Westword reports that Virgilio's Pizzeria in Lakewood, Colorado has started at 10-11 pound pizza challenge which awards $100 and the cost of the pizza to a diner that can finish it without help or bathroom breaks in under 2 hours.

January 12, 2010 at 3:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Denver, Pizza Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments (4)

4 Comments »

  1. Turd in the punchbowl said

    January 12, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

    Look I don’t mean to be downer. But someday some kid or non-pro is going to get hurt at one of these non-sanctioned challenges without taking proper precautions. Especially, those places that don’t allow for water or bathroom breaks. I’m afraid its events like this and those listed in the previous blog (“List of 40”) will hurt the professional eaters who are prepared, proven, and take the time to ensure that EMTs are always on site. It’s kind of like those morons that run out on the football field and wind up getting clocked by a 250 lb linebacker. The pros often make it look it so easy, that some kid at home says to himself “I can do that” — but they can’t. They started playing fast and loose a few years ago in Japan and it set back CE in that country for a long time .

  2. KevinRoss said

    January 12, 2010 @ 4:25 pm

    While I agree that amateur eating contests can be dangerous due to choking hazard from overzealous people, I can’t see how an amateur eating challenge could possibly be dangerous. When eating at a slow and steady pace, it is very easy to know when one has reached their perceived limit. Someone who doesn’t do this very often wouldn’t even be able to push himself past the threshold of pain to conquer the challenge and will give up when it starts to become too uncomfortable. So unless this person has some sort of heart condition, diabetes, or other serious health ailment – it just isn’t an unsafe thing to do. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a death from an eating challenge. The ones I recall were from speed eating contests and things where one tries to stuff their mouth full of something like chubby bunny (which is obviously darwin award worthy). So I think being worried about the safety of them is simply paranoia – you run a far greater risk by walking a crosswalk or watching the View (suicide risk).

  3. Turd in the punchbowl said

    January 12, 2010 @ 4:49 pm

    Good points Kevin. I just think it’s important that these eatery owners consider all they can do to make these event safe for challengers. Sometimes too many owners think of the up side of the potential advertising advantages of such challenges, and fail to look at the potential downside. In one challenge the owners don’t provide water — well that doesn’t make sense. And, not going to the bathroom, that doesn’t sound right. Listen I’m the first to protect the right of someone to take personal risks. Yet, the owners need to be careful that someone might not be up to the challenge and be prepared. Sometimes it may be as simple as signing up an an employee for a few basic medical techniques.

  4. nunonabun said

    January 12, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

    Dry bread is the only real choking hazard to worry about out there. Your body will puke up anything that is to much to fast. Eating six pounds of food is out of the reality of most people because your body knows even if you dont. Meat sweats happen, you get hot, it starts to hurt, you feel sick and people stop because of that reason. No one is going to burst. All the deaths in Japan were bread related or children. If you to dumb to know when to stop your to dumb to live anyhow.

RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI

Leave a Comment

Log in | Register | Comments by users who have not logged in will be held for approval