If you could you’d be in pretty esteemed company as one man in the UK has become the first person to finish a sandwich that weighs just under half a stone. That’s right, half a stone.
Think you have a big appetite? I mean, do you think you have a REALLY big appetite and are you the type of person for whom the phrase ‘all you can eat’ is a challenge more so than a generous offer?
Then make some room in that stomach of yours because surely the ‘gigantwich’ is the sizeable, tasty and ridiculously unhealthy snack for you.
The sandwich, which consists of *pauses for breath* sausage, bacon, ham, beef, turkey, lamb, a steak burger, pulled bbq pork, hash browns, various cheeses, stuffing, a cheese omelette, tomatoes, cucumber, salad, mayo, BBQ sauce, mustard and onion rings piled in between six slices of bread, comes with chips and coleslaw on the side and costs £17.95 unless you are able to finish it in the allotted 45-minute challenge time.
That might sound a little on the expensive side but the sandwich weighs 5.5lbs and consists of 8,000 calories, more than three times the recommended amount of calories a man should eat on a daily basis, so it’s not as if you’re going to get a hunger pang a couple of hours later.
According to the Daily Mail, the sandwich is served at the Mangetout Bistro in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, where 26-year old James Brettell recently became the first person ever to finish it within the allotted time, completing a challenge that was too much for 116 people that have taken it on in the past, including a UK strongman and competitive eaters.
Having finished the meal in 36 minutes, a full nine minutes inside the 45-minute time limit, James didn’t have to pay for the meal and also received a special ‘gigantwich’ t-shirt and £116, made up of contributions from all of those who have taken on the gigantwich challenge and failed in the past.
After James became the first person to conquer the gigantwich challenge, the sandwich has been given an extra layer to make it even more difficult to digest than it already was, so if you think you can swallow what James did and more, get yourself to the Mangetout Bistro and try and secure your place in gastronomic history.
In the meantime, we’re off to buy a packet of Rennie. Sheesh.
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