LETTER: Man V Food challenge is ‘gluttonous consumption of food’
The Man Vs Food challenge at Shooters American Diner, would you take it on? Picture: FACEBOOK / SHOOTERS - Credit: Archant
I have just read in the Standard online the story of the Shooters American Diner in March offering a ‘Man Vs Food’ challenge.
In the challenge customer’s are asked to eat four beef burgers topped with cheese and bacon, a mound of chips, a large bowl of chicken wings and a bowl of chilli nachos within one hour.
This is the latest of a series of glutton based challenges at the restaurant, and very few people, according to the management, manage to complete the challenges.
This upsets me on a number of points:
1. There is a massive obesity problem in Fenland and this challenge seems to me to be glorifying the consumption of a mass of fast food.
2. Type 2 Diabetes is a huge problem and one of the causes is obesity.
3. There are a lot of people who are dependent on the local food bank and other charities to get food to survive.
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4. These food challenges where the challenger doesn’t finish the meal must lead to a huge waste of food.
5. I believe this idea is based on an American TV show called ‘Man V Food’, if anything was to suggest it isn’t a good idea would be to look at the obesity and related health problems in the states.
I enjoy a good meal out with friends, but would seriously avoid a restaurant that openly offers such openly gluttonous consumption of food.
All things in moderation.
