Man vs Food - A Guy and his 6 Pound Milkshake!

The place Chick and Ruths Delly in Annapolis MD

The time - Approx 2PM

The deal - 6lb milkshake and a 1.5lb sandwich in one hour

Who - Ethan Fox

The Prize - a T-shirt

The results -

Starting out Ethan was feeling confidant after rigorous training including yoga stomach stretching techniques and drinking a gallon of water earlier in preparation.

When the food was delivered there was much fanfare. Announcements on the intercom, pictures and customers cheering. Ethan had to fill out a form so his information could be displayed properly on the website, then it was down to business.

Lets take a second to dissect exactly whats involved here. First is the milkshake. One half gallon of vanilla ice cream, one half gallon of milk and 16 ounces of syrup! This is serious now...

 

 

The sandwich is 1.5 lbs of meat and two pieces of bread. That's not pre-cooked weight, this is straight turkey, no mayo...

My previous research taught me that there is something called "The Wall." In competitive eating you are taught that you have 6-8 minutes before your brain figures out that you ate way too much and you feel full. So the plan is to woof down as much as you can in the first 8 minutes because its not getting easier after that.

 

Then the timer gets delivered and the rules are laid out. You can start to see the seriousness of the situation on Ethan's face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethan decided that the milkshake would be the hardest and immediately started gulping the dairy bliss. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you feel the confidence beaming from this man?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well at first it looked like Ethan was on to a possible career in competitive eating but the cold started to set in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh Oh somethings wrong!  I think we are approaching the wall.

 

The brain has caught up with the stomach and the stomach is extremely upset about the gallon of frozen dairy! Lets not forget the sandwich young Ethan. I will say he got most of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One last pause to reconsider- "where is my life going right now?" Well Ethan is a Johns Hopkins Junior so I think its going in the right direction but how will it end?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the white flag dirty protein sweat filled napkin of defeat and ITS OVER!Fortunately Ethan's life has not taken a downward spiral as one might expect. After a few hours walking and rethinking a career in milkshake eating competitions in the state and county fair circuit, it was back to the books...