Man vs. Food KC episode

[KcMizzou]

Poppa Bob's in Bonner Springs? Never heard of it.

Airs tomorrow at 8.

[sedated]

that "challenge" is complete BS. if no one has ever completed it, it shouldn't be recognized as a legit "challenge", and it shouldn't be on a national TV show.

"Here's my $250,000 challenge - finish 27 pounds of burnt ends, 3 pounds of fries, 32 oz glass of gravy, and chug a handle of Jack"

[KCHawg]

Originally Posted by sedated

that "challenge" is complete BS. if no one has ever completed it, it shouldn't be recognized as a legit "challenge", and it shouldn't be on a national TV show.

"Here's my $250,000 challenge - finish 27 pounds of burnt ends, 3 pounds of fries, 32 oz glass of gravy, and chug a handle of Jack"

.............in 30 minutes!

[baitism]

Originally Posted by XXXshogunXXX

i think kobayashi could do it too. I remmeber on MTV true life he pounded out 8lbs of food in an hour. Then his metabloism vaporized it all by the next day

If he doesn't have a jaw "injury."

[XXXshogunXXX]

Originally Posted by baitism

If he doesn't have a jaw "injury."

he's still incredible. it was 22lbs of food

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I've seen a few of those shows where I thought "no way he'll finish"....then he does.
I don't see how people could eat that much w/out throwing up.

Yeah, there's been quite a few I figured he'd no way finish, but he does. And then there are some that I'm thinking to myself, "'Well, that's nothing. I can do that." But they're usually the basket of half of dozen wings loaded with the world's ungodliest and hottest spices, rubs, and sauces that humans should stay very, very far away from. Still, it's only six of them, I'll think to myself. But when you see the poor saps who attempt to devour even one of them, you now know why they'll be lucky to make it to the third one.

The one time I knew, without a doubt, he'd throw up was when he did the milkshake challenge in some St. Louis soda stand. He had to guzzle down a dozen milk shakes. The problem was, and he should have known this himself, is that he mixed 'em up with 12 different milkshakes. He probably would have finished them had he did 4 chocolates, 4 vanillas, and 4 strawberries or something like that. Instead, he guzzled some bizarre concoctions of various milk shake flavors and you could see the pain he was enduring. He looked at the camera and then ran out the back to puke like a drunken frat boy.

Anyway, I saw the show and he gave KC some serious BBQ lovin' saying it was the best around. And you can tell he was really digging Stroud's. It was a good show.

[Silock]

All that show accomplished was making me crave Stroud's. I haven't been there in forever.

[POND_OF_RED]

That was a really good episode until they got to Poppa Bob's. That challenge is a complete ripoff. Take off the burgers at least. A pound and a half of burgers is pointless and makes the sandwhich even drier. It's clear Poppa Bob is just a money grubbing salesman. I can tell why I've never heard about the place and I've lived here my whole life.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by baitism

The dumbest thing about that challenge is the 45 min time limit. It basically makes it impossible. There are 6.5 lbs of food in the challenge. 45/6.5 = 7 min per each lb of food. Honestly, it should have like a two hour time limit. It seems like the dude wanted to make it impossible....meh...I guess he succeeded. I don't see many people even trying it because it is obviously not possible by anyone except maybe Joey Chestnut.

Those challenges are a gimmick anyway.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by tomahawk kid

Stroud's.

Never in my life thought I'd be genuinely pumped to see a mere glimpse of green beans in a TV preview. But watching the 'minor league baseball' ep yesterday afternoon, I saw those beauties and actually yelled out loud.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by xfactor

I work just down street and eat at Papa Bobs all the time. I always eat the destroyer mini,mini version of ultimate destroyer and I can rarely eat all of it. This rules for this challenge crack me up, if u puke u have to clean up own mess,etc. There BBQ sauce is really,really good my new favorite in town! I don't think anyone has ever accomplished this challenge.

where do you work at my friend? I live at lake of the forest which backs up to the back of the restaurant

[tomahawk kid]

Originally Posted by baitism

The dumbest thing about that challenge is the 45 min time limit. It basically makes it impossible. There are 6.5 lbs of food in the challenge. 45/6.5 = 7 min per each lb of food. Honestly, it should have like a two hour time limit. It seems like the dude wanted to make it impossible....meh...I guess he succeeded. I don't see many people even trying it because it is obviously not possible by anyone except maybe Joey Chestnut.

THIS.

I thought they could have found a better food challenge in KC.

[Sam Hall]

I thought Oklahoma Joe's burnt ends stole the show. Those looked amazing.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Zarda's does indeed suck. They're bad and you are correct about them being bad. How KC's rich barebcue culture suddenly turned into
"90% lunchmeat" based off of Zarda's and Brokecks is beyond me. Do you know that the KC area has 90-100 BBQ places open at any given time? Two lunchmeat places is not 90%, it is 2%.

You've been to the incredible OK Joe's and L.C.'s. Go back. Also consult this list (http://economy.kansascity.com/?q=node/2070) and pick names at random.

cool; thanks for the list.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by tomahawk kid

I thought they could have found a better food challenge in KC.

Maybe that was the problem? Maybe against the advice of his research staff, he picked it out himself because he thought he could be the first one to complete the challenge?

I'm sure there are a few restaurants in the KC area that have a steak challenge, but it's possible he won't do steaks. I think I've only seen him do one steak challenge in all of his episodes. There could be a lot of reasons they picked out Papa Bob's that we don't know of. I bet he wanted to be the first to win the challenge, no matter how difficult and ridiculous it was.

[Theolotus]

HAHAHA

I was watching a rerun yesterday and complaining that he went to Donkey Town. Turned it off and missed the KC episode.