I probably shouldn’t ask…but what are the side effects? I’ve never eaten so much ice cream at once…
(I sometimes get bricked up from eating too much cheese…)
For Kimstu’s gazpacho recipe: yes!
Mine would be dinner at Captain George’s Seafood Restaurant in Virginia Beach. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet but unlike any buffet I’d ever seen. They have a massive selection of beautifully presented dishes (each looks like a made-to-order menu item) arranged by food groups on long tables… There’s no line - you just come and go as you please, and the wait staff constantly clear your table and bring clean plates. I ate four different oyster entrees and three of the crab, adding a few vegetables to my plate at each pass.
I never pass up dessert, so then I headed to the dessert area to find a huge round table filled with every dessert on my top ten list (among about 20 -30 selections). I was feeling full, so I only chose six. And ate them. They were small servings, but very rich.
It all hit me on the drive home. I didn’t throw up, but for the next five hours I seriously felt like my stomach was going to rupture at any moment.
I never returned to Captain George’s. It made me queasy just to drive by the place. But I highly recommend it - the food is delicious!
I second the Captain George restaurant!!! I like to think I can eat my weight in crablegs. I will eat until I am in pain. Thats when I know to stop. I also love sushi so when I am lucky enough to go to a all you can eat buffet like Minado I leave full to capacity. I pay for it the next day as rice is a binder…ouch:D
Actually, I remembered that I posted this in a gazpacho thread about 4 years ago:
Lazy Cheater’s Easy, Fast and Delicious Low-Calorie Gazpacho
I forgot to mention in that post that finely grating about one-half seeded cucumber into mush instead of dicing it with the rest adds a nice texture to the gazpacho base.
There are a number of other yummy-sounding gazpacho recipes in the same thread, but when I get the gazpacho craving I never have the patience to try any but my own tried-and-true version.
The guy who took us eats only steamed lump crab meat when he goes, nothing else. I think he went through about seven or eight plates of it. 
If I could afford it, I could probably eat my weight in fresh oysters on the half-shell.
I’ve done things I’m not proud of…
50 White Castle Cheeseburgers (on a bet…I won but also lost…)
A bucket of 20 pieces of fried chicken from Hardees (which was like Roy Rodgers’ fried chicken). I think I may have left maybe one or two pieces behind but I devoured nearly the entire bucket myself.
In college, there was bar that would sometimes have promotions where you could buy chicken wings for a dime a wing. One time my friend and I put $20 down and were served a giant platter of wings between us. We went to town. I don’t know exactly how many wings I ate but we finished them and I am pretty sure I ate more than he did.
When I was a kid, my family took a trip to Hersey Park in PA. on the way we stopped at a diner for breakfast. My brother and I each ordered one of those “Hungryman” type breakfasts that come with everything: Eggs, Bacon Sausage, Ham, pancakes, hash browns etc. Both my brother and I finished while everyone else was still eating and obnoxious brats that were were badgered our parents in ordering us a second full meal of the same which we also finished.
Like I said…I’ve done things I’m not proud of…
A couple of years ago I went to the San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy, NY. The streets were lined with vendors selling deep fried oreos. At first I was all, “That’s gross!” and I kept going through the throngs of people in search of healthier options. But they were literally everywhere. Every person I saw seemed to be snarfing one down. They were making me hungry so I broke down and got a giant slice of buffalo chicken pizza, thinking it would help distract me.
But no. There was yet another mile’s worth of deep fried oreos. Finally I convinced myself one wasn’t going to kill me.
It’s impossible to order just one because six come in an order. I know what you’re thinking. Six oreos is nothing. But they aren’t oreo-sized. With all the batter and everything, they are about the same size as those Chinese donuts. Yet, the first one dissolved in my mouth before I knew what hit me. I ate another one so I could see if the first was just my imagination.
This is when I said to myself, “That’s it, monstro. Let’s save the others for breakfast tomorrow.” Because with that all pizza in my stomach (along with whatever grease bomb I’d eaten for lunch earlier), I was already uncomfortably full.
But no. I wasn’t done. I ate every last one of those deep fried oreos, just like everyone else standing in the street had done. And that’s not it! I returned to the festival the next day and repeated the entire experience all over again. I also went back last year, but I took you with the face with me so that she could give me CPR just in case I had a heart attack.
In one sitting I have eaten 4000-5000 calories. That only happens if I have avoided eating all day, and I don’t get hungry again until the next day.
Those calories can come from various sources. Pizza, chinese food, steak/potatoes, etc.
A large pizza, supposedly a meal for four people.
I use to either diet or binge. I once dieted by eating nothing until 4:00. Then I ate a Big Mac, large fries, vanilla shake, two sundaes, a lot of popcorn, two candy bars and half a large pizza. I’m 5’6" and weighed about 145 at the time.
How’d that work out?
I didn’t puke if that’s what you mean. I was used to either starving or binging.
I’ve since grown up and learned to eat when I am hungry and stop when I’m not hungry–a very unique diet.
This is absolutely, jaw-droppingly phenomenal.
Ashley would have loved cooking for you - if you didn’t stop him, he would cook 12 egg omelets packed with cheese and everything else he could cram in and about 6 slices of toast, hash browns and a vat of coffee … he was this big burly ex football player and liked to eat accordingly - mrAru said that he thought the NAvy was the best thing that happened to him, he could finally eat as much as he wanted.
I love Captain Georges as well - I lived in Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Portsmouth for 8 years, and we went a couple times a year. You do not need to pig out to make the trip worth it, you just have to go for the good seafood and ballast with enough vegetables [well, I don’t feel like something is a meal unless I have at least a salad.]
Up here in Connecticut, there is a good all you can eat place just over the border in Rhodes Island called Nordic Lodge. I prefer to go with out roommate along, she likes the front half of the lobster, and I like the tails so we split the lobsters so I don’t feel like I am wasting half a lobster [I would normally rip off the claws and tail, but we normally just half the poor thing and she gets the entire front half.] We do a celebratory birthday gorge once a year, I really can’t manage any more frequently than that any more - we can go through about 5 lobsters between us, and she will add some shellfish, and I will have some of the jumbo shrimp and fill in around the edges with salad. I rarely have dessert - I can make better, but I would rather save my carbs for food. [insulin control diabetic, type 2]
There was a restaurant in my college town that served 13-egg omelets, it was called “The Yellow Whale”. Overloaded with fillings and so large it hung off the ends of a large serving platter. My rugby teammates and I would go there on Sunday mornings occasionally. and I finished a few of them over the years, with sides of bacon and hash browns.
I once drunkenly boasted that I could eat 99 “riblets” at Applebee’s when they were having some cheap promotion for them on TV, a friend took me up on the challenge. I didn’t get anywhere close to 99, but I think I finished somewhere in the 50s.
I once ate a 12 inch Sub Sandwich (not from Subway, but a local Sub Shop) and two bags of chips followed by a large iced tea in one sitting. I’m an average sized woman 5’ 6" and around 130lbs. I’d planned on saving half of it for dinner, but I was so hungry and deeply engrossed in a movie (Cliffhanger) that I ate my way through the whole thing.
One time just after we started our “real” jobs, the spouse got an award voucher from work that we could use for dinner anywhere. We went to our favorite steak and seafood place, where we proceeded to shovel down steak, lobster (me–he’s allergic), two or three sides each, a big bowl of clam chowder (me), a big Caesar salad (him) and a giant order of Mud Pie which we shared.
By the time we waddled out to the car, I literally said, in my best Scarlett O’Hara voice, “As God is my witness: I’ll never be hungry again!” He agreed emphatically. We both thought we were gonna be sick right there in the parking lot.
To this day, 25 years later, that’s our go-to phrase when we eat too much. Either that or “Batty ate too many hot dogs.” (this comes from a book by an photographer whose name I can’t remember now, who took pictures of his Weimeraners). (ETA: William Wegman)
Our favorite sushi place has an incredible deal on a Sushi Boat for two, with soup and salad. It is what we always order there. We typically skip lunch that day, and yet still barely finish everything.
One time part way into the boat, I realized she had stopped eating. She just lost her appetite. She gradually felt worse. I kept picking at the sushi. I felt bad leaving any behind uneaten, and we both have a “thing” about leftover sushi. So she sipped tea and I ate more sushi than one person should. I ate it all, even the ginger (especially the ginger).
Probably about 2 pounds - occasionally I’ll make a sandwich with 1/2 pound of roast beef, 1/2 pound of corned beef, 1/2 pound of pastrami, and 1/4 pound of Swiss cheese. (At least, that’s how big they were before my doctor showed me my blood sugar numbers and said “chances are you’re going to lose weight in one of two ways; diet and exercise, or having your feet/lower legs amputated someday”.)