Thanks, but I’ll stick to brisket please! Yum. Not too likely to be getting out to Phoenix anytime soon though, unfortunately.
I could mail you some but can’t guarantee quality on arrival.
Appreciate the offer! But yeah, they don’t look like they’d do so well in transit.
Oh well, it’s a reason to visit Phoenix someday…
There was a small chain in southern Ontario that had a 72-oz steak challenge. But this would have been maybe 25 years ago. I never tried it, and neither did anybody I knew, but it was there.
I was in Toronto in 2015, and there was one of these places near where I was staying. I always liked their food, so I went and had some lunch. Interestingly, the 72-oz steak challenge was no longer on the menu. No idea why–maybe I should have asked.
“Sinuses packed with meat!”
Brisket and cheese?
Bubbe would not approve.
Jewish Style Deli.
Social commentary on the phenomenon, courtesy The Simpsons:
Wow, a restaurant where it is actually considered cool and macho to literally eat yourself to death! 
I wonder if a fatty food gimmick restaurant can deny you food if they think it’s too dangerous to your health, similar to how Bars are legally required to cut you off eventually.
I’ve been to the Heart Attack Grill. Great theme but average food. Sits in the gut like lead. Drinks are good though. The funniest bit is watching a “nurse” spank a diner with a wooden paddle who doesn’t finish the whole meal.
As far as a 72oz/2kg steak, no chance in hell I could eat that
It’s pretty common in Japan for various food. One of my friends claimed he did that as a a poor college kid and because he didn’t have enough money to pay the bill if he failed, he forced himself to finish.
Same-same for Hash House A Go-Go. I run into so many people who want to try the place, and my standard answer is “WHY?” The food is shit. Huge portions of shit. Go anywhere else for a better meal.
TBH, that’s my reaction anytime I come across a restaurant with a “schtick.” If you serve good food, you don’t need a schtick.
“This food is awful.”
“Yeah, but there’s a lot of it.”
A Homer Simpson quote if I ever heard one.
Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest has been won by a number of Japanese citizens, most notably Takeru Kobayashi who ate 50 in twelve minutes during the 2001 contest nearly doubling the record set the previous year by Kazutoyo Arai. He won five more times in a row until he was defeated by Joey Chestnut in 2007 then stopped competing after 2009 by refusing to sign an exclusive contract with Major League Eating.
It also sounds like how Norm Peterson from Cheers would describe The Hungry Heifer, the restaurant with which he has a love-hate relationship – the food is terrible (they serve “meat-like substances” such as “beff” and “loobster”), but it’s a good value!
I thought you were kidding about Major League Eating, but apparently not.
I know. Commercial gluttony – who knew? Makes the various pro-wrestling federations look positively chummy.
Does this commerciality extend to other sins?