# Could you completely consume this large breakfast in an hour? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175 "2012-01-30T09:32:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/1 "2012-01-30T09:32:27Z")
[Could you defeat this beast?](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093449/The-REALLY-big-breakfast-6-000-calorie-fry-slammed-health-campaigners--hit-diners.html) Do you think you have the gustatory chops to take on this meal and make it your bitch in one hour? Assume you get all the fluids you want. I think all the toast would be the hard part. > [@](#): > > A monster breakfast which weighs the same as a small child and could potentially kill diners is attracting criticism from angry health campaigners > > The Kidz Breakfast at Jesters Diner in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, includes 12 rashers of bacon, 12 sausages and six eggs and weighs on average 9lb - 1lb 5oz more than the average newborn baby. > > Health experts are demanding its removal from the menu and are warning someone with a heart condition could die if they eat it, with each helping amounting to at least 6,000 calories, up to three days’ food intake for an average person. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/2 "2012-01-30T09:54:18Z")
Jeez! When really hungry I used to be able to put away a McDonalds Big Breakfast (eggs, sausage, biscuit) and three of their pancakes and a bowl of Wheaties in one sitting, but this is at least six times that! And is it just me or does the quote: _“Health experts are demanding its removal from the menu…”_ make you scream GO FUCK YOURSELVES! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/3 "2012-01-30T09:54:51Z")
Not a prayer for me, and I’m a fat git. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/4 "2012-01-30T12:00:21Z")
Take away the potatoes and toast and I might have a chance. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/5 "2012-01-30T13:34:23Z")
I could make a sizable dent in it, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/6 "2012-01-30T13:42:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I could make a sizable dent in it, I’m sure. Ditto. It’s a stunt, and not one reasonably calculated to have a few hefty eaters achieve the wall of fame. I can eat a lot. I can’t eat nine pounds of food in an hour. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/7 "2012-01-30T13:57:11Z")
Just like the giant burgers some places have on their menu, the main reason for this dish’s existence is to generate interest in the establishment. It is an advertising stunt, not a seriously intended breakfast choice. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/8 "2012-01-30T14:00:12Z")
I’m really surprised its only 15 UKP cost (currently about $22.50 US). Food is usually far more expensive in the uk. Could be buffered up by the amount of fried bread though. I couldn’t finish half a corned beef hash as Hash House A Gogos in Las Vegas, theres no chance I’d be able to make a mark on that… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/9 "2012-01-30T14:11:19Z")
I couldn’t eat the eggs, much less any of the rest of it. I’ve seen worse though. At Friendly’s restaurants (a chain, but a shrinking one) they used to have a plate-sized cinnamon role, dipped in egg and fried like French Toast, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and caramel syrup. All of which would have been just fine if it were listed on the dessert menu. Hey, I get it, you’re a restaurant famous for it’s ice cream, and sometimes lumberjacks want to tuck in to a plateful of sugared fat. No worries. Except that it was listed on the _ **"Kid’s Breakfast"** _ menu. Following that was the quote “Free one scoop Sunday with every kids meal.” The menu entry didn’t last long, thank goodness. Within a few weeks of first seeing it, I noticed it was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/10 "2012-01-30T14:17:37Z")
Four slices of black pudding? If I saw one of those on my breakfast plate, I wouldn’t be able to eat any of it. I remember eating at a restaurant with a dessert called the “Hog Trough”. It included vast amounts of ice cream, and, like this breakfast, if you could eat it solo, it was free. (No, I didn’t try it, but there were pictures on the wall of people who’d succeeded.) ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/11 "2012-01-30T14:29:36Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > I’m really surprised its only 15 UKP cost (currently about $22.50 US). Food is usually far more expensive in the uk. Could be buffered up by the amount of fried bread though. No doubt! Only 15 quid?! That’s what I’m finding the most surprising in the story. That’s cheap as hell! You could have leftovers for a week! ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/12 "2012-01-30T14:40:30Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > No doubt! Only 15 quid?! That’s what I’m finding the most surprising in the story. That’s cheap as hell! You could have leftovers for a week! I dread to think what the sausages are made of. It’s not going to be guaranteed 90% pork now is it? I’d be surprised if it was above 45% at that price… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/13 "2012-01-30T14:47:08Z")
I probably couldn’t. I can finish a large teppan-yaki meal of about that size total (amongst several courses,) but if I add one order of tempura to it, it fills me up too much to complete the whole meal. So the fat content of the Kidz Meal makes it unlikely that I’d be able to finish it, especially in one hour. ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/14 "2012-01-30T14:49:08Z")
Nope. I could maybe eat half of it if I disregarded good sense. Given a whole day, probably yes. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/15 "2012-01-30T14:49:41Z")
No. I could eat either the six eggs, or the sausages, or the bacon. But not any two together, and definitely not all three. Can eating a huge meal really cause a heart attack? That seems bogus. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/16 "2012-01-30T14:57:47Z")
There are PLENTY of food challenges out there, and this probably isn’t the worst. That said, I don’t like it. There are some interesting and creative food challenges, and there’s the “let’s just find the biggest plate in the store and keep piling food on top of it and then call it a challege.” I think this falls in the latter. Here’s part of the reason why: > [@](#): > > Customers are also offered the £15 mammouth meal for free if they can devour the fry-up in less than an hour without help but no one has managed the stomach bursting feat. If NOBODY can finish your challenge, it’s a strong indication that your challenge was bullshit to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/17 "2012-01-30T15:02:32Z")
It’s not just eggs and sausages and bacon. Check out the panel in the link: it includes an omelette and toast and on and on and on. I could \*possibly \*eat a sixth of it if I was really hungry. ‘Health experts have demanded that nobody ever do anything unhealthy again’ makes me want to go try, though. And wash it down with a pint of whiskey and a cigar. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/18 "2012-01-30T15:05:15Z")
Hell, I couldn’t even get the _picture_ to load… ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/19 "2012-01-30T15:22:16Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Can eating a huge meal really cause a heart attack? That seems bogus. Almost certainly is bogus. Even the scoldiferous doc whose anti-this opinion was distorted in the lede said that it was “very unlikely” that the remote possibility of a single meal triggering a heart attack was likely to take place. I mean, anything’s possible, but I’ve never heard of anything as simplistic as eating a fatty meal and having an immediate heart attack taking place IRL. The “immediate heart attack” trope was pretty obviously ginned up by the lazy Brit journo, who knew a health-conscious doc could be goaded into speculating that the onslaught of calorific excess could, remotely, speculatively, but very unlikely, trigger some cardiac episode. OT, but I’ve always hated the notion that any particular allegedly-unhealthy meal or dish would realistically lead to imminent death. If we were that delicate, the race would hardly have survived, especially given our prehistoric patterns of life where binging on food when available to build fat stores had some significant adaptive value in view of the reasonably common feast/famine nature of food availability over the human/primate timeline. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/20 "2012-01-30T15:36:45Z")
I wouldn’t even try, and I do tend to like big breakfasts. Might polish off the bacon, sausage, toast, and hash browns though. Yum!! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175.md?page=2)