Like all of our travel experiences, we look forward to trying the local cuisine. Our hosts Rhonda and Greg certainly made sure we tried all things Texas. Rhonda is the ranch chef and can rustle up a mighty fine feast. Every morn, we woke to a delicious cooked breakfast; eggs, bacon, biscuits (scones to rival old Flo), cinnamon rolls and burritos. Dinners consisted of huge steaks, mountain oysters which are actually calf testicles that are deep fried into tasty little treats, beer battered bass freshly caught in Lake Betty by us truly, catalina salad, corn cob and sweet potato.
No trip to the lone star state is complete without of visit to the themed restaurant "The Big Texan". Here you can order a 72 ounce steak (for those of you metric minded, it is the size of a Sunday roast). Now the challenge here is - if you can eat the steak, 2 bread rolls, a side salad and 2 prawn cutlets within an hour you get it all free. If not, you are up for a dollar an ounce. If your attempt is on stage, that is! For private dining you could be up for $250 for a fail.
The reigning champ is a petite woman, who managed to eat not one but three 72 ouncers with all the trimmings within the hour. The first was downed in a total of 4 minutes flat, the second in 7 minutes and the final took a total of 8 minutes. This phenomenon earned her the world record plus $5000 prize money.
The story don't end there folks, the champ returned to the restaurant a couple of hours later for dessert! Like every thing in Texas, the desserts are big! One serve is enough to feed four and she ate 3 desserts.
Gluttony at its best!
No trip to the lone star state is complete without of visit to the themed restaurant "The Big Texan". Here you can order a 72 ounce steak (for those of you metric minded, it is the size of a Sunday roast). Now the challenge here is - if you can eat the steak, 2 bread rolls, a side salad and 2 prawn cutlets within an hour you get it all free. If not, you are up for a dollar an ounce. If your attempt is on stage, that is! For private dining you could be up for $250 for a fail.
The reigning champ is a petite woman, who managed to eat not one but three 72 ouncers with all the trimmings within the hour. The first was downed in a total of 4 minutes flat, the second in 7 minutes and the final took a total of 8 minutes. This phenomenon earned her the world record plus $5000 prize money.
The story don't end there folks, the champ returned to the restaurant a couple of hours later for dessert! Like every thing in Texas, the desserts are big! One serve is enough to feed four and she ate 3 desserts.
Gluttony at its best!
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