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December 3rd, 2014 at 4:01:20 PM permalink
Saw a poster advertising a competitive eating challenge at Du Par's in the Golden Gate casino.

All you need to do is eat 10 pancakes in 15 minutes or less.

$16.99, or free if you can eat them all in the time allotted. The pancakes are really tasty.

How hard can it be?
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December 3rd, 2014 at 4:30:50 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Saw a poster advertising a competitive eating challenge at Du Par's in the Golden Gate casino.

All you need to do is eat 10 pancakes in 15 minutes or less.

$16.99, or free if you can eat them all in the time allotted. The pancakes are really tasty.

How hard can it be?



I've had those pancakes.
They are tasty.
Had a normal serving of I think 3.
They are pretty big and pretty filling.
So this is just over a triple serving. Pretty tough with just 15 min.
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December 3rd, 2014 at 5:11:43 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Saw a poster advertising a competitive eating challenge at Du Par's in the Golden Gate casino.

All you need to do is eat 10 pancakes in 15 minutes or less.

$16.99, or free if you can eat them all in the time allotted. The pancakes are really tasty.

How hard can it be?



Can't see it being doable, but not a bad way to get a pile of pancakes to share around the table.
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December 3rd, 2014 at 5:19:09 PM permalink
Quote: thecesspit

Quote: Ayecarumba

Saw a poster advertising a competitive eating challenge at Du Par's in the Golden Gate casino.

All you need to do is eat 10 pancakes in 15 minutes or less.

$16.99, or free if you can eat them all in the time allotted. The pancakes are really tasty.

How hard can it be?



Can't see it being doable, but not a bad way to get a pile of pancakes to share around the table.



When I ate breakfast at Dupars, I thought to myself, that's a lot of pancake, wonder if I'll finish it. And that's just a regular serving.
I did finish it and was very full.
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December 3rd, 2014 at 5:57:06 PM permalink
I think they have the best breakfast in town. You will pay $24 for steak and eggs... but the steak is graded PRIME.

I saw an ad for a, "Slider" challenge someplace too. I'll have to look for details.

When I look at the stack of pancakes, I find myself estimating what the equivalent volume of Chicken McNuggets might be. I am thinking the stack of pancakes is less than 100 McNuggets. What was the formula for the volume of a cylinder again? hehe
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December 3rd, 2014 at 6:11:46 PM permalink
The slider challenge is at Mandalay Bay. If you can eat 24 in 24 minutes, they are free, and you get your polaroid on the "Wall of Fame". There were a couple of, "winners"

If you don't do it in 24 minutes, they take your picture and put it on the "Wall of Shame". The best part is that someone gets to write a disparaging comment on the stub of your picture, along with the number you actually ate. I think I saw one where someone only ate, "3".

It's $40 to try. I think the volume is equivalent to 100 McNuggets.
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December 3rd, 2014 at 6:39:48 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

The best part is that someone gets to write a disparaging comment on the stub of your picture, along with the number you actually ate. I think I saw one where someone only ate, "3".



Was the picture of somebody passed out face down in his own vomit?
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December 12th, 2014 at 5:53:36 AM permalink
I sense a Pancakes/Sliders/McNuggets parlay challenge in the future! :)

Perhaps we need to see a McNuggets Challenge winner first...
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December 12th, 2014 at 6:48:41 AM permalink
They serve what may be the best pancakes that I've ever eaten. If not the best, certainly in the top five.
I can eat 2 easily with a side of bacon and it fills me up. I have tried 3 and it is just too much.
I don't see many people who I think could eat 10 of them. Once they start swelling up in your belly I think you'd be done.
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The video is up. Enjoy!

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February 8th, 2017 at 11:27:07 AM permalink
Did TomG put them out of business? Du Par's at the Golden Gate is now closed.

Which also means the Shrimp Cocktail is ???
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February 8th, 2017 at 11:37:16 AM permalink
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Did TomG put them out of business? Du Par's at the Golden Gate is now closed.

Which also means the Shrimp Cocktail is ???



Oh no! DuPar's was great. That place seemed to always be busy. TomG gave them some good publicity so I wouldn't blame him. At least the one at the Suncoast is still open.

Whatever replaces DuPar's will almost certainly have a shrimp cocktail on the menu, but probably not for 99 cents.

A bit off topic, but I hope Tom will be up for another eating challenge for the 2017 Spring Fling.
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February 8th, 2017 at 12:07:58 PM permalink
Really sad about Dupar's. I loved their pancakes 😢

We should do a spicy food challenge or something or we could stick to eating large quantities lol. I'd be up for something not nugget related.
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February 8th, 2017 at 12:20:50 PM permalink
Word is they fell behind on their rent and the GG is looking for someone to take over the space.
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February 8th, 2017 at 12:43:13 PM permalink
Great video and congrats to Tom G. Sad about Dupar's =/.

I think the quantity challenges are the most exciting. The "hot" or burn ones seem to just involve someone screaming which is like shock comedy to me. Not bad, but exactly what you'd expect. With the quantity challenges everyone looks fine, until they hit that wall, and everyone's wall is different so it's fun to see the facial change of "I've got this" to "omg how much do I have left??" =P
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February 8th, 2017 at 12:50:25 PM permalink
Quote: Romes

Great video and congrats to Tom G. Sad about Dupar's =/.

I think the quantity challenges are the most exciting. The "hot" or burn ones seem to just involve someone screaming which is like shock comedy to me. Not bad, but exactly what you'd expect. With the quantity challenges everyone looks fine, until they hit that wall, and everyone's wall is different so it's fun to see the facial change of "I've got this" to "omg how much do I have left??" =P


Any suggestions? Like I said I wouldn't be against doing it again as long as it's not nuggets. Although I've lost about 20 pounds since last year so it might be tougher. As I say that I'm sitting at an Indian buffet lol.
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February 8th, 2017 at 12:57:48 PM permalink
If you're still looking for pancakes, America at NYNY has all you can eat pancakes for $7.99 every morning from 5:30 - 11:30. They're huge.
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February 8th, 2017 at 9:12:26 PM permalink
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Word is they fell behind on their rent and the GG is looking for someone to take over the space.



Had nothing to do with rent although they were in arrears. Owner is getting hammered by the IRS. Probably shouldn't withhold tax receipts.... ;-)
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February 8th, 2017 at 9:32:22 PM permalink
Quote: Ayecarumba

Saw a poster advertising a competitive eating challenge at Du Par's in the Golden Gate casino.

All you need to do is eat 10 pancakes in 15 minutes or less.

$16.99, or free if you can eat them all in the time allotted. The pancakes are really tasty.

How hard can it be?



The Golden Gate is disgusting sweat joint, it smells, and the casino looks like it belongs in a third world country. Eater beware!

If you want real pancakes, then go to Cracker Barrel.
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February 8th, 2017 at 11:11:17 PM permalink
Point of order:

I just viewed the Stackzilla video for the first time, and I am sorry to say that the accolades given to TomG were undeserved.

He did not win fair and square: he cheated.

Oh, it was a minor, arguably unthinking cheat, but a cheat nonetheless.

I'll explain.

The mgr., whom the Wiz identified as Lupe, laid out the rules, and one of them was you cannot use your hands, only a knife and fork.

I noted that on at least two occasions Tom G. used his hand to hold/move a pancake, to better position it; e.g. check it at 5:36 and again at 5:41: he clearly violated the stated rule about not letting your hands touch the pancakes.

Too bad this eating contest wasn't monitored as closely as the mods do the board: he'd have gotten a three day holiday. :)
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February 9th, 2017 at 1:48:05 AM permalink
He broke the rule when he used his hand to pick up the fork then.
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February 9th, 2017 at 5:56:59 AM permalink
For reference, here's how a professional eats pancakes with his hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSgM4gAhK0
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February 9th, 2017 at 8:30:38 AM permalink
Quote: BTLWI

He broke the rule when he used his hand to pick up the fork then.



Nope.

Lupe said; "You cannot use your hands. You can only use a knife and a fork."

TomG clearly violated the rule, which the Wiz acknowledged he'd read, and which was again recited to him by Lupe.

I salute TomG for consuming the food within the necessary time frame, and I've absolutely no doubt that he'd have won anyway, fair and square, had his hands not briefly touched the pancakes a couple of times, but that really isn't the point, is it?

Sorry, but rules are rules.

Yes, it's only a silly trencherman activity, but I have pointed out the infraction and believe from now in his "victory" must forever more bear an asterisk, or perhaps the Scarlet Letter "H" (for "hands," of course).

Perhaps he can have a shot at redemption in the future, e.g. at WoVCon, assuming a new venue and challenge can be arranged.
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February 9th, 2017 at 9:46:39 AM permalink
Quote: MrV

Nope.

Lupe said; "You cannot use your hands. You can only use a knife and a fork."

TomG clearly violated the rule, which the Wiz acknowledged he'd read, and which was again recited to him by Lupe.

I salute TomG for consuming the food within the necessary time frame, and I've absolutely no doubt that he'd have won anyway, fair and square, had his hands not briefly touched the pancakes a couple of times, but that really isn't the point, is it?

Sorry, but rules are rules.

Yes, it's only a silly trencherman activity, but I have pointed out the infraction and believe from now in his "victory" must forever more bear an asterisk, or perhaps the Scarlet Letter "H" (for "hands," of course).

Perhaps he can have a shot at redemption in the future, e.g. at WoVCon, assuming a new venue and challenge can be arranged.

Technically, you're wrong. The rules were that he couldn't "use" his hands and the implied mention was in aiding the pancake to his mouth. He simply used his hand to position the pancake to be used by the approved utensils. Thus, he did not use his hands to consume the pancake... Therefore not in violation of the rules.
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February 9th, 2017 at 10:31:41 AM permalink
Quote: MrV

but that really isn't the point, is it?

Sorry, but rules are rules.

Yes, it's only a silly trencherman activity, but I have pointed out the infraction and believe from now in his "victory" must forever more bear an asterisk



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February 9th, 2017 at 4:58:29 PM permalink
Quote: Romes

Technically, you're wrong. The rules were that he couldn't "use" his hands and the implied mention was in aiding the pancake to his mouth. He simply used his hand to position the pancake to be used by the approved utensils. Thus, he did not use his hands to consume the pancake... Therefore not in violation of the rules.



Ah, but you just contradicted yourself when you acknowledged that "He simply used his hand to position the pancake to be used by the approved utensils."

Note the operative phrase: "used his hand."

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February 10th, 2017 at 9:37:13 AM permalink
Quote: MrV

Ah, but you just contradicted yourself when you acknowledged that "He simply used his hand to position the pancake to be used by the approved utensils."

Note the operative phrase: "used his hand."

Quibbling, you bet, but I enjoy quibbling.



While his mouth wasn't expressly forbidden like his hands were, how do you expect him to chew/swallow using only a knife and fork?
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April 3rd, 2017 at 3:18:55 PM permalink
Maybe food eating contests are risky
I was pretty shocked at this story
She started having a problem after only 4 or 5 pancakes

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conn-college-student-dies-days-pancake-eating-contest-article-1.3017376
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April 3rd, 2017 at 4:12:54 PM permalink
Weird.

Sounds like she choked to death, but the reference to her going into convulsions is odd: is that typically part of the choking process, or something else entirely, and if so, what?

I can only speculate that the flapjack dough turned deadly gelatinous and plugged up her windpipe such that she couldn't breathe.

Maybe these contests should be banned: life is too short to throw it away on something as inane as this.

Then again, perhaps only "expendable" contestants should enter.

"Choked to death on a pancake" would be a hard epitaph to swallow.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 4:15:01 PM permalink
Quote: terapined

Maybe food eating contests are risky
I was pretty shocked at this story
She started having a problem after only 4 or 5 pancakes

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conn-college-student-dies-days-pancake-eating-contest-article-1.3017376



Sad story. However, risks are inherent in any contest with "most" or "fastest" in the title. I don't think she was uninformed going in.

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April 3rd, 2017 at 5:28:00 PM permalink
Quote: MrV

Weird.

Sounds like she choked to death, but the reference to her going into convulsions is odd: is that typically part of the choking process, or something else

....

"Choked to death on a pancake" would be a hard epitaph to swallow.



Ask Mama Cass Elliot. Sang California music. Choked on a ham sandwich. Who remembers anything else?

I could easily be wrong, but I think pancakes expand in the stomach, especially if you're drinking water or something that will make the dough swell. It sure feels like they do, anyway.

If she ate them fast and washed them down with water, and they filled her stomach and backed up into her esophagus, it could have compressed her trachea, possibly her diaphragm from below, and made it difficult or impossible for her to breathe correctly. If her digestion shut down, the mass wouldn't move through, or if it got wedged there, it might not move either.

So she might have suffocated.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 5:33:06 PM permalink
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Ask Mama Cass Elliot. Sang California music. Choked on a ham sandwich. Who remembers anything else?



You've been duped by an urban legend.

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She then retired for the evening and died in her sleep, at age 32. According to the forensic pathologist conducting her autopsy, her death was due to "heart failure due to fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity".

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April 3rd, 2017 at 5:59:05 PM permalink
I always had heard she choked on a hot dog.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 6:09:40 PM permalink
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Thanks for setting the record straight. All this time I never questioned the ham sandwich story.

However, a heart attack at 32 strikes me as suspicious. That's very young to have a completely clogged ticker, even with a high fat low, low activity diet. Maybe she had a congenital defect?
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April 3rd, 2017 at 6:42:55 PM permalink
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However, a heart attack at 32 strikes me as suspicious. That's very young to have a completely clogged ticker, even with a high fat low, low activity diet. Maybe she had a congenital defect?



I'm not a doctor but I think they can happen that young. She was not in good health in her last years. That Wikipedia page tells of an awful performance she did in Vegas due to bad health reasons.

For what it is worth, the movie Austin Powers also repeated the myth in question.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 7:01:35 PM permalink
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Ask Mama Cass Elliot. Sang California music. Choked on a ham sandwich. Who remembers anything else?


I first heard of her from Scooby Doo.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 7:14:33 PM permalink
I'm surprised she was only 32. I'd have guessed she was ten years older.
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April 3rd, 2017 at 7:20:09 PM permalink
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You've been duped by an urban legend.

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Guess I have. Heard that's what happened when it happened, never questioned it.

Quote from the biography Dream a Little Dream of Dr. who first examined her after death:

Greenburgh immediately offered a straightforward explanation for Cass’s death. His first impression, he told the press, was that it appeared to have been a simple case of asphyxia.

“From what I saw when I got to the flat,” he told the Daily Express, “she appeared to have been eating a ham sandwich and drinking Coca-Cola while lying down — a very dangerous thing to do. This would be especially dangerous for someone like Cass who was overweight and who might be prone to having a heart attack. She seemed to have choked on a ham sandwich,” he continued, unwittingly giving rise to the myth that would still be circulation more than three decades later.

What Greenburgh had presumably overlooked is the small but pertinent fact that the sandwich by Cass’s bed had not in fact been touched (as recorded by Inspector Kenneth Humm once the police were called).
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April 4th, 2017 at 8:11:24 AM permalink
Quote: MrV

Ah, but you just contradicted yourself when you acknowledged that "He simply used his hand to position the pancake to be used by the approved utensils."

Note the operative phrase: "used his hand."

Quibbling, you bet, but I enjoy quibbling.

Ha, so do I =)... You see, you failed to take note of the 2nd half of that... He "used his hands" NOT to consume the pancake (which is the implied rule). He "used his hands" to position the pancake, which IS ALLOWED. So "using his hands" at "all" isn't the implied rule... He can't use them to consume the pancake, which he did not.

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I'm not a doctor but I think they can happen that young.

And younger. By the time someone is 24 they have had a few heart attacks, though generally the body is healthy enough that the person barely even notices. It's when you really start getting unhealthy and clogged that they become the bigger problem... which "typically" happens with age as we start doing less active things. To my knowledge there are also varying degrees of heart attacks, such that "mild heart attacks" are much less serious.
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April 5th, 2017 at 4:46:28 AM permalink
Snopes dot com is the place to go to check out urban legends.

Maybe since she was 32, her death was inundated with legends - such as that the "FBI had plotted to assassinate her, that she was pregnant with John Lennon’s child ... "

"The official findings of the coroner’s inquest were that Cass Eliot died from “fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity”...nothing was found to have been blocking her mouth or throat... more than once undertook crash diets to lose a large amount of weight in a relatively short period of time"

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mamacass.asp
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