In college, the 1996 Engineers Week included a timed pizza eating contest. Two 16" Papa Johns pizzas: one pepperoni, one jalapeno (sp?). We were allowed to wash it down with Mt.Dew or Coke, too.
I ate the whole pep and two slices of the jal. We (team of 3) finished in 8minutes23seconds. We came in second place and won $50. I didn’t eat again until lunch the next day.
I used to regularly eat a whole pizza, pizza was all that was delivered in the town I lived in, and I lived by myself and didn’t keep leftovers. A medium one is no problem whatsoever, a large makes me feel a bit fuller than I like. I have eaten two larges before, and one time at a pizza buffet me and my friends were trying to see who could eat the most and I had 22 slices. I don’t eat like that anymore, though.
I have myself a whole large pizza once a week or so. It’s all a part of my obsession with pizza that dates back to the first time I read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Before that I was casual about pizza. Now I can’t live without it. But my shrink says I’m getting better.
Yes I have. I have also polished off giant calzones and half-buckets of fried chicken in one sitting. I won’t even begin at the amount of beer…
Most of my friends are amazed at the rate I put food away. Mainly because I am pretty tiny.
Since I met my present SO, I’ve stayed away from most fastfoods though…come to think of it, it’s been a year since I had pizza. Hmmm.
Last week I had a large pepperoni pizza,
extra pepperoni,
extra cheese,
light on the sauce,
and a 3-liter Coke.
Finished it off in 45 minutes.
I can put away a medium sausage or cheese-only any day of the week. In less than 45 min. All by myself.
Yummy!
45 minutes?? Geez, that’s slow!
Give me 10, tops, and the pizza will be no more!
(I like being able to eat whatever I want)
At college I used to be able to eat a whole large pizza.
I’m beginning to learn that feats of impressive eating do not correlate to butchness, hardness or any other inappropriately masculine characteristics I may be trying to cultivate.
I have a British friend who is skinny as a toothpick. He cannot put on weight to save his life, yet every time I’ve been out to eat with him, he orders two, oh about 12 inch, pizzas for himself, sandwiches them on top of each other, and eats them with a knife and fork. These are fairly thin crust, but still. Zheesh. Every so often I finish one of these pizzas, but usually half is enough. Even with pasta. He’ll order something creamy and heavy like spaghetti carbonara, but always a double portion. And he’s 5’ 10", about 140-150 lbs!!!
Oh yes, many times, but not as often as I used to.
A lot of the time I would also have bread sticks and hot wings.
I could live off pizza, beer and Dr. Pepper if I had to.
This week? No.
Ever?
…what’re you, new?
You call that gluttony? Piker. 
My story starts exactly the same…University, all you can eat (aka “pizza orgy”) Tuesdays. Waitresses would take a pizza out of the oven, walk over and offer a slice or two to the AYCE customers–so it was difficult to equate to whole pies. My girl friend, best buddy & me were regular customers, but one night decided to go for the gusto, so to speak. I think we polished off 70 slices, fairly evenly distributed.
Hell yeah! With relative ease, I might add.
Then again, I have successfully eaten a 4 lb burrito.
Whilst I can polish off a whole pizza, with regular crust, off by myself… Nowadays I tend to cut back.
Yes it sure tastes good going down… but boy does it gets its revenge. After eating a large pizza It feels like a tons of bricks in my stomarch. I usually feel awfull. Not to mention my incredibale thrust for water… I guess its all that doe. I prefer a medium now
This is why I hate men. O.K., maybe it’s not hate exactly, more like a strong sense of the unfairness of it all.
My username is quite discriptive, and yet I can’t imagine eating a whole pizza pie. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
Please tell me you are all 600 pounds or better. Or that a few of you are women. It would make me feel a lot better about the world.
Thanks in advance.
I’ve eaten an entire 16" Domino’s Pizza on a few occasions. I still can if I’m hungry, but I don’t.
My weight as of this post: about 185 lb.
My weight when I ate entire pizzas: about 185 lb (I didn’t do it frequently enough for it to have a significant effect on my weight).
me and my flat mates sometimes go to pizza hut for their buffetlunch, my personal best is 17 slices plus salad but the record at the moment stands at 19. The really amazing thing is the guy that ate this truly prodigous amount weighs much less than the rest of us and was still peckish!
We all still managed a reasonable dinner later on though. (Weight at time of post 154lbs)
It is a blessing to read this thread. Being an extremist in everything, I had a hard time learning how to eat. I’d either diet or binge. When binging, I could easily eat an entire pizza with a bottle of red wine, followed by a dozen doughnuts. Fortunately, I was never bulimic! But I have weighed 80 lbs. and 180 lbs. on occasion (and everything in between).
I have learned how to eat moderately, and have been very extreme about doing so.
And I wish I knew the word “hamover” back then. I had hundreds of such experiences.
::shudder::
No pizza records here, but I did talk to an employee at a Subway who said one of her regulars–a large African American chap–had a prodigious appetite for 12-inch subs. Said he regularly scarfed down THREE (3) in one sitting.
Need I say: garbage in, garbage out?
The best I ever did was 2 1/2 large pizzas. Of course I am known far and wide (mostly wide) as an eating machine.