Eating Challenge – Calzone Challenger

By | Published 25/02/2013

Amalia is a restaurant in Liverpool with a huuuuge calzone on the menu! This thing is huge not even joking! I’ve added a picture below of it in front of my friends so you get some idea of scale.

Amalia is here:

2 Campbell St Liverpool,
Merseyside,
L1 5AX
0151 709 0402

The Calzone Menu

The Calzone comes with a side of sauce for you to dip into. It is filled with mince meat, peppers, potato, onion, cheese and pizza sauce. For me it wasn’t really to my taste, I don’t like mince meat at the best of times and this thing was stuffed full of it.

The Calzone

Everyone Calzone

Calzone Attempt

Suprise suprise, I failed! I tried to eat as much as I can but it started to lose it’s flavor as I got fuller and fuller. I got a little under halfway this was a tough one!

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Eating Challenge – The Olympic Burger

By | Published 04/10/2012
Man vs Food - Olympic Burger

Man vs Food – Olympic Burger

Just been to try the ‘Olympic Burger‘ Oh MY God, it’s be biggest burger I’ve ever seen! For this Man vs Food challenge you get 24 minutes to eat 24 ounces of burger and it’ll cost you £24 unless you eat it all of course then it is free! We where told that only 2 people have finished it and these where two 16 year old lads, EASY THEN I should devour it … not.

The Olympic Burger is served at ‘What’s Cooking‘ restaurant in the Albert Dock, Liverpool, North West England. You can book a table online (which we did, a table for 8) and in the notes section I wrote we would like 7 Olympic Burgers, not sure if this is necessary but we didn’t want to turn up and be disappointed.

Olympic Burger - Menu Description

Olympic Burger – Menu Description

As you can see from the menu, you get 2 12 ounce burgers, 1 cos lettuce, two tomatoes, six rashers of bacon, six slices of cheese, gherkins an jalapenos, all served on a 16 ounce 3 layer burger bun. Oh and don’t forget the two side plates of chips topped with chilli and cheese sauce.

This was tough. I struggled on multiple fronts, the three layer bread is just a killer, the chips add to the carb load and that is a lot of burger! I managed to eat the middle layer of bread and most of the lid, the lid had a really thick crust on it making it tough to chew so I washed it down with a lot of water. I managed to finished one plate of chips, when I got down to the second layer I ate the bacon and cheese got to the burger and hit the wall.. there was no going back.

Man vs Food - Olympic Burger - Food Wins

Man vs Food – Olympic Burger – Food Wins

I didn’t really notice the gherkins, jalapenos or lettuce they went down easy, it was all the carbs that done me in, better look next time. Perhaps next time I’d leave the chips and see if I could get through the burger first, I think getting the meat in first is important as you get given a big jug of water so you can always wash down the burger bun.

I recommend giving it a go, take a few mates along it’s a good laugh! Final bit of advice, don’t try and pick it up and take a bite unless you have a mouth the size of Godzilla’s 🙂

For the rest of my photo’s from the trip and how my 6 mates got on see here: Olympic Burger Challenge Photo Album

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Eating Challenge – Flaming Challenge

By | Published 02/10/2012

Just done the ‘Flaming Challenge’ at The Bay Horse in Ashton, UK. Although it is available in any pub under the chain “Flaming Grill” in the UK. It is 2 12oz burgers, 2 chicken breasts, spicy chilli beef, cheese, bacon, onion rings and a lot of chips. It comes out at 1KG of food.

If you complete it you’ll get your photo taken and put on the “wall of flame”. Make sure you mention this when you are ordering your food so they can keep an eye on you for cheating. Not that you ever would!

Wow it’s a lot of food, the burgers are layered with cheese and fried onions, the chilli is then spread all over the top and the chicken breast on top of that. The whole burger is topped with the onions rings. It looked amazing, tasted great … and yet I failed! It was toooo much, but I’m glad I tried because at £9.99 that is cheap!

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Eating Challenge – The Big Breakfast

By | Published 25/09/2012

Last week me and two mates went to Mario’s Cafe in Bolton to take on the Big Breakfast challenge! In the Big Breakfast challenge you get 20 minutes to eat 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 10 slices of toast, five black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans, oh and no drinks for the 20 minutes allowed. All for £10.95 (which I think is a bargain).

The breakfast is world record holding. When we where there the cafe owner told us only one person has ever finished it in the time period, so don’t be thinking this is easy!

If your wanting to go, you have to ring up two days before to book yourselves in and the most they will serve is 3 at a time so bear that in mind. Contact Details:

Mario’s Cafe
67 Market Street, Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3AG
01942 813 287

Tactics

The breakfast comes on a tray, not a plate a tray! The thing I struggled with the most was the toast. How the hell do you eat a giant breakfast AND ten pieces of toast. One tactic is to make breakfast sandwiches out of the food mixing the toast with the food (which a friend tried and failed). I decided to eat two pieces at the beginning, concentrate on the food then hopefully finish the toast afterwards… bad idea! Leaving the toast till the end lets it go cold and hard and it chews and chews and chews.

Stack of 10 toast

Yes I didn’t manage to finish but I really enjoyed the challenge, I finished with 3 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausage … and 7.5 pieces of toast left, a meal in it self! My tactic to get me that far was to pair beans, tomatoes or mushrooms with every bite keep it nice and juicy. I ate each black pudding in two bites, ate each bacon in 3 (tail first, then split the rest into two). Also the eggs split into 3. The sausage also went down in 3-4 pieces.

I highly advise you give it a go, just to say you have! It’s 20 minutes drive from Liverpool or Manchester and is picked up on the SatNav. If you do go after reading this please leave a comment with how you got on!

For the rest of my photo’s from the trip see here: Big Breakfast Challenge Photo Album

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