now that's a burger

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081016/ap_on_fe_st/odd_big_burg er

OMG, you know there was a time in my life, where I would have tried to break that record.

Scott

 For some reason I just don't believe that he ate 20lbs of sandwich. I think that's ridiculous his body would be reeling from that much food.

 

 Well, we know HE didn't have RNY!        


  But seriously, I wish they would stop with the "eating contests" already ..  (is that really a "sport"?  what about taking a leak, dumps, or other bodily functions?   )

  Reminds me of that primative African tribe ..  I think they are called the Merle (mir-LAY)  or some such ..   Their men think it is physically attractive to women to have a big ..     gut ..    So they inentionally gorge themselves ritualistically to try to get as big of one as they can ..  Some of the most "successful" endeavorers end up actually rupturing their stomach from the excess food consumption and dying of internal bleeding and/or massive infection from the internal leakage (i.e. peritonitis)     Talk about "extreme eating"!  

 That would fall into the catgegory of "suicide attempt."

Since I live near Philly, I recently saw a tv show about unusual eateries in PA.  The Beer Barrel Pub was one of them.  At that time, they had a wall of people who had eaten their 3 lb hamburgers.  Only 2 people, both of them thin women, had eaten their 5 lb burger.  And, no one had eaten the collosal 15 pounder.  Logic would dictate gradients such as a 7 pounder and 10 pounder before going all the way up to 15 lbs.  Note that the guy who ate it is a chef who is young, 5' 11" tall and weighed 180 prior to eating it.  The comments from people in the pub were that the 2 thin women who ate the 5 lb burgers looked like they were pregnant when they were done eating.  I can't imagine what this guy must have looked like.

The owner of the place did say that anyone attempting to eat one of the large burgers should not starve themselves in the week before their attempt.  Rather, he said they should practice eating large meals so they could stretch their stomachs.  They'd be doing just the opposite of what we had done to our stomachs.