by Brian Gray
WOMEN Vs FOOD! SORT OF
August 28, 2010 in Featured by Brian Gray
WOMEN Vs FOOD! SORT OF.
This short article highlights the age old adage your eyes are bigger than your stomach. We were hanging out at home flipen through the channels when we happened across the show Man VS Food.
Man VS Food is a show where Adam Richman the host of the show travels around trying to eat the largest, hottest, and sometimes the most disgusting things. This episode Adam was visiting a city just 45 minutes south of us in Denver Colorado.
The challenge was a 7 pound Grande breakfast burrito, the ingredients read like this, potato’s, eggs, ham, cheese, onions and your choice of chili. The place Jack-N-Grill they have two locations in the Denver area. Adam dug right into the challenge and judging from the name of the show and the size of the man we had no doubt he would finish it.
Adam eventually raised the white flag and surrendered to the mountain of food. This is when the story starts, my wife Maria started talkin smack about how she could eat that much food no problem. The entire family jumped on the band wagon and started in with do it! We were leaving to Florida that week so we agreed to 5 quarter pounders with cheese and large fries as a suitable substitute for the mammoth burrito. Florida came and went; we had so much fun on the beach it slipped our mind until today.
We loaded up the family in the Burb and headed into Denver to compare apples to apples. Jack N Grill location Littleton was our destination. We were armed with still and video cameras as we entered the restaurant. We looked over the menu and ordered our food, the burgers for the boys came out first, you should have seen the look on our faces. The burgers were as large as a dinner plate. We were in the land of plenty.
Finally the waiter showed up with a plate the size of a platter with a burrito that could feed all five of us with no problems. This is when reality started to settle in on Marias face lol. The kids and I began to remind her of the smack talk she had dished out earler about Adam not being able to finish a small challenge like this Burrito.
Maria dug right in with a smile on her face; she just kept eating for a solid 20 minutes. The 20 minute mark was my time to check her progress. I stood up and walked over to her side of the table and was amazed to see very little of food missing.
Maria admitted she was full and no wear near done with the challenge, the kids and I taunted her in fun, which renewed her determination to finish the change. Marias mind was on board with the challenge but somebody forgot to tell her stomach!
Just before Maria waved the white flag our waiter told us a tale about a 105 pound woman that is a marathon runner that tried the challenge and did it in just under an hour. That’s incredible but wait it gets better, the waiter stated the next time the young women came in he slapped a 20 down and bet her she could not break her time record. The 105 pound women killed the 7 pound burrito in 28 minutes flat! I would have thought that a tall tale, however I watch way to much cable TV and have seen a little Asian women that kicks but at hot dog eating contest putting away more dogs than guy weighing in at 350 pounds.
When we left the Grill the kids and I were laughing and joking about the next challenge ahead for Maria. Maria sat back and was quite for about thirty minutes, then stated she would be able to do it if it was a burger challenge. The family jumped on that one; she has a date with the heart attack grill in Tempe Arizona, home of the quadruple bypass burger. At the end of the day it was fun for the whole family and cheap entertainment.
Words Brian Gray
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