The local Wendy's had an eating contest back in the late 70's about every three months. You had to pay for it, but if you ate a single, a double, a triple, and a quad, you got the food for free plus double the the price of the food back. If you couldn't finish, or you didn't keep it down until you left the building, you got nothing but a stomach ache. As a college student I used to go down there just for the money; getting full was just a side benefit.
This is not total amount of food, but in the category of "Food In One Bite". In high school I would eat a QuarterPounder w / cheese in one bite. Still had to chew pretty much forever. Man that was a great way to impress the girls!
My brothers and I are all big boys. After graduating high school, but before moving out of the house, we went to Pizza Hut about once a month. We would each eat two large multi-item deep dish pizzas (and extra cheese was ALWAYS one of the items) Sometimes we'd go someplace afterward for dessert, sometimes not.
After the season ended when I was in Little League, we always had a picnic with the coaches. During one of these picnics, when I was probably 14 or so, I ate two dozen hot dogs (on buns). Along with an unknown (though probably large) amount of ice cream, baked beans, potato salad, and cola. I didn't toss my cookies until after I had gone to sleep, much later that night. What a way to wake up.
There used to be, and may still be, an ice cream, whose name excapes me:! , this place served many different sizes of sundaes, splits, and parfaits. One of these was called the "Pig", and if you could finish it, you got your money back for it, along with a little trophy, saying something like "I made a pig of myself". Well, I finished it. And since I couldn't do anything else the rest of the day, I ruined the trip to the big city for everbody in my group.
LoKyBuckeye said:
on separate bets in high school...15 crunchy tacos from Taco Bell
None of the folks I hang out with ever buy less than ten tacos at a time, with the usual being 15 to 20. Wimp