I’ve been troubled by the fact that this viral story seems awfully similar to one I read on Twitter over a year ago. So I went back to find it and I’m not crazy: this was posted in Jan 2020 (how many lifetimes ago does that seem?). I haven’t finished the whole pod, but 35 minutes in or so the guest hasn’t acknowledged that this isn’t even his original idea. cc: @Randy @Tron
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It isn’t original. @losjxn said he had the idea for this to be the punishment. I’m not sure if he meant “I had the idea” or if he meant “I read about this and decided to do it”. I finished listening to the pod today and I think later on he might have mentioned that it wasn’t original, but now I can’t remember.
My FFL’s loser did it in 2018 and another one of my buddies created an Excel file to track consumption. Tried to get in touch with Lee’s people when this was going viral, but didn’t hear back.
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“I had seen it done before on the internet and thought: ‘'That would be hilarious to watch one of the other 11 members of our league go through that. Surely it won’t be me.” "
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What’s so difficult here? Just eat like 16 waffles and bring a decent book. They’re thin waffles.
Put your money where your mouth is.
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i’ll buy some of your waffles if you attempt to eat 16
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I didn’t lose a bet. I’m just saying… I don’t see what the issue is. You can’t eat two pancakes an hour for eight hours?
They’re wide, sure, but they’re awfully thin.
Or eat 12 and stay 12 hours, whatever. Read a book. Listen to some podcasts.
I think if it was such an easy thing to do it wouldn’t have caught on as a fantasy football loser bet.
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My God. What an elite troll. First he tells us he can eat 16 waffles, then he uses the terms “waffle” and “pancake” interchangeably. Do you know how many thousands of hours have been spent arguing the merits of waffles vs. pancakes?
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Eh, typo or brain fart. Waffle. Though Waffle House waffles are almost pancakes, they’re so thin. They’re like corrugated pancakes.
IHOP:Waffle House::Target:Walmart
Considering you’re a scholar of objectivity and rules, they are definitively waffles.
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They are. Regardless of what you call them, I still think someone could eat 12-16 of them in 8-12 hours.
Can someone link to one of those posts about how much tougher tournament golf is than regular golf, and how scratch golfers have no shot in a tour event? Feels very relevant right now.
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Would you go at them dry? Add butter and syrup?
I like butter. Syrup not so much. Just a bit.
I will buy all of them if he does this and records it.
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Waffle: 410 cal
1tbsp butter: 105 cal
That’s 8240 calories for 16 waffles with butter.
No sweat, amirite?
Thats like 1/3rd the calories that the GOAT athlete in any sport ever just ingested in 10 minutes.
Piece of cake.
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Looks around…I don’t see any GOAT level athletes here but I could be wrong.