Sorry dudes but I have failed you. I was fairly confident throughout the whole thing, even after they brought it out and it was way bigger than I thought it would be. I finished everything but 2 tiny pieces of each end. Basically all these 2 pieces were was the tortilla that they had folded up to keep everything in...but it was like an inch thick and super hard to chew and even harder to swallow. There was an hour time limit and I got to this point in about 30 minutes but the last 2 bites that I actually took made me gag so I knew there was no way it was going to happen. I didn't go until like 2pm and up til that point only one person had done it. That one person happens to be Thomas Parsons...a freshman lineman for LSU (#73). Also noteworthy, my CFO was there randomly with his family and started taking pictures of the progress I was making. I'm sure these pictures will probably make their way around the office at some point. His kids and wife knew me from the company Christmas party and by the end I had pretty much their entire table standing around mine with about 3/4 of the waitstaff all recording it on their phones and cheering me on. It was good times but I'm pretty disappointed in myself. This is the first time I've ever lost a food challenge. It was like being tackled at the 1 yard line just before scoring the winning touchdown of the Superbowl as time expired. Urtoosmall was with me...he will tell you, it was really close. The guy was saying that they are gonna start advertising again for next week but the one next week is only going to be 4.5 lbs instead of 5 like the one I ate. They gave me a shirt anyway.
even the best get knocked down at some point. you'll get it next time! if it makes you feel any better, i probably would have gotten full just looking at something like that!!
I'm impressed bro. I'm intrigued by eating competitions because I can't eat much at one sitting. Now drinking, that's another matter. :wink:.
Yeah they charge you. It was only 15 bucks though. I say only 15 bucks because the thing was huge. If I wasn't trying to eat the whole thing, I could probably eat and be satisfied off of it at least 3 times. It is literally about 2.5 feet long and about as big around as a grapefruit. It wasn't just really huge either, it was actually really tasty...until about 3/4 of the way through it. I think the diet thing this week messed me up. I've been on super small portions all week and I think my stomach shrunk a little. Ah well, like I said, I had the whole restaraunt standing around me at one point even though there were several others in there trying it. People kept coming by and looking at my timer saying "WOW you still have like XX minutes left!". As miserable as it made me feel to fail after everyone was all pumped about it, it was good times. It's 9 hours later and I still feel like I just walked out of Texas de Brazil. Also, in before the multitude of possible "That's what she said"'s.
Shaq, I cannot believe that you let two little ends of tortilla keep you from your goal!!!! Better luck next time...
So, as I predicted, I get to my desk this morning and there is an email from my CFO that went out to the whole office with pictures and his commentary. I figured I'd post the pics for you guys, even though they are annoyingly blurry. These pics still don't do it justice to give you a true idea of the sheer mass of this thing. It was truly incredible. Makes my stomach hurt just to look at these. In the last picture, you can see the two chunks of straight tortilla that did me in. There is also a little bit of stuffing still there in the middle of the plate that I ended up gagging down in my last effort.
