This isn't about beer and gluttony but about the Guinness Book of Records and gluttony. Yesterday's topic of Red Lobster binge eaters isn't just any story, even though there are eye-popping numbers of how much people have consumed in there "endless shrimp meal".
"I work at a Red Lobster in Southeast Missouri and two weeks ago had a man eat roughly 43 refills. That's >430 shrimp and my manager said that the company still came out on top."
"220 shrimp scampi is my personal record. The butter eventually gives you itis and they kick you out for sleeping in the booths..."
There are lifetime/lifelong gluttons: According to Wikipedia Donald Gorske has eaten 34,000 Big Macs in his lifetime - he is 70 or 71. In 2003, Gorske ate 741 Big Macs, an average of 2.03 Big Macs daily. Gorske commented in 2008 that his obsessive–compulsive disorder is what fuels his love of Big Macs.
So it is likely the case that people who are binge eaters have some disorder. I guess there must be two disorders involved - the other one is binge-bragging about wanting people they don't know to hear how much they ate.
You won't see any binge records in the Guinness Book of Records. All that bragging on Reddit is where it begins and ends. Guinness no longer accepts records for gluttony.
The story that is referenced is from 1983 when a 24-year-old woman arrived at a Liverpool emergency room with a popped out belly button as though she was pregnant. But it was from eating what is likely the largest meal ever recorded - 19 pounds.
The gigantic meal comprised 1 lb (453 g) of liver, 2 lb (907 g) of kidneys, 0.5 lb (226 g) of steak, two eggs, 1 lb (453 g) of cheese, two large slices of bread, 1 lb (453 g) of mushrooms, 2 lb (907 g) of carrots, one cauliflower, 10 peaches, four pears, two apples, four bananas, 2 lb (907 g) of plums, 2 lb (907 g) of grapes and two glasses of milk.
And from that vast volume - she died. That would ruin the record book fun. It wasn't until the 1990s that Guinness took consumption records out of circulation from the record and didn't allow them into the record.
They switched the focus to speed eating. You can watch a dozen doughnuts or hot dogs pop down in a few seconds or watch Joey Chestnut eat 257 jelly doughnuts in six minutes. He is one of the great speed eaters.
And those Endless Shrimp bingers - I expect a lot more got sick and didn't get to write about the experience at all.
Here's a pretty garden structure at Chanticleer Gardens, near Philadelphia a few years ago.
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