Toss-up between an all-you-can-eat fondue extravaganza and a 49 oz. Porterhouse with salad, scalloped potatoes, a creme brule and of course some bread ;).
Probably the fondue place wins. I was in some genuine pain ( we all were ) by the end.
I feel queasy just reading others’ exploits.
If I’m ever going to set a record myself, it would be for consuming watermelon. I can buy a watermelon and eat a slice, then another, ad infinitum.
A five pound box of chocolates, four cups of coffee, a Big Mac, large fries, vanilla shake and apple pie, a huge bowl of popcorn, and four slices of everyhing pizza, followed by an entire bottle of wine.
Not the most I’ve ever eaten, but in highschool I used to pick up 2 Supersize Big Mac meals and eat them in the car on the way home - a distance of bout 1 mile. Of course I was on the wrestling team at the time and burned calories like crazy.
I’m sure I’m gaining weight just reading all of this! I don’t know how you can do it, I can barely make it through half a pizza in one go.
I write about food so I have had two exceptionally long tasting menus; one at Manresa in Los Gatos, 24 courses that took 6 1/2 hours to eat and one at The French Laundry which was also six hours about 23 courses.
Not in one sitting, but my research into fried dough took me to Los Angeles last weekend where I had the following dining schedule:
Friday evening
Argentine empanada (two)
Colombian empanda (one)
Salvadorean empanada (two)
Malaysian empanada (two)
Apple fritter at roadside architecture doughnut stand (grotesque)
Russian dinner (garlic fried bread, shuba salad, chebureki, belashi, and two beers)
Saturday
Hawaiian malasada
Diner breakfast with omelet and four gourmet doughnuts (stunning!)
Mexican Olvera Street churro
Apple fritter at roadside architecture doughnut stand (not bad)
Dinner at a family’s wedding
Sunday
Peach-stuffed doughnut at roadside architecture doughnut stand (exceptional)
Argentine empanada
Orange County Fair fried dough (funnel cake, deep-fried Twinkie, deep-fried butter, chocolate-dipped deep-fried bacon, cinnamon-dusted fried dough chips)
Indian dinner with papadams and gulab jamun
Monday
Apple fritter and chocolate devils food at roadside architecture stand (the Best!)
Once had two fully loaded subs from Subway at one sitting.
There was a chicken restaurant that on Wednesdays by where I used to work ,that had all you could eat for $6.99. We went with a football player from MSU who started with14 breasts and an order of fries. Often that was not enough.The pile of chicken on the tray was enormous.
I can’t eat like that anymore, but I used to. One place I’ve been to:
About half a loaf of french bread.
A pita bread topped with cheese.
A plate of mussels.
A bowl of soup.
Some salad.
A bunch of beef ribs.
An entire chicken.
A pitcher of beer.
Ah, Medieval Manor. Goode tymes, goode tymes.
I don’t remember specifically what I ate but I’m sure of when it was. Back in the 80s my ex-wife and I got stoned and went to one of those crappy all you can eat buffet places. I ate so much that by the time I got back to the car (she drove) I was absolutely miserable. Really, holding my stomach and wondering if it could rupture from overeating.
After? How can you wei… on second thought, I don’t want to know.
When I was in college I often ate only one meal a day. This is one I remember, bigger than most but not by very much: two grilled-cheese sandwiches, a can of tomato soup, almost all of a half-gallon container of chocolate ice cream and three-quarters of a pot of coffee. Probably 3500 Calories in that one meal. In the past I’ve been known to eat between 6000 and 7000 Calories a day on rare occasions, but never that much in one sitting.
I don’t quite eat like that any more, but I can still easily pack away 2000 calories of pizza in a sitting without even trying.
I had a large Pepproni Pizza at Domino’s + some chicken wings and a can of Coca-Cola.
I shouldn’t have done that though, I almost puked…
The late John Pinette’s stories of buffets, especially Chinese, could have well been told about me.
And I make it a point to hit the local churrascaria only once a month. Gives them time to recover afterwards.
Braaaaaaaains!
There used to be a Portugueze Rodizio restaurant in Smithtown NY, the twin of this one.
There was a huge open pit, bonfire-style, at the front of the restaurant, and each meat is cooked only with its own sort on skewers, with separate basting sauces; waiters circle the place and bring forth skewers with a flourish, announcing what they’ve got — “chateaubriand” or “chicken legs” or “pork tenderloin” or whatever — and you say yea or nay. They keep coming until you surrender and indicate that you wish no more food to be slid onto your plate.
Umm… I’d guess about 8 chicken legs, a third of a pound or so of various cuts of beef and that much again of pork, 6 sausages, 10 smoked turkey medallions, a piece or two of lamb, … plus Portuguese-style collard greens with yuca flour, black beans, rice, about 20 black olives, 3-4 hard rolls, a salad of lettuce onions and tomatoes with oil & vinegar dressing, and a bottle of nice red wine.