I confess, I have no space whatsoever for this and don’t really need one, but it’s half price on black Friday…
(Hoping this doesn’t count as a proscribed link)
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As a fan of T-Bar rows - do it.
You definitely do need it because you need a back as thick as Dorian Yate’s.
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I’m actually pretty proud of this one.
I confess: tonight is “leftovers night” for dinner for our family. We have at least one of these a week, because it’s thrifty and we usually have such an abundance of food from the week that this is an easy way to reduce waste. So we’re saving money AND the planet.
Ok, that’s not the confession. The confession is this: I CHEATED at leftovers night, because last night was “steak night”, and who ever heard of leftover steak? SO, while my steaks were cooking, I ALSO air fried some pork chops that I had NO intention of eating last night…so that I could have them on leftovers night.
I am awaiting the questioning glance of my Valkyrie when I plop my plate of leftovers on the table tonight and she asks “When did we have pork chops?”
I’m wondering if I need to invent a new word for non-authentic leftovers. Leftunders?
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Stow aways. Like “wait a sec. Where did they come from?”.
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Oh I like that! I might even tap into the classic American Traincar Hobo there too.
Oh, maybe “Freeriders”
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You should be.
I actually thought about starting a restaurant like this that only sold leftovers, but it would have to be in a college town where kids pull this when they go home
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I’m here to confess that all of this deceptive meal preparation reminded me that I recently laughed at a down’s syndrome joke.
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@Brant_Drake That is absolutely me working my mastery on leftover night. My kiddo gets the worst of it: I take such delight in coming up with the craziest combo plate for them, and they are always excited to see what insanity Dad has come up with. I’m happily raising them in a “no such thing as breakfast food” kind of household: everything is on the table at all hours of the day.
Now, the real question for college kids: would you serve cold pizza? Meaning, specifically, go through the work of baking a pizza and letting it specifically go cold so you can serve it that way?
@twojarslave Pocket grilled cheese is definitely a parenting hack applied on a macro level here, haha. I’ve absolutely done something similar with uncrustables at a Greek place
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Cold pizza is not just temperature. It has to be in the box, overnight. I think spilled beer has something to do with it too. Maybe it rectifies regional differences in airborn microflora.
I’ve tried to replicate cold pizza for 25 years and can’t do it.
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Cold pizza and warm coke was the college breakfast, along with a shower beer.
I worked at Pizza Hunt and took 5 or 6 six pizzas home each night to bribe RA’s, trade for weed, and eat in the morning.
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I confess that I will always find stories of extreme bulking fascinating. I can read those forever. Same with videos of extreme eating. Something about if fascinates me.
In turn, I found this article on elitefts
And Hooooly f–k check out this daily diet to get up to 400lbs
Beyond anything else, the thing that stood out to me was that this dude was eating 6 LOAVES of bread a DAY. Because let’s not fool ourselves: that’s exactly what a “footlong sub” is: it’s a loaf of bread that we somehow convinced ourselves is ok to eat in one sitting because it’s a “footlong sub”. In any other civilized society, you’d slice that thing and eat a slice or two.
Then there’s all the bread in the pizza crust, and then whatever type of sandwich material was used at BK. Just the stomach capacity is incredible, because all that stuff swells up once it gets inside of you.
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What suprised me, but makes sense in retrospect, is that competive eaters usually have smaller stomachs than normal people. Since it’s a muscle you can train it’s elasticity so it can expand more, but it rebounds more. Same thing why people who get gastric bypass regain normal stomach volume after a few years.
That diet reminds me of an old article, I couldn’t find the original, but here’s a re-print.
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He actually references this very article as his motivation for that diet. “I saw it as a challenge”. And yeah: I’ve fallen down the competitive eater rabbit hole, and it’s amazing how much thought is put into maximizing stomach capacity.
It’s also interesting how athletic competitors can be. The fat people often do worse. Kobayashi has visable abs and has a wierd technique to flex them to let him eat faster.
It’s proof that one meal won’t throw off your diet.
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I envy the people who can eat slightly more and end up leaner or the people who get a “woosh” effect after a large meal.
I always end up heavier, softer and not always stronger
To be fair, that subway pedophile lost weight eating subway.
He did it eating a 6" veggie delight.
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I’ll bet he’s gotten plenty of footlongs by now.
He needs a visit from Luigi
