconds', 'Eat a hot-dog faster than him', 'Slug back a bag of pork rinds without taking a drink', etc...

He always won and I never could resist the challenge.

It's instinct. Guys are into all that bodily function stuff: always pushing the envelope.

Aside from speed-guzzling quarts of chocolate milk and eating whole jars of marshmallow fluff with a spoon, I lost a bet on whether it's possible to eat a McDonald's hamburger in one bite (eighth grade. Artie Gillis proved it could be done) or whether you could eat 4 Whoppers at one sitting (once: just barely.)

I won a hundred dollars when I bet a guy he couldn't eat 60 White Castle hamburgers in an hour. It was quite a scene, with White Castle people coming out of the kitchen to watch, and despite tricks like putting the burgers between 2 paper plates and squashing them to get the air out, he didn't come close. 18 in half an hour was the best he could do.

---Zoot

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Oh no. My house isn't the arena for this one. Nor even my backyard. No way.



It's instinct. Guys are into all that bodily function stuff: always pushing the envelope.

Aside from speed-guzzling quarts of chocolate milk and eating whole jars of marshmallow fluff with a spoon, I lost a bet on whether it's possible to eat a McDonald's hamburger in one bite (eighth grade. Artie Gillis proved it could be done) or whether you could eat 4 Whoppers at one sitting (once: just barely.)

I won a hundred dollars when I bet a guy he couldn't eat 60 White Castle hamburgers in an hour. It was quite a scene, with White Castle people coming out of the kitchen to watch, and despite tricks like putting the burgers between 2 paper plates and squashing them to get the air out, he didn't come close. 18 in half an hour was the best he could do.

---Zoot

18? Amature. I've sen my dad & brothers eat 36 krystals appeace on their lunch break. then again, I've seen my brothers eat a 96 oz steak in a sitting and keep a chinese buffy empty for half an hour

Bfore I wager is the kid with the eggs thin of fat

 

[Guest]

Jeeze, Mab, did they make the Castles bigger in Chicago? When we went out for 'em in Detroit my brothers always had their usual dozen, me at least 8. P.

edit to add: that was us as kids, not even teens, and I was a really skinny girl.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

It's instinct. Guys are into all that bodily function stuff: always pushing the envelope.

This is so true!

I think it's hilarious. I typically have no interest in bodily functions unless I'm trying to get around them.

However, I fondly remember a friend of mine burning all the hair off his ass and thighs because he lit a fart in a 15-passenger van, during a school trip. He decided it wasn't so funny after that.

~lucky

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

My ex went through cases and cases of WC sliders every other night this past summer. Lets just say we didn't sleep on the same couch those nights.

Good ol' Chi town.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Bfore I wager is the kid with the eggs thin of fat

Colleen knows her stuff!

The egg kids wrestle at (I think) 125 and 145, and the milk kid is 119, so I imagine they're all pretty thin.

Did you see that show on competritive eating? The world champion Nathan's Hotdog eater is a Japanese guy who looks like he weighs 85 pound. Someone actually studied competitive eaters and found that skinny guys can eat more than heavyweights, because the big boys' band of midriff fat limits how much the stomach can stretch.

One more reason to stay thin. So you can eat more. (?)

---Zoot

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Colleen knows her stuff!

The egg kids wrestle at (I think) 125 and 145, and the milk kid is 119, so I imagine they're all pretty thin.

Did you see that show on competritive eating? The world champion Nathan's Hotdog eater is a Japanese guy who looks like he weighs 85 pound. Someone actually studied competitive eaters and found that skinny guys can eat more than heavyweights, because the big boys' band of midriff fat limits how much the stomach can stretch.

One more reason to stay thin. So you can eat more. (?)

---Zoot

I was gonna bet against him, but you can never tell how much a skinny guy can put away. So I'll have to just get the spectators report

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Did you see that show on competritive eating? The world champion Nathan's Hotdog eater is a Japanese guy who looks like he weighs 85 pound.

---Zoot

I've seen him. It's amazing that he can do it, but my gag reflex starts kickin' in when he slows down and gets that, "Ugh!" look in his eye. I watched him out-eat a grizzly bear with a pan of hot dogs.



~lucky

 

[Boota]

Not to brag about my wild partying lifestyle, but on New Years Eve I was home watching the Glutton Bowl with my nieces, and this 400+ pound guy ate 41 hard boiled eggs in 3 minutes. The show was thoroughly disgusting, but I still watched the entire two hour broadcast. The little Japanese guy was on and he won. First, he ate the most hot dogs in the preliminary round, and then in the final round he ate over 40 cow brains. All within an hour of each other.

I normally wouldn't watch something like that, but I had to bring the adrenaline down from the Rock Paper Scissors Championship I watched immediately before.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I normally wouldn't watch something like that, but I had to bring the adrenaline down from the Rock Paper Scissors Championship I watched immediately before.

LOL!

Missed you, Boota.

~lucky

 

[shereads]

HURRY to Blockbuster and rent "Stand By Me." Fast-forward to the pie-eating contest and its tragic aftermath. Force participants to watch it and then sign a waiver.

Not pretty.

Seriously: Can't you die from forcing down too much liquid? Even water?

 

[shereads]

I watched him out-eat a grizzly bear with a pan of hot dogs.

This is one of those sentences that, if read too fast, causes a WTF moment.

 

[shereads]

I'd have EMS on standby. I have a bad feeling about the milk kid.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Competitions to do with food always make me feel slightly queasy... When I was 17 I took part in a competition involving just one sandwich. There were 5 of us altogether, and we each had to take it turns chewing up the sandwich before passing it on to the next person. One by one, as the sandwich got slimier, people started dropping out of the competition, until there was only one person left, who was the winner. The winner got to swallow the sandwich.

Ok, ok... I know it's gross, but I was drunk at the time - and besides, I didn't make it past the first round. When the sandwich came to me the second time, I just looked at it and had to run to the bathroom to throw up.

 

[woodnymph_O]

I saw the asian girl with the world record for eggs

she weighs 95 lbs or so , so dont count out the small fries .Her supposed secret it chasing the eggs with water,the yellow stuff glues the mouth together hehe

 

[scheherazade_79]

Re: I saw the asian girl with the world record for eggs

she weighs 95 lbs or so , so dont count out the small fries .Her supposed secret it chasing the eggs with water,the yellow stuff glues the mouth together hehe

I get constipated after ONE egg... what the hell would an egg-eating competition do to your digestive system?????????

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Re: Re: I saw the asian girl with the world record for eggs

I get constipated after ONE egg... what the hell would an egg-eating competition do to your digestive system?????????

That'd be one big ass enema.

Pun, of course, never intended.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Dairy Chow-A-Thon Update...

The contest has been postponed till tomorrow. I'm beginning to think Kid Ovum #2 is getting cold feet, though Leche Lad is still game...

Dita, you may be right. That White Castle Challenge was many years ago, and maybe he did get beyond 18. I just remember that we ringside analysts knew he had to eat better than one a minute, and we were keeping time. It could be that when he was he was beaten by the clock, he threw in the paper napkin.

I don't know what effect 50 hard boiled eggs would have on you aside from having people insist you sleep in a separate room with the windows open. I've seen what happens to babies who overly indulge in milk, however. It's affectionately known as "cheesing", and on babies it's cute (on their parents' shoulders, less so.)

Personally, I've got a side bet that we'll see a wholesale milk upchuck, the kind of thing that used to happen at birthday parties when someone drank too much and another kid made him laugh till the stuff came out of his nose. It was always the high point of the celebration and a moment not to be missed.

---dr.M.

 

[oggbashan]

The gallon of milk should be easy. I have seen men drink more Guinness than that in half an hour.

If the contestant has a toilet break he shouldn't even strain anything.

The eggs? I think medical supervision might be advisable.

Og

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

While I've led a quiet, sheltered life, I can assure you nothing is more disgusting than the boudin (blood sausage) eating contest at the Cochon de lait festival in south Louisiana. It's a speed not quantity contest. Best I can tell, the minimum requirement for entering is to be shit-faced drunk. Spectators are advised to stand well back from the competitors.

Cool Hand Luke: "What we've got here is failure to communicate," A classic line from the late '60's.

Rumple Foreskin