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Food Challenges - Where's the Beef?

I love a good steak, and have had more than my share, but there's a point at which a finely-grilled, perfectly-seasoned slab of beef crosses the line separating cuisine and mortal combat. Such is the case with the increasingly popular trend toward steak challenges. Basically, it works like this: if a customer can eat the required amount of meat -- generally between 48 and 72 ounces -- in a pre-ordained period of time, he or she will get some sort of reward. Sometimes, this is merely bragging rights; more often, it involves prizes like a t-shirt or a free meal.

Consuming over three pounds of beef and sides in an hour or less takes a special kind of person. While I have to admire the determination, I'm not sure that I'm up for joining the club. While I think about my clear lack of manly meat-eating skills, however, I will reassure myself by Digital City's gallery of America's biggest steak challenges. One featured restaurant, Tampa's Frontier Steakhouse Cattle Company challenges its customers to consume a full six pounds of beef, a potato, and a salad in under 75 minutes. Needless to say, I'm not worthy!

Filed Under: Trends, Food Quest, Food News, Ingredients, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: america, beef, eating contests, EatingContests, Food Quest, meat, Steak challenges, SteakChallenges

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Mel Kozek

3-06-2009 @11:15AM Mel Kozek said... Homer Simpson and the trucker Red Barkley come to mind:.
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Baron

3-10-2009 @10:39AM Baron said... Two words Big Texan
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Tim Sousa

3-11-2009 @4:38PM Tim Sousa said... I love steak, but I don't think there's any way I could eat that much. I could probably handle a 16 oz. steak at most.

http://www.patiogrilling.com
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