| How can anyone resist a food challenge? Food | | | | campus and eaten one of the cows they hold in the |
| challenges are popping up all over the country in | | | | barns. What's even more disturbing is that I washed it |
| restaurants. Fuddruckers nationwide will post your | | | | down with a Neapolitan milkshake! That's right! A |
| photo in the restaurant if you can eat their 2lb burger. | | | | Neapolitan is a 3 layered milkshake with strawberry, |
| Pho Garden restaurant in San Francisco has a 4 lb | | | | chocolate, and vanilla. But we all wanted to know if we |
| bowl of pho for $22 with your picture on the wall as a | | | | could make any combo of meat and cheese we |
| prize as well. I've had my own food challenge | | | | wanted and whether I would be able to scarf it down. |
| experiences. | | | | Now despite the unpleasant aftermath, do I plan on |
| Going back a few years, several friends from my | | | | taking on more challenges? The answer is yes! I've |
| dorm and I had the midnight munchies one night and a | | | | once strived for the goal of finishing one tub of Baskin |
| craving for none other than the greasy goodness that | | | | Robbins ice cream with a friend. We sat on a set of |
| we all know as In-N-Out. (What is so intriguing about a | | | | swings in a nearby park and tried to eat a tub each. I |
| "secret menu" that is not actually a secret?) From the | | | | never learn my lesson because I always end up |
| secret menu, I've had a neopolitan milkshake and I've | | | | nauseous and laying around groaning. |
| eaten a 4x4. A 4x4 consists of 4 meat patties and 4 | | | | Food challenges are so enticing that there's even a |
| slices of cheese. DO NOT DO IT. The night my dorm | | | | new show on Food Network focused specifically on |
| friends had the munchies resulted in the heaviest food | | | | one man traveling the country taking on restaurant |
| coma I've ever experienced in my life. I laid in bed | | | | food challenges! If that's not enough, just watch |
| cursing the monsterous burger and exclaimed that if I | | | | Kobayashi eat an endless amount of hot dogs at the |
| made it through the night without throwing up, I would | | | | annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Maybe this is |
| never do such a thing again! | | | | just a reflection of our country's obsession with |
| The burger was unbalanced. You cannot expect 2 little | | | | always wanting more than we need. But regardless of |
| buns, a bit of lettuce, a slice of tomato, and some | | | | our country's fascination with large amounts of food, |
| cheese to balance out the heaviness of 4 meat | | | | I'm definitely going to continue to indulge in ridiculous |
| patties. I might as well have driven onto Cal Poly's | | | | food challenges. |