# Have you ever taken a restaurant food challenge?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-a-restaurant-food-challenge/554822>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-a-restaurant-food-challenge/554822 "2010-09-23T23:34:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-a-restaurant-food-challenge/554822/1 "2010-09-23T23:34:13Z")

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What was it and how did it go? I’m visiting the US again soon (hopefully!) and am tempted to try one out for the laugh. I was watching Man Vs. Food earlier and it got me thinking about them again. AFAIK such things don’t exist in this country.

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**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-a-restaurant-food-challenge/554822/2 "2010-09-24T01:28:38Z")

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I don’t think I’ve actually run across one - and I’ve lived in Texas all my 25 years (I don’t know if that’s relevent, but it sounds like a Texas thing, doesn’t it?). It would be fun, though,

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-a-restaurant-food-challenge/554822/3 "2010-09-24T10:14:28Z")

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I’ve never been to a place that had one. I don’t think I would have back when I was young. Now I cannot due to health reasons.