Mike vs Food

Mike and I are big fans of Man vs Food on the travel channel. If you haven't watched it before, the host Adam Richman, travels around the country stopping at famous eateries and does 1 "food challenge" per show. He visited Hawaii earlier in the year and tried a variety of local foods, but his food challenge was at Mac 24-7, a restaurant in a hotel downtown. Some of you may remember me blogging about this back in the fall when we stayed at the hotel for a leadership retreat. Well anyway, the challenge is to eat 3 14 inch pancakes made from about 4 lbs of flour plus whatever toppings are one it...and getting them plain is not an option!. Mike has been wanting to do this since he heard about the challenge and if ever there was an eating challenge that Mike could do, pancakes would be it!

So we decided that what better day to do it than New Years Day...So that's exactly what we did. Mike invited his boss and our friends, the Corizzo's to come and join the support team as he attempts this great feat.

Here are some pics from the kitchen as the Mac Daddy Wild Blueberry Pancakes are being prepared.

All started out well, Mike was all smiles. and really looking at them it wasn't all that daunting.

Thing was, they were super thick and heavy, not the normal fluffy buttermilk pancakes that you are used to eating. Still, he went at it for a good 20 minutes and almost ate half but then he hit his wall. You have 90 minutes to finish, so he took a break, but after about another 30 minutes it was clear that he was not going to be able to finish. We all, including Mike, were disappointed at the results--but what was more disappointing was that the pancakes weren't really that good and that was what was making it so hard to eat. I don't like pancakes very much, but i tried a bite anyway it really you could actually taste the flour in it...they weren't moist at all! No wonder only 7 people out of like 300 have even finished the challenge...who wants to stuff themselves full to the point of sickness for food that isn't even that good?

So, in today's battle of Mike vs Food, Food won. But really we can't blame him! And we probably won't be back to the restaurant either. Now if Boot's and Kimo's (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kailua-HI/Boots-and-Kimos/55389804011) wants to do a pancake food challenge...we'll be there for sure!