Have you ever tried a food challenge?

[Leah]

Well, have you ever tried a food challenge, and if so, what was it?

I have, it was the Tchoupitoulas (pronounced Chop-pit-to-las) here's the description:
A sundae as big as its name — our most outrageous specialty made with eight scoops of ice cream and your choice of eight toppings served in grand fashion with whipped cream and cherries
I tried twice, and failed both times!
Here's a pic of it.

[Venomx73]

Yes! Someone told me to try to hold a habanero pepper in my mouth for a minute.

I love hot peppers. But in this case... I failed. 

It's something I'll NEVER do again...

[retrorussell]

Went to a place called GoGo Burgers.  Their burgers were well over a foot tall.  I had to eat 2 of them and 2 pounds of fries in an hour.  I made it through maybe a 1/4 pound of the fries and 1 1/2 burgers before it started coming back up. 
If I had made it I would have a burger named after me, and the food would have been free.  I never really seriously prepped my body for any contest, and it certainly would've helped me here.
I have eaten a 48 ounce porterhouse (and part of my mom's too) and gotten my name on a plaque, and it's on the internet too, for Shula's Steak House.

[Leah]

Went to a place called GoGo Burgers.  Their burgers were well over a foot tall.  I had to eat 2 of them and 2 pounds of fries in an hour.  I made it through maybe a 1/4 pound of the fries and 1 1/2 burgers before it started coming back up. 
If I had made it I would have a burger named after me, and the food would have been free.  I never really seriously prepped my body for any contest, and it certainly would've helped me here.
I have eaten a 48 ounce porterhouse (and part of my mom's too) and gotten my name on a plaque, and it's on the internet too, for Shula's Steak House.

Damn man, I could probably have finished that If I was about 13 and had my tapeworm of a stomach (no, I didn't have a tapeworm, I called my stomach tapeworm since I could eat just about anything then and still feel hungry)

[Mofo Rising]

Yes, God help me.

There's a restaurant in San Antonio, TX called Chunky's that has something called the Four Horseman Burger. It was featured on Man v. Food.

I wrote about it extensively here.

The meal is a burger topped with jalapenos, serranos, habaneros, and ghost chiles. Don't get me wrong, I love spicy food, I can truck with habaneros, no problem. I was not prepared.

The burger was a gauntlet of pain. The first bite was excruciating. This was a level of spicy far beyond anything I'd ever attempted. I continued. Every single person in the restaurant was watching me try to eat this thing and cheering me on, but I didn't hear them, not really. I'd reached a separate level. I was no longer tethered to consensus reality, it was just me and this burger which was actively trying to kill me.

Halfway through the burger every orifice in my head just started leaking fluid. I was weeping tears, my nose was running, and I was drooling as if I had just gotten anesthetized by a dentist. I was willing to work through the pain, but my body eventually revolted and I had to puke up the whole thing.

That would have been bad enough, but the real freakshow was the night I spent up dealing with the whole Four Horseman issue. The food did not wish to follow the regular channels. I was left with a pit of lava in my stomach that reemerged about once an hour. I ended up rolling around on my hotel bed in intense agony. I finally spent the night in the bathroom chugging water from the faucet. I'd puke every once in a while, but puking is never an orderly process. It's made worse that what I was puking up was still no less damaging. It would come out my nose, burning the whole time, hit the toilet water and then splash back up into my face.

It was far beyond awful.

That being said, I'm disappointed with myself that I didn't finish it. I will go back to Chunky's and finish that goddamn burger. Yes, I know the pain involved, but it's a point of pride.

[RCMerchant]

Yeah-in Van Buern County jail.

It was a challange eatting that slop! 

[dean]

I really want to do a proper food challenge one of these days, but we don't have many around town that I know of off hand.  Instead my friends and I set unofficial challenges often, usually against the clock rather than sheer size because our servings are much smaller than in the U.S.

I got paid by the guys at work to swallow a tablespoon of a chilli sauce I think called 'Hazmat' once.  We had previously put it on one of the guys sandwiches as a joke, just a dollop, and he almost exploded.

I of course said ok when the money was high enough, since I love chilli and can rumble with the best on a good day.  As soon as I had some I started hiccuping and didn't stop for half an hour.  The good thing was though that once you had it down it was just dealing with the aftermath that was the problem, but by that time I had my money and was a happy chap, albiet a sweaty, sickly one.


There's also a hot wings place in the city that uses synthetic chilli on their chicken that will burn through steel.  I could only have half before I decided I didn't want to live in pain for the rest of the day.  That was terrifying, but if I hadn't already had dinner I could probably give it a crack.  The record for my friends is four wings.

[The Burgomaster]

Applebees had a contest a few years ago where you had to eat a huge cheeseburger, a mound of french fries, and a large Pepsi within 30 minutes.  If you finished everything, you got the meal free.  I did it!

Also, in the early 1990s I had a pizza eating contest against a guy at work.  We each ate 15 slices (with toppings), then decided to call it a draw.  I sat around like a slug for the rest of the day.  The other guy ended up playing for our company basketball team that night.  I have no idea how he did it.

[tracy]

My challenge was pretty tame....my best friend and sister both challenged me to cover some vanilla ice cream in ketchup and eat it all. I did but it was so completely gross that I couldn't eat the rest of the day.

[RCMerchant]

 Tracy!  This has nothing to do with the subject-but I love your classic actress avatars!

[tracy]

Tracy!  This has nothing to do with the subject-but I love your classic actress avatars!

Thanks.....they don't make them like that anymore.