# What Was the Most You Ate in One Sitting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497 "2012-02-11T03:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/1 "2012-02-11T03:09:23Z")
What sort of food and how much was the most that you ate in one sitting? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/2 "2012-02-11T03:11:06Z")
An entire meal. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/3 "2012-02-11T04:17:28Z")
I guess this counts as two sittings, but it was definitely the most I’ve ever eaten in one day, and I felt pretty unwell the next day. I was in Canada for a Dopefest at a cabane à sucre; basically a sugar shack that does family style meals, serving maple, eggs, and pork in endless variations and combinations. I ate a _lot_ of heavy food, but had to duck out early to head home for a farewell dinner we were having for some friends at a local restaurant that does authentic (or authentic inspired, anyway) Chinese food served family style as well. There were I think ten of us at dinner, and we ordered sooo much food. But it really is spectacular Chinese food, and I had to try at least a portion of everything we ordered. I woke up the next morning so uncomfortable, like my whole gastrointestinal track was stuffed to rigidity. Fortunately, I didn’t suffer any actual digestive distress. But, never again will I eat that much. It was a bizarre feeling I would not like to repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/4 "2012-02-11T05:21:18Z")
When I was in college, a wing place opened up near campus (this was in the early 90s so Wing places were kind of new), they sold Wings for a dime a wing so one day my friend and I went in there and ordered 300 wings and beer. We ate and drank and ate until it was all gone. Neither of us kept count but I suspect I ate more than half of the wings that day. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/5 "2012-02-11T05:28:44Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > When I was in college, a wing place opened up near campus (this was in the early 90s so Wing places were kind of new), they sold Wings for a dime a wing so one day my friend and I went in there and ordered 300 wings and beer. We ate and drank and ate until it was all gone. Neither of us kept count but I suspect I ate more than half of the wings that day. That is impressive. That’s something like 5 pounds of wings. That said, [here’s a woman who ate that much](http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/She_ate_5_of_her_body_weight_in_Chicken_Wings_in_12_mins) in 12 minutes. I simply cannot comprehend that. I would tap out after 30 wings, max. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/6 "2012-02-11T15:29:54Z")
I haven’t measured all my meals but I’m confident it was the All You Can Eat Spaghetti Night at AJ’s Hangar in Kingston. 1994, I believe it was. I ate and ate and ate, determined to get my money’s worth, and had to leave my girlfriend behind and go home because I felt like the food had actually backed up to the bottom of my throat. I could do that sort of thing back then. No longer. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/7 "2012-02-11T16:10:17Z")
I ate 18 blue crabs ones in an “all you can eat” situation (and a couple hushpuppies but I was keeping it real). Being, at the time, 5’2 and 125lbs that was quite an achievment. 😃 Crab is pure protein, and thus filling, but blue crabs are slow work and as I finished the first dozen I started to come back around to being hungry for more. I think my husband and I (he also had 18) sat and ate for about 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/8 "2012-02-11T16:22:08Z")
Sometime in the '80s, at Aunt Kizzie’s Back Porch: Three pieces of fried chicken, baked macaroni and cheese, black-eyed peas, collard greens, and hushpuppies. Plus a a couple of beers. It was so good I just couldn’t stop eating. I was literally in pain from eating so much. I think only once since then have I come close to pain from over-eating; but since that night at AKBP I make it a point not to eat that much. (Not that you’d think that from looking at me!) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/9 "2012-02-11T16:22:36Z")
Many years ago, I had the (I think) 22 oz. porterhouse at Outback. Which was after the Caesar salad. And my share of a Bloomin’ Onion (there were three of us at the table that night). And that bread they bring. I was an invalid for most of the rest of the night. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/10 "2012-02-11T16:28:26Z")
I once ate an entire medium Pizza Hut meat lover’s pizza. My shit looked like Gravy Train for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/11 "2012-02-11T17:43:06Z")
Also to win a bet, I once (again when I was college age) ate 60 White Castle cheeseburgers. I am pretty sure either of my entries to this thread would kill me now if I tried it. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/12 "2012-02-12T00:43:48Z")
I once ate 478 anchovies rolled with capers. ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/13 "2012-02-12T00:55:44Z")
Half of a Pizza Hut Supreme pizza…it was the first “real” food I was able to eat…had just come home from the hospital…washed it down with coke…bad idea…was sick the rest of the day… among the injuries i had been hospitalized for? a crushed tailbone and a perforated bowel…much pain felt from both injuries after the pig out ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/14 "2012-02-12T01:17:25Z")
4 pieces of toast covered in a pound of hash browns, shredded cheese, 24 ounces of chili, 6 eggs and a half pound of bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/15 "2012-02-12T02:20:01Z")
1. Two large pizzas another time 2. Two full rotisserie chicken (Peruvian “Pollo a la brasa”) plus the traditional order of fries (each order about the size of half a chicken) + 1.5l of soda and 0.5l of ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/16 "2012-02-12T03:09:03Z")
72 oz steak, salad, baked potato, roll and about a half gallon of diet coke. go ahead, make fun of the diet coke. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/17 "2012-02-12T04:00:54Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > 72 oz steak, salad, baked potato, roll and about a half gallon of diet coke. go ahead, make fun of the diet coke. No way man. I could be eating the Double-bacon McHeartAttack and the Coronary cheesecake, but always my Inca Kola Zero. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/18 "2012-02-12T04:11:21Z")
60 sliders?! Did you do that while on the can? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/19 "2012-02-12T10:55:50Z")
There was a bar I would sometimes go to after work. I went in one day - Wing night- and got an order (a pound) and some beer. The first pound went quick and I was still hungry so I got a second order. The wings were pretty much perfect that night and the second pound disappeared before too long. That is normally more than I would eat, one pound of wings usually beds down my appetite. So, still hungry I order pound number 3. At this point the owner of the bar and his wife are looking at me sideways but bring out the wings. The other people at the bar stare at me in disbelief as the third pound quickly goes away. I had been eating wings and drinking beer for about 45 minutes at this point. Because of the reaction I got when the third order came out I was sort of self conscious at that point. I didn’t order any more, but I have no doubt I could have eaten at least one more pound. > [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > but always my Inca Kola Zero. Seriously there is a Inca Cola Zero? ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497/20 "2012-02-12T11:55:28Z")
Between 8 and 9 pounds of boiled crawfish along with a couple of fist sized potatoes, all washed down with a six pack of Budweiser longnecks. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-you-ate-in-one-sitting/612497.md?page=2)