History Main / MegaMealChallenge

* ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}'':

-->--'''Ren Fujii''', ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae''

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* Kanna and Saikawa both get extra large parfaits that are free (plus a photo with one of the maids) if they're eaten in less than half an hour when they go to the Maid Cafe that Tohru works at in ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life]]''. [[BigEater Kanna eats about half of hers in less than five seconds]].

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--> '''Cliff:''' Have you ever had a Mount Everest?
--> '''Maureen:''' Huh?
--> '''Cliff:''' They start with a big platter and build up the peak with twenty - one flavors of ice cream, using four bananas, butterscotch syrup, and nuts to bind it. Then they cover it with chocolate syrup, sprinkle malted milk powder and more nuts for rock, pour marshmallow syrup and whipped cream down from the top for snow, stick parsley around the lower slopes for trees, and set a little plastic skier on one of the snow banks. You get to keep him as a souvenir of the experience.
--> '''Maureen:''' Oh, my!
--> '''Cliff:''' Only one to a customer and I don't have to pay if you finish it.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has the Rainy Day Special Mega Beef Bowl Challenge. Served at Chinese Diner Aiya, the bowl helps raise three random character statistics, making it an ideal way for the player to spend rainy days, where most Social Links and other related activities are deactivated. The bowl can only be finished if the player maxes out the four stats needed (Understanding, Knowledge, Courage, and Diligence).
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' has the Big Bang Challenge at Big Bang Burger, which involves eating increasingly oversized burgers to win accessories and parameter gains in 4 of the 5 social stats categories. Each successive challenge requires two, three, then four levels each in the Guts, Knowledge, and Proficiency stats. Completing the challenge also gives points towards Charm, but they are not required for the challenge itself.

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': During a road trip [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1091 Grace orders a huge pancake breakfast.]] Even though only three people in the 25 year history of the restaurant have succeeded in finishing the "Pancake Mount Doom" meal, Grace [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1092 does so with ease and gets her picture on the Wall of Fame.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Road Rash", Heffer stops at a diner while Rocko [[IncessantMusicMadness tries to fix the tape player on their motorbike]] (and accidentally trashes it in the process). Heffer asks for the biggest thing on the menu, which happens to be the Knockwurst Nightmare, a dish consisting of 570 pounds of pig parts in two miles of intestines, which no one has ever finished. Heffer asks for two, only to be told that "there aren't enough pigs in the country." Heffer eventually finishes it, and wins a hot-dog-shaped truck for him and Rocko to finish their trip.

--->'''Marge:''' "Homie, NO! ''[[SeriousBusiness Don't fill up on bread!!]]''"

* Chapter 3 of ''Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo'' sees Mako getting roped into helping Shinichi finish an enormous "Jumbo Parfait". They manage to finish the entire thing in 90 minutes, and win a certificate for free parfaits for a year.

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* ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Road Rash", Heffer stops at a diner while Rocko [[IncessantMusicMadness tries to fix the tape player on their motorbike]] (and accidentally trashes it in the process). Heffer orders the Knockwurst Nightmare, a dish consisting of 570 pounds of pig parts in two miles of intestines, which no one has ever finished. Heffer asks for two, only to be told that "there aren't enough pigs in the country." Heffer eventually finishes it, and wins a hot-dog-shaped truck for him and Rocko to finish their trip.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When Bob bans Teddy from the restaurant due to becoming concerned over his health since he insists on eating a cheeseburger and fries there every day, Teddy eventually runs off to another restaurant, where he orders a burger challenge meal in a fit of spite after Bob said the two weren't friends for real. The last part of the episode revolves around Bob trying to talk him out of eating it.

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* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has a restaurant challenge diners to finish their expensive and huge full-course meal, with it being free if they succeed. Since many of the main characters are some sort of BigEater, the owner soon regrets this offer. Only Sakura makes it all the way through — and after taking appetite suppressant pills before hand!

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* Referenced in ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', where the main character mentions that his Uncle Gary finished the "Monstrilla Burger" in one sitting and got a tattoo for it.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Puddin'" short story "Cliff and the Calories".
--> '''Cliff:''' Have you ever had a Mount Everest?
--> '''Maureen:''' Huh?
--> '''Cliff:''' They start with a big platter and build up the peak with twenty - one flavors of ice cream, using four bananas, butterscotch syrup, and nuts to bind it. Then they cover it with chocolate syrup, sprinkle malted milk powder and more nuts for rock, pour marshmallow syrup and whipped cream down from the top for snow, stick parsley around the lower slopes for trees, and set a little plastic skier on one of the snow banks. You get to keep him as a souvenir of the experience.
--> '''Maureen:''' Oh, my!
--> '''Cliff:''' Only one to a customer and I don't have to pay if you finish it.

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* ''Series/{{Svengoolie}}'', Wrestling/JimCornette [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GLZtkm8X8 tried]] to eat a giant "Svengoolie Burger," double order of fries and a milkshake in 30 minutes at the Squared Circle, a restaurant in Chicago owned by Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron. [[spoiler:Cornette jobbed to the burger.]] Cornette claims to have successfully beaten the challenge at other restaurants including the Heart Attack Grill.
* ''Series/ManVFood'' is basically a collection of these. One of the biggest meals our host Adam had to try to finish was a burger the size of a truck tire and even then he needed the entire restaurant to eat it with him. Another was eating an omelette... made from a dozen eggs. Not all of these are big food, mind you: one had him eat dozens of raw oysters and another was eat just eight wings in 30 minutes. Said wings are marinated in the sauce of "Container of Poor Judgement" (marinated left over wing sauce that's added to everyday), you can only eat the wings when you start, only use your teeth and hands and the one napkin they give you.

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* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':

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* ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'': During a road trip [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1091 Grace orders a huge pancake breakfast.]] Even though only three people in the 25 year history of the restaurant have succeeded in finishing the "Pancake Mount Doom" meal, Grace [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1092 does so with ease and gets her picture on the Wall of Fame.]]

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' revolves around the characters trying to get Camp Kidney on a Prickly Pines restaurant's place mats, which feature a map of the Prickly Pines area, including a vacant spot where Camp Kidney is located. The cost-effective way of doing this is to eat a gigantic steak that ''still'' continues to grow with each bite. The task goes to Scoutmaster Lumpus because of his established fondness for meat.
* ''Franchise/TheSimpsons'':

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** Red Devil Pizza in Granada Hills, California (moved to Upland, California) is unusual in that it has a two-person challenge: A straightforward 28-inch pizza with any choice of toppings and a time limit of 45 minutes. Red Devil displays both winners and losers of this challenge, as a "Wall of Fame" and a "Wall of Shame," respectively. A step into the restaurant indicates this challenge has a roughly 20% win rate.

* ''Webcomic/HangInThereKogasaSan'' has seen a few of these, thanks to the author being a major foodie. For just one example, the arc relating his trip to Anime Boston 2012, the group ate at [[http://eaglesdeli.com/ Eagle's Deli]] and one of them (represented by Momiji) tried the [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=849399 "Challenge Burger"]], a gigantic bacon cheeseburger and five pounds of french fries that has to be eaten within one hour, with those who succeed getting the right to name a new burger. Unfortunately Momiji wasn't able to finish it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Road Rash", Heffer stops at a diner while Rocko [[IncessantMusicMadness tries to fix the tape player on their motorbike]] (and accidentally trashes it in the process). Heffer orders the Knockwust Nightmare, a dish consisting of every kind of sausage, which no one has ever finished. Heffer asks for two, only to be told that "there aren't enough pigs in the country." Heffer eventually finishes it, and wins a hot-dog-shaped truck for him and Rocko to finish their trip.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Eggscellent", Rigby tries to finish a giant omelet to win a trucker hat. When he's hospitalized in a food coma as a result (he's allergic to eggs), Mordecai takes on the challenge for him, in hope that winning the hat might snap Rigby back to normal. Using the notes kept by a previous park worker who also tried to win the hat and the help of Benson and the other park workers, and despite the best efforts of the cook to stop him, Mordecai finishes the omelet, [[spoiler:and is transported into a cave where he has to pick the correct hat or die. He chooses the correct hat and brings it back to Rigby, who wakes up.]]
** [[spoiler: Then he sees another ad on TV advertising the Raise The Steaks challenge, a steak and eggs challenge meant for two contestants. Rigby wants to do it by eating the steak while Mordecai eats the eggs. Mordecai and the rest of the gang decides to take the hat back, hoping he'll slip back into a coma]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "Burrito", Grizz takes a restaurant's burrito challenge, in which he must eat one of every kind of burrito they sell in one hour. He bets that he can do it in 30 minutes; he ends up eating them all in fifteen, but then they bring in the last burrito, one as big as Grizz himself. Rather than eating it, Grizz becomes oddly attached to it and decides to make it his CompanionCube instead.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Eggscellent", Rigby tries to finish a giant omelet to win a trucker hat. When he's hospitalized in a food coma as a result, Mordecai takes on the challenge for him, in hope that winning the hat might snap Rigby back to normal. Using the notes kept by a previous park worker who also tried to win the hat, and despite the best efforts of the cook to stop him, Mordecai finishes the omelet, [[spoiler:and is transported into a cave where he has to pick the correct hat or die. He chooses the correct hat and brings it back to Rigby, who wakes up.]]

** The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas offers a 72-oz. steak dinner for free if eaten within 1 hour ($72 otherwise), and maintains a record of everyone who successfully completes the challenge.

-->'''Ren Fujii''', ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae''

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has a restaurant challenge diners to finish their expensive and huge full-course meal, with it being free if they succeed. Since many of the main characters are some sort of BigEater, the owner soon regrets this offer. Only Sakura makes it all the way through — and after taking appetite suppressant pills before hand!

--> '''Roman:''' Tell ya what: if I can get a dessert down him, think you can throw in some free hats for the kids?

* ''Manga/FlowerKnightDakini'': [[BigEater Prakasha]] stops at ice cream and confectionery chain [[Manga/TheJackalope Polar Ice]] after seeing an advertisement for the Mega-Cream Donut Sandwich Pancake, which is a large pancake topped with two layers of donuts, another pancake, and a heaping dollop of cream. The challenge is to eat the whole thing by yourself, and you only have to pay for the cost of a regular pancake if you're successful. She does complete it, but even she thinks the size is excessive.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill:'' Bobby has just gone through a bad breakup with a girl, who was a vegan. When the Hills are out to dinner at a steakhouse, he sees that she is also there with her family. He then snaps out of his funk and decides to attempt the steakhouse's Mega Meal Challenge, while looking her straight in the eye the whole time, and orders his huge steak rare for maximum spite. He succeeds, but vomits in the alley when he gets home.

--> "Homie, NO! ''[[SeriousBusiness Don't fill up on bread!!]]''"

** One episode has Homer challenging a trucker to an eat-off involving a very large steak. Homer loses the challenge, the trucker finishes the meal, and promptly dies of a heart attack.

* Certain restaurants have a menu item that due to its large size or spiciness, finishing it is considered impressive and the person gets either a photo on a wall or even the meal for free. These promotions are [[DiscreditedTrope on the declin]]e due to a combination of bad publicity over what is seen as base gluttony, and a growing number of supposed "winners" actually being granted a free meal by colluding friends who work at the restaurant. Notable promotions include: