# Have you ever eaten anything larger than your head\[read qualifiers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271 "2012-01-03T17:25:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/1 "2012-01-03T17:25:06Z")
Have you ever consumed anything larger than your own head? To qualify: It must be reasonable to describe it as a single item in its own right (‘meal’ is not an item - it’s a collection. ‘Giant Burger’ is an item) No liquids or semisolids We’ll assume you have a really big head, so the item must be \>5.5kg(12 pounds). High volume lightweight foods don’t qualify. You ate it over a period of 6 hours or less. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/2 "2012-01-03T17:34:44Z")
I stick with B. Kliban’s advice on this matter. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/3 "2012-01-03T17:35:25Z")
Would something like a watermelon count? Although I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a whole watermelon all by myself. Mostly I came here to comment on the username/thread title combination. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/4 "2012-01-03T17:37:12Z")
No! That’s like three days of food for me. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/5 "2012-01-03T17:39:47Z")
Oh yes, easily. Tiramisu. Around here you get it in large cakes, and yes, I have eaten the whole thing in one afternoon. 😛 But um…yeah. That’s tiramisu, about as light and fluffy a thing you can get. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Jbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jbone)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/6 "2012-01-03T17:43:19Z")
Negative here as well. I made myself a whole chicken with stuffing/sides/etc, but ate that over a period of several days. In a single sitting, it would probably have been a 24oz Porterhouse smothered with mushrooms and onions. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/7 "2012-01-03T17:57:43Z")
Watermelon counts (probably the easiest win, but valid) Tiramisu only counts if you ate 12 pounds of it ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/8 "2012-01-03T18:41:39Z")
I’m pretty confident I could eat a watermelon the size of my head (edible parts only - no rind or seeds) in a six hour period but I’ve never actually tried the experiment. I used to know a guy who worked in a bakery. He was huge and he loved fresh bread. I watched him eat an entire loaf of fresh bread (with butter) out of the oven. Would that count? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/9 "2012-01-03T18:43:34Z")
I’ve definitely eaten half of a huge watermelon so it was probably close to the size of my head. My cousin and I used to cut them in half and sit with a spoon to eat while talking. High on my list of favorite summertime activities. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/10 "2012-01-03T18:47:59Z")
I haven’t, but my great-grandmother Laura would get these attacks of fruitiness when she was pregnant. Back then, oranges were sold by tens, a group of ten tens being a “gruesa”, a big one: while pregnant with my grandfather, she once bought a gruesa of oranges and ate 99 of them - another time, she ate a whole watermelon which if I’m not missing my unit conversion between Aragonese and Imperial units was on the 18lb range. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/11 "2012-01-03T18:59:39Z")
There are times when I wish I could eat something like that, but then there’s that voice at the back of my head that says _that’s wrong and society will shun you forever if you eat a bowl of Red Lobster Shrimp Alfredo the size of your head._. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/12 "2012-01-03T18:59:58Z")
When I was a binge eater, this was a daily thing for me. Things I can remember eating in one sitting include an entire large cheese pizza, a huge bowl of popcorn, a gallon of ice cream, many, many cookies, and god knows what else. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/13 "2012-01-03T19:02:53Z")
There was one taco salad in a huge flour tortilla bowl, with mucho lettuce, and yes, it was wider than my head, and almost as tall. Yes, I ate it all. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/14 "2012-01-03T19:08:41Z")
Let’s move this discussion of the finer points of gourmet eating to Cafe Society. From IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Theophane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@Theophane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theophane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/15 "2012-01-03T19:26:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Have you ever eaten anything larger than your head[read qualifiers) No, because nothing larger than my head could fit in my stomach if eaten in one sitting. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/16 "2012-01-03T19:29:52Z")
When I was a kid a hefty serving of cotton candy might have qualified. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/17 "2012-01-03T19:31:07Z")
Well, cotton candy, but not hardly 12 pounds of it. So I think no. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/18 "2012-01-03T19:35:58Z")
Oh, didn’t notice the weight qualifier. No, then. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/19 "2012-01-03T19:49:04Z")
12 pounds of watermelon is about 11 pounds of water, so about a gallon and a third. That’s a lot of water. Would it fall afoul of liquid and semi-liguid being excluded? Does jello count since it is also water suspended in a solid matrix? If I had to guess, I’m sure that I have eaten, in a six hour period of time a quantity of food that put in a pile would have been bigger than my head. But I’ve got no specifics to mention. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271/20 "2012-01-03T20:06:03Z")
Well, I was starving after a lobster node setting so I made a 7 litre casserole of hunter’s chicken stew. I ate it all between 6PM and midnight, though admittedly not in one sitting. I also had some garlic bread and three pints of beer. Yeah, I wasn’t in any shape to actually go _fetch_ the lobster nodes the morning after. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-eaten-anything-larger-than-your-head-read-qualifiers/608271.md?page=2)