Sister food blog The Daily Fork evidently watches much more basketball than I do because I completely missed this challenge two nights ago of Charles Barkley trying to eat a piece of white bread in 30 seconds.
Having never heard of the white bread challenge I found an old bag of Wonder at my house (does that ever go bad?) and tried the challenge. Sure enough, I failed miserably. I tried again with a slice of wheat bread and the same result -- bread by itself is like quick-setting concrete.
The Daily Fork took the challenge as a starting point to list three infamous food challenges and I'm proud to say I've failed two of them.
There is the above-mentioned six saltines challenge or as we used to do
it in my day, the 10 saltine challenge. I never got above five.
Then
there is the gallon of milk challenge in which you need to drink an
entire gallon in one hour. Again, doesn't sound that hard but make sure to have a
trash can nearby. A better name for this challenge is the "let's make everyone throw up" game. Even people who don't get near finishing the gallon often spew just looking into the trash can where everyone else has. You may not get swine flu from it but I'm sure it's not healthy.
The final
challenge of eating a spoonful of cinnamon sounds so awful, I can't
attempt any sane person trying it, though YouTube says otherwise.
Speaking
of YouTube, Daily Fork has videos of people attempting each of the
three challenges. The problem is watching anonymous people try to
consume food in a frenzied pace is, well, gross. So I warn you -- before you start viewing chubby bunny videos, be aware its hard to do but even harder to watch.
Watching Paul Newman try to eat 50 eggs, though -- now that's beautiful:
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Try drinking one shot of beer every 60 seconds for an hour. It's another seemingly easy task that you can't do, like a golf swing, just ask Charles.
Frankie C
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