Taking a Break from Toy Soldiers Biaggio Laurie and I got chance to see the start of a new contest. Biaggio our favorite restaurant in Allentown is doing a pizza butrrito. The pizza burrito weighs 15 to 20 pounds and costs $55.00. If you finish the pizza burrito in 35 minutes you get it free pulse $100.00 and t-shirt.
Here is the pizza burrito that was the challenge 
Here is the challenger who I did not get his name with Joe Ruffino owner of Biaggio. The challenger failed to complete challenge.
I have no interest in trying the challenge. We usually can not finish our meals. The leftovers end up lunches for Laurie to take to work. Other times we get just a slice of pizza or burger.
I will be back tomorrow with more toy soldier fun.
15 to 20 lbs. wow, quite the challenge….the $100 prize would cover part of the ambulance ride and EKG and is it a T-shirt or just a large Hospital gown? Do they have one in a normal size, looks like it might taste good. 🙂
They have a wide range of food that is very good. I am sure the Stromboli is big and usually two more people can eat one. I will check if they do a smaller pizza burrito
Didn’t sound too appetizing at first “a Pizza Butrrito”🤮
I never could understand why anyone would want to do such a thing. What does it accomplish? What does it prove? Please don’t tell me “To each his own”.
It is a gimmick something to give attention their place. Clinton Dinner in Clinton New Jersey has a fifty pound burger challenge. It is a way to advertise themselves at a very low cost. Biaggio is great for their Italian food. Joe took over a spot of another Italian restaurant that was dying. In four years he has turn into a very popular place where you may have to wait.
I understand why the eating establishment would sponsor such an event — as you said, it’s a marketing gimmick.
It’s the people who participate in such things. How could anyone do such a thing to their stomachs? To their bodies? To their own health? What could winning the contest possibly prove, other than how foolish people can be?
Don I know it is amazing what people will do these days without thinking what it will do to them.
Has anyone ever won the 15-20 pound pizza burrito challenge? What about the 50 pound burger challenge? I can maybe see someone eating the burrito but the burger sounds physically impossible. Even the burrito would do your system some serious harm. The human stomach is not meant to hold that much at one time. I think you have to be under 30 and still believe you are immortal to try something like that.
I suppose there is a good turn over of new customers as many of the regulars keel over and die from heart attacks
Only the ones who try the challenge. Otherwise the people keep coming back.
There used to be a restuarant in downtown Chicago that had a similar challenge, but it was a 52 ounce steak. I don’t remember if it was free or not if you finished it, but the guys at work would go over and try, a few managed to finish, it would take them quite a while. I guess it had some awful affect on them because no one did it twice.
My brothers mate once ate 11 big macs in a contest another time he came home from the pub after having a couple of drinks. His mum had cooked a whole leg of lamb for sunday dinner. He sat down with a knife & fork ate the lot all that was left was the bone. My brothers mate had a party he laid all the food out on a big table his other mate turned up with his wife she sat a one end he sat at the other and they ate the lot. my brothers friend said it was like a plague of locusts he couldn’t believe what he was seeing they both got up looked around and then left. So I think he would be a good candidate for the pizza burrito challenge.
So, Paul, I’m dying to know–did the guy in the picture manage to eat the whole thing? Assuming that he did, how on earth did he do afterwards? Curl up and sleep for three days like an Anna Conda? Certainly the aftermath would not be digestive bliss….
My buddy in university–a guy named Joe McKenna–won the eating contest at my fraternity. Joe was 435 pounds and a member of the football team. He downed 35 McDonald’s hamburgers. Granted, these were the little silver dollar jobs that McDonald’s sold in the 1960s, but, with buns, that’s a lot of stuff to eat. There appeared not to be any unpleasant consequences that ensued, but Joe did win enduring fame for his remaining years at university. Everybody loves a good story, I guess. Joe, of course, beamed anytime someone mentioned his epic event. And of course his friends could bask in his reflected glory.
the person did not finish his burrito and lost.
I once knew a guy that could eat, one time we were at his house and we ordered out. He ate the following :
16 inch thin crust pizza with everything on it
11 pieces of fried chicken
4 slices of Chicago style pan Pizza
I thought that quite impressive.