Man v Food

[Martin]

Dear Tom,

This weekend, I was reminded of your call in 2005 to a restaurant that served a 15 pound burger, when I watched the Travel Channel's new show Man v Food. Have you seen it? It's about this goon who travels around the country and takes up various food challenges, like eating the world's biggest pizza or wolfing down x amount of ribs in 10 minutes, that sort of thing. To class the show up a bit, they let the guy wander around the town they're in and check out local well-known eateries before facing the challenge. In the latest episode, Goon tries to eat an eight-pound burger in one hour. The burger is called "The Sasquatch".

I love devouring food as much as the next guy, but this show is pretty disgusting. Here's some more information, including video previews.

And some tasty screenshots:











Only in America?

[snogrog]

I think this last image really says it all about how much of a FWD this guy is.

[Omar]

I saw this episode.  I appreciate Mr. Richman's quest to push himself to the gastronomical limit, but he clearly has a long way to go to challenge Jaws, Tsunami, The Black Widow, Keith Garfinkle, Eater X, Crazy Legs, or Pink Eyes from Fucked Up.

[masterofsparks]

Eater X!

(What about Andy Goldstein of 2002 Marathon fame?)

[Jake from Memphis]

Only in America?
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Only in Memphis

[Jack from Arkansas]

The "hubcap" from Cotham's Mercantile in Scott, Ar.  It's never seen the business end of a Burger Butler but it will kill you all the same.

[Hoboken Brian]

There's one coming up in Brooklyn. Sharp eyed jerks who are really good at watching TV and eating (right here) can see in previews that the guy will be at Carmine's Pizzeria of Graham Avenue.

[tenspeed]

He should have to undertake the entire Seaside Heights' boardwalk.  Start at Sawmill Pizza with a giant pizza and 6 dixie cups full of soda; then work his way down to Midway for a cheesesteak; finish it off with a Zeppoli with extra confectioner's sugar.  Actually, make it eight Zeppole.

AP Mike can be his tour guide--show him where they serve good Disco Fries. 

[Fido]

Now I love a great burger as much as anybody, but the thought of eight pounds of one is practically puke-inducing.

[Spoony]

There's one coming up in Brooklyn. Sharp eyed jerks who are really good at watching TV and eating (right here) can see in previews that the guy will be at Carmine's Pizzeria of Graham Avenue.

Carmine's has the greatest pizza of anyplace I've ever been, (no joke) but I don't know what they serve that could accommodate this walking heart-attack. Maybe it's all the EMT's and cops that hang out there. This glutton wants to be able to eat in the manner he's accustomed to, and not have to worry about who's going to carry him to the hospital.

[Sploops]

'Man' should team up with the guy in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsXmYqQGuk8
He really likes hamburgers.

[Tom Scharpling]

This guy is what's wrong with Earth.

Tom.

[Spoony]

"It's just one big explosion."

...Of zits. They probably filmed the three people in that place who didn't have complexions so bad that you could read the menu in braille off of their face.

[Hoboken Brian]

Carmine's has the greatest pizza of anyplace I've ever been, (no joke) but I don't know what they serve that could accommodate this walking heart-attack. Maybe it's all the EMT's and cops that hang out there. This glutton wants to be able to eat in the manner he's accustomed to, and not have to worry about who's going to carry him to the hospital.

I couldn't agree more Spoony. I love that place. I'll get the sausage pizza on those occasions when I want to give my circulatory system a scare.

[dave from knoxville]

"It's just one big explosion."

...Of zits. They probably filmed the three people in that place who didn't have complexions so bad that you could read the menu in braille off of their face.

I'm even more disgusted by the clause that immediately precedes "...it's just one big explosion."