My fiance is thinking about doing the Hottest Ramen challenge Adam Richman did on his NYC episode. He loves, loves, loves spicy, hot, burn my mouth, rip my throat out hot food. He wants to do it while we’re on our honeymoon in New York. I personally would prefer not to be nursing him when his body is on fire while we are on our honeymoon. I want his body to be on fire for other reasons. 
We might do it, we might not. It kinda depends what else we’re doing while we’re there.
I did eat a one-pound hamburger at Joe’s Backyard in Austin once, and got my picture on the wall. Pretty easy, really; at the time, I would occasionally get two Wendy’s doubles as my only meal for the day, which is the same amount of beef. But like I said, that’d fill me up for the whole day.
I remember a pizza joint outside Klamath Falls, OR, where the special is some enormous pizza (60"? Maybe 72") and if you and four friends can finish it, it’s free and your picture goes on the wall. Of course, there’s an Air Force base in the town and there are more than a few pictures on the wall of pilots and other Air Force types on the wall. I’d go there for end-of-season sports parties, but I never tried the challenge.
Me too. I wasn’t that bad, but I certainly wasn’t at all hungry until after lunch the next day and wouldn’t want to try it now.
Ummm… sorry to say, but that Super Spicy Ramen challenge was at Orochan Ramen in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.
A friend of mine downed a triple cheeseburger (and fries and beverage) at the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona recently. The “prize” is your “waitress” (dressed in a hot fantasy stripper nurse outfit) helps you into a wheelchair, you can take photos with her on your lap and she then wheels you out to the ambulance parked in front.
My two other buddies (bigger than him) couldn’t finish a double.
Everything is fried in lard - burgers, fries, buns. That’s the first restaurant I’ve ever been in my life where I couldn’t eat anything on the menu so I had to subsist on margaritas
About 17 years ago, I was at a downtown Labor Day celebration and free concert with several friends from work and we kept getting buzzed by a plane towing a banner, adverstising:
◄▬▬┴ ——————[WATERMELON FEST AT DEJA VU]
We were intrigued, to say the least, and being young and easily influenced by subliminal advertising, a group of us decided to go and take part in the festivities honoring watermelons at the Deja Vu Strip Club. Turns out, the culmination of this lovely and well celebrated festival is a watermelon eating contest. Being the most handsome and charming gentleman in the audience, or as my friends later put it… the handsomest, loudest, most obnoxious, charming, fat guy in the audience… I was chosen and hauled on stage by a very cute, large breasted, brunette. Two other lucky gentlemen were brought up on stage with their equally busty stripper escorts. But there was a twist to this particular watermelon eating contest, we were all required to kneel in front of our ladies with our hands behind our backs, as they sat naked in a chair holding a large wedge of watermelon between their legs. Our orders were to eat the large wedge of watermelon as quickly as possible from betwixt our lady’s legs… whoever finishes first, wins- quite simple.
When the signal was given, I drew on all my resources and went at that wedge with phenomenal speed and finesse, in fact, my Vu-girl was having a hard time holding on to the watermelon. I had remembered my martial arts board breaking training, and concentrated on my strategy- you see, when breaking boards you never train your focus to the board, you always focus a few inches past the board, to carry through and ensure a break. I put all of my focus a couple of inches past that watermelon and ate like a man trying to get to the marrow, or a bear with his nose in the honeypot, or a mosquito on leather. Needless to say, with my singular focus, and foolproof strategy, I easily ate my way to victory with much cheering and accolades.
Only eating contest I have ever been in- I got a hat and a t-shirt that allowed free entry to the Vu when I was wearing them, but the real prize were certain “intangibles”.
Oh, they also offered lunch, and I think, a buffet at one point at the VU. So I think it still qualifies as a restaurant
Not officially, but my gf and I shared a challenge burger, one of those that are 12" across. She said she almost did it once. After tasting the burger, I wondered why she even wanted to order it a second time.
Years an’ years an’ years ago there was an old-timey style ice cream parlor called the Idle '90s. (Don’t know if it was a chain or not, but they had one in Milford NH.) Their particular challenge was, IIRC, one scoop each of every flavor they offered, to be consumed in a given time. I don’t remember exactly what that limit was, probably half an hour.
Didn’t even come close.
I finished the quadruple burger there earlier this year (2 pounds of beef!) along with the fries and drink. Honestly, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. I keep joking with my friends that I need to go on the competitive eating circuit based on my ability to eat nonstop. And fortunately I’m not overweight because of it (frequently playing ice hockey and running ultra-marathons makes this possible).
Sorry, I misspoke. It was the spicy curry challenge at Brick Lane Curry House that he wanted to do in NYC.
I’ve had the phaal at Brick Lane. I didn’t do the challenge, my friends and I just wanted to try it as long as we were having dinner there.
It’s very, very, very hot. And not in a good way. I really like spicy food. I’ve always been a fan of vindaloo but eating this stuff is silly. It doesn’t taste good and the predominant taste is just oily heat.
Brick Lane itself has pretty decent food. I’ve had better and cheaper but I’d go back again.
Just wanted to add that if you decide to try it and actually want to finish it, eat it as quickly as possible because the heat will keep on building otherwise and drink lots of lassi.
What do they do if the winner is a straight woman or a gay man? Hope they have a guys’ version of that stripper costume…
I tried The Moose Omelets challenge at Moose McGillicuddy’s in Honolulu Hawaii. It’s 12 large eggs, bacon, sausage Mushrooms, onions & melted cheese Served with breakfast potatoes & toast. I made it 3/4 of the way through in 15 min but there was a puddle of grease filling the entire platter about a 1/4" deep and I was feel sick from the grease that I’d already eaten so I passed on finishing and then went out for lunch with my buddies about 2 hours later.
I want to go back and eat it just so I don’t have to tell people about almost finishing and stopping due to grease not volume. I’ve been meaning to try the 72. oz challenge for years but I’m afraid of failing.