Gigantic horrifying hotdog -- 3.5lbs -- is free if you eat it in 4 minutes
If you want to die of meat, you should hie yourself to HillBilly Hotdogs in West Virginia and try the 3.5lb "Homewrecker" dog. If you can eat it in four minutes or less, it is free (minus the health-related expenses arising from the act of consuming it).
The Mother of All Hot Dogs--HillBilly's Homewrecker (Thanks, Marilyn!)
The Homewrecker is a 3.5-lb. weapon of cardiovascular mass destruction. They start with a deep-fried 15", 1-pound dog and top it with peppers, onions, nacho cheese, chili sauce, jalapenos, mustard, ketchup, coleslaw, tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Assured intestinal wreckage will run you $14.99. Finish it in under 12 minutes and you get a free burial t-shirt. Do it in under 4 minutes and your family will have an extra $14.99 for the funeral.
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termite queens can grow to the size of a hot dog.
yeah, I haven't had a hotdog in months.
Right, and if you don't eat in in 4 minutes you're going to pay for it thus spending the money which should have been used for saving your life of some weird gastrointestinal condition, such as clogged oesophagus or ruptured stomach (luckily, those are just fictional, probably).
Interesting.
Food porn.
BAD food porn.
Truly obscene.
Mmm - now, what's for lunch, I'm hungry.
Cory! As an ex-pat of Toronto, how could you not mention Dangerous Dan's famous Coronary burger?
For a measly 14.99, I can risk heart attack, intense heartburn, and days on the can. Puaf. Not for less than $20.
I love these food challenges, I try to participate in one once a year. There's a Spicy hot-wing contest that's calling my name.
don't chew, once its in, its the colons problem
Why would you want to rush eating this masterpiece of artery-clogging goodness?!?
I know people are being light-hearted here about this but I genuinely find these things really disgusting. May be a cultural thing. It's like that giant burger story a couple of years ago that someone mentioned above. It's hideous ,this and those vile eating contests. Why is it mostly in the US that these things occur?
Uh, because what we do best is consume stuff and make a spectable of it. Obvious.
Oh, and bully other countries/cultures around. And then comsume their stuff and make a spectacle of it.
It's only ten in the morning, yet it looks so good.
He showed me his fifteen-inch weiner. "Finish it in four minutes," he purred, "and it's free."
I licked my lips. "Can't I take my time?"
bow-chicka-bow-bow
After having Chicago-style dogs, no hot dog for me can be complete without celery seed and sport peppers. Although in this case celery seeds could act as shrapnel when your gut explodes open.
::wiping puddle of drool off of keyboard::
can we get a moratorium on uppity Europeans sniding on the US?? seems like every post generates at least one...
See, the logistics of eating this thing in 4 minutes astound me. I just wouldn't be able to get that much messy food INTO my mouth in 4 minutes, never mind chewing and swallowing. Do all the toppings have to be consumed in the 4 minutes too? Because methinks it's just going to be a big ol' sloppy mess trying to eat all that stuff.
As for why this seems to only happen in the US? Don't forget that one of the world's foremost competitive eaters is from Japan. And a wee tiny little bastard, at that!
Bigger than many actual dogs.
Hold everything but the onions and I'm there.
Not that I don't like most of the toppings, its just that they'd slow one down.
Reminds me of the Mammoth Burger at Bernie and the Boys in Drumheller, Alberta. It's over 3 pounds, and if you finish it in record time you get it free. I ate it, but I didn't finish it in record time. I did manage to eat it all in about 25 minutes, but someone else had done it in 15. Also, it's a really delicious burger, but after eating the whole thing I went home and assumed the fetal position for the rest of the day.
Check it out:
http://www.berniesbest.com/ClientPages/burger_challenge.ami
I think the only way I could eat that entire hot dog in 4 minutes is if it was blended and then poured through a tube directly into my stomach.
Alternate names for this monster:
"The Intestinal Crazy Train"
"Colon Puncher"
"Dutch Oven Fuel"
"The Colostomy Dog"
The organisms inside me are screaming just from the sensation that I'm reading about this food item. I think it could very well punch a hole through to another dimension in my stomach.
I'd pay more than the sticker price not to have to eat the whole thing. I might take a slice, as though off a birthday cake.
everyone knows you can actually eat one of these and NOT clog your arteries or have a heart attack right?
If you somehow pull off a heart attack its indicative of much prior neglect and bad diet.
Now if you eat it in four minutes... that could be a hazard to anyone really.
I'm surprised they actually put ketchup on it. Apparently lots of restaurants consider ketchup on a hot dog blasphemy.
I don't, I think it balances out the mustard.
I accept the challenge.
that's nothing. the big texan ranch in amarillo, tx offers a 72 oz (thats four and a half pounds) steak. if you can consume the whole steak, a baked potato, salad, dinner roll and shrimp cocktail in under an hour, the meal is free and you get some swag--otherwise , it's 72 dollars. they put you up on an elevated table and time you. there's even a live camera feed, although nobody is taking the challenge right now. link: http://www.bigtexan.com/72ozlive.php
*wince*
I like hot dogs now and then. but that food looks gross to me.
Just make sure you turn down the wafer-thin mint after you're done...
This is wrong on many levels--
1. Almost guarantees you wont actually ENJOY the dog,
2. Encourages fat people to eat more grease when they should really be eating less,
3. 4 minutes = good possibility of someone choking,
Why did they have to call it the Homewrecker? Is the Colonwrecker is already taken?
what? no bacon?
Or the "Sirloin A Lot" from the Simpsons.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p231/mike_awesome/eater.jpg
And, for those who prefer the DIY ethic (and for you, #32):
http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/?p=5
that is truly one of the most horrifying things I have ever witnessed.
If you switch it to a Polish dog or a hot link, I'll battle it and I'll win.
How disgusting a combination of toppings can you imagine to put on a hot dog? I mean, come on, ketchup, msutard, cole slaw, and nacho cheese all in one bite? Gee, they forgot maple syrup... Yeeeeuuuuukkkkkk.
Now if it were just onions or just chili or something like that on it, I *might* go for it, but four minutes is awfully fast eating. Probably not.
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#12 FTW
Not sure where all the "artery clogging" comments are coming from. The hot dog itself is only 1 lb. I've seen them served in many places, only not with such a large amount of toppings. As for the toppings the only marginally bad things I see listed are nacho cheese, chili sauce, shredded cheese and *maybe* the coleslaw. The rest are vegetables and low fat, low cholesterol condiments. All in all this wouldn't be any less healthy than a regular picnic lunch at a family get together, it's just all on one bun.
Hillbilly Hotdogs site - http://hillbillyhotdogs.com/
Love that theme song - "Didja say the best weenies in town?" :D
#41, your blatant disregard of the fact that the 1 lb. dog is, in fact, deep bloody fried bothers me to no end.
Someone is taking the 72Oz Steak Challege LIVE!
http://www.bigtexan.com/72ozlive.php
truly we live in miraculous times
Those BigTexan people need a Twitter Channel so we can follow it and know when someone is attempting the challenge.
While taping my comedy DVD at the Funnybone in Huntington, WV, I taped an episode of my new reality show at Hillbilly Hotdogs. Below is the link to the video.
SHERIFTV VIDEO - HOMEWRECKER WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT
Those BigTexan people need a Twitter Channel so we can follow it and know when someone is attempting the challenge.
No, we don't. Not at all. I don't want to see that!
Hahahahaha.
/Seriously, that would be disgusting. And you just know it's not be a particularly good-looking person doing the eating.
:D
#43 you can take into account that it is deep fried and still not call it artery clogging.
It depends on the frequency with which you eat these kinds of foods.
That's honestly not that much bigger than a footlong sub. I'd say I could pull it off... and I'm in pretty good shape so I won't have a heart attack.
To quote Homer Simpson: "Mmm...footlong chili dog..."
One of the shows on the Food Network had a spot about this place. The Homewrecker was featured, as well as an obscene hamburger which I think was several pounds in size.
A "normal" dog at this place was also served - not the Homewrecker - and was laden with: ketchup, mustard, mayo, nacho cheese, BBQ sauce, relish, onions, sauerkraut, cole slaw, a pickle, and jalepeños. I must have been scarred watching this show because I can't seem to forget a single ingredient from this monstrosity.
Aside the food, the atmosphere of the place is worth a visit, as well as a conversation with the couple who own the restaurant. They seem like genuinely interesting people.
Perfect opportunity to talk about myself.
This past weekend I ate a (measly - by this article's standards) 2lb burger (2lbs of meat, I don't know how much the whole thing weighed, 3-ish?) at Chicago Joe's.
Yeah. It cost $25. And you have an hour to finish it. Alls you get is a shirt and your photo on their "wall of fame".
The down side? They didn't have a shirt in my size so I had to get one for my wife (lame), the burger came placed across 4 crusty buns since they didn't have one large one for this "challenge". I went inside to demand they take my photo and to take a gander at the other poor slobs on this so called "wall", and it turns out I'm the only one to have ever done it. Oh, and it cost $25 bucks. Finish it or not.
It was really flippin' difficult to get it all down. Especially as the meat started to get cold and dry - after about 20 minutes.
Anyone up for the challenge? I'd love to hear about it.
Does my colon look fat in these pants?
Homewrecker? More like bowel combustifier!
Cory - this is, by far, the funniest Boing Boing item I've seen in quite a while. - thank you and David and Xeni and Mark and [insert additional name(s) here] for maintaining such a magnificent balance.
it's just another roadside attraction
you mean... the Messiah??!!
We were in a restaurant a few weeks ago and they had every huge inescapable TV in the place tuned to this horrid competitive hotdog eating spectacle. Complete with close ups and scholarly commentary. It was grotesque. I just about complained but the waitress was hot.
yes...the messiah!!! it should really have some sort of "shroom" topping as well. maybe
@ Zaner, No.12 -
"uh, because what we do best is consume stuff and make a spectacle of it. Obvious.
Oh, and bully other countries/cultures around. And then comsume their stuff and make a spectacle of it."
How can I do that? Details please, for the, "spectable" of it.
I'm willing to give it a try.
Culture/countries around me include the UK, France, Spain and Africa is very accessible too. Not sure about bullying them - tips on that too would be welcome.
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