[Rodney King]

I drove by this place yesterday and have resolved to accompish this feat on April 12th, 2004 (My birthday). I need some strategy help. Which course do you eat first? How to prepare yourself in the weeks and days leading up to the event, etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Rodney King]

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[Abcdefg]

Order it as rare as you can handle. Takes less effort to chew and swallow. Don't starve yourself beforehand, you don't want your stomach to shrink.

[widgysoft]

Starve yourself for a few days beforehand?

[Leroy S. Mort]

I drove by this place yesterday and have resolved to accompish this feat on April 12th, 2004 (My birthday). I need some strategy help. Which course do you eat first? How to prepare yourself in the weeks and days leading up to the event, etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'd suggest immediate preventive therapy or purchase of a long feather.

[alnitak]

For the picture-deprived....

[PlanoMike]

Been There

Done That - NOT!!!

Advice: Have a smaller cheaper steak and enjoy!

[kipj]

Fixed your link. 72 oz. steak.

[alnitak]

Maybe you should practice by eating a 36oz steak first, a build up your confidence measure, before going for the whole back end of a cow.

[Iris7]

I've driven by there a few times and still think about doing the 72 ouncer! Good Luck! Tell me how it went!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'd spend at least two weeks of heavy eating first, in order to stretch the gut, and to keep it ready to receive. The day you're going to do this, don't eat for about 5 hours before - that way, you're clear.

[codercpc]

How about combining your feat with a fundraiser for Free Republic. Somebody did this last year with oysters. You could take pledges.

Just a thought. Good luck either way.

[Senator Pardek]

Smoke a lot of pot first.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Smoke a joint about an hour before the contest...

[Normal4me]

I got full just reading about it. ;-)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Of course, its kinda lame if you don't have to eat fat or gristle....

[Servant of the Nine]

How to prepare yourself in the weeks and days leading up to the event, etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Make sure your medical insurance is in force and covers you in an eating contest.

So9

[2timothy3.16]

I would think that the best thing to do is learn form those who were succesful, so, try being a fast ball pitching, 11 year old grandmother that is a professional wrestler.

[LibWhacker]

The thinner you are, the more room your stomach has to expand in your abdomen. So . . .
1) Lose as much weight as possible before March.
2) In the remaining month or so, stretch your stomach as much as possible once or twice a week by sitting down and stuffing yourself with seven pounds of steak as quickly as possible. In other words, you want to get your stomach used to being stretched to the max.
3) See a shrink because YOU'RE NUTS TO DO THIS! :-)

Actually, I wish you well, RK . . . Give 'em hell.

-- LW (an old gym rat who once failed a challenge to eat a 5-lb steak in an hour!)

[Porterville]

4 pounds of steak. Eat nothing for on full day... run about 2-3miles... then go eat your steak.

[Johnbalaya]

lol...good luck!