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Alright so tomorrow me and a friend are taking on a food-eating challenge at the student union building at our university.

I have 30 minutes to eat:
a triple bacon cheeseburger
an order of fries
a large root beer
an 8-scoop ice cream sundae.

As of right now my plan is to eat a light breakfast, and then drink some water throughout the day until we do the challenge around 6-7pm. I'm a pretty small guy but I'm confident I can do it, but does anybody have some tips as to how I should go about eating the food most efficiently? I dont know if I should eat the burger and fries first, or maybe the sundae, and I also don't know if I should just chug the root beer or use it to get big bites of burger/fries down.

Oh and the current record for fastest completion of the challenge is around 15min 30sec. I dont expect to beat that but if I could get it under 20min I'd be pretty happy. I think only 3 others have done sub-20min.
 
I would never enter a contest like this but I always think they sound like the easiest thing on earth. I'm a natural glutton and I wolf down tons super quickly unless I am consciously trying not to.

As far as tips,aren't you supposed to soak everything in water as you eat it?
The root beer will just make shit harder to eat due to carbonation. Can you have water too?
 
I'm no glutton, but that doesn't seem very difficult to me.

Strategy: Make groaning sounds and eat as slowly as possible to make this seem harder than it is. Let the ice cream melt, then drink it.
 
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I dont think I can have water with the challenge, only root beer (which I hate).

And yeah I'll probably be high before I start the challenge so I think that'll help me out a lot too.

Kazerei said:
Fizzy drinks and milk products go last. They tend to make people throw up if eaten early.
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Sounds like I should wolf down the burger and fries first, then do root beer and ice cream last?
 
Assembly line, maybe even cut-up the burger. Solid->liquid->Eat-> Drink->... Pace yourself. How many spoonfuls in one scoop? How many bites in a burger? One bite per fry, how many fries? You must imagine that you are some destroyer god like Shiva that will swallow all. Be Chronos and eat those fecal children that ye' shall birth by thine rectum in proper Greek fashions.

It is a gross sign of waste and overconsumption, good luck.
 
Aren't you supposed to eat a shitton of grapes the night before to stretch your stomach or some shit like that?

Good luck!
 
Avixph said:
Why don't practice at home?
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Too late now, I'm doing it tomorrow.

Although last year at a different restaurant I ate a chicken parm sub, a triple bacon cheeseburger, and 2 orders of fries in one sitting so that gives me a lot of confidence that I can do this.
 
Separate the meat from the bun. Eat them individually.

The key to training for an eating competition is stomach expansion.
Most competitive eaters accomplish this by drinking a lot of water and
eating quite a bit in the days leading up to the competition.

From the web page, "Rules of thumb for Competitive Eating":
"Eat as much as you can three or four days before a contest. Rookies
often fast a couple days before a competition. But that's a mistake
because your stomach will tighten up.

Cleanse yourself on the day of the contest. Drink herbal tea and, just
before the contest, drinks a liter of water to stretch out the stomach
and rein in hunger pangs."
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Good luck.
 
Hootie said:
Too late now, I'm doing it tomorrow.

Although last year at a different restaurant I ate a chicken parm sub, a triple bacon cheeseburger, and 2 orders of fries in one sitting so that gives me a lot of confidence that I can do this.
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Grapes man... Grapes. It's your only salvation now.
 
XiaNaphryz said:
Are you allowed to stuff fries into the cheeseburger to eat them at once?
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yeah theres no rules about what I can actually do with the food, as long as I eat it all. But the person above you said to separate the patties and buns, so whats a better idea? throw the fries on top or separate everything?

RiccochetJ said:
Grapes man... Grapes. It's your only salvation now.
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Alright I'm gonna go stop by 7/11 and see if they have any. If not are there any other foods that would help me?
 
Like someone else said, definitely save the Root Beer for last. You don't want the carbonation making you feel full.
 
Wouldn't you want to mix the ice cream with some warm food to avoid a wicked brain freeze? Sounds like you might be going too quick for it to melt.
 
I...don't understand why this is a "food-eating challenge." 30 minutes is an enormous amount of time. You shouldn't need any of the tricks people are giving you. In fact, I feel like anything that makes the food taste disgusting will make it harder. Just put the burger in your mouth and chew it. What I would say is don't stop eating, because you want to keep ahead of your stomach and eat a small amount in the morning and eat a decent amount the day before.

Am I some kind of pig? I feel like this is the easiest challenge in the world. How can I get in on this?
 
pigeon said:
I...don't understand why this is a "food-eating challenge." 30 minutes is an enormous amount of time. You shouldn't need any of the tricks people are giving you. In fact, I feel like anything that makes the food taste disgusting will make it harder. Just put the burger in your mouth and chew it. What I would say is don't stop eating, because you want to keep ahead of your stomach and eat a small amount in the morning and eat a decent amount the day before.

Am I some kind of pig? I feel like this is the easiest challenge in the world. How can I get in on this?
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Yeah I've sort of been thinking the same thing, I dont want to underestimate it but I keep telling myself I can easily down the burger/fries in about 10 min, the root beer can be chugged in a minute or two, and then i'd have the rest of the time for the ice cream. I'm confident I can do it but I want to be as prepared as possible, and I'd like to go under 20min
 
Maybe mix the ice cream in with the soda at the start so it'll melt into the soda and you can kill both at once?
 
Previous poster is right, that ice cream headache is gonna be a bitch. Maybe dip the fries in the ice cream to achieve two things-

A) get rid of some of the ice cream before you fully attend to it, to make it less daunting later on.

B) Get your body ready bit by bit for the cold shit a'coming.
 
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catfish said:
diabetes!
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I've been trying to eat healthier recently so this will be an outlier. I've been wanting to do this challenge for two years now so I just want to get it over with
Horseticuffs said:
Previous poster is right, that ice cream headache is gonna be a bitch. Maybe dip the fries in the ice cream to achieve two things-

A) get rid of some of the ice cream before you fully attend to it, to make it less daunting later on.

B) Get your body ready bit by bit for the cold shit a'coming.
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I heard pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth will get rid of brain freeze, is that true? I'd rather not dip the fries in the ice cream if i dont have to
 
That seems very doable. I would probably skip breakfast and maybe even dinner the night before. Don't drink too much water either.
Pace yourself, chew the food quickly and take a small sip of liquid to help flush it down.
 
When I got to the States I was like 'fuck yeah these eating challenges are easy' but they fucking aint. I failed on a 3lb bacon cheeseburger and tomorrow i'm considering a 4lb burger with 1lb of fries.. not for the challenge, just to be a european in america saying fuck sensibility.
 
painey said:
When I got to the States I was like 'fuck yeah these eating challenges are easy' but they fucking aint. I failed on a 3lb bacon cheeseburger and tomorrow i'm considering a 4lb burger with 1lb of fries.. not for the challenge, just to be a european in america saying fuck sensibility.
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In that case you should try the Eagle's Challenge. 5lbs of burger, 20pcs of bacon, 20pcs of american cheese, 5lbs of fries, 1 deli pickle, and a fountain soda
 
For gaf to take you seriously, we're going to need a picture of you. I'm not going to waste my time coaching a toothpick.
 
Troll said:
For gaf to take you seriously, we're going to need a picture of you. I'm not going to waste my time coaching a toothpick.
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It would seem most can't even see the ice cream as a palette cleanser between bites. Don't waste your breath. If this kid wants it, it is there to be had.

The belch factor from the root beer will make or break you. Be the burp, follow it with a victory shout!
 
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