# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/21 "2012-01-30T16:30:29Z")
No way I could eat all that, and I am not a little guy. But it sounds like a great bargain for groups. Just order one for the table and a half-dozen friends all get a hearty breakfast! “Demanding its removal from the menu” is absolutely ludicrous, though. Should we ban folks from buying large quantities of food at the supermarket as well? What about ordering multiple entrees at a restaurant? Let’s make that illegal too! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/22 "2012-01-30T16:39:48Z")
I could eat about 1/9th of that baby. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/23 "2012-01-30T16:42:12Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > “Demanding its removal from the menu” is absolutely ludicrous, though. It’s pure PR, probably managed by an agency. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/24 "2012-01-30T16:46:31Z")
Not now. As a teenager and through my 20s, I probably did. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/25 "2012-01-30T16:51:22Z")
Sounds like an inexpensive way for 6 friends to have a hearty breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/26 "2012-01-30T17:04:53Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > It’s pure PR, probably managed by an agency. Probably managed by the failed alcoholic cynical sleazeball reporter (not that I’m speculating or anything) who wanted to turn the news story of, let’s face it, a large breakfast into something that could get people to scream “GO FUCK YOURSELVES!” From the quotes in the article, it’s almost certain that he bothered health care workers until he got some quote he could take out of context and turn into a nanny-state edict. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/27 "2012-01-30T17:26:37Z")
I got a free 72 oz steak by eating it all, I would not try this. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/28 "2012-01-30T18:48:48Z")
> [@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! Same thing jumped out at me. I’d just bring five of my pals and split the darned thing for £2.50 each. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/29 "2012-01-30T18:54:40Z")
I don’t know if eating all that breakfast would give you a heart attack, but I have it on good authority that eating 30 hamburgers in one sitting will cause a stroke. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/30 "2012-01-30T18:58:39Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > 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. There’s a restaurant in our town which was visited a while back by _Man vs. Food_’s Adam Richman. Not coincidentally, at least two other restaurants in our town have started offering “Man vs. Food-style” challenges. A pizzeria, for example, has a $15.99 offer of half a 14" pepperoni pizza, one pound of chopped ribeye with cheese and hot peppers, a pound of garlic fries, an entire loaf of Super Bread (whatever that is), and there may be something else. Somebody ought to tell them Richman ain’t coming back to our town; that ship has sailed. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/31 "2012-01-30T19:08:29Z")
> [@Purd\_Werfect](#): > > Sounds like an inexpensive way for 6 friends to have a hearty breakfast. The article says that the meal is 6000 Calories. So half a dozen people might be able to finish it. Personally, I eat about a thousand to fifteen hundred Calories a day, spread out over several minimeals. If I eat a fried breakfast, it’s usually one or two eggs (scrambled), a piece of toast, and maybe one rasher of bacon or half a slice of ham. And tea, can’t forget the tea. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/32 "2012-01-30T19:59:12Z")
And I thought Irish breakfasts were big! > [@](#): > > Prof David Haslam, from the National Obesity Forum, warned it ‘is possible’ someone could die after eating the meal in a single sitting, but added it was ‘very unlikely’. If literally true, this would make this breakfast the healthiest food ever created. Think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/33 "2012-01-30T20:10:39Z")
For those of you who didn’t hit the link, the description in the OP rather shortchanges what you are supposed to consume: 12 rashers of bacon 12 sausages Six eggs Four black pudding slices Four slices of bread and butter Four slices of toast Four slices of fried bread Two hash browns Eight-egg cheese and potato omelette Saute potatoes Mushrooms Beans Tomatoes ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/34 "2012-01-30T20:21:51Z")
I think I could do it. I ate 45 pancakes in less than an hour in high school and I love breakfast food and was only stopped because my mom made me. Just yesterday, I was at an all you can eat breakfast and went back 4 times, plus eating some things off of my kids’ plates. It wouldn’t be easy, but I think the time aspect is going to be the biggest problem- I think I could easily make it 80+% completion at 1 hour. The toast in its many forms would definitely be the hang-up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/35 "2012-01-30T20:23:21Z")
Only 6000 calories? Can’t hold a candle to the [quadruple-bypass burger at the Heart Attack Grill.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Attack_Grill) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/36 "2012-01-30T20:33:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And I thought Irish breakfasts were big! > > If literally true, this would make this breakfast the healthiest food ever created. Think about it. I’m going to go and force myself to eat one of these now so I can live forever! ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/37 "2012-01-30T20:37:49Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > The article says that the meal is 6000 Calories. So half a dozen people might be able to finish it. Personally, I eat about a thousand to fifteen hundred Calories a day, spread out over several minimeals. If I eat a fried breakfast, it’s usually one or two eggs (scrambled), a piece of toast, and maybe one rasher of bacon or half a slice of ham. And tea, can’t forget the tea. Yeah, it could easily feed more than six, but “big hearty breakfast” is often code for obscene consumption of fried and buttered foods, at least for some. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/38 "2012-01-30T20:52:28Z")
I’m sure the article got the price wrong. There’s no way this costs only 15 pounds. Maybe it’s fifty pounds and the reporter heard fifteen? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/39 "2012-01-30T20:54:03Z")
I’ve known two people in my life who might be able to pull it off, but I’m not one of them. The first guy routinely ate six eggs, pancakes, potatoes and toast for breakfast. . .every day at the military chow hall. The other guy made his wife prepare two turkeys each Thanksgiving: one for the family and one for him. On his way home from work, he usually stopped at McD for three or four big macs and a couple of filet o’ fish and a few orders of fries; then went home and had dinner. Of course, the guy was 6’8. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175/40 "2012-01-30T20:56:02Z")
Since this is clearly not a serious menu item, I wonder if the £15 price has been carefully worked out as part of a fully costed business plan, or simply plucked out of the air (or even pitched a bit low to make the story even better - a sort of loss leader). While provincial “greasy spoons” are not as pricy as the sort of establishments that prey on tourists in London and elsewhere, I’d still expect to pay five quid for a fried breakfast, which would be something like two rashers, two eggs, one or two low-grade sausages, with beans, toast etc. In other words, about one-sixth the size of this breakfast. Even accounting for volume discount, the price does seem unrealistically low. £25 is probably more like it (edit: as a bare minimum), in the unlikely event that the proprietor actually plans to include this in the menu long-term. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-completely-consume-this-large-breakfast-in-an-hour/611175.md?page=3)