Need strategy help on eating 72 oz. steak in Amarillo Texas

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[Rodney King]

 

The 72oz. Steak

There's no bigger steak-eating challenge anywhere! The famous 72 oz. steak is a legend across the US and around the world; so if you can't travel to Amarillo to try it on for size, you now can have one shipped right to your front door!

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72oz. Steak Facts and Stats

• Nearly 4800 people have succeeded in eating the 72oz. steak (since 1960).

• Almost 30,000 people have attempted to consume the free 72oz. steak (since 1960).

• Approximately two women each year successfully eat the steak of the 4 or 5 who try. About 50% of the women who try are successful.

• Richard LaFeare chomped his way through 2 steaks on the "Donny & Marie Osmond Show" in 2000.

• Frank Pastore, who was a professional pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, ate the complete steak dinner in 9 and 1/2 minutes.

• The oldest person to eat the steak was a 69-year-old grandmother; the youngest, an 11-year old boy.

• Klondike Bill, a professional wrestler, consumed two complete dinners in the one hour time limit back in the 1960s.

Some Rules 72oz. Steak

Rule # 1 is to have fun. We really want you to win! The $50 dinner consist of a baked potato, salad, shrimp cocktail, roll, and a 72-ounce top sirloin steak. You must sit at the designated table in our dining room. You may not leave the table for any reason once the contest starts. No one may assist you in any way (such as cutting up your meal). You must complete the dinner in 1 hour (if you can't do the meal in an hour, you ain't going get it done in 2 hours anyway). You may not share your meal even if you don't complete the dinner (like take it back to your table to be shared by any folks you may have invited to cheer you on). If you get sick (its been know to happen) the contest is over, period. You can order the steak cooked anyway you want. We will allow you a sample bite (small) prior to the start of the timer to make sure it is cooked to your satisfaction and the taste meets with your approval. Then we start the timer for one hour. You do not have to eat the fat or gristle (if you can find any), but we must judge this. Again, we want you to win but we do know our meats and will judge accordingly. The contest is just that, a contest. The steak is not offered on our menu as a meal. We do not allow the dinner to be ordered as a meal (unless you want to spend $200). It takes us a little more than a half an hour to cook the steak and it is available 365 days a year from 8:00am to 9:30pm. Enough with the rules! Refer to rule #1 - HAVE FUN!

Of course, when you take the 72oz. challenge at home, you don't have to limit yourself to one hour...and, you can share it with your friends and family. Most importantly, you now gain the bragging rights to say you too have savored the taste of this Texas-sized steak.

The successful 72oz. steak eaters in our restaurant will take home a special limited-edition t-shirt proclaiming their gastronomical feat. So until you are able to visit us in Amarillo, why not have a practice session in your own home? Invite a few friends over, and have a Big Texan party!

 

	World Renowned 72-oz. steak Item No. BT-416 $72.00 (plus shipping and handling) Order the one and only 72 oz. Top Sirloin Steak and share it with six or eight of your friends!
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[ladyrustic]

Well, I think good advice would be to enjoy your meal. If you love meat, just enjoy that beautiful steak. It seems a shame to eat so rapidly that you can't enjoy it.

I'd love to have a crack at a steak like that... I've been a carnivore since a baby, and when I was a child, there was nothing I liked more than meat. I know, I know, that's a bit strange for a woman... Oh well.

Enjoy!

[ladyrustic]

Be right back, I'm going to make meatballs...

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

This crap makes about as much sense as having a chugging contest at an AA meeting.

We do odd things in Texas JUST TO BE ODD! Then again your profile says you twice voted for Carter, so we all do odd things sometimes! ;-)

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Well, if you can't throw up, will they let you take a sex break?

Sex with a steak .... PLEASE!

[X-FID]

Well, I have heard that smoking pot produces the feeling of being hungry, but I wonder if it would actually help when it comes to consuming as much as possible.

It won't help your consumption, but you won't give a sh!t, however make sure you have a plumber on retainer.

[Old Professer]

Hypothermia?

[Who dat?]

…and I also don't drink much anymore.

Well, there goes my strategy.

I once ate a little over $800 worth of sushi. I don’t know how much it was in terms of weight though. I just remember that it was a LOT of sushi.

That was the result of about 7 hours of heavy drinking with a bunch of Korean businessmen. Booze has always had that affect on me – not beer or wine, just many glasses of scotch over a period of hours has always left me almost insatiably hungry. I wouldn’t recommend doing it just for fun though.

That’s the same way a lot of those Cajun kids could eat about 10 pounds of red beans and rice – they’d been drinking since about 7:00am. By the time lunch rolled around they were ravenously hungry and could pack it away.

(We worked on a barge for a surveying crew and it was hot and muggy enough in southern Louisiana that they’d often get sick and puke it back over the side of the barge shortly after eating it - but it was pretty impressive the amount of food they’d eat.)

[Malcolm]

LOL, you beat me to it; also, omit taking out the garbage after the meal.....

[Squantos]

Jeff has decided to try this on his next trip thru here. We have dinner there every time he visits my AO. I'll post the pics and foot the bill if he fails !

Stay Safe !!

[prarie earth]

[Maigrey]

Well, my uncle ate 2 of them, but his reason was that he was stranded in his truck for 2 days without food. (he's ~6'6" and ~320.) He was sumpin' hungry!

Even if you don't attempt to this feat, the food is wonderful. (been there before!)

[Physicist]

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

1. For inspiration, watch a tape of the Glutton Bowl #1, wherein Takeru Kobayashi downs more than ten pounds of cow brains to win the crown. It's spritually uplifting to watch a world-class athlete in top form.
2. Touch the hem of Ed "Cookie" Jarvis's garments for good luck. (He can do a 76-oz steak in 20 minutes.)
3. Overstuff yourself at every meal for a week or so beforehand.
4. Remember that you are an American. It is your responsibility to consume enough unnecessary calories at a single sitting to feed a third-world village for a week, because they are unable to consume them for themselves. OK, so maybe that doesn't help them out very much, but perhaps they can vicariously get fed up.
5. THIS IS IMPORTANT: wash it down with brandy, or another high-alcohol beverage (not enough to get 'faced, though). The alcohol both relaxes the stomach and anaesthetizes it.

[Squantos]

Well done is my suggestion Rodney......Easier to consume....if ya want , give me a shout when ya go do this. I'm not far from Amarillo. I'll drive over and photograph the freeper feast ! Myself and Jeff Head are planning to do it sometime in the near future also.......

Stay Safe !

[exnavy]

WOW I'm up for it!

[Joe_October]

Hypothermia = Abnormally low body temperature

Eating too much ice cream = Body temp drops. As you shiver you can't eat as fast as you did when you started. And since it's coming from the inside, you can't heat up the outside to make it go away.

[Squantos]

Yep...........looks like a friggin manhole cover on a plate with garnish !

Ohhh you mean the thread ?:o)

Jeff Head wants to give this a try next time he visits.......pics to follow !

Stay safe !

[agrace]

HAHAHA

[prarie earth]

[Rodney King]

Thanks, I couldn't remember his name.

[Rodney King]

From what I understand you have to eat the whole meal, potato included.