# What's the most you've eat in one sitting (and without throwing up)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916 "2013-09-29T13:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/41 "2013-10-01T16:17:19Z")
IT was an omelet place in the Riverside Ca area back in the late 70’s, and they had 12 egg omelet challenge. You had to pick a minimum of three fillings, and I chose bacon, sausage, cheese, and sour cream, with all the bacon I wanted on the side and a large glass of grape juice. I think I had about 7 slices of bacon, and finished in under a half hour. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/42 "2013-10-01T16:25:48Z")
Not much, despite being overweight, I can’t eat huge meals. My failure is in the form of sweets, and I can’t even eat that much of those. I’ve never eaten so much that I actually threw up, or felt as if I were going to throw up. UGH! But the most I’ve eaten would be getting through most of a plate of my favorite junk food meal, a 2 entree plate at Panda Express. It’s 1100 calories, and if I’m really super hungry, I can eat probably 75-80% of it. If I’m just normal hungry I can get through maybe half. I did finish one once…ONCE. And was so uncomfortable I’ve never tried it again. Usually I just consider it dinner and lunch the next day. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/43 "2013-10-01T17:26:06Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > My second biggest stuffing was probably at the buffet at Circus Circus. My stomach was empty and I was famished because I had just hiked 25 miles over the past 2 days without enough solid food, and I had 5 plates _full_ of food. As in almost falling off the plate they were so full. Considering Circus Circus has one of the worst, if not the worst, buffets in Las Vegas, you must have been VERY hungry that day! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/44 "2013-10-01T18:59:38Z")
When I was young, I could polish off the food - I could eat 15-20 White Castle burgers with no problem. I could eat an entire Jewel frozen pizza. I remember one memorable lunch at McDonald’s where I killed two Big Mac’s, a large fry, and a large chocolate shake. Now, I can’t eat but three or four White Castle’s, I can do two slices of pizza, and I can’t finish a Big Mac - let alone with fries and a shake. It makes me sad, actually. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/45 "2013-10-01T20:14:15Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I once ate an entire jolly rancher in one sitting. No wonder he was jolly. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/46 "2013-10-01T20:40:05Z")
I ate 50 pieces of sushi once. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/47 "2013-10-02T21:57:49Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I ate 50 pieces of sushi once. Childs play! 😃 That’s how I _warm up!_ There is a place nearby that has an “All you can eat” lobster buffet. I go there maybe once a year and put a serious dent in the inventory. I don’t keep close count, but I think I downed about a dozen and a half once. Damn. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/48 "2013-10-03T02:38:24Z")
I can’t remember, so I’ll regale everybody with details of a recent meal. Yesterday at work we had a picnic. I had a hamburger, a small chicken breast, a skewer of about a dozen shrimp, some macaroni & cheese, a few vegetables, a corn cob, a few vegetables, some baked cinnamon apples, a whole apple, and an Italian ice. Then I got hungry three hours later and had a Zone bar (a nutrition bar). This whole meal wasn’t too much out of the ordinary for me. I’m training for the marathon in a week and a half, so I can eat all this stuff with impunity. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/49 "2013-10-03T04:18:01Z")
Eh, this probably isn’t going to impress anybody, but I once ate two dinners. I had gone to a mystery conference (Malice Domestic) and I had a couple of old friends who lived in DC and who said I must get in touch while there. So I called them, they came by my hotel, picked me up, and took me to dinner. It was a bit early for dinner, and what I probably should have said was no thanks, because my publisher had a dinner later for all its authors and I had to go to that. But my friends were all excited that they had been able to get reservations for this place (because it was way early, that was probably why) so I went, and I ate. Then I went off to my publisher’s dinner, which was at Ruth’s Chris. Now the thing with me is, I don’t eat a lot, but when somebody else is buying me dinner I feel like I have to eat it. I’m like one of those monks who starve most of the time but a few times a year go out begging for food and when they get it, they have to eat it all. The place my friends picked was one of those places where they don’t actually put much food on the plate, and then they stack it up, and it’s really arty, but not really a lot of food. That was good. Ruth’s Chris, alas, was not like that. Big hunk o’meat, and other stuff, lots of it, and dessert, and… So, ate it all, felt really stuffed and horrible (but I got to sit next to Sue Grafton!), could not wait to get my strapless bra off as it was cutting me in half. (Long-line bra, I should explain, the problem was at the waist.) I was swearing not to eat another bite for the rest of the weekend but, oddly, the next day I was hungrier than usual. So I guess you could get used to overeating. There was another thing–maybe the next day–called Death By Chocolate, and I think you could take that literally. Or so I heard. I didn’t go. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/50 "2013-10-03T05:59:26Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > I ate 50 pieces of sushi once. I can eat 50 eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Caneknife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Caneknife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caneknife)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/51 "2013-10-03T09:23:26Z")
I’m impressed by what everyone is saying here, my pizza record is 18 pieces of deep pan large slice in one go, another time red rooster half chicken and large chips plus 2 large cokes was still hungry so had 4 Big Macs with 2 large fries also.i weigh 75 kg now, so it didn’t affect me since I do weights everyday but I’m a big eater. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/52 "2013-10-03T09:46:14Z")
I can’t remember any specific instances but I’m gonna start training to perform a feat worthy of posting here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/53 "2013-10-03T10:45:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Childs play! 😃 That’s how I _warm up!_ > > There is a place nearby that has an “All you can eat” lobster buffet. I go there maybe once a year and put a serious dent in the inventory. I don’t keep close count, but I think I downed about a dozen and a half once. > > Damn. Now I’m hungry. :eek:😕:eek:“All you can eat” lobster buffet.😕:eek:😕 Where can I find this place? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/54 "2013-10-03T17:56:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m just amazed that there’s a “without throwing up” disclaimer. How many of y’all had to drop a claim or two once you considered the vomit limit? Glancing over the replies shows me that this has not yet been answered. Looks like OP wants to exclude bulimic fits. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/55 "2013-10-03T18:14:27Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > Glancing over the replies shows me that this has not yet been answered. Looks like OP wants to exclude bulimic fits. Every sport has its own doping problems, huh? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/56 "2013-10-03T19:51:14Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > :eek:😕:eek:“All you can eat” lobster buffet.😕:eek:😕 > > Where can I find this place? 😛 Well, in my neck of the woods, [Nordic Lodge](http://nordiclodge.com/) has all you can eat all sorts of stuff including lobster. A bit pricy, but our household does it once a year as a mutual birthday elebration [we just did it last weekend of September. It is one of 3 totally off my nutrition plans a year [Thanksgiving, 4th of July and birthday bash] At basically $110US per person [no alcohol, tip] it suffices for all our celebrations in the course of the year =) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/57 "2013-10-03T20:28:01Z")
I once, over the course of eight hours, ate a Big Mac, big fries, chocolate sundae and carmel sundae, two candy bars, a huge bowl of popcorn, and half a big pizza. I also fasted all day, then ate a two pound boxof chocolate and a liter of red wine. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/58 "2013-11-01T05:59:59Z")
_Originally posted by_ **Yorikke** I can eat 50 eggs. Didn’t Paul Newman do that in _Cool Hand Luke? 🙂_ ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916/59 "2013-11-01T09:37:09Z")
About 10-11 lbs of boiled crawfish and a couple of small taters, washed down with 3 bottles of Bud. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-youve-eat-in-one-sitting-and-without-throwing-up/669916.md?page=2)