Has anybody ever attempted an eating challenge?

[CapeCodder]

The key was to smoke some weed first, then wait for the munchies to hit.

Performance-enhancing drugs, huh?

You could call it that. Scotty's is long gone. They got busted in a fentanyl sting and were forced to close as the owner went to prison.

[kphoger]

The key was to smoke some weed first, then wait for the munchies to hit.

Performance-enhancing drugs, huh?

You could call it that. Scotty's is long gone. They got busted in a fentanyl sting and were forced to close as the owner went to prison.

Well, that explains where you obtained the weed.  It probably came in a little to-go cup on the tray.

[formulanone]

...and two plastic lobsters!

[Scott5114]

The key was to smoke some weed first, then wait for the munchies to hit.

Performance-enhancing drugs, huh?

You could call it that. Scotty's is long gone. They got busted in a fentanyl sting and were forced to close as the owner went to prison.

Well, that explains where you obtained the weed.  It probably came in a little to-go cup on the tray.

While the visual's funny...fentanyl is a way different animal than weed. From what I know of cannabis cultivation, a weed operation and a fentanyl operation would be different enough that there wouldn't be much overlap between the two, even back in the bad old days when you couldn't get licensed to cultivate weed. Unless it was just a Drugs R Us one-stop-shop distribution ring.

[kphoger]

Oh.  Well I guess I was wrong, then.   

[CapeCodder]

The key was to smoke some weed first, then wait for the munchies to hit.

Performance-enhancing drugs, huh?

You could call it that. Scotty's is long gone. They got busted in a fentanyl sting and were forced to close as the owner went to prison.

Well, that explains where you obtained the weed.  It probably came in a little to-go cup on the tray.

While the visual's funny...fentanyl is a way different animal than weed. From what I know of cannabis cultivation, a weed operation and a fentanyl operation would be different enough that there wouldn't be much overlap between the two, even back in the bad old days when you couldn't get licensed to cultivate weed. Unless it was just a Drugs R Us one-stop-shop distribution ring.

Before it was Scotty's it was this nasty Chinese restaurant called Shanghai, which was busted for you guessed it: Heroin and Fentanyl.

[zachary_amaryllis]

The key was to smoke some weed first, then wait for the munchies to hit.

Performance-enhancing drugs, huh?

this is why i am 86'd out of two buffets in this area.

[sparker]

Never actually done it, but there was a pizza place in Purcell, Oklahoma that featured something similar to the Big Texan, but with an enormous pizza. It was so big they allowed two people to eat it as part of the challenge. We were going to get a couple of guys together to make the attempt, but never managed to do it before the place shut down.

Back in the early '80's there was a pizza place in Santa Clara, CA (on El Camino Real/CA 82) just east of Lawrence Expressway called Peppino's, and they featured a 30" diameter "super-large" pie -- along with a challenge for one person to eat a whole 3-topping version solo in a half hour.  I had a friend (and former co-worker) who stood 6'7" and weighed in at about 315 pounds and had the reputation for consuming heroic amounts of food.  We put him up to it, since the prize was 2 months of unlimited food for the winner.  Took him all of 12 minutes to complete the task -- with sausage, mushrooms, and extra garlic!  Thus we feasted free for a couple of months back in the spring of '82!  The place lasted until 2013, when the block where it was located was redeveloped into condos.  My "food vacuum" friend moved back to his original home in Janesville, Wisconsin in the early '90's and I lost track of him -- hopefully for his own sake he didn't engage in too much competitive eating once back home.

My only venture into the field was in college.  I was considerably thinner back then; 5-7 and just under 150 pounds -- but one of the other dorm halls (something of a "jock" hall) had a standing challenge -- drink a 40 ounce bottle of "Old English 800" malt liquor in ten minutes and everyone in that hall (about 50 guys) would chip in two bucks as a prize.  I took the challenge -- but stuck my bottle in the dorm lounge freezer until it was below 35 degrees, which took away much of the "skunky" character typical of that shit and made it tolerable.  Came out about 80 bucks to the good on that one; a couple of guys thought that I cheated with the bottle-chilling (the contest was subsequently modified to room-temperature) and wouldn't pony up the money -- and I had no intention of pressing the issue.