# Food Consumption. What's Your Personal Best? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917 "2000-12-22T21:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/1 "2000-12-22T21:52:25Z")
What is the greatest quantity of a given food that you have ever eaten at one sitting? I’ll start this grisly agenda with: 20 Taco Bell tacos (can’t do that anymore) 23 Aebleskiver (oversized Danish doughnut holes) A fifth of Rebel Yell bourbon (only gift I had to open one Christmas) ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/2 "2000-12-22T22:27:09Z")
Once, after backpacking on slim rations for several days (that included getting lost and an unexpected snowstorm) I ate an entire family-sized candian bacon and pineapple pizza, a pitcher of beer, and split a chocolate cake with one of the other backpackers. Mine was one of the modest meals consumed that afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/3 "2000-12-23T02:14:28Z")
Holy crap, **Zenster** , did you eat all that at one time, or is this 3 seperate occasions? For my 16th birthday, I was taken to Jahn’s Ice Cream Parlor. All the other ice cream tea-totalers at the table ordered the usual cones and sundaes. Not me. I had to have _The Kitchen Sink_. This is something that normally serves 25-30 people. That day, it only served one. IIRC, I needed help getting out to the car. I felt like a total slob afterwards, but I’m proud to say that I did not vomit. Oh, but I sure thought about it. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/4 "2000-12-23T02:20:46Z")
I have two submissions 1. my first place prize in the “Irving’s Red Hot Lovers” hot dog restaurant HD eating contest-21-1/2 in three minutes. I got a cool little trophy of a gilt, animated hot dog that got lost:( 2. I once ate an entire Carmens large stuffed sausage, mushroom, and garlic pizza. it was ~18" around and 3" thick—ohhhh! I’m much calmer now but when it comes to Dim Sum, all bets are off! ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/5 "2000-12-23T03:23:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MikeG \* > \*\*…I’m much calmer now but when it comes to Dim Sum, all bets are off! \*\* I’m with you there **Mike**! My last Dim Sum tab came to $30.00. And I was the only one at the table! \ Dim Sum is one of those perfect foods, like sushi, emminently scarfable and bite sized. And no, **Dire Wolf** , each of those events were spaced by as much as twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/6 "2000-12-23T03:39:13Z")
I once ordered All You Can Eat snow-crab legs at a restaurant in Virginia Beach. Six racks of legs per platter, three platters: about 75 legs. One more bite, and it would have all been for nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/7 "2000-12-23T03:42:33Z")
i drank 23 coffees once. i couldn’t keep food down properly for 2 months afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/8 "2000-12-23T03:51:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **23 Aebleskiver (oversized Danish doughnut holes)** Slight hijack: Zenster, I don’t suppose you have a recipe for those do you ? Something that someone who is almost hopeless in the kitchen can make. I have a cast iron Aebleskiver pan already\* 🙂 \*Inhereted from my neighbour, a wonderful man from Germany who was, for many years, the Head Pastry Chef at Scandia in Los Angeles. I can still taste them, warm from the oven with a bit of jam and some powdered sugar mmmmMMMMmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/9 "2000-12-23T04:29:55Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* \*\* > [@](#): > > …Zenster, I don’t suppose you have a recipe for those [aebleskiver] do you ?..\*\* [sub][Scarlett][/sub] What, lil’ ol’ me, have a recipe? Well I never! [sup][/Scarlett][/sup] Of course I have a recipe. I’ll do my best to post it to the recipe thread in the next day or so. All that I ask in return is that you use butter when you make them and perhaps think of posting a recipe to the Ultimate Recipe Thread in the future. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/10 "2000-12-23T04:54:19Z")
In one evening: Two tubes of “Mr Cookie Face” Chocolate/Vanilla swirl ice cream sandwiches (thats ten total) One box of Twinkies. One Box of Ding Dongs (Those are the hockey puck looking ones, right?) Two litres of Ruby Red Squirt. One large order of Carolina Honeys from Tony Romas. One half order of baby back BBQ ribs from Tony Romas. Ear of corn. Couple of rolls. Baked potato (I think I just had butter in the house and the little dab of sour cream they put on it at the resturant. I did not eat the skin. I just recently started eating the skin and this was years ago.) One very large glass of red rose tea made with one large bag of mushrooms added. (I had never taken mushrooms before and I guess I took way too much. I also smoked a bit so I don’t know if the munchies came from the mushrooms or the pot.) This was all consumed while watching the movie “The Bodyguard” over and over again. Also not consumed in order listed, that was just from memory. I do not eat like this any more. I still pig out, but not anywhere near this kind of pigging out. I was very sick the next day and the following two days still, I was in real pain after the drugs wore off and thought I had torn somewthing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/11 "2000-12-23T04:56:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kilgore Trout \* > \*\*i drank 23 coffees once. i couldn’t keep food down properly for 2 months afterward. \*\* wo! I used to be a barista in college and my standing record during Christmas was only 18 shots and that was well above my mormal 7 or 8 shots a day. You must have been vibrating! ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/12 "2000-12-23T04:58:29Z")
What you tore was your brainstem… It’s all right, it happens to the best of us. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/13 "2000-12-23T05:57:25Z")
25 Taco Bell crunchy tacos. No lettuce. Got a $.50 taco coupon in the mail. No limit. Jon and I decided to see how many we could eat. 21 standard slices of pizza. Bruce, my old boss, and I, got in an eating contest during lunch one day. I felt kinda full later. 1/2 gallon of eggnog. Nearly puked. Sooooo rich. 1 gallon of ice cream. Many times. 2 foot long meatball subs from Subway. 7 overflowing plates of spaghetti. 2 2 liters of soda. I know I’ve done some more stupid eating tricks. Lemme think of them. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/14 "2000-12-23T06:19:50Z")
SH!T OH DEAR Tim! So glad to be able to count on you! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/15 "2000-12-23T14:08:15Z")
In the space of 8 hours: A 8 scoop, 3 topping, one banana ice cream creation, 3 orders large MacDonald fries, an entire popper full of popcorn, five candy bars, and half a veggie and cheese pizza. Christmas 1983 I had a two pound box of chocolates washed down with a half liter of red wine. I was so sick the next day. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/16 "2000-12-23T15:13:46Z")
Let’s see… at a single meal: 8 White Castle sliders with cheese 1 large bag of onion chips 1 large chocolate milkshake It’s not that much, I know, but considering that I can’t eat like that since having my gallbladder out. Too much fat. Robin ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/17 "2000-12-23T20:17:03Z")
Twelve perogies. ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/18 "2000-12-23T22:09:15Z")
On a dare at Wendy’s: - One “Great Biggie” order of fries; - One “Biggie” soda; - One “Ultimate Triple” cheeseburger (3/4 lb of meat). this was followed by: - Six Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers; all of which were consumed in the space of 6 minutes, 45 seconds. (coulda gone faster, but all that bread slows you down) and immediately afterward: - a jog of approximately one-half mile, while my friends followed behind in a car to see if I would vomit. (I’m proud to say I didn’t.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/19 "2000-12-24T05:09:27Z")
This is what I eat after my usual long run (12-20 miles),constant source of amazement to the rest of the running club. 2 bowls cereal 1 cup milk 1 bowl fruit large soda 16 oz fruit smoothie doughnut yogurt piece of cake or pie 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/20 "2000-12-24T06:11:18Z")
:eek: I forgot my cereal eating escapades! Entire box of Mini Wheats (small box) and 1/2 gallon milk, approx. 4 oz of sugar Entire box of Cocoa Pebbles (med. box) and 1/2 gallon milk Entire box of Fruity Pebbles (med. box) and 1/2 gallon milk Entire box of Cinnamon Life (small box) and 1/2 gallon milk Not exactly a half gallon, but thereabouts. This usually takes about 20 minutes to eat the cereal (multiple bowls) and another 10 to finish all the milk. Mom won’t buy me cereal anymore. 😃 Keep in mind I’m 6’1" and 165 lbs. –Tim [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917.md?page=2)