Do you love a challenge? How about a food challenge? Competitive eating isn’t just for professionals anymore. Head to one of these Houston, Texas restaurants and attempt to complete one of these wild and gluttonous food contests.
The Texas Challenge
If you love Texas-style barbecue and want to test your eating ability, head to Central Texas Style B-B-Q and attempt The Texas Challenge. The challenge includes a pound of sausage, a pound of chopped beef, a baked potato stuffed with cheese, green onions, and sour cream, and two stuffed jalapeños.
If you can polish off all of that food in under an hour, you’ll get your photo on the wall, a free t-shirt, and your meal will be completely free. If you can’t finish it, the meal will cost you $29.95.
Inferno Wing Challenge
This is only a challenge for spicy-food lovers. Diablo Loco, a sports bar and wing restaurant in downtown Houston, challenges you to eat 25 of their spiciest wings, known as Highway to Hell, in under 25 minutes. You can’t drink anything that may cool your mouth down, and you can’t leave the table.
If you succeed, you get a free tower of beer and your photo on the wall. The challenge will cost you $19.99 whether you win or lose.
Mega Mel
The Mega Mel is the burger challenge to end all burger challenges. Mel’s Country Cafe in the Houston suburb of Tomball offers you the chance to eat a one and a half pound burger topped with a pound of bacon, a quarter pound of cheese, and all of the fixings.
If you can eat the Mega Mel in under two hours, you’ll get your name on the wall and receive a free t-shirt. The rules also require that, once you finish the burger, you are able to get up, walk around, and talk without being sick.
The Zellagabetsky
This is perhaps one of the most famous food challenges in Houston. Kenny & Ziggy’s is a New York-style deli that challenges you to eat a sandwich as big as Texas. The Zellagabetsky is an eight-decker rye sandwich filled with almost four pounds of corned beef, turkey, pastrami, salami, roast beef, tongue, swiss cheese, coleslaw, and Russian dressing.
There’s no time limit for finishing this gigantic sandwich as long as you do it in one sitting. Winner’s are rewarded with a huge piece of cheesecake. The sandwich costs $55.
La Crawfish Challenge
Seafood lovers should get themselves over to LA Crawfish to test their stomachs on the La Crawfish Challenge. The challenge is to eat an entire 24-inch diameter bowl of extra-spicy crawfish pho without any assistance in under 30 minutes.
If you can finish this challenge, you get a t-shirt, your photo on the wall, and your pho for free. Your t-shirt will also get your 10 percent off of any future LA Crawfish purchase for the rest of your life. If you don’t complete the challenge, the bowl of crawfish pho will cost $21.
Test your stomach and your spice threshold at one of these restaurants this weekend then swing by and test drive one of our new Mazdas!
Image “The Super Scooby from Jolly Fryer in Filton, Bristol” by brizzle born and bred, used under CC BY-ND 2.0
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