It all started out as a joke for Mario Frapolla, owner of Mario's Cafe Bar in Westhoughton, UK, but when his customers took him up on it, the Big Breakfast Challenge became a serious challenge:
For £10.95, willing victims can “enjoy” 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 10 slices of toast, five black pudding slices, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans.
Owner and head chef Mario Frappola gives customers just 20 minutes to wolf down his calorie-packed meal and does not even allow them a cup of tea.
The breakfast packs in 5,000 calories — nearly twice the recommended daily intake for an average man.
Steven Thompson of The Bolton News took the challenge ... and lost spectacularly. He recounts the experience here: Link - via about:blank
The breakfast packs in 5,000 calories — nearly twice the recommended daily intake for an average man.
A spokesman for the British Heart Foundation said: “Eating this amount in one sitting is not a good idea.”
(DUH!!)
He always ate a huge breakfast, a normal sized lunch, and barely more than a snack for dinner.
He cut way back after retirement, of course, but still ate by his maxim "eat like a prince at breakfast, a peddler at lunch, and a pauper at dinner". I've no idea whether that has anything to do with his longevity, as he lived very healthily to 96.
The bacon would come next.
The rest of it, I'd have trouble with. Well not the tomato or mushrooms.
But the baked beans, BLEH. And I don't even wanna know what the black pudding is.
The sausage wouldn't be that bad, but too much sausage makes me sick.
Meh.... this one isn't that bad.