I don’t get how an establishment where its common for patrons to vomit on site doesn’t violate health regulations.
We used to do the saltine challenge at lunch in the cafeteria in college. The first time you try it it seems impossible, but with practice we were able to do it. Part of the trick is to not get too much cracker into your mouth at once. It’s very easy to end up with a mouth full of dry crumbs that you can’t swallow because they’re just dry crumbs… If you have less cracker in your mouth you can work it into damp, swallowable balls (that are still mostly dry crumbs on the inside) and then you’re golden.
Mmm… saltines.
Reminds me of the saying:
Red meat isn’t bad for you - fuzzy green meat is bad for you.
Just out of curiosity, is there any rule against sending the steak back to be warmed. That’s certainly what I’d do at any other steak joint if it got cold. (Though the time factor might work against you, here) I don’t consider it rude to the staff, I consider it respect for the meat.
Apparently there are places where people actually defecate in the restaurant too!
Of course. It’s not 100% that I’ll even make the trip at this point, but if I do it you guys will definitely be notified. I’m going to need lots of practice, though. I did a 1-lb burger with lettuce, tomato, onion, & ketchup, an order of fries, and a side-salad at Fuddrucker’s the other day and it kicked my ass. For a couple hours afterwards I had that never want to eat again feeling. I’m going to try the water stomach-stretching technique next time I get a chance. This weekend, perhaps.
Extrapolating from this chart (because for some reason none of the charts go that high), a 200-pound man drinking 40 beers in one hour would have a blood alcohol content of around .74%, which is well beyond fatal according to every source I’ve ever seen.
I used the BAH calculator that page links to and did some more extrapolation to check with a 300-pound man (since you said he’s 7 feet tall), and it came up at around .46%. Just for comparison, this site (scroll all the way down) says:
and this one says:
It appears that your college buddy is very lucky to be alive. That challenge isn’t a very smart thing to do.
What’s an hour of power?
One shot of beer every minute for an hour, which is about 8 beers. For complete info, here’s da wiki.
Assuming that was done with Bud or Michelob I can actually imagine doing that one, although drinking contests aren’t my style. I normally go for porters, stouts, IPAs and such, and I wouldn’t want to try it with those.
Its actually pretty easy. The forced pacing tends to make it even easier than if you just tried to drink 8 beers. Though sometimes that minutes feels like it comes around really fast. In college this used to be our standard pre-party routine every Friday Night. The Century Club is similar and for some strange reason is an order of magnitude more difficult.
Cisco, when you first walk in the restaurant there’s a huge chair on your right, maybe five times the size of a normal chair. If you eat all this steak you really need to just go climb up in that chair for awhile afterwards and feel good about yourself. To all the new, hungry patrons coming in, just look 'em in the eye, burp, and announce proudly… “I’m gonna poo bigger than your wife’s Sunday hat.”
I’ve done it. Not the most fun game for drinking.
And the Roxaaaaaannnnne game should be outlawed under the Geneva Convention.
Ya think?
I need link.
Unless I’m missing something, I totally just did it. I don’t have to put them all in my mouth at one time or anything, do I? I just did three sets of two; the first took about 15 seconds and the next two about twenty. I had to swallow the last bit in sort of a dangerous hunk, but I came in just under a minute.
Time to fleece my friends!
Two thoughts:
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The BAC calculations seem like they would be pretty variable. It takes time for the alcohol to be absorbed. So if you calculated the BAC with only .015% for “burn-off,” the number might need to be revised upward since the last beers wouldn’t have been absorbed in that first hour. It’s more of a rolling process of intaking alcohol while simultaneously processing it, isn’t it? Also, it seems like the amount of “burn-off” would vary with activity. And wouldn’t other factors affect absorption rates/amounts? Like food, etc? The fact that the charts show linear relationships makes me think they’re making a lot of unwarranted assumptions.
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The other big factor is that the calculations assume beer that is 4.5% alcohol. Many light beers are a full percentage less than that. If the guy was drinking one of the college favorites, like Bud Light or Old Milwaukee, that would change the calculations significantly.
- It’s a complete lie and exaggeration.
And Bud Light and Miller Light have 4.2% ABV, not far off. Almost all non-light beers are 5% or higher. Very, very few beers are lower than 4% and those are either near-beer or brand new ultra-low cal beers recently introduced.
Didn’t none of you smart kids go to college? 
The game is based off of The Police song Roxanne (YouTube). The object is to drink everytime Sting says “Roxanne”. If you’re drinking a good Sam Adams it is unbearably powerful, and if you’re sticky with Keystone Light it is unbearably terrible.
Try it with a glass of water right now, blech!
Well, the page I googled had Bud Light and Old Milwaukee at less than that. And as I search around for a better cite, I see pages with varying stats, but many are sub-4. Do you have a definitive cite?
In any case, the point is that beers vary pretty significantly. Many states sell 3.2 beer, and Amstel Light is significantly different from Bud.
Seems to me that the beer variable, plus spillage and physiological factors make the feat plausible (if still really stupid and dangerous).
That’s what makes it so dangerous. Normally you’re going to pace your alcohol assumption slowly enough that you’ll reach the point of unconsciousness and stop drinking before you die. But if you “power drink” like you described it’s possible to consume a lethal amount of alcohol before you process enough to pass out.