# Eating 50 eggs **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 6, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618 "2002-06-06T05:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bbeaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@bbeaty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbeaty)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/21 "2002-06-06T22:22:10Z")
I’m confused. On a TV “egg eating contest” show, a person drank a large number of uncooked eggs and collapsed. The commentator said that something similar had happened to this person in the past, and that the eggs had triggered a heart attack. Huh? Why would drinking eggs give you Fibrillation? Was it just the massive influx of water? (Or maybe the commentator just had it wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![gjbristar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@gjbristar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gjbristar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/22 "2012-09-17T15:11:19Z")
brandon eats 51 [51 Egg Challenge - LiftBigEatBig.com - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bdQdC0IDM) his friends are just eating other eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/23 "2012-09-17T15:55:43Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/24 "2012-09-17T16:22:36Z")
When I was in high school, the challenge was that no one could drink 10 cartons of milk in 15 minutes. I accepted that challenge. The results were . . . unpleasant. Here’s a tip. Wear boots. ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/25 "2012-09-17T16:44:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 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](http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=mangetout+eggs+newman&ttype=research&postid=3cf6c98cdd) > (rather frustratingly, the link to the cite **isn’t** archived, but I’m pretty sure it was [this](http://www.innercorridor.co.uk/spage3.html) 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. I know, it’s a ten year old Zombie thread and all, but I remember reading an interview with Paul Newman many years ago, and he stated that he “never swallowed an egg” during the filming of that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/26 "2012-09-17T17:02:54Z")
Be sure to peel off the shells first. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/27 "2012-09-17T17:16:12Z")
> [@gjbristar](#): > > brandon eats 51 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bdQdC0IDM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bdQdC0IDM) > > his friends are just eating other eggs. Hi **gjbrister**. Welcome to the dope. This thread is 12 years old so many of the people who posted on it probably aren’t monitoring it for replies. It’s considered a Zombie thread. The best way to respond to it is to start a new thread and link back to the old. It’s not necessarily a requirement but it helps warn any posters after you that the thread is old so any questions to previous posters may not have replies. And let me be the first to point out that Zombie Eggs is an excellent name for a band. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/28 "2012-09-17T17:27:38Z")
12 years old? I jumped ahead in time to 2014 and didn’t even notice it? Who won the election? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/29 "2012-09-17T17:32:39Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 12 years old? I jumped ahead in time to 2014 and didn’t even notice it? Who won the election? Yes, I know it was 10 but I rounded it to an even dozen. We’re talking eggs you know. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/30 "2012-09-17T17:34:59Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Yes, I know it was 10 but I rounded it to an even dozen. We’re talking eggs you know. Yup. OK. That sounds logical enough that I’ll give it to you. Well played. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/31 "2012-09-17T17:58:45Z")
What goes with eggs? Bacon. I could probably eat 50 pieces of bacon in an hour. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618/32 "2012-09-17T18:07:59Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > What goes with eggs? Bacon. I could probably eat 50 pieces of bacon in an hour. Not if I was in the room, you couldn’t. You’d get at least 20 of them stolen while you were stuffing your face. 😉 50 eggs in a _hour_? I really don’t see the impossibility here. Surely eggs are smaller (in volume) than hot dogs, bowls of chili and other foods regularly consumed in double digits in mere minutes by competitive eaters. I’m not saying \*I \*could/would do it, but… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-50-eggs/112618.md?page=1)