Okay, so I just bet my boss he cannot drink a gallon of milk in one sitting. We have defined ‘one sitting’ as thirty to forty minutes. I’ve searched the internet a bit, and it seems like my money is pretty safe. But I thought I would ask this question of the Straight Dopers, as that is the best way to get to the truth.
So has anyone ever tried this?
To win money off my boss?
No way.
A friend of mine told me about this bet: in college, he’d bet people five bucks that they couldn’t drink a gallon of milk in an hour.
He said it was pretty safe: he’d made the bet several times, and only lost once. And, being a mean bastard, he figured he got at least five bucks’ worth of fun out of watching how sick the guy was from drinking a gallon of milk in an hour.
After that, I bet my friend that he couldn’t eat a slice of plain bread in sixty seconds (no drinking water allowed). He scoffed at me, telling me of course he could do it.
At fifty-five seconds into his attempt, a third of the slice of bread uneaten, his mouth full of half-chewed bread and empty of spit, he started yelling, “Fmbk oo! FMBK OO!” at me. I was laughing too hard to answer.
Daniel
Yes, it can be done. No, it’s not any fun. My personal experience suggests that your boss can win, but unless it’s a lot of money he’ll wish he’d lost.
Didn’t I see this on TV fairly recently?
I think several people tried it and they were all blowing like calves with stomach flu.
Frankly, it was hilarious.
It can be done, and if you’re a fan of milk (defn.: someone who frequently drinks a quart of milk with lunch) it can be done without a whole lot of trouble, in 40 mins.
Cultivating this skill is not a bad way to keep yourself in beer money as everyone seems convinced that the “medical fact” is so.
Well, they tried it on Jackass once, as I recall. In the interests of science, they had three people trying three different gallons of milk…one regular, one chocolate, and one strawberry.
I didn’t catch the end of the sketch, but by the time I was called away, the Strawberry milk guy was throwing up quite a bit, the chocolate milk guy was following, and the woman with the plain milk was a little quesy, but hadn’t gotten sick yet.
Gotta love reality TV.
I’ve done that a couple times. Always waking up after a night of drinking and being very dehydrated though. Get pissed the night before.
True story: I once lived with a guy who came home after work and drank a gallon of milk and a gallon of orange juice in about a three-hour span. Every day. I have no doubt that he could have finished off the milk in 30-40 minutes. I regularly drink milk by the quart, so I’m thinking I might be able to do this as well; but I’m not certain enough to actually try such a thing.
I imagine that for everything that wouldn’t immediately kill any mammal (decapitation, injection of a quart of intravenous bleach, etc.) you’ll be able to find at least someone that can do it. This doesn’t seem to be an especially difficult task, especially if you worked your way up to it.
A friend of mine forced me to watch a 311 concert video once, and backstage after their show, they had a milk chugging contest–each contestant was given a gallon of whole milk and a small time limit (I don’t remember how much, but it was much less than 40 minutes). All but two of the contestants threw up. One of the winners was a rather small woman; she finished slowly and puked immediately after receiving the money. The other was a huge man who drank the whole gallon in barely a minute. I’d guess that, with 40 minutes, your boss has a good chance, though I imagine he’ll feel awful afterwards.
i doubt anyone’s stomach can stretch to the volume of a gallon jug. this means that some of this milk must be digested. it takes milk a rather long time to be digested, longer than most foods.
i do not see how drinking a gallon of WHOLE milk could be accomplished in under an hour WITHOUT puking. (those are usually the rules)
i seriously doubt it’s possible. i would pay money to see it.
that big guy who drank it in a minute, i guarantee he puked sometime afterwords. very very fwe people’s bodies can metabolize a gollon of whole milk in under an hour, i presume.
If the boss is lactose intollerant (even a little bit) I would suggest holding the contest in or near, very near the restroom. Otherwise things could get very ugly
Of course, no one will want to visit that restroom for a long, long time.
Milk and orange juice? Wouldn’t that curdle?
As an initiation rite, my mates required me to drink an entire gallon of (reconstituted) milk after ascending my first 8000 meter peak in Asia. At that moment, I had lost nearly 25 lbs., was enervated as hell, but gave it the ol’ heave-ho. I got little more than half down when I threw up the entire contents, along with half a can of cooked Spam (with the gel), undercooked pasta, two tablespoons of what may or may not have been peanut butter, a third of a stick of margarine–and two Tic Tacs.
couldn’t your boss take those latose pills to help him digest it faster? would it help at all?
40 minutes is quite alot of time - it would almost qualify as 2 sittings. I hope you enfoce the 1 sitting rule meanig if he gets up his time is over. If he chugs 1/2 of it right away and plans to make a last minute push to get the 2nd half he might really have to take a piss before that which ends the sitting.
A gallon is a lot of liquid anyway you slice it so you are pretty safe.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the concept of NOT being able to eat one plain slice of bread in less than a minute…
What kind of bonehead CAN’T do that? Did you forget to mention that his jaws were wired shut? Was he only 6 inches tall at the time?
I like plain white bread, dammit.
This CANNOT be done. It’s physically impossible. Too much milk will curdle in your system and humans cannot digest it in time. You will throw up everywhere and not finish it.
The site you reference doesn’t say it’s impossible to drink a gallon of milk–only that it’s impossible to drink a gallon of milk and then hold it down for an hour. Jorel, is there any stipulation in your bet as to how long the boss has to go without throwing up? If he throws up in, say, 30 seconds, does he still win the bet? What about 20 minutes?
Also, a bit of a broader question that seems relevant here–Fuel says that (s)he doubts that a human stomach can stretch enough to accomodate a gallon of liquid. Does anyone know what the average capacity of a human stomach is?
Oh, and Fuel–I’m sure you’re right that the guy threw up shortly thereafter.
50 hot dogs is more than a gallon…
anyway… maybe that one guy, Takeru Kobayashi, who ate 50 hotdogs in 12 minutes could. suprisingly, he’s 131 pounds, and 5’7", and after the ‘Glutton Bowl’ was shown on Fox, then i think TLC showed a Speed Eating show with Kobayashi and what his stomach would have looked like after eating 50 hot dogs - large as a basketball. (they put 50 hot dogs in a balloon to show the size). So with this, I am guessing that Kobayashi could do it. haha, pit your boss against Kobayashi.