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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