February 6th, 2010 by Karmun
First off, I don’t know how many people precisely know about this challenge, because I sure wasn’t aware of it up until I walked by the deli in 1-U and saw the banner promoting the challenge myself. However, it’s apparently been about for quite some time and many have been raving about it. Quite a number have even given it a try, and out of the few I know of who did, none have made it thus far. Sounds terribly scary, doesn’t it? x) What am I talking about?
Apparently New York New York, this deli specialising in any New Yorker’s favourite staple, the cheeseburger, has laid forth a challenge quite unlike any I’ve encountered before (not here in Malaysia anyway). Looks like it has opened its doors to whoever dares try finishing their Turner’s Burger within an hour. The person who does so, gets the meal free of charge – a humongous platter of a giant burger 8 good inches in diametre, with a side of an insane amount of fries. That’s RM50’s worth or beef, cheese and lettuce, sandwiched in between a thick sesame seed bun, with a more than generous helping of fries enough to stuff four people. Yes, you read right. FOUR. The mere sound of it alone is enough to cause me to quiver. So guess who in all his male macho-ness thought he’d be able to take the Turner Monster on?

The thing may not look all that intimidating here but trust me, when it first came to be placed on our table, my eyes nearly fell out of their sockets at the size of it. Just compare the thing to the width of his face if you really need a visual rough idea. It’s bigger than his head! The chef who prepared it was grinning from ear to ear when he came over to read us the rules – apparently they’d been waiting all week for someone to take the burger on and my bottomless pit of a boyfriend was the first this month.
Get ready: Things are gonna get ugly x)
For someone his build, you’d think he wouldn’t get far. But like the ninja he likes to think he is, he surprised even me when he downed half of the grotesque thing merely within the first five minutes of the allocated time.

I mean, I’ve heard of his seemingly unbelievable stomach capacity from his friends who had painfully lost expensive bets to his very voracious appetite – something along the lines of five McDonald’s cheeseburgers with fries to boot, and three milkshakes if I’m not mistaken – but this burger came in a size that was not quite suited for humans! Nevertheless, the food steadily disappeared right before my eyes.


Before long, all that was left were the fries. That’s when he started to feel it.

I guess it wasn’t very nice of the chef to load on so much fries. On top of being the big fat chunky ones that were easily four times the thickness of your regular McDonald’s fries, they were horrendously dry, which made swallowing difficult. But according to the Ninja Rabbit (I wasn’t allowed even a bite from his plate cuz he’s gotta finish the entire thing himself) it wasn’t feeling full that made it an ardous task – it was getting jelak of the fries that made it hard. He slowed down considerably come the end of half an hour.
Finally, after much coaxing from me to just give it up and pay for it, he raised the white flag. Call me the devil’s advocate, but he was sweating like mad from shoving so much dry fried potato down his throat! It was so bad, I can hear his stomach groaning at the strain from what it’s containing inside! He was super reluctant to to give up when he was so close to completing the challenge, with only a handful of fries left but eventually raised his hand in defeat to call for the chef.

We ended up having to pay for the monster of a burger but it was an experience well worth the money in my books LOL! If only I had the foresight to bring my camera along, which I’d left at home hence the lousy pictures from my handphone you see above – I didn’t even have my compact cam with me, someting I usually carry around in my bag everywhere I go! Regardless, it was still quite an achievement that a guy his size managed to finish the burger within ten short minutes. Shame that it’s the fries that decided the winner x)
Already he’s polishing his strategy to take it on again. Maybe Winston will fare better with his stomach that comes equipped with the most efficient flushing system perfected from years of pratice hahaha.

Winston, he’s counting on you to avenge his tortured soul and, more importantly, his traumatised stomach! LOL!