Amazing feats of teenage consumption...
So, all of this talk about feeding hungry crowds of guys, school lunches, and Michael Phelps has taken me back in my memories to my high school years, and some of the appetites of my fellow teens...I still remember the time I brought in bagels for my AP Bio class, then took the leftovers with me to study hall, and offered them to a gang of about four or give teenage guys. They flung themselves on the floor, said "you are a god(ess)" and then proceded to eat the rest of a very large paper brown bag of bagels, AND the cream cheese and butter that I had brought with the bagels. Literally. Eating the condiments with their hands. An entire tub of whipped cream cheese and butter.
And then there was the time four members of my band devoured the Ben & Jerry's Vermonster, terrifying the employees at the ice cream parlor, to say nothing of my friends on the cross country team known for polishing off entire containers of Turkey Hill peanut butter ice cream and Entemann's cakes and beating the football team at eating contests...and I know today several people who have to get an entire extra turkey at Thanksgiving 'just for the boys.'
High school was my pudgy stage--I was less athletic then, so I've tried to block out my worst excesses. So what is the most 'impressive' feat of teenage consumption you have witness, either your own or the experiences of children/friends/friends of children?
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Many-Many years ago.... on my 14th birthday I ate 14 tacos. I was proud. Heh!
In those days it didn't even phase me. I was tall and skinny, and ate everything in sight without gaining much weight. My parents called me a "bottomless pit."
Today I couldn't eat more than 4-6 on a good (hungry) day. I'm still tall, but can no longer claim to be skinny, or eat without gaining. Sadly, those days are gone.
FastFoodCritic at 8:45PM on 08/23/08
I have two stories, when I was a teen or in my early 20's. There is this hole-in-the-wall 24 hour cafe that has been around for decades in Seattle called Beth's Cafe, known for their over stuffed 12 egg omlettes that comes with all you can eat hash browns, toast and bottemless cups of coffee. WELL......I would go there at times after a night of partying and yes there was this one boy that when was with us would be able to consume the entire 12 egg omlette along with 2 to 3 helpings of hash browns and toast and several cups of coffee. The other is when I was in my early 20's my then boyfriend and I would go to this restaurant that had these huge meaty all-you-can-eat b que beef ribs, again with bottemless salad bar, sourdough bread and fries. Well aside from pints of beer, 2 to 3 helpings of salad bar, bread, fries, he ate 14 of those monster ribs. The waitress and manager of the place came out and commented that the only person to have beaten his record was a pro football player, he ate 18 of the ribs, something to that extent. For the record, with all the sides I could only handle one rib lol.
pjracz10 at 9:42PM on 08/23/08
When I was a 14 year old, my baseball team was at an out of town tournament, staying in a Holiday Inn (circa 1976), They had an all you can eat, Sunday brunch. Being the miscreants (but excellent ballplayers) that we were, we had engaged in a mega beer-a-thon the night before (long story on the accquisition part), and such, were hung over and hungry come brunch. The 16 of us were eating the buffet line, faster than they could bring it out, so fast, that we were jsut bypassing the chafing dishes and bringing the hotel pan right to our table. Finally, after a half hour, the manager came over and offered us this proposition...if youse (we were in Philly) leave now, we won't charge youse...see ya...but still hungry....peace
iwannacook at 10:04PM on 08/23/08
I hung around with a lot of boys. They were my friends. They each had their thing for food. Here are the ones I can recall. These were all friends who were boys (several) and each line was one incident
dozen egg omelet
6 big macs
2 large cokes and 2 large fries and 3 whoppers
whole loaf of wonder bread right out of the bag
1 whole pound of pasta
1 dozen dunkin donuts
2 large hoagies with everything
whole bucket of KFC with biscuits
(many of these) an entire pizza by one person
an entire apple pie 10 inch restaurant size
JerzeeTomato at 10:43AM on 08/24/08
While in fourth grade, my son's table in the cafeteria dared him to drink all of their milk (1/2 pint containers). Of course he took them up on it and at last count, he had chugged at least 15 containers. This drew the attention of the teacher who was monitoring the cafeteria, and she went over to investigate. She bent down to ask my son what was going on at which point he spewed said milk on the teacher from head to toe. This little competiton elevated him to star status among the 4th graders, even though they all got detention including my son. My husband found this to be hysterical (guess it's a guy thing), and gave my son a big ol' pat on the back. He's lucky that what was left of the milk had been digested. Two days later, DH was shopping at Kohls and found a t-shirt that read "The Milkman Always Delivers". Even though it was an XXLarge, he snatched it up and my son wore that thing at least twice a week as his badge of honor. He's now a junior in high school and still wears it. Although he has achieved many goals and has baseball trophies out the ying yang, he is forever known as "The Milkman".
Josdean at 11:18AM on 08/24/08
the in'n'out record at my high school was, back when i went there, a 26x26. 26 patties and 26 slices of cheese sandwiched between buns, consumed at one time.
yea the kid went out back and puked in the parking lot afterwards.
billyburgwife at 12:14PM on 08/24/08
I worked part time at a bakery, and at the end of the night they'd send the employees home with loafs of bread, cookies, pastries....and pies. I would sit in my freshmen dorm room at college, and eat an entire pie for dinner. We're talking fork in the center, crumble to crust pie devouring. And I wasn't even full! I'd usually top that off with some tostitos and cheese. Disgusting. And I still weighed 20 pounds less than I do now. Baffling.
embolini9 at 4:37PM on 08/24/08
Im just out of school but I was a 3 sport athlete in high school and college and even though I'm a young woman, I would really pack it away for energy (and because my teammates and I love to eat).
In college, the night before game day my basketball team would go out for tex mex in Boston. My best friend and I would split a platter of Nachos grande and Quesidillas, then we would each have our own fajitas, fried ice cream sundaes and clean our plates (these were huge portions though). Then we would go back to our dorm, look at one another and realize we are still kind of hungry. We would get up and went to Toscanini's for ice cream! Okay, we are 6ft tall but still, that is a lot for chicks.
I do triathlons now and I can pretty much out eat all my male friends.
JacquelineS at 9:27PM on 08/24/08
My hubs is the most impressive eater I know... In high-school he ate like a linebacker but was 140 lbs dripping wet.
He ate 27 pieces of pizza at Cici's once. I also think he ate a 12 patty cheeseburger and FF to get on the wall at a local burger joint. His normal McD's order was 6 cheeseburgers or 2 quarter pounders.
He's still a big eater but I make sure it's healthy stuff now.
TaraTot at 11:39AM on 08/25/08
I don't recall any of my h.s. friends packing away any impressive amounts of food. And as of yet I haven't witnessed any major feats of eating by my 14 y/o son. But I know my days are numbered. He'll eat dinner and 30 minutes later (or less) he's picking at left overs or eating a bowl of cereal. I can barely keep milk and cereal in the house between his snacking and my late-3rd-trimester nightly bowl before bedtime....
AuntJone at 9:08PM on 08/25/08