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Post by wildojinx on Apr 29, 2024 15:57:58 GMT -5
We've all seen these restaurant challenges in various comedy shows where if a character can finish a giant food item (usually a steak), he/she either doesnt have to pay. Do these exist in real life, and has any FAN member ever done one?
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Apr 29, 2024 16:04:42 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 29, 2024 16:21:46 GMT -5
The sports bar I used to work at had one of these offers. A 15-patty cheese-and-bacon burger with a triple serving of fries. Free if you eat the whole thing, £30 if you don't.
Nobody ever managed to eat the whole thing.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Apr 29, 2024 16:38:09 GMT -5
I've been to the Big Texan Ranch in Amarillo, TX and had dinner there, normal, not the 72oz steak. Bit of a touristy thing but food wasn't bad.
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Post by chrom on Apr 29, 2024 16:38:32 GMT -5
The sports bar I used to work at had one of these offers. A 15-patty cheese-and-bacon burger with a triple serving of fries. Free if you eat the whole thing, £30 if you don't. Nobody ever managed to eat the whole thing. Fifteen patties? That's gotta be about seven pounds of meat. |
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Post by Burst on Apr 29, 2024 16:38:37 GMT -5
There's an ice cream parlor in the little beach town in Virginia that we'd go to, who used to have this gimmick with something called the Round-Up, which was something like five scoops of ice cream with three toppings and whipped cream and a cherry, and it was like if you ate the whole thing solo, you got your money back and got your picture on the wall. Place used to be covered with Polaroids. It's still on the menu, but last time I was there it looks like they had ditched the challenge, alas.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 29, 2024 16:45:37 GMT -5
Fifteen patties? That's gotta be about seven pounds of meat. They were quarter-pounders. Including the bacon it came to about four pounds of meat. |
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Apr 29, 2024 18:01:53 GMT -5
The Big Texan Steakhouse is very real.
I have never done their 72 oz. steak challenge myself, but someone did it for their YouTube channel the last time I visited. Didn't clock their time but they were done before I finished two beers and a cheeseburger.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 29, 2024 18:05:19 GMT -5
I went to a bar once that had like 12 wings starting at mild and going all the way up to like super ghost pepper hot.
I forgot what you got if you could eat all of them.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 29, 2024 18:10:37 GMT -5
I went to a bar once that had like 12 wings starting at mild and going all the way up to like super ghost pepper hot. I forgot what you got if you could eat all of them. Diarrhea. |
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Post by Urn Anderson on Apr 29, 2024 19:07:39 GMT -5
I was thinking this used to be free if you could eat it all, but now it looks like it’s just the t-shirt unless you beat the record time. I need to get around to grabbing one, I have zero doubt I could do it. www.hillbillyhotdogs.com/homewrecker |
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Post by fortknox on Apr 29, 2024 19:31:17 GMT -5
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Post by SkullTrauma on Apr 29, 2024 20:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Apr 29, 2024 20:38:24 GMT -5
These absolutely exist. Around Philly there are kinds of cheesesteak or wing eating competitions, especially with the official WING BOWL now retired, dozens of local places run something around Super Bowl.
Ive done countless wing challenges because no matter how hot they make them, you will only feel it if you don’t crush them as fast as you can. You really got know how to prep a drum or flat with your fingers to just pop the whole thing in your mouth and pull out bones.
Most of the hottest wings challenges are a dozen or less. Anything more than that you are pretty hopeless.
And yes, you might as well be shitting blood the next day because wiping your ass at any point will take the top layer of skin off your asshole. If you don’t have a bidet just jump in the shower to hose off.
I did Tony Luke’s challenge years ago, and to anyone that has crushed a couple of cheesesteaks after a couple hours of drinking, you’ll know it wasn’t that hard.
Same for Lee’s Hoagie House challenges. Walks in the park to eat for free.
The smart places to get you to lose tack on the 3 lbs. of french fries or tater tots and a pitcher of soda or a milkshake. Then they want it done in 30 mins or less. Those can make it punishing.
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Apr 29, 2024 20:49:23 GMT -5
I also came here to recommend Beard. |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Apr 30, 2024 15:29:07 GMT -5
I also came here to recommend Beard. Same here. And for me personally the closest I came to one of those challenges was one time in I went to a deli in Montreal and ended up ordering a burger that was roughly the size of the dinner plate it came in on. There wasn't any challenge for finishing it quickly, and even if there was their money was safe because I was hardly able to put a dent in it. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 30, 2024 19:00:55 GMT -5
Back when I was in my mid teens my dad was working out near San Antonio area. Went out spent a week with him and his favorite place to eat had a challenge.Was a 4 patty burger with lettuce and tomato,4 slices of cheese and you got what had to be close to a pound of fries. If you ate it all it was free and you got your picture up on the wall.
Back then I could put away a pile of food. So took the challenge. Finished the burger but had at least half the fries still left. Knew I could eat them but would be sick and wasn't worth it.
IIRC if you failed it was 20 bucks and this was late 80s so 20 bucks was closer to 50 now.
Barry's Burger Barn is what I think the name of the place is.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 30, 2024 19:05:07 GMT -5
Back when I was in my mid teens my dad was working out near San Antonio area. Went out spent a week with him and his favorite place to eat had a challenge.Was a 4 patty burger with lettuce and tomato,4 slices of cheese and you got what had to be close to a pound of fries. If you ate it all it was free and you got your picture up on the wall. Back then I could put away a pile of food. So took the challenge. Finished the burger but had at least half the fries still left. Knew I could eat them but would be sick and wasn't worth it. IIRC if you failed it was 20 bucks and this was late 80s so 20 bucks was closer to 50 now. Barry's Burger Barn is what I think the name of the place is. In fairness to you, back when you were a kid, you had to hunt and kill your own meals first. |
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Post by Hobby Drifter on May 1, 2024 0:46:13 GMT -5
The famous Ribera Steakhouse in Tokyo has (or at least used to have) a challenge like that. Iirc, it wasn’t even that much of a challenge, even with the time limit.
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Post by salz4life on May 1, 2024 16:11:25 GMT -5
The Big Texan Steakhouse is very real. I have never done their 72 oz. steak challenge myself, but someone did it for their YouTube channel the last time I visited. Didn't clock their time but they were done before I finished two beers and a cheeseburger. I have little doubt I could eat the 72 oz steak.... it's the sides that would probably do me in. |
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