Friday is glutton day for most, and my last one wasn’t an exception. An all-nighter in office had us eating off Pringles cans, one or two bottles of MineShine, a 3.4-liter bucket of Selecta Vanilla ice cream, seafood ramen, a platter of spicy tuna maki, miscellaneous chips and probably 5 to 6 cups of coffee, all from 2pm Friday to around 6am Saturday. But, I have to say, the Ridiculous Burger Challenge that (mid)night had to be most noteworthy.
It was my first time drudging through NALA shift at the office (lasts from 7pm to 5am normally), and when the guys were calling for a midnight dinner out, they decided that it was time for me to take the Ridiculous Burger Challenge (ominous drum roll here).
The challenge is held over at Burger Avenue, along Makati Ave – on your left side if you were driving away from the triangle. The challenge gives you a plate with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and three 1/3 pound freshly-grilled beef patties sandwiched in two hamburger buns. If you can eat it all in five minutes, you get it for free.
I doubt anyone who’s actually set on winning the challenge would look this enthused (or clean)
The burger must have been so scared with me looking at it like so.That had to be the messiest meal in my whole life. Didn’t really make it go any easier that everybody was watching with cameras and whatnot, but what the hell. As soon as the clock started, I attacked the still-wrapped burger; three seconds into, and I had the burger disassembled into neat stacks.
I started with one of the patties, then another and then another, stopping in between to chomp on lettuce and tomatoes. During the time it takes to actually chew, I broke the buns into small, bite-size pieces. All the guys were cheering, James and Keno (I think) had cameras on, and Cathy was fanning the thing like mad, so that I don’t get burned holding the patties.
I finished the whole thing off in approximately four minutes.
The burger tasted good (I think – I didn’t really notice), but I just wish that I enjoyed it more. You really can’t (no matter what anyone tells you) if you don’t get a chance to stop and savor a flame-grilled burger. Hahaha!
So, yeah! All in all, I got my Php270 back, one of the waitresses took my autograph (er, sort of. For the winner tally.), another took my picture (yeah, again for the winner tally), and I used the money to buy a can of Coke. A little afterwards, we all went back to office to finish up our work.
I’m expecting a video of that uploaded to YouTube or Facebook anytime soon, so for the meantime, I’ll just enjoy a quiet life. :p
The placard says “I invaded Burger Avenue”. And, yes, that’s how I look after scarfing down a one-pound burger.
