Today I was talking to some of my friends about the movie Cool Hand Luke and how Paul Newman ate 50 eggs in an hour. To make a long story short, I now have two weeks to prepare myself for the fifty egg challenge. Any suggestions?
You’re mad. You’re going to mess up your system royally.
Check the science . Looks unlikely.
Find out who runs the stomach pump at the local ER, and make friends with them.
This just sounds like a bad idea to me, and I recently encouraged someone to eat a whole watermelon. But if you’re determined to go through with it, you can expand your stomach by drinking mass quantities of water.
Hey, here’s an idea: Did your friends specifically say chicken eggs? Buy some quail eggs or just eat a spoonful of caviar.
Google for the name of that Japanese guy that ate something like 50 franks at the Nathan’s contest.I saw it somewhere w/in the last couple months-he was a repeat champion.Guy looks like he couldn’t weigh more than about 130-140.He doubled the amount of one contestant who looked to be a 300 pounder.
“What we got here is failure to communicate.”
Apparently Newman ate more than 50 eggs during the filming of that scene.
You know, I was just thinking…
If you crack all the eggs into a blender and start drinking I’m not sure you could actually STOP…they’d all kind of stick together. Like snot.
I want after-pics, please. 
Most such scenes are heavily edited, with the actor spitting out the contents of his mouth between takes.
According to BBC Hollywood Science, had Newman actually eaten those eggs:
The same site shows the world record for eating hard boiled eggs at “14 in 58 seconds by Peter Dowdeswell at the Stardust Social Club, Corby, Northants on Feb 1977”, although Peter Dowdeswell ate 32 soft boiled eggs in 78 seconds at Northampton in April 1978.
I started a thread a while back asking how many eggs Newman ate during the filming, Larry Mudd came up with a cite stating that it was 61; alas, the thread was lost in the great purge, but it’s archived here
(rather frustratingly, the link to the cite isn’t archived, but I’m pretty sure it was this one:
However, that’s the only site I can find that makes this assertion, so I’m rather suspicious of it; also, no mention is made as to the time taken to shoot the scene.
Ahem. The BBC Hollywood Science article linked to by don’t ask and Libertarian is pretty poorly done. Main complaint:
First of all, an ellipse is a planar figure, so they’re using the wrong terminology. That’s just semantics, sure, but geez that’s sloppy. More importantly, the given equation is for a volume of a sphere, not of an ellipsoid, so their estimate for the volume of an egg (65cc) is far too large. I poked around the Web and found a guy who probably knows what he’s talking about who claims that “[t]he normal size egg is about 35 cubic centimeters in volume”, basically half of what the BBC site claims. Since the BBC’s “4 litre” number stretches the maximum capacity of the stomach, a volume half of that is much more realistic.
How much water content is there in a hard-boiled egg? He may be able to use that fluid to supplement his saliva supply instead of having to drink liquids.
Miller, don’t do it unless you’ve consulted with a physician and trained yourself to eat such large amounts of food in short periods of time. You risk some serious consequences. Not to mention some nasty gas.
Much as I loathe citing the show, this stunt was attempted on MTV’s “Jackass.” While the results were of debatable and dubious hilarity–copious, uncontrollable projectile vomiting, often maliciously directed at fellow egg-eaters–it was certainly one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. From my extreme layperson’s perspective, it seemed to me like the human bodies on “Jackass” simply couldn’t handle the mass quantities of food 50 eggs entailed; hence, the vomiting.
Perhaps “Jackass” had a propensity for egg-related stunts; I recall a Christmas-themed episode where they drank mass quantities of eggnog, with pretty much the same results as the Cool Hand Luke deal.
Get an industrial size and strength plastic trashcan; I think you’re gonna need it.
I’m sure that the eggs Newman ate in the film were smaller than the ones in my kitchen; they looked more like bantam eggs to me.
Yes, but vomiting was encouraged on that show.
Duly noted, Munch, particularly the vomiting on or at other people. Laffs abound! Of course, if someone vomited on me I would first vomit back and then commence with some serious ass-whooping. I was sort of assuming that the typical physiological response to a sudden and rapid intake of a great quantity of food is to vomit it up to clear it out.
Back in February, FOX aired The Glutton Bowl. This guy was on and blew away all the other competitors (the announcers kept calling them “athletes”. Ugh.).
Read about it here.
Oh yeah…the pictures.
As for the eggs, I believe that the winner ate 38 eggs…in 5 minutes! So, I bet that 50 eggs would be a piece of cake. Mmmmm…cake.
You know, technically, caviar is eggs.