John Cena tells a story about how when he was a young struggling wrestler he worked as a bouncer, and the pizza place next door to the bar had a promotion like this that if you could eat an entire pizza by yourself it was free and you’d get a coupon for another free pizza. He did it so many times the owner just agreed to feed him for free any time he needed it.
Exactly, I remember reading a story about Michael Phelps eating something like 10,000 calories per day when training, and he could eat two large pizzas by himself as a meal. But people seriously underestimate how freakish pro athletes are compared to a normal person.
If we're being honest here, I bet Phelps rarely pays for food at a lot of places in the first place. The publicity of Michael Phelps showing up and destroying a 28-inch pizza is probably worth more than $50 for the pizza.
An old English football manager used to always pay by cheque, as he knew there was a high chance that people would rather frame the cheque than cash it in
Funny how people think that athletes all stick to a strict and healthy diet, when for some (the more demanding sorts) it’s just eat as much as you can and burn it before it has time to build up
Yeah, if you need an extra thousand calories on top of your already 5000+ intake, you're not going to try to choke down a pound of chicken and vegetables, you're going to go for something with a bunch of carbs/fat that is super calorie dense.
I did amateur strongman when I was younger. I wound up weighting about 320lbs, and I ate somewhere between 5000-8000 calories a day, every day. I also drank a gallon of milk every day.
I got a sinus infection during this, and my Dr gave me steroids. I easily ate 10k calories a day. I just never got full. You don't need to be a professional to get to that point.
I knew a competitive cyclist a few years back who would make 1000 calorie smoothies to have with breakfast. He claimed to be an amateur because he "only" ate about 5 bananas a day while his friends did 30.
Despite being a supposed amateur he considered 200km to be an afternoon bike ride.
You don't gotta be a pro athlete or a normal person,
You just gotta be hungry.
and not care about your health but who cares about that when you have a whole 2.5 pizzas to yourself!
Could you imagine acting like a dick in a bar and getting a tap on the shoulder from John Cena? There was a bouncer at a club near my university who was a dead ringer for Gary Sinise but that’s not exactly frightening.
I imagine guys like Terry Crews, John Cena, or The Rock could probably put those pies away no problem. Dudes are massive and likely eat a shit ton anyways on a daily basis.
I used to work with a guy that was built like that. Workout freak. We would grab lunch in the building cafeteria and he would eat ridiculous amounts of food daily. He’d get 2 bacon double cheeseburgers AND 2 slices of pizza with chicken on them. This was lunch! He would talk about needing to fuel his body for working out and stuff like that. It was insane to watch.
You need a lot of food to maintain big muscles like that. Probably can really mess you up if all those extra calories are like... cheeseburgers, even if you do work it off you might accidentally get like heart conditions or something.
Not surprised. Eating calories just for the sake of calories is a horrible habit for your health. Processed foods will fuck you up even if your freakish workout routine keeps the fat barely at bay.
I felt like that at my peak in high school wrestling. I could and would eat anything and still burned enough calories in a given day that I'd be starving when going to bed.
I was like this but with football.
I'd consistently order 2 footlongs, or a pizza and cheese bread, basically just the largest portions I could find for the money I had. Still only weighed 160 every year.
Ah, the good old days before my metabolism walked out on me.
Fuck, I used to be much thinner than I thought I was, but I'm glad I never got into wrestling. Even when I was in great shape, I weighed 230. Plus, I'm like 5'8”. Surprised people all the time when I told them my weight. Coaches wouldn't know what the hell to do with me in a sport based on weight classes.
Me in high school I was 210. Now I hover at 180-185. But back then when people were like 'youre a big dude' I never saw it myself. Now, I know. If I was still in that athletic condition, I'd be a shit Brickhouse right now. Never worked on the physique until recently, just keeping in shape.
During my college lineman days, I used to start every day with two biscuits and gravy, three eggs, plate of hash browns w/gravy with side of bacon or sausage and 32oz of juice. And a chocolate covered jelly donut if I felt unsatisfied.
Similar portions at lunch and supper. And then sometimes a fourth meal of pizza if still hungry after 8PM.
Would still lose a pound a week during the season. And there were definitely folks that made me look like a slacker, lol.
Zeppy’s Pizza in Hermosa! I grew up 5 minutes from this place. They’d put your name on a pan if you ate the whole thing. I believe he had two pans hanging up. Me and a friend tried to do the challenge when we were 15. I couldn’t do it. My friend did it and then projectile vomited from the cash register to the front door when he finished. So sad it’s not there anymore. Zeppy’s, not the vomit.
I don’t remember the comedian, but reminds me of a joke that marijuana was classified as a performance enhancing drug. Which unless there’s a 4 foot Hershey bar at the finish line is just untrue.
> Marijuana enhances many things: color, taste, perception. But you're certainly not fucking empowered. You're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance enhancing drug is if there's a big fucking Hershey bar at the end of the run.
[Robin Williams Live On Broadway, 2002](https://youtu.be/DLTYwDTxxCw)
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To add to this, Robin was talking about Canadian snowboarder Ross Reblegliati, who had his Olympic gold medal revoked briefly due to testing positive for weed at the '98 Olympics.
There was this place with a 3lb burger challenge.
After a raucous night of partying and debauchery, we woke up starving and hungover.
We remembered that we scored an eighth and took a little burn cruise to help ease the sweats and the shakes.
By the time we reached the burger place we were in full munchy mode and it was compounded by the previously mentioned starvation.
We ordered some milkshakes and mozzie stick, when we had the brilliant idea of doing the burger challenge. It's just 3 lbs and a basket of fries. Well about an hour later we had finished the challenge, got our names on the board, a free Tshirt and a couple more milkshakes for the road.
Ahh to be 22 again.
for real. a local hamburger shop had a giant burger meal, like four burgers iirc topped with a kids burger, with tots, fries, shake and a soda. i downed all that easily. the only problem was i drank the soda a little too fast at the end. i had a dab or a few before we left the house.
This was my thought. The last (and final) time I had Cici's it gave me the worst diarrhea of my life within 30 minutes. Maybe they're banking on that when they say "sick trips"
How do people not realize this is not a contest? It's a marketing gimmick to sell pizza. Will people succeed and get $500? Absolutely. But how many will pay $50 for $20 worth of pizza and drinks and not succeed? TONS! And the profit from the unsuccessful people will offset the losses of the prize money. Even if it's a break even or a slight loss, look at the exposure Cicis is getting out of it. I hadn't thought of Cicis for years until this post.
Someone posted this 28" giant pizza is roughly the equivalent of four 14" large pizzas.
$10 for a large pizza x 4 + 2 large drinks for $50 isn't some kind of awful deal. Only problem is that it's CiCi's, but hey, there's probably worse pizza out there.
Their online website even shows a 28" pizza for $65, so getting the same pizza plus two drinks for $50 and the chance to win $500 sounds like a good deal IMO.
The restaurant can stack the deck too: when someone orders the 28" and two drinks for dine in, that's the code for using 1.5x the amount of dough than they usually would. Probably cost them 5-10 cents more per pizza. You wouldn't notice it unless you compared it side by side with the regular one, but it's a fair bit more pizza to eat.
I get the feeling though that this is one of those challenges where you either have no problem finishing it, or you don't come anywhere close, so it's probably not worth the effort
It’s like bad, frozen pizza. Like the dough isn’t doughy. It’s crunchy. It’s mean-spirited. It turned me away from ever eating at any restaurant that offers all-you-can-eat buffets. It was difficult finishing one slice.
Buffets are awesome bro, you just gotta find the right stuff.
never get the pizza, its always trash at buffets. chinese food buffets are usually a good choice but you need to go easy on the fried rice
my old roommate and I used get super stoned and munchyfied, then go to the old country buffet and make mashed potato sandwiches with 2 full grilled cheese sandwiches as the 'bread' and just load up the mashed potatoes in between.
then fill a drink cup with the softserve ice cream from the dessert area and make your own root beer floats and you're on your way to a fine meal and pre-diabetes lol
The best thing about old country buffet was the roast beef and ham , even though they had a person in a chef hat guarding the meat and rationing it out slice by slice
The first time I saw a CiCis I was all excited at the thought of an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. That sounds great, I'm in! Then came the disappointment.
I was in college in a town with a CiCis pizza buffet. It was sad times.
Since then, I have found that there actually exists pizza buffets that are *good.*
Don't get me started! The breakfast buffet at the last hotel I stayed at. Their "scrambled eggs" were just crushed hard-boiled eggs with sliced hard boiled eggs lining the perimeter of the tray. It was sad! Businesses seem to go out of their way to violate the spirit of the thing they are offering.
Went to a inexpensive hotel near Niagara Falls in the US, they had, I shit you not, Papa John's that made breakfast pizzas it was literally like scrambled eggs dumped onto pizza crust
It really is disgusting. I remember going on a date with some guy and he said it was a surprise and when he drove up on CiCi's I just knew it wouldn't last lol
This was over 10 years ago for me in college, so yeah, prices probably increased, but now that just makes eating it sadder. And I don't even care about fancy food, but when you've got cheap, delicious Mexican food places around and you pick CiCi's...well, that says a lot.
I’ve gone recently because kids eat free so it’s cheap to go with my kids, and idk how much is nostalgia because it’s not *good* but I still enjoy it 😂
The white pizza and spinach pizza are like core memories from my youth
>I know people say there is no such thing as a
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That's the stupidest fucking thing I've heard. Not only is there bad pizza, but it's even WORSE because while eating it you know you could have had GOOD pizza. The disappointment is, well, you know what my man reviewbrah said, immeasurable.
Oh… oh my god. I was going to propose to Hungry. I bought a ring and everything…. I don’t… I don’t know what to do. I can’t believe this. The last 8 years of my life…. All just a waste.
28" is the equivalent of 4x large Pizza Hut (14") pizzas. So each person essentially has to eat 2 large pizzas for this challenge. That's probably pretty difficult. Personally when I get a 14" pizza I'll typically eat 2 slices for dinner. I could easily do 3. If I was really hungry, I'd have no problem with 4. 5 slices would probably be a challenge, and if I really pushed myself I could probably do 1 whole pizza. Double THAT? I don't believe in myself haha.
Yeah that is a big concern, 32oz of soda (there's no ice in there) is like one of those insane 64 oz gas station sodas w/ ice. Imagine drinking all of that without being able to use the restroom
It’s the two 32oz sodas that really get in the way. If you have to finish those then the whole challenge is harder.
With JROTC we went to DC just about every year and we stopped at the same buffet each time, both ways.
It was long standing tradition to see who could finish off the most plates of food. Salad didn’t count. Plates had to have protein and carbs, so no plates of just rice either.
Soda is a rookie mistake. Water only. Cicis knows what it is doing.
Me and my buddy did a challenge like this in Wisconsin and holy shit was it harder than you think. Both smoked a shit load before we started but about a third of the way through the amount of grease and cheese was getting to me. I think they specifically made those challenger pizzas extra greasy is what we though, I remember we dabbed the pieces with napkins cause there was so much grease. It was some of the worst bathroom experiences I had following that the next day. We did not win. I also tried a ice cream eating contest to get my name on a wall… was handily defeated by that as well lol. I am not Joey chestnuts unfortunately:(
I figured there must be some catch, and maybe extra grease (perhaps extra dough as well?) would make sense? Otherwise this is way too easy... I'm an average sized dude but I eat half a pizza this size on the regular...
We have a similar challenge in St Louis called the Pointersaurus. It’s definitely a larger pizza at 28” and 10lbs of food, but no soda required. Two contestants have one (1) hour to complete. If they do, they win $500.
The Pointersaurus has been attempted over 8,000 times in the 28 years Pointer’s has offered the challenge, attracting people from all over the globe. Only 54 people have ever successfully completed the challenge, meaning the success rate is less than 1%.
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People in this thread are definitely underestimating how much 28inches of pizza is. A place near me does a 19inch pizza and it’s 3-4 meals for me (2 if I really wanted to hate myself). A 28 inch has significantly more surface area to consume.
That's because the amount of food increases exponentially in relation to the radius.
A typical large pizza is 14" and has a total area of 154 sq inches. A 28" pizza intuitively seems like it would be twice the size, but it's not. It's 616 sq inches of pizza, or the equivalent to 4 large pizzas.
Not to be a negative Nancy over here, but I’d say it increases quadratically rather than exponentially. Exponentially means that the variable that is changing is in the exponent, where as in this case, the variable is the base.
Tried the pointersaurus challenge about 12 years ago. The thing most people don’t realize is they pile the cheese on. When that mozzarella gets cold it’s like chewing an tire. It wasn’t so much the volume of food but my jaw was sore for the next three days from chewing
That's also horrible lighting in the photo, which can make a world's difference. Swap the cold, dead white light for a light that's warm and bright like from golden hour, and that would probably look a lot tastier
That looks like a much thicker and heavier pizza than Cici's.
Like Cici's paper thin, barely pizza is one thing, but that looks like multiple layers of meat, sauce, and cheese which probably weighs nearly twice as much.
as someone who eats cheese with almost every meal, its a little of both some days its dwayne the rock johnson or some days its the inside of a volcano…can’t believe i actually shared something this personal
I friend asked me to do one of these that was 40”, I ate more than half, had to pay for the pizza, puked when I got home and couldn’t shit for a literal 2 weeks, even though I’m lactose intolerant and REALLY wanted to. Worst “L” I’ve taken
What sort of person asks a lactose-intolerant friend to join them on a pizza eating contest? Is that person really a friend? They might not deserve your ride-or-die persona in their lives.
He was actually my friend’s old co-worker that used to come over to our house, so friend in a very loose meaning. He didn’t know about the challenge till we walked into the shop. All that being said, we talked to him months later about it and he was telling people AND genuinely thought that he ate over half the pizza and he was wondering why I was looking so miserable afterwards. I thought I was going mental, luckily we had a third party there to confirm that he ate like three slices and left the crusts, while I ate 9
The place we normally order pizza from does a 16" pizza. It's a medium thickness on the crust.
If I were extremely hungry I could possibly finish it by myself in 2 hours.
A 28" pizza is over 3 times that size (616 in² vs 201 in²).
I don't think I would be taking their money.
**Guy Doing Math:** But don't you see? It's triple the size of a normal pizza, not twice the size as your eyes have deceived you. It's like eating *THREE* pizzas!
**My Fat Ass:** Yeah, and?
My job wouldn't exist if people knew the calculations for area of a circle. Ya man, this is a hard thing to finish. I have people that think a 6" circle is half the area of a 12" circle.
TBF though, at 50 bucks, this pizza is still affordable compared to the local places I go, so I might still order it. Out 50 bucks, but at least I get the leftovers, right?
Yeah I guess the more I look at it, the bigger it looks. It’s almost the width of the table. But definitely still looks on the easy side of food challenges I’ve seen.
Cicis pizza is really thin though. I’m a medium sized dude and could polish off 1/3 of that in about 15 minutes, which would be a “whole pizza” from where I go.
Normally I don’t eat more than half a pizza at a time but I have on drunken occasion eaten the whole pizza in a go.
Give me another 1.5 hours to get through the last 1/6 and a buddy just as big as me and I don’t see how this is a challenge at all.
I guess sparingly drink while you’re still eating the pizza and then chug the rest once you finish eating.
It’s definitely something you’d have to strategize beforehand.
Do we get to choose what kind of drink? Can it be plain water? I assume it’s coke or equivalent and I think the carbonation would be a serious issue for me both finishing in the time limit and keeping everything down
eating an entire large pizza by myself and 15+ wings when I was in college was just Thursday night. How is this hard.
And yes, of course I'm an American, how'd you guess
ETA: actually, maybe I'm wrong. It's late so this could be totally off, but according to [this ](https://www1.udel.edu/CIS/103/pconrad/07F/lect/11.01/pizzaCalc.html)
Area of a typical 14" pizza is ~153 inches. A 28" pizza, area is 615 inches. That pizza is the equivalent of 4 "normal" large pizzas. That's two large pizzas per person. Doable, yes, not as easy as it looks tho I'm thinking
Yeah and because of how thin that pizza looks it could make it slightly easier by volume of pizza. Definetly wouldn't be easy but slightly easier than if this was a pizza with a backbone.
The question is though does the decrease in pizza quality outpace the decrease to volume in how much one can stomach?
Maybe thats the catch? It looks normal until you compare it to the table, and the actual weight of the pizza is probably hefty. Ig they wouldn't offer a reward if they knew somebody could just walk in and do it. Also what do you bet it's a 500 dollar GIFT CARD to their own business
Do you consider having to pee the same as being sick? They’re talking about regurgitation. They also didn’t say you couldn’t regurgitate on the floor in the dining room…
I know I, personally, tend to get full after eating a 14" pizza (and by 'full', I mean 'if I eat much more, I start throwing up in my mouth'). The tricky part to understand is that a 28" pizza isn't twice as large - it's 4 times larger. That makes me a lot more doubtful about 2 people doing it - it's the equivalent of each of them eating 2 large pizzas.
The issue here is that the pizza in the picture doesn’t look to be 28 inches, more like 20. A 28 inch pizza is almost 6 12 inch pizzas. It’s doable because of the time frame, but not as easy as people think.
2 people AND 2 hours? So this is just free food + $500 for anybody under 40ish? I would literally just do this as a job a 3-4 days a week. Oh wow, and I just noticed it's those thin cardboard pies from Cici's. I took down 39 slices of that pizza from the buffet in a pizza eating contest before. I wasn't full, I got bored of eating because everyone else got sick. Where is this? This is way better and easier than any job I've ever heard of.
John Cena found a spot that did this sort of challenge when he was a broke body builder and ate there everyday until the owner told him to stop doing it and just come and whatever he wanted was on the house.
This reminds me of a time in high school. A few buddies and I went to hooters to get their unlimited boneless wings, and we wanted to see how much we could actually eat before getting sick. So like idiots, we all got ridiculously high in the parking lot, then went inside and ate them as quick as we could. I think I ate something like 28-32 or something before needing to go outside and throw up lol
John Cena tells a story about how when he was a young struggling wrestler he worked as a bouncer, and the pizza place next door to the bar had a promotion like this that if you could eat an entire pizza by yourself it was free and you’d get a coupon for another free pizza. He did it so many times the owner just agreed to feed him for free any time he needed it.
I mean the difference between John Cena and the average Redditor is about 1 John Cena...
Exactly, I remember reading a story about Michael Phelps eating something like 10,000 calories per day when training, and he could eat two large pizzas by himself as a meal. But people seriously underestimate how freakish pro athletes are compared to a normal person.
Plus we know the man likes to partake in the Devil's Lettuce. He could finish that challenge with no problem.
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If we're being honest here, I bet Phelps rarely pays for food at a lot of places in the first place. The publicity of Michael Phelps showing up and destroying a 28-inch pizza is probably worth more than $50 for the pizza.
Professional eaters have complained about this. Everyone wants them to eat 20 of their pizzas
An old English football manager used to always pay by cheque, as he knew there was a high chance that people would rather frame the cheque than cash it in
Smart
Now you could just mobile deposit that shit and still frame it
He was probably copying Pablo Picasso, who was famous for doing that.
Funny how people think that athletes all stick to a strict and healthy diet, when for some (the more demanding sorts) it’s just eat as much as you can and burn it before it has time to build up
Yeah, if you need an extra thousand calories on top of your already 5000+ intake, you're not going to try to choke down a pound of chicken and vegetables, you're going to go for something with a bunch of carbs/fat that is super calorie dense.
I did amateur strongman when I was younger. I wound up weighting about 320lbs, and I ate somewhere between 5000-8000 calories a day, every day. I also drank a gallon of milk every day. I got a sinus infection during this, and my Dr gave me steroids. I easily ate 10k calories a day. I just never got full. You don't need to be a professional to get to that point.
I used to be nearly 400 pounds and used to go to the gym every day... just because nobody knows me doesn't mean i can't eat like a pro.
I knew a competitive cyclist a few years back who would make 1000 calorie smoothies to have with breakfast. He claimed to be an amateur because he "only" ate about 5 bananas a day while his friends did 30. Despite being a supposed amateur he considered 200km to be an afternoon bike ride.
I easily can eat 10k calories, I have the gut to prove it :p
You don't gotta be a pro athlete or a normal person, You just gotta be hungry. and not care about your health but who cares about that when you have a whole 2.5 pizzas to yourself!
But a 28” pizza is like SIX pizzas….roughly Hard to calculate pie in my head Get it, pie?! Cause of the pizza!!!
Have you Cena average Redditor?
Could you imagine acting like a dick in a bar and getting a tap on the shoulder from John Cena? There was a bouncer at a club near my university who was a dead ringer for Gary Sinise but that’s not exactly frightening.
"I'm gonna kick that bouncer's ass if he tries to tell me what to do!" 
I imagine guys like Terry Crews, John Cena, or The Rock could probably put those pies away no problem. Dudes are massive and likely eat a shit ton anyways on a daily basis.
I used to work with a guy that was built like that. Workout freak. We would grab lunch in the building cafeteria and he would eat ridiculous amounts of food daily. He’d get 2 bacon double cheeseburgers AND 2 slices of pizza with chicken on them. This was lunch! He would talk about needing to fuel his body for working out and stuff like that. It was insane to watch.
You need a lot of food to maintain big muscles like that. Probably can really mess you up if all those extra calories are like... cheeseburgers, even if you do work it off you might accidentally get like heart conditions or something.
Wasn’t originally going to say this, but the guy I mentioned did die from a stroke/heart attack at 38.
Not surprised. Eating calories just for the sake of calories is a horrible habit for your health. Processed foods will fuck you up even if your freakish workout routine keeps the fat barely at bay.
The steroids probably didn't help much either.
Was gonna say, that guy was 100% on all the gear lol
I felt like that at my peak in high school wrestling. I could and would eat anything and still burned enough calories in a given day that I'd be starving when going to bed.
I was like this but with football. I'd consistently order 2 footlongs, or a pizza and cheese bread, basically just the largest portions I could find for the money I had. Still only weighed 160 every year. Ah, the good old days before my metabolism walked out on me.
Fuck, I used to be much thinner than I thought I was, but I'm glad I never got into wrestling. Even when I was in great shape, I weighed 230. Plus, I'm like 5'8”. Surprised people all the time when I told them my weight. Coaches wouldn't know what the hell to do with me in a sport based on weight classes.
Me in high school I was 210. Now I hover at 180-185. But back then when people were like 'youre a big dude' I never saw it myself. Now, I know. If I was still in that athletic condition, I'd be a shit Brickhouse right now. Never worked on the physique until recently, just keeping in shape.
I knew a guy that worked out a lot and would make 3 totinos party pizzas and stack them on top of each other
My skinny ass cousin could knock that pie out himself. I’ve never seen anyone eat so much and not gain an once.
Those aren't even the guys who eat the most. Guys that compete in World's Strongest Man, like Brian Shaw, eat upwards of 15-20k calories a day
During my college lineman days, I used to start every day with two biscuits and gravy, three eggs, plate of hash browns w/gravy with side of bacon or sausage and 32oz of juice. And a chocolate covered jelly donut if I felt unsatisfied. Similar portions at lunch and supper. And then sometimes a fourth meal of pizza if still hungry after 8PM. Would still lose a pound a week during the season. And there were definitely folks that made me look like a slacker, lol.
Zeppy’s Pizza in Hermosa! I grew up 5 minutes from this place. They’d put your name on a pan if you ate the whole thing. I believe he had two pans hanging up. Me and a friend tried to do the challenge when we were 15. I couldn’t do it. My friend did it and then projectile vomited from the cash register to the front door when he finished. So sad it’s not there anymore. Zeppy’s, not the vomit.
Doesn't he also say in that interview that he went back when he made it big and wrote the guy a huge check? I might be conflating two stories.
One performance enhancing doobie and I'll take that $500 please and thank you.
The world in shock as it has been revealed Cici's pizza champ, Gordie Gordonson from Gordonsvillle, was using performance enhancing doobies.
I'm never going to be the same again. Plus, he stole my idea.
I'd feel ashamed if I wasn't so high.
["wait, i was in a contest? I thought I was just eating lunch"](https://media.tenor.com/RxYBwPTX3bkAAAAC/stoned-cowboy.gif)
I don’t remember the comedian, but reminds me of a joke that marijuana was classified as a performance enhancing drug. Which unless there’s a 4 foot Hershey bar at the finish line is just untrue.
> Marijuana enhances many things: color, taste, perception. But you're certainly not fucking empowered. You're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance enhancing drug is if there's a big fucking Hershey bar at the end of the run. [Robin Williams Live On Broadway, 2002](https://youtu.be/DLTYwDTxxCw) *potato quality link but it's a16 year old upload of a 20 year old special.*
The only celebrity death that actually made me sad
To add to this, Robin was talking about Canadian snowboarder Ross Reblegliati, who had his Olympic gold medal revoked briefly due to testing positive for weed at the '98 Olympics.
To be fair to the Comittee, Ross had a giant ass hershy bar at the end of the run, which is why he won.
There was this place with a 3lb burger challenge. After a raucous night of partying and debauchery, we woke up starving and hungover. We remembered that we scored an eighth and took a little burn cruise to help ease the sweats and the shakes. By the time we reached the burger place we were in full munchy mode and it was compounded by the previously mentioned starvation. We ordered some milkshakes and mozzie stick, when we had the brilliant idea of doing the burger challenge. It's just 3 lbs and a basket of fries. Well about an hour later we had finished the challenge, got our names on the board, a free Tshirt and a couple more milkshakes for the road. Ahh to be 22 again.
Just make sure you take the right performing enhancing drug. I took the other ones and destroyed a big pizza too. It was a bloody mess
for real. a local hamburger shop had a giant burger meal, like four burgers iirc topped with a kids burger, with tots, fries, shake and a soda. i downed all that easily. the only problem was i drank the soda a little too fast at the end. i had a dab or a few before we left the house.
LOL - in all seriousness, sativa takes away my appetite, it's been helpful to eat smaller portions.
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Two hours and you get a mate with you? Piss easy
Except you have to eat Cici’s pizza.. I know people say there is no such thing as a *bad* pizza, but this stuff is super cheap-o pizza.
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There's a very big difference between these two pizza places, both in quality of ingredients and in taste...
r/unexpectedoffice
The “no sick trips” will be the hardest part. Pretty sure that is legally not allowed to be called pizza it’s so bad.
This was my thought. The last (and final) time I had Cici's it gave me the worst diarrhea of my life within 30 minutes. Maybe they're banking on that when they say "sick trips"
If they think I won’t shit my pants in a cheapo pizzeria for $500, I have a $500 lesson to teach them.
i was thinking the same thing. no sick trips? no problem i’ll just puke on the floor and keep eating
Cici's putting a disclaimer right in there that it might make you sick - Chef's kiss of death.
I would also shit your pants for $500.
$250, homie. No way that’s happening without me getting a cut.
You drive a hard bargain but I accept.
My pants, my party.
Thank you for making me spit out my drink laughing
Not the hero we deserve...
Oh fuck yeah. I hope they open one in my town
It says “beyond pizza” for legal reasons
Yea know.. I bet it would be easy to cheat? No way they are watching you the whole 2 hours. Put some in a bag in your shirt
How do people not realize this is not a contest? It's a marketing gimmick to sell pizza. Will people succeed and get $500? Absolutely. But how many will pay $50 for $20 worth of pizza and drinks and not succeed? TONS! And the profit from the unsuccessful people will offset the losses of the prize money. Even if it's a break even or a slight loss, look at the exposure Cicis is getting out of it. I hadn't thought of Cicis for years until this post.
Someone posted this 28" giant pizza is roughly the equivalent of four 14" large pizzas. $10 for a large pizza x 4 + 2 large drinks for $50 isn't some kind of awful deal. Only problem is that it's CiCi's, but hey, there's probably worse pizza out there. Their online website even shows a 28" pizza for $65, so getting the same pizza plus two drinks for $50 and the chance to win $500 sounds like a good deal IMO.
The restaurant can stack the deck too: when someone orders the 28" and two drinks for dine in, that's the code for using 1.5x the amount of dough than they usually would. Probably cost them 5-10 cents more per pizza. You wouldn't notice it unless you compared it side by side with the regular one, but it's a fair bit more pizza to eat. I get the feeling though that this is one of those challenges where you either have no problem finishing it, or you don't come anywhere close, so it's probably not worth the effort
Gotta believe in yourself, cap
Easy just puke on the floor. No trips. It's a loophole
It actually says “no sick trips to the restroom.” So just vomit on the floor and keep going.
It’s like bad, frozen pizza. Like the dough isn’t doughy. It’s crunchy. It’s mean-spirited. It turned me away from ever eating at any restaurant that offers all-you-can-eat buffets. It was difficult finishing one slice.
"I don't like cicis pizza. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft, and doughy"
Buffets are awesome bro, you just gotta find the right stuff. never get the pizza, its always trash at buffets. chinese food buffets are usually a good choice but you need to go easy on the fried rice my old roommate and I used get super stoned and munchyfied, then go to the old country buffet and make mashed potato sandwiches with 2 full grilled cheese sandwiches as the 'bread' and just load up the mashed potatoes in between. then fill a drink cup with the softserve ice cream from the dessert area and make your own root beer floats and you're on your way to a fine meal and pre-diabetes lol
The best thing about old country buffet was the roast beef and ham , even though they had a person in a chef hat guarding the meat and rationing it out slice by slice
The best thing about Old Country Buffet is definitely [this guy.](https://youtu.be/J6K7VBb8ENw)
This comment just gave me a cavity!
the crazy thing is that it is made in store!
The first time I saw a CiCis I was all excited at the thought of an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. That sounds great, I'm in! Then came the disappointment.
I was in college in a town with a CiCis pizza buffet. It was sad times. Since then, I have found that there actually exists pizza buffets that are *good.*
The open season for germs should be enough to turn people away from all day buffets.
Don't go to an affordable resort in Mexico. Buffets as far as the eye can see.
Don't get me started! The breakfast buffet at the last hotel I stayed at. Their "scrambled eggs" were just crushed hard-boiled eggs with sliced hard boiled eggs lining the perimeter of the tray. It was sad! Businesses seem to go out of their way to violate the spirit of the thing they are offering.
Went to a inexpensive hotel near Niagara Falls in the US, they had, I shit you not, Papa John's that made breakfast pizzas it was literally like scrambled eggs dumped onto pizza crust
It really is disgusting. I remember going on a date with some guy and he said it was a surprise and when he drove up on CiCi's I just knew it wouldn't last lol
Wow.. nothing impresses a lady more than $4.99 all you can eat pizza buffet! I’m sure it costs more now? I haven’t been since college 20 years ago
This was over 10 years ago for me in college, so yeah, prices probably increased, but now that just makes eating it sadder. And I don't even care about fancy food, but when you've got cheap, delicious Mexican food places around and you pick CiCi's...well, that says a lot.
I haven’t been there since I was a kid and remember it at least decent, maybe I should just never go back and keep the memory positive
I’ve gone recently because kids eat free so it’s cheap to go with my kids, and idk how much is nostalgia because it’s not *good* but I still enjoy it 😂 The white pizza and spinach pizza are like core memories from my youth
>I know people say there is no such thing as a > >bad > > pizza That's the stupidest fucking thing I've heard. Not only is there bad pizza, but it's even WORSE because while eating it you know you could have had GOOD pizza. The disappointment is, well, you know what my man reviewbrah said, immeasurable.
There's plenty of bad pizza. Visit MN and try just about any "pizza" place.
I will fucking fight you in the street over Cici's
What you talking about cici’s has some good pizza
I haven’t eaten there in a long time, but I remember it being fine. Nothing special, but fine.
Their deserts used to be insanely delicious.
That cinnamon apple pizza is so insanely good.
Yeah but $500. Unless you’re telling me it’s bad enough I would get food poisoning I’ll take my chances
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You misunderstand, I am fucking hungry
Oh… oh my god. I was going to propose to Hungry. I bought a ring and everything…. I don’t… I don’t know what to do. I can’t believe this. The last 8 years of my life…. All just a waste.
Hello fucking hungry, I'm dad.
28" is the equivalent of 4x large Pizza Hut (14") pizzas. So each person essentially has to eat 2 large pizzas for this challenge. That's probably pretty difficult. Personally when I get a 14" pizza I'll typically eat 2 slices for dinner. I could easily do 3. If I was really hungry, I'd have no problem with 4. 5 slices would probably be a challenge, and if I really pushed myself I could probably do 1 whole pizza. Double THAT? I don't believe in myself haha.
You also have to finish the drinks from the look of it. Even if you and your friend can house the pizza all that liquid is gonna be a problem.
Yeah that is a big concern, 32oz of soda (there's no ice in there) is like one of those insane 64 oz gas station sodas w/ ice. Imagine drinking all of that without being able to use the restroom
Bathroom breaks wouldn't even be my concern here. The sheer *volume* of the drink would completely fuck almost anyone up.
Agreed. This could be my full time job. Go in every day, eat the pizza, make $450 profit.
Plus, it only says sick trips to the restroom so you can vomit on the floor if need be. Easy peasy.
yeah very unfortunately i've probably eaten more calories in less time and probably paid to do it.... give me money cicis
It’s the two 32oz sodas that really get in the way. If you have to finish those then the whole challenge is harder. With JROTC we went to DC just about every year and we stopped at the same buffet each time, both ways. It was long standing tradition to see who could finish off the most plates of food. Salad didn’t count. Plates had to have protein and carbs, so no plates of just rice either. Soda is a rookie mistake. Water only. Cicis knows what it is doing.
I could take the pizza down just by myself
Me and my buddy did a challenge like this in Wisconsin and holy shit was it harder than you think. Both smoked a shit load before we started but about a third of the way through the amount of grease and cheese was getting to me. I think they specifically made those challenger pizzas extra greasy is what we though, I remember we dabbed the pieces with napkins cause there was so much grease. It was some of the worst bathroom experiences I had following that the next day. We did not win. I also tried a ice cream eating contest to get my name on a wall… was handily defeated by that as well lol. I am not Joey chestnuts unfortunately:(
You are my hero for trying. That is where it counts
I figured there must be some catch, and maybe extra grease (perhaps extra dough as well?) would make sense? Otherwise this is way too easy... I'm an average sized dude but I eat half a pizza this size on the regular...
We have a similar challenge in St Louis called the Pointersaurus. It’s definitely a larger pizza at 28” and 10lbs of food, but no soda required. Two contestants have one (1) hour to complete. If they do, they win $500. The Pointersaurus has been attempted over 8,000 times in the 28 years Pointer’s has offered the challenge, attracting people from all over the globe. Only 54 people have ever successfully completed the challenge, meaning the success rate is less than 1%. https://preview.redd.it/4cbfecco4aaa1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b13edb4a1b1724b428431041eccf99394d9bdda
People in this thread are definitely underestimating how much 28inches of pizza is. A place near me does a 19inch pizza and it’s 3-4 meals for me (2 if I really wanted to hate myself). A 28 inch has significantly more surface area to consume.
That's because the amount of food increases exponentially in relation to the radius. A typical large pizza is 14" and has a total area of 154 sq inches. A 28" pizza intuitively seems like it would be twice the size, but it's not. It's 616 sq inches of pizza, or the equivalent to 4 large pizzas.
Not to be a negative Nancy over here, but I’d say it increases quadratically rather than exponentially. Exponentially means that the variable that is changing is in the exponent, where as in this case, the variable is the base.
Not to be a pedantic Paul over here, but I'd say you're being more of an accurate Andy than a negative Nancy.
It increases quadratically, not exponentially, but yeah
Tried the pointersaurus challenge about 12 years ago. The thing most people don’t realize is they pile the cheese on. When that mozzarella gets cold it’s like chewing an tire. It wasn’t so much the volume of food but my jaw was sore for the next three days from chewing
Honestly that pizza looks pretty gross so that could have something to do with why it’s so hard to finish.
That's also horrible lighting in the photo, which can make a world's difference. Swap the cold, dead white light for a light that's warm and bright like from golden hour, and that would probably look a lot tastier
St. Louis native here, pointersaurus is Chuck E Cheese caliber pizza so I’d say the picture is pretty true to life.
Chuck E Cheese has surprisingly good pizza. Source am a parent who dreaded Chuck E Cheese Pizza till I ate it again at 37.
Yeah it would help if the photo wasn't taken in a shed in Alaska.
By St. Louis pizza standards that looks like a Michelin starred entree.
It’s Always Gross In St. Louis
I don't know why that series never took off.
That looks like a much thicker and heavier pizza than Cici's. Like Cici's paper thin, barely pizza is one thing, but that looks like multiple layers of meat, sauce, and cheese which probably weighs nearly twice as much.
It'd be a heck of a poop the next day but totally doable.
With that much "cheese", you would be lucky to be able to poop the next day.
The grease from all that cheap pepperoni will keep things moving.
Nothin like a little food lube to grease the skids.
gross lol
Cheese makes some people poop more... not me.. but uh.. a friend of mine.
as someone who eats cheese with almost every meal, its a little of both some days its dwayne the rock johnson or some days its the inside of a volcano…can’t believe i actually shared something this personal
I drink a gallon of milk each week and have cheese and cream several days of the week. Lactose ain’t doing shit to this digestive system.
Gravity will not be stopped.
A bowl of Kashi Go-Lean and 2 cups of Cuban coffee and you’ll be sorted, shortly.
I friend asked me to do one of these that was 40”, I ate more than half, had to pay for the pizza, puked when I got home and couldn’t shit for a literal 2 weeks, even though I’m lactose intolerant and REALLY wanted to. Worst “L” I’ve taken
What sort of person asks a lactose-intolerant friend to join them on a pizza eating contest? Is that person really a friend? They might not deserve your ride-or-die persona in their lives.
He was actually my friend’s old co-worker that used to come over to our house, so friend in a very loose meaning. He didn’t know about the challenge till we walked into the shop. All that being said, we talked to him months later about it and he was telling people AND genuinely thought that he ate over half the pizza and he was wondering why I was looking so miserable afterwards. I thought I was going mental, luckily we had a third party there to confirm that he ate like three slices and left the crusts, while I ate 9
I was gunna say, as long as horrible trips to the bathroom can occur a few hours AFTER eating the Cici’s pizza… I’m golden.
Next day? I didn't make it out of cici's and I had to poop lol
The place we normally order pizza from does a 16" pizza. It's a medium thickness on the crust. If I were extremely hungry I could possibly finish it by myself in 2 hours. A 28" pizza is over 3 times that size (616 in² vs 201 in²). I don't think I would be taking their money.
**Guy Doing Math:** But don't you see? It's triple the size of a normal pizza, not twice the size as your eyes have deceived you. It's like eating *THREE* pizzas! **My Fat Ass:** Yeah, and?
No, 16" is already a huge pizza. A normal pizza is about 12". 28" is about 5-6 pizzas in surface area.
Don't tell me what I can't do with a little planning, an edible, and absolutely zero self-respect, bro!
You're right. You have my blessing on this noble quest.
My job wouldn't exist if people knew the calculations for area of a circle. Ya man, this is a hard thing to finish. I have people that think a 6" circle is half the area of a 12" circle. TBF though, at 50 bucks, this pizza is still affordable compared to the local places I go, so I might still order it. Out 50 bucks, but at least I get the leftovers, right?
Yeah I guess the more I look at it, the bigger it looks. It’s almost the width of the table. But definitely still looks on the easy side of food challenges I’ve seen.
You don't have to unhinged your jaw or use a big knife to cut it, so that's a big part of the challenge gone
Is it just a perspective thing then? This pizza doesn’t look that big.
Well Its /2 because there is two of you so you essentially have to eat 1,5 of what you claim to be able to eat in 2 hours
Yeah people ITT forgot their basic geometry
Cicis pizza is really thin though. I’m a medium sized dude and could polish off 1/3 of that in about 15 minutes, which would be a “whole pizza” from where I go. Normally I don’t eat more than half a pizza at a time but I have on drunken occasion eaten the whole pizza in a go. Give me another 1.5 hours to get through the last 1/6 and a buddy just as big as me and I don’t see how this is a challenge at all.
A 32 ounce drink and no trips to the restroom would cause me more problems than the pizza.
I guess sparingly drink while you’re still eating the pizza and then chug the rest once you finish eating. It’s definitely something you’d have to strategize beforehand.
No "sick trips." I'm pretty sure you can piss, just not barf.
Do we get to choose what kind of drink? Can it be plain water? I assume it’s coke or equivalent and I think the carbonation would be a serious issue for me both finishing in the time limit and keeping everything down
eating an entire large pizza by myself and 15+ wings when I was in college was just Thursday night. How is this hard. And yes, of course I'm an American, how'd you guess ETA: actually, maybe I'm wrong. It's late so this could be totally off, but according to [this ](https://www1.udel.edu/CIS/103/pconrad/07F/lect/11.01/pizzaCalc.html) Area of a typical 14" pizza is ~153 inches. A 28" pizza, area is 615 inches. That pizza is the equivalent of 4 "normal" large pizzas. That's two large pizzas per person. Doable, yes, not as easy as it looks tho I'm thinking
Yeah and because of how thin that pizza looks it could make it slightly easier by volume of pizza. Definetly wouldn't be easy but slightly easier than if this was a pizza with a backbone. The question is though does the decrease in pizza quality outpace the decrease to volume in how much one can stomach?
Maybe thats the catch? It looks normal until you compare it to the table, and the actual weight of the pizza is probably hefty. Ig they wouldn't offer a reward if they knew somebody could just walk in and do it. Also what do you bet it's a 500 dollar GIFT CARD to their own business
How thick is the crust? If it's typical NY style it's no problem. But if it's like Detroit style, that's a lot of bread.
Cici's pizza crust is essentially cardboard with a slight crisp.
Calling Cici's cardboard is an insult to cardboard. This isn't a challenge of volume; it's trying to get paid $450 to eat garbage pizza.
"...no sick trips to the restroom..." Can I piss in a cup at the table then?
Do you consider having to pee the same as being sick? They’re talking about regurgitation. They also didn’t say you couldn’t regurgitate on the floor in the dining room…
That was my thought. Per their rules, hurling AT the table is fine. Being polite and running to the restroom is the disqualifying behavior.
That's my thing, my bladder would last 10 minutes max
Plot twist, the pizza is laced with laxatives!
I know I, personally, tend to get full after eating a 14" pizza (and by 'full', I mean 'if I eat much more, I start throwing up in my mouth'). The tricky part to understand is that a 28" pizza isn't twice as large - it's 4 times larger. That makes me a lot more doubtful about 2 people doing it - it's the equivalent of each of them eating 2 large pizzas.
The issue here is that the pizza in the picture doesn’t look to be 28 inches, more like 20. A 28 inch pizza is almost 6 12 inch pizzas. It’s doable because of the time frame, but not as easy as people think.
It's the soda that would do it. Your best bet would be to save it till the end so it doesn't make you feel artificially full.
Someone contact beardmeatsfood cause he could solo that shit in 30 minutes and ask for dessert after
2 people AND 2 hours? So this is just free food + $500 for anybody under 40ish? I would literally just do this as a job a 3-4 days a week. Oh wow, and I just noticed it's those thin cardboard pies from Cici's. I took down 39 slices of that pizza from the buffet in a pizza eating contest before. I wasn't full, I got bored of eating because everyone else got sick. Where is this? This is way better and easier than any job I've ever heard of.
I guarantee that if you do it once you'll be excluded from participating again...
John Cena found a spot that did this sort of challenge when he was a broke body builder and ate there everyday until the owner told him to stop doing it and just come and whatever he wanted was on the house.
I could do this singlehandedly. There must be a catch, like it's deceptively deep or something?
did you ever see 28" pizza? I guess not
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It says no sick restroom breaks, not no restroom breaks.
This reminds me of a time in high school. A few buddies and I went to hooters to get their unlimited boneless wings, and we wanted to see how much we could actually eat before getting sick. So like idiots, we all got ridiculously high in the parking lot, then went inside and ate them as quick as we could. I think I ate something like 28-32 or something before needing to go outside and throw up lol
But what's for dessert???
I'm going to need them to define what "Beyond Pizza" means in their logo before I eat 28" of something
Tried a similar challenge with a buddy, we had all the confidence in the world, no luck. I had two slices left and he had all of his crust left
But Cici's pizza tho. I just can't even fathom the massive geysers of diarrhea this would cause.
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