Teh One Who Knocks
01-15-2015, 12:38 PM
By The Bristol Post
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IT looks like a table of food capable of feeding an entire family for a day. But, in fact, this is a single breakfast being offered to customers at a Portishead cafe.
The Corner Cafe has launched a gut-busting challenge – inviting those with large appetites to take on an 8,000-calorie meal featuring 59 items of food.
The Monster Mega Breakfast contains six rashers of bacon, six sausages, six eggs, two thee-egg omelettes, four portions of fried potatoes and four portions of mushrooms. It also comes with six slices of black pudding, six hash browns, one bowl of chips, four onion rings, four slices of toast, two fried bread, half a grilled tomato, two portions of beans and two portions of tomatoes.
Challengers are given an hour to down the £15 meal, which they can wash down with either a pint of milkshake or a can of energy drink.
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But it is so large that nobody has yet managed to complete the meal.
Despite the huge array of products in the feast, the cafe can whip up a the breakfast in just ten minutes.
One member of staff takes on the eggs, omelettes, beans, toast and tomatoes while a chef fries up the rest.
The cafe's manger Lucy Butler said: "It takes about 10 minutes to make – for us, that is a long time.
"We are a fast food place really, but when one of these orders comes in, the kitchen becomes manic.
"It's quite cramped in the kitchen. We do it so quickly because it would be harder if the person challenging had to want to eat if cold. As a cafe, we also don't want to serve it cold."
The breakfast was launched last Wednesday. Five people have attempted the meal and failed to finish it.
Contestants are given an hour to attempt the challenge, signing a waiver before starting.
Customers trying the huge breakfast must be at least 18 years old, sharing the meal is banned and participants must stop if they are sick.
Swaps are allowed but only certain items may be exchanged, with winners added to the 'champions' wall with a photo, receiving a free mega breakfast voucher, mini trophy and keyring.
The breakfast is cooked normally, with sunflower oil used for frying, and each item's calories had to be worked out individually before they were all added together.
Lucy, 19, added: "The idea came about from watching Man v Food. Me and my sister thought we had to do it. If we were to do it, we thought, why not try to make it the biggest in Britain? We don't make any money off of it. It's just a bit of fun. We are quite a happy cafe and it just came about as fun – nothing else."
http://i.imgur.com/kEdhwJj.jpg
IT looks like a table of food capable of feeding an entire family for a day. But, in fact, this is a single breakfast being offered to customers at a Portishead cafe.
The Corner Cafe has launched a gut-busting challenge – inviting those with large appetites to take on an 8,000-calorie meal featuring 59 items of food.
The Monster Mega Breakfast contains six rashers of bacon, six sausages, six eggs, two thee-egg omelettes, four portions of fried potatoes and four portions of mushrooms. It also comes with six slices of black pudding, six hash browns, one bowl of chips, four onion rings, four slices of toast, two fried bread, half a grilled tomato, two portions of beans and two portions of tomatoes.
Challengers are given an hour to down the £15 meal, which they can wash down with either a pint of milkshake or a can of energy drink.
http://i.imgur.com/o385V28.png
But it is so large that nobody has yet managed to complete the meal.
Despite the huge array of products in the feast, the cafe can whip up a the breakfast in just ten minutes.
One member of staff takes on the eggs, omelettes, beans, toast and tomatoes while a chef fries up the rest.
The cafe's manger Lucy Butler said: "It takes about 10 minutes to make – for us, that is a long time.
"We are a fast food place really, but when one of these orders comes in, the kitchen becomes manic.
"It's quite cramped in the kitchen. We do it so quickly because it would be harder if the person challenging had to want to eat if cold. As a cafe, we also don't want to serve it cold."
The breakfast was launched last Wednesday. Five people have attempted the meal and failed to finish it.
Contestants are given an hour to attempt the challenge, signing a waiver before starting.
Customers trying the huge breakfast must be at least 18 years old, sharing the meal is banned and participants must stop if they are sick.
Swaps are allowed but only certain items may be exchanged, with winners added to the 'champions' wall with a photo, receiving a free mega breakfast voucher, mini trophy and keyring.
The breakfast is cooked normally, with sunflower oil used for frying, and each item's calories had to be worked out individually before they were all added together.
Lucy, 19, added: "The idea came about from watching Man v Food. Me and my sister thought we had to do it. If we were to do it, we thought, why not try to make it the biggest in Britain? We don't make any money off of it. It's just a bit of fun. We are quite a happy cafe and it just came about as fun – nothing else."