i are what i eat: a food blog

15th January 2010

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The Challenge Will Be Webivized

Tomorrow will be the second event in our food destroying Challenge series, entitled “The Benny Tudinos Biggest Slice Ironmen Tag Team”.  And while I know you’d love to come over to Monroe Street Park in Hoboken, the reality is it might not happen.

The next best thing to seeing our face-stuffing live is on your interwebz device!  Starting at 7:30 PM EST, you can catch the competition live on Ustream here.  Of course, there will be (semi)professionally edited video with full commentary and production a few weeks afterwards.  The Challenge info can be found below:

Challenge #2:
The Benny Tudinos Biggest Slice Ironmen Tag Team Competition

Story:

Hoboken is home to baseball, Frank Sinatra, and the biggest slice this side of the Hudson River. Benny Tudinos serves up a tremendously proportionate pizza pie, balancing great flavor for its gargantian size. Slices dwarf two paper plates with shadowing ease, and a full sized pizza box can barely contain half an entire extra large Tudinos pie. Our competitors will take on the mighty beast, and put it in its place: our stomachs.

Challenge:

Teams will have one hour (60 minutes) to finish an entire extra large plain Benny Tudinos pie. First to finish or farthest along wins.

Rules:

- Each team will be made up of two competitors
- Team members must be cleared by Challenge Executive Board at a minimum of two days before the competition.
- Slices must be consumed in its entirety for them to be counted. Leftover crusts will be counted one slice against teams.
- Teams may use any choice condiments they wish, which include but not limited to garlic powder, pepper, salt, parmesan, or crushed chili flakes.
- Teams may use any type of beverage throughout the competition, with the exception of antacids, Tums, or any other stomach neutralizing liquids.
- Regurgitation of any kind will result in an automatic disqualification.
- Players may NOT leave the table under any circumstances once the competition begins.

Prizes:

The winning team will receive one bottle of Mylanta, their pizza pie paid for by losing teams, and the coveted Challenge Trophy.

Best of luck, and may science be with you.

Tagged: challengebenny tudinospizzaeatingcompetitionustream

19th December 2009

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Challenge: How Many Hot Dogs Can You Eat in 12 Minutes?

A couple of months ago, I put together an idea that would get a bunch of our old friends together for some fun that didn’t involve dank bars, noisy clubs, or blackout evenings.  What resulted was the “Challenge” series, with each event featuring some competitive eating feat that one of us would try and conquer.  The first one (and most appropriate in my opinion) was modeled after the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.  There were a few laughs, a few dozen hot dogs, and some great footage.  Take a look!

Our next one will feature an enormous pizza challenge.  Stay tuned…

Tagged: challengehot dogeating competitionnathans

16th December 2009

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Sam’s Journal - This Onmivore’s Dilemma

[This is a guest post from Sam, our resident culinary challenger, who set out to try vegetarianism for an entire month.  Read about the experience here!]

Hello Food Community,

My name is Samantha and I am here to blog about my most recent food bet. As Wes’ girlfriend and partner in food crime, I have been given this special platform and hope not to disappoint. 

To give you a little insight into my personality, I never back down from a challenge. You can know nothing else about me and that statement still sums it up pretty nicely. In 2006, I was challenged not to put mustard - my favorite condiment - on anything. It was difficult, but I was victorious. In 2007, I was challenged to abstain from gum for a week. While not exactly a food, I have considered it a food group for some time and thus I have included it here. Again, a win for yours truly.

However, this food bet - the one that brings me to you today - is by far the hardest I have encountered. Prompted by a food documentary, I was told by my friend Brian I could not NOT eat meat. That’s the last time you’ll challenge me Mr. Hardy!

What you need to know: I love bacon, steak, burgers, chili, chicken nuggets, chicken breast,pepperni, sausage, and pretty much anything else along these lines. For all intents and purposes, I am an omnivore…I will eat ANYTHING, as long as it’s served with mustard.

Getting back to the task at hand, I am to be a vegatarian for 1 month (30 days). This was the ORIGINAL bet. But, I felt it was lacking. So I decided to alter it. In addition to adhering to a meat-free diet, I will also try every vegetable I can get my mitts on.

The bet started on December 13,2009. I am now four days in and going strong. But there is definitely room for improvement.

The Good:
- I don’t miss meat as much as I thought I would.

- My salad intake has increased. My favorite dish of the past 4 days? My romaine lettuce, cheddar cheese, black olive, raw onion, italian dressing salad.

- I bought tofu to eat as a supplement to beef/chicken/pork

- I have been able to stave off mid-day hunger with two of my go-to snacks: apple slices and peanut butter (creamy) and carrot sticks and ranch dressing.

The Bad:
- I have not eaten the tofu yet

- I have noticed my intake of carbs to be increasing. Instead of having a turkey sandwich, I’ll eat toast with cream cheese. Not good…

- I have not yet expanded my mouthal cavity with a wide array of veggies. Quite the opposite actually.

- I have ritualized my eating to include the same salad every day for dinner.

The Ugly:
- Weight gain…yikes!

    In the coming days, I will be keeping a chart of all veggie recipes I try, as well as a running tally of all the vegetables eaten. Stay tuned. I WILL NOT LOSE!

Tagged: sam's journalvegetarianchallenge