# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/21 "2000-12-24T09:10:01Z")
One night/party: 1 one-liter bottle of Captain Morgans + 1 2-liter of coke One bus ride from Ohio to Colorado (30 hours): 1 1.75 liter bottle Captian Morgans + 1 2-liter Coke + 1 2-liter Sprite Pizza eating contest: 1 16" pepperoni pizza + 1/2 16" jalapino pizza Out West: 32 oz. steak, baked potatoe, 2 beers and a piece of cheese cake Probably other incidents, too. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/22 "2000-12-24T09:37:38Z")
1 liter Captain Morgans, 5 cans of Coke in 1 hr 45 minutes. This one will only be appreciated by those who know the restaraunt. 2 La Bamba Super Burritos “as big as your head” with steak, chorizo, lettuce, onion, tomato, sour cream, beans, extra cheese and extra hot sauce. Various other drinking silliness that I won’t hijack this thread with. An entire loaf of Honey Wheat bread with Kraft singles, eaten one at a time, balled up into a cheesy doughey ball. Thats all I have for now. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/23 "2000-12-24T09:40:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omniscient \* > **…Various other drinking silliness that I won’t hijack this thread with…** Feel free, I think we’ve all outdone ourselves at one time or another. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/24 "2000-12-24T09:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Omniscient \* > \*\*This one will only be appreciated by those who know the restaraunt. > > 2 La Bamba Super Burritos “as big as your head” with steak, chorizo, lettuce, onion, tomato, sour cream, beans, extra cheese and extra hot sauce.\*\* **Wow** That is a veritable shit-load of food. I remembered another drinking related one: 23 shots in 1 1/2 hours on 21st birthday, and yes I threw up. I really would not recommend that to anyone. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/25 "2000-12-24T09:43:27Z")
Two 2-liters of Mad Dog 20/20 waaaaaaaay back in the day when it only came in purple. I still can’t even SMELL grape Kool-Aid. I’m going to go yark now just cause I _thought_ about it. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/26 "2000-12-24T13:39:09Z")
A beer Century. 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes. It has to be done a shot at a time. 150 ozs of beer in an hour and a half. Once you do it,you swear off beer for a long time,two days at least! as for food, Boy Scout camp memories are from long ago but still vivid. 3 dozen pancakes 6’ dia. 1/2 gal milk 1/2 dozen eggs scrambled loaf of toast w/jelly. Damn, now I’m hungry.MTS ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/27 "2000-12-24T17:03:52Z")
Nym, I think I’m going to barf after reading that. ::erk:: I’ve drank a fifth of SoCo over a night, with about a 12 pack of orange soda, but that’s my best drinking-consumption story. –Tim ---
**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 24, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/28 "2000-12-24T17:11:33Z")
If we are discussing alcool, When Ireland played Italy a couple years ago, I got to the bar at 7:30 A.M. to see some GAA matches on satellite before the match. I left at 4:45 the next morning. I had 29 pints of Guinness that I’m aware of in addition to at least 11 shots of JägerMeister. The Jäger is what got me as anyone with taste can tell you: “Guinness is Good For You” ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/29 "2000-12-25T00:09:08Z")
I have the shirt back home, but on my graduation pub-crawl I hit something just short of 20 bars and had a short _ **and** _ a beer at each, IIRC. Next time I’m home, I’ll shoot a pic of the shirt, it has stamps from all the bars and boxes for “Beer” and “Shots” with the tick-marks for each…it’s a mess! Held it down, too. ---
**Author:** ![LCP2972](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@LCP2972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LCP2972)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/30 "2000-12-25T04:48:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zen101 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*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! \*\* HA!, I have you both beat here… I once had my picture taken at Cap’n Quackenbush’s coffee house in Austin for drinking 7 sledghammers. A sledghammer consists of a 20 oz cup of columbian supremo, with 4 shots of expresso dropped in.This was accomplished in about 30 minutes,( I add a bit of ice to coffee in times of great caffine urges),they gave me the last two cups free. I don’t have a count on it,but I am also prone to eat ALL the sweet and sour chicken at the all you can eat Chinese place near work. A pan or two usually. ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@Wanderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/31 "2000-12-26T05:13:56Z")
The only thing I’d pig out on in quantity was White Castle burgers. I’d buy a dozen and inhale them on the way to work every day. Can’t do that any more, though, because of the fat, so I have to avoid that corner, since it’s smell is a Siren calling me into the rocks! ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/32 "2000-12-26T06:11:17Z")
Didn’t anyone else read this thread and think of Mr. Creosote? “How are you doing, sir?” “Better.” “Better?” “Better get a bucket.” As for me, I have no real good stories about epic amounts of food I’ve eaten. It’s true that I _can_ eat a surprising amount of food for someone my weight (~125 pounds)–I can eat as big a steak as someone outweighing me by a good 20-30 pounds. However, my friend and I used to engage in epic “Shakey’s Gluttonyfests”. The summer I graduated from high school, my best friend and I went to Shakey’s and bought their luncheon buffet a couple of times. I got it into my stupid head that since we were paying an outrageous amount for lunch (seemed like it was around $30), we should stuff our faces with food. [sub]I know it wasn’t more than $6-7 or so, but at the time, it sure as hell SEEMED like $30. Of course, lunch at school cost $1.25 back in the mid 80’s, so $6-7 seemed like it should pay for a feast of biblical proportions.[/sub] Now, while we probably didn’t eat our weight in food (or anything close to it), it sure FELT that way. We would literally stagger out of the restaurant, and when my friend would drive us to his house, I’d implore him not to drive too fast, and, whatever he did, he SHOULD NOT make any sudden turns. His reply (in the same sick and weakened tone of voice as my own) was that he had no intention of doing either. Then we’d get to his house, and we’d each stagger into the bathroom. And sit in there for a half hour. In retrospect, what was truly stupid was that we did this more than once before finally deciding that it really WASN’T worth it to eat that much food. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917/33 "2000-12-26T06:19:05Z")
I’ve eaten two large pan pizzas on several occasions. Once, at a pizza buffet, I ate 22 slices, but they weren’t all pan. I can’t eat large amounts like I used to (I’m 28 now). I find that I am often quite full after two plates of food, when in the past I always had at least thirds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-consumption-whats-your-personal-best/46917.md?page=1)