Going for gold in the breakfast Olympics (From Daily Echo)
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Plucky diners square up in challenge to polish off cafe's 5,000-calorie ultimate breakfast
8:20am Monday 6th August 2012 in News
By Matt Smith, Politics and business reporter
Peter Hurley with his ultimate breakfast
IT’S an Olympian breakfast feast that even champion swimmer Michael Phelps would baulk at.
But two men bravely rose to the Herculean challenge of the Fawley Cafe’s ultimate breakfast.
Five competitors before them had attempted it. All had failed.
The eating machines, renowned locally for their huge appetites, pulled up to the breakfast table to gorge on an astonishing 5,000 calories of full English.
Peter Hurley, 58, who has run the Calshot Road cafe for the past year, came up with the challenge after a 14-year-old “totally demolished” the previous biggest breakfast on his menu – the Fisherman’s.
The result was a stomach-bulging £15 platter that dwarfs even the legendary breakfast US swimmer Phelps, 27, devours to feed his 12,000 calorie-a-day performance diet.
Peter’s breakfast challenge consists of six rashers of bacon, six sausages, half a dozen fried eggs, double portions of baked beans, mushrooms and tomatoes, two quarter-pound burgers, a large portion of chunky chips, bubble and squeak, black pudding, two rounds of toast, fried bread and bread andbutter.
Phil Hurley, 33, a catering manager from Fawley, who loves his Sunday roasts, and Johnny Franklin, 23, a curry-mad jobseeker from Calshot, squared up across the table in front of an audience of well-wishers to guzzle down the food.
But after a promising start the pace began to slow, then came the burps and belches, the sweats and queasiness.
With 20 minutes remaining they had equalled the previous best, demolishing three-quarters of the plate. But it was too much for Phil, who dashed for the loo with eight minutes to go.
Johnny rubbed his belly and ploughed on, encouraged by his supporters, but he too had to quit with four minutes left on the clock. He said: “It was hard. But I’m just full up.”
Peter said: “They both did brilliantly. They cleared over three-quarters of the plate. There are not many people that can do that. The thing that kills you is the bread, and the fact the plate never seems to empty.”
Comments(17)
peenut81
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8:55am Mon 6 Aug 12
5.5million children will DIE of malnutrition this year.
Food prices are set to rise by 6-8% again next year following extreme drought in the USA and tw@ts in the City of London gambling on commodity futures.
Still i can't see why Matt Smith thought these men were 'brave' and 'Herculan', to be so greedy in such austere times
Lone Ranger.
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9:03am Mon 6 Aug 12
Big Mac
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9:50am Mon 6 Aug 12
bigfella777
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10:10am Mon 6 Aug 12
driverbelcher
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10:11am Mon 6 Aug 12
Hahahahaha really, must be a light news day for Politics and Business then?
andysaints007
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11:08am Mon 6 Aug 12
peenut81 wrote:So please enlighten us on what you actually do to help solve this worldwide problem then!
925million people on this planet will go hungry today.
5.5million children will DIE of malnutrition this year.
Food prices are set to rise by 6-8% again next year following extreme drought in the USA and tw@ts in the City of London gambling on commodity futures.
Still i can't see why Matt Smith thought these men were 'brave' and 'Herculan', to be so greedy in such austere times
Ted Rogers
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4:04pm Mon 6 Aug 12
TimTam
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5:52pm Mon 6 Aug 12
100%HANTSBOY
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7:35pm Mon 6 Aug 12
....MANAGERRRRRRRRRR
R!!
Fatty x Ford Worker
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8:05pm Mon 6 Aug 12
Grammar Police
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8:27pm Mon 6 Aug 12
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pod
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8:38pm Mon 6 Aug 12
andysaints007
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10:11pm Mon 6 Aug 12
Ted Rogers wrote:You forgot to mention yourself - the biggest tw*t of all! x
Morons one and all. From the very healthy looking owner of the greasy little cafe to the idiots who gorged themselves and especially the reporter.
IronLady2010
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10:59pm Mon 6 Aug 12
Thanks for ensuring I never visit this hole!
andysaints007
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10:47am Wed 8 Aug 12
IronLady2010 wrote:What a stupid statement to a 'tongue in cheek' article!
Why did the Echo run this story? It's the most unhealthy thing ever and nothing to do with Olympics. Stuffing junk down peoples faces should not be in News when we're trying to promote healthy things, such as the Olympics!
Thanks for ensuring I never visit this hole!
cooper01
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8:48pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Huey says...
8:34am Mon 6 Aug 12
I hope Phil got to the loo on time!