Three pages, so I’m surprised I’m the first to ask…
Why?
Where’s your dignity?
Because it sounds fun.
Dude, aren’t you Australian?
Oh snap.
I don’t know, this sounds pretty nasty to me. Even some kind of food I really like in that much quantity would spell trouble.
Big fun!
I had an ER patient who did some sort of eating contest in a bar years ago.
He was brought in obtunded, having eaten a lot, barfed some, inhaled it, and then had trouble with respiratory distress.
He was a sight, vomitus all over his chest and caked in his hair, nose bleeding from failed attempts at nasal intubation in the field, feces dribbling down his legs.
Eventual successful intubation allowed the respiratory therapists to help bring up a big chunk of meat from his bronchus.
He ended up with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and spent at least a week on a vent in the ICU. I rotated out of there before he came out, don’t know whether he lived or died, or what.
That’s what I always remember when I see eating contests! 
I’ve bookmarked this thread! 
It’s safe, according to Dr. Julius Hibbert:
For the eating contest, Red and Homer are seated on a raised platform at one end of the restaurant. The waiter struggles to carry the 256-ounce slab of beef to their tables. Homer drools lustily when he sees his huge steak.
Marge: Is it safe to eat that much food, Dr. Hibbert?
Hibbert: You know, I wouldn’t have thought so before I bought twelve percent of this restaurant, but now I feel a balanced diet can include the occasional eating contest.
This is precisely why they’ve installed a webcam! Dinner and a show!
hope the steak was good. been thinking of moving to amarillo this year. it’s a great city. houses not bad prices. but third windy city in US and very dry. but what the hell lived alot of places can’t be to bad.
MB
I just tried it. Ate three saltines at once to start and let me tell you that every molecule of moisture in your mouth is gone at that point. I had to get some water just to get the three down. You don’t appreciate the difficultly of the task until you’ve got them in your mouth.
That’s what she said!
Right before the zombies got her.
Be aware that Amarillo has nuclear weapons being shipped in and out of it on a regular basis. Here is the Wiki article in the Pantex facility. You may get blowed up real good some day. On the plus side, jobs at the plant apparently pay well.
I don’t know if American is making any new warheads these days, but Pantex is the site where America “refurbishes” its nuclear stockpile. The existing warheads are periodically removed from their housings (missiles or bomb casings) and shipped to Amarillo, where their components are tested and replaced or upgraded as necessary.
Just sumpin to think about. They only have to make the wrong mistake once. 
Air is your enemy. If you can squeeze the air out of anything, do it. I would advice squeezing all the liquid out of everything as well.
I lived in Amarillo for three years. I move away from there about 5 months after my first post in this thread. I ate breakfast at the “Big Texan” few months before I moved. It was bad. From the looks of it dinner would have been just as bad. If you want steak go to the Lone Start Bar and Grill which is between Amarillo and Canyon.
Thanks for the memories.
About moving to Amarillo:
On the plus side:
The Mexican and Vietnamese food is great. The location is close to New Mexico and Colorado. Housing is cheap, and was not affected much at all by the housing slump. The price of living is great.
A lot of people who lived there loved it. Most of those were religious, or lived there all or most of their lives. Some transplants, especially those with children also liked it.
The only notable geographic feature is Palo Dura canyon. It’s OK, but once you’ve seen it a few times, not great. It’s about 30 miles south of town.
There is a funny little blog called “The Amarillo Truth Squad” which I used to read. It is fairly liberal by north Texas standards and often has kind of an amusing slant on the place.
On the negative side:
The weather is pretty bad year round. Spring and fall are very-very windy, and summer and winter aren’t much better. There is lots of ice in the winter and frequent wildfires in the summer. It is dusty all year round and frequently smells of cow shit. Because of all the cattle the flies can be incredible unless it is too windy (which it often is).
I found many of the natives rather parochial. Those from the smaller towns like Happy, Borger, Canyon, and Sanford particularly so.
The largest employers IIRC are Pantex (the bomb factory), cattle and meat packing, and the prisons. A lot of people worked in petroleum/resources too. There is a medical/pharmacy school which is a satellite campus of Texas Tech and a two year school (Amarillo College). I worked at the Pharmacy school. It was dull, dull, and real dull.
You are going to have to fly to Dallas or Houston to go anywhere. They say it’s an international airport, but I think that is because once a week you can get a flight to Mexico.
Back when I first heard about the free steak challenge I was curious just how much it cost for those who failed (about 80 bucks). I perused their website and saw the pictures they were using to promote the food they expected contestants to eat. Now normally, food pictures are taken to make the food look as pleasing and appetizing as possible. But they put no effort at all into their pictures. There was a picture of the salad they served, but it was still covered in plastic wrap - like they had a lot of premade salads in a cooler by the door and they just grabbed one. The picture of the shrimp cocktail was just a picture of a foil cover from a plastic container of shrimp. The steak was raw and the color so washed out that it looked kind of rotten in the picture. I remember thinking at the time “if this is all the effort you think your food deserves then why would I want to eat it!!??”. I must not have been the only person with that reaction because all of those pictures have been removed from their site.
If Cisco can get a couple of desserts down can the kids get some free T-shirts and hats?
Yeah, next to the door in a glass case is an example of the meal you get-I remember thinking it looked distinctly unappealing.
The restaurant and the attached motel give the impression of being a tourist trap. It’s location directly beside I40 as you enter town from the east also lend to this impression. The decor in the restaurant is cowboy faux. One cool feature is the giant fibre glass cow in the parking lot.
Good luck - hope you won’t end up like this guy.
–SMM
The Big Kahuna - to prove everything is not bigger in Texas, Iowa sets up a 205oz challenge. (I saw it as a food factoid in a menu at lunch today)
No, you’re thinking of Paul Bunyans’s Old 96’er.
Had the same fillings about their food.
Don’t knock it. I got the royal screw-over by a woman I’d been seeing, right there in the bar. So I started drinking. Heavy. I was told later that, when I was shooting pool by myself, I’d take a shot, knock down a drink, take another shot, knock down a drink… I mean, the whole drink, not just one swallow. So they say; I don’t remember. But I DO remember feeling queasy after awhile and ducking out the back door, standing over a snowbank waiting for it to come up. And saw movement, and saw this pretty nice-looking girl watching me. I told her, “You don’t want to be out here.”
She asked, “Why not?”
And I told her, “You’re not going to like what…” It was supposed to be “…you’ll see,” but at that point, I puked into the snowbank.
I ended up going home with her that night. Didn’t do anything that night because, I don’t know about other guys but, I’m not a performer when I’m THAT drunk. But we had a real good week before my trip was up, and I had to go. And she really was pretty good-looking. Point being, I really have to wonder how many guys can pick up a hot chick by puking in a snowbank.