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Skriven 2014-11-21 14:42:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Big Eaters
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 11-19-14  07:12 <=-

 NB>>> The time-honored explanation has been "hollow legs"... (G)  Some people
 NB>>> just have bigger stomachs, I guess, than their size would indicate...
 DD>> One of the "tricks of the trade" is to stretch the stomach by
 DD>> drinking copious quantities of liquids. This has the effect of
 DD>> stretching the stomach.
 NB>> But only temporarily, I'd guess...

 DD> Well, yeah. Very few of the pig-out champions are built like sumo
 DD> wrestlers. Takeru Kobayashi holds several records, including six
 DD> Guinness Records, for eating hot dogs, meatballs, Twinkies, hamburgers,
 DD> pizza and pasta. He is 5' 8" (1.73 m) tall and his weight is listed at
 DD> 128 lb (58 kg) 

He probably has a revved up metabolism, and regularly eats (or at least
can eat) large quantities of food anyway..  and probably isn't all that
old...  Richard used to could eat well beyond breaking even at buffets
and such, and never used to gain an ounce from it.  Until he attained
"senior status", that is..  He was pretty skinny till then... even when
our son was a teenager and beyond, we were still buying Richard's jeans
in the teen shop to have them fit...  

 DD>> Once in a fit of hubris I did a 72 oz steak, normal-size baked
 DD>> potato and a small salad. Halfway though the meal I had to visit the
 DD>> biffy to make room for the rest. There was a time limit of an hour.
 DD>> This was at the Big Texan Steak House in Amarillo, TX.
 NB>> I take it you managed it within the time limit...?  Was there some
 NB>> prize or just the glory of it...?

 DD> Oh, I had to do it within the time limit or pay $27.95 (in 1963 that
 DD> was BIG bucks). And when I went to the biffy they had a waiter escort
 DD> me to be sure I didn't go bulimic on them. The prize was the free meal
 DD> and my name on their "Wall of Fame".
 
Ah.  72 ounces.. that's 4 and 1/2 pounds of meat, pretty impressive... :)
And getting it for free a good incentive... :)

 DD>> I waddled out the
 DD>> door and set out again on my way to the Los Angeles Basin. Before I
 DD>> got to Santa Rosa, NM (about 90 minutes) I was hungry again.   Bv)=
 NB>> And it wasn't even Chinese... ;)   Had you used the stomach stretching
 NB>> trick...?

 DD> Nope. That would have taken more planning than the spur-of-the-moment
 DD> idea to take them up on all those billboards advertising "FREE 72 OZ
 DD> STEAK". 

Ah, so you were young and hubric...  ;)   And probably met the metabolic
criteria, along with the hollow legs... ;)

ttyl       neb

... I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?

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