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I wonder what the next day was like for her.
She does events like that often enough, I doubt it fazes her at this point
My concern is more with the digestive process, and how it all comes out in the end.
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I remember that episode. And where did i pick up “Red Lobster—for the seafood-like product lover in you” line?
I’m off to the tan ‘n’ wash!
Yeah, I’m waiting for @Qadgop_the_Mercotan and other medical professionals to weigh in.
But also, there’s the long-term. We can get away with many things when the body is young…,or did we get away with them?
I go to Amarillo, TX regularly for work, but haven’t been to the Big Texan in awhile. I dropped in for the kitsch value a few years ago, and it proved kitsch-ful. I got to see the platform where ‘contestants’ eat, and the big LED countdown clock in full view.
I understand the secret is to get down as much as you can in the first fifteen minutes, before your gag reflex kicks in. Waitstaff know in the first ten seconds whether or not the contestant’s a winner or not: pick up a knife and fork–you’re ‘done-zo,’ ya amateur. Attack it like a ‘T-Rex’ with your hands and face’? You’re probably gonna finish.
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Plenty of other good steakhouses in Amarillo, if you don’t want to watch the spectacle.
I suspect that if you really gorge like that, most of the food passes through you.
This thread is really making me want a steak but I recently had dental work and am supposed to only eat soft food for a couple of weeks. At least I was able to eat a steak quesadilla from Taco Bell.
Supposedly some professional eaters, Joey Chestnut comes to mind, are banned from certain eating challenges. Though some challenges are time, not really quantity based.
Here’s some interesting eating challenges:
Japan
https://www.tsunagujapan.com/11-eating-challenges-in-japan-you-can-earn-a-prize-for-finishing
Hawaii
https://tastyislandhawaii.com/2014/03/15/oahu-eating-contests-food-challenges/
Back in West Texas, there was a pizza place that served a humongous pizza. If you could eat it within one hour, you got $100 and did not have to pay for the pizza. You were allowed to eliminate one topping, and everyone left off the hot peppers. I tried it and could eat only half of it. It cost something like $15, which was a huge price to pay for a pizza 40 years ago. As I recall, some little slip of a young lady was the first to succeed.
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You may be surprised to know you can Cuisinart a cooked steak into something not too different from the consistency of applesauce.
The mouthfeel is not even remotely what you’d want, but the flavor and nutrition is all still there.
Pro-tip: That works a lot better on steaks cooked medium rare or less than on ones cooked medium or more.
I could do it but I’ve changed my lifestyle in recent times to get away from my skilled gluttony. I used to be able to eat massive quantities of food. My daily caloric needs are pretty high and when I gain weight my fat distribution is fairly even to the point that it’s barely noticeable until my face starts to get a little chubby. All my bloodwork has always been “perfect.” But then a few years ago my body started falling apart with appendicitis and a hernia and other unpleasant things, which I’m sure were at least exacerbated by my eating. I can barely even look at fast food these days. Steak is great, but give me around 12 oz or so at most and I’m good for a few months.
When Ann-Margaret had her face smashed in a 22-foot stage fall she pureed everything, even a pizza, and sucked it through a tube during the recovery period. Her comment echoed yours but added it was better than baby food.
I often think that even if you could, would you want to? That first bite might be super delicious, but each subsequent bite is more of the same and finally, it’s just a chore.
I saw a contest on that was a hot dog challenge and the speed eater would take the dog, dunk it in water, squish in hand, and eat. It wasn’t about savoring or even enjoying the food. I suppose the salivary glands can only keep up with so much, and his strategy got it in his belly, but it just struck me as gross.
The hot dog eater is trying to eat more than a bunch of competitors in a fairly quick time. The restaurant challenge is to finish a fixed amount in a much longer set time. Two different strategies.
They had a breakfast one in a place where I regularly went over 30 years ago. It was a one foot radius plate. Half of it was home fries. The other half was a twelve egg omelet stuffed with cheese, chili and other ingredients. It was a similar deal where you got it free if you finished it in an hour. I saw a couple of dozen try and only one young man succeed with a bunch of his bros cheering him on.
Competitive eaters don’t care about savoring the meal any more than NASCAR drivers care about enjoying the scenery. They’re out to win a competition.
I mean yeah, it’s kind of gross and probably pretty bad for your health, but most top-level physical competitions are bad for your health in the long run.