For some reason, this cracked me up...

[silverbear]

Saw this article on yahoo earlier today, and there was a line in it that just had me in tears I was laughing so hard... I know "LOL" is overused, but I truly was this time:

CLEARFIELD, Pa. – It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.

The mountain of beef is the product of Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.

Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. "About three hours into it, things got tough," he said.

When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: "I wanted to see if I could."

The burger included a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish, pub owner Dennis Liegey said.

For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate "and a burger hangover, as I call it," Liegey said.

The line in bold font is the one that destroyed me... when I read that, in my mind I could hear George Kennedy saying "nobody can eat 50 eggs" in Cool Hand Luke...

Most amazing of all is that the guy was pretty skinny...

I learned that's not the biggest burger that restaurant has on their menu, they have one for 179 bucks that has TWO 25 pound meat patties...

The obvious question at this point is "why??"

And here I thought I was a big deal when I ate the 64 ounce steak at Dan's Steak House just outside of Luray...

 

[VietCowboy]

it's usually the skinny guys who can eat the most, because their stomach has room to stretch. well, I think I heard this from the Food Network after years of Japanese guys winning the hotdog eating contests.

 

[bbgun]

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