Information about December 10 “Man vs. Food” restaurants
Galleries and a promo clip for tonight’s Man vs. Food episodes are available on the Travel Channel website.
Quaker Steak and Lube Atomic Hot wings, Pittsburgh, PA
- Home Page Quaker Steak & Lube has over 30 locations, mainly in the eastern United States
- Menu (.PDF format)
Quaker Steak and Lube has over 20 types of wing sauce at various degrees of spiciness. A list of the sauces and their hotness level is available after the jump. The Atomic Wings Adam Richman will attempt on tonight’s episode are rated at 150,000 Scoville Heat Units. All You Can Eat wings are available on Tuesday night.
The Ohio Deli Dagwood Challenge Columbus, Ohio
- Columbus Dispatch article about tonight’s episode
- Sopressata blog entry about a group attempt at the Dagwood Challenge. The record for the challenge was 6 minutes by John Matko in March (picture on right).
- Video of a challenge attempt by Columbus Underground
The Thurman Cafe Columbus, Ohio
- Home page
- CMH Gourmand blog entry about the Thurman Cafe’s burgers
- Paul “Porkslap” Arcaria had a 4.5 pound burger named after himself after he completed it in October.
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the boy king said
December 10, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Whoa…when were they @ quaker steak? I live about 2 miles from the place. They’re not that hot.
The ones @ UGLY are hotter.
I said
December 10, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
and they forgot to call you?
the boy king said
December 10, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
they did… them son’s-a-bitches
The Critic said
December 11, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Adam Richman reminded me of the host of “Best Places to Find Cash and Treasures”, the lovely Kristen Gum. All the guy does is spew “wow” “amazing” and other such superlatives. All the while, I’m looking at some of these monstrosities he’s eating thinking “yuck” “how revolting” and other similar thoughts.
Adam throws in a jab at our world….”I’m no competitive eater, just a guy who loves food”, then he proceeds to take any timed challenge than comes around. Not a competitive eater, indeed! The main focus of the second half of each show is strictly on him beating timed challenges, and the food becomes secondary. It always ended the same way, with him “winning” and the crowd going wild.
All in all, I’m not impressed. Disgusting looking conglomerations of mixed food items (shoot me, Pittsburgh, cole slaw and french fries are side dishes, not condiments) and eating hot stuff that is not designed for taste, just heat, makes this a show about a man speeding up a heart attack, not a show about a man enjoying good food. He is not a competitive eater, just a guy that eats as much greasy, hot, gross-looking and cholesterol laden food as quickly and often as possible.
Competitive eaters, in general, take good care of their bodies when not competing. Adam Richman is on a mission to destroy his body. The crowd at my house did not go wild – Adam, every time you “win”, you lose. I feel bad for your parents, watching you speed up death on national TV. Here’s his obituary title….”Man VS Food: Man Wins Battles, Loses War”.
the boy king said
December 11, 2008 @ 11:54 am
And pineapple’s not a topping for Pizza…. but it tastes damn good.
I agree critic, the host sucks….wow, amazing, blah, blah….. but don’t knock the sandwich until you’ve tried it.
Hot for the sake of being hot…. I’m not a big fan of either. But some folks like it.
Anonymous said
December 11, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
It’s quite hilarious – chill out