This past Friday’s post bible study fun was to take the Fenton’s Challenge. Eat the ginormous 3 scoop-banana split ice cream in 20 minutes (even all the melted stuff has to be eaten), and you get a t-shirt! The waitress awaits our orders. Are we in or are we out?
Many have tried, and few have succeeded. The challengers? Brittany, Jully, Rich Yen, and Riley. The spectators? Tim, Zach, Monica, and Rich Dongses. Waaay too much ice cream for me, for sure!
So this is what it looked like (middle, right). Monica and I were quite happy with our smaller single scoops (left).
Funny how the friendly challenges turned into a girl vs. guy thing, too.
So was anyone actually able to finish in 20 minutes? Drum roll please…
Brittany did it! Congrats!
And Jully was a close 2nd. If only she had a few more minutes, she would have had it, too! Sorry Riley… I don’t think that counts…
So in the end… the girls took the gold. Alright… wait until next time, us guys are going to go into training!
sad but true… if there were a ranking it would be Brittany and Jully at number 1 and 2, then Riley and Rich Yen at a distant 3 or 4… brothers, what happened?
We each had our own technique. Brittany was “direct confrontation”. I went for the “thou shalt not melt” method. Riley went for the “slurp the soup”. Richard, I don’t know what happened.
I was encouraged by Zach, who believed in my ice cream eating skills with full confidence whenever I doubted. “You got this. You are so on top of it.” It would be interesting to note here that this very same Zach, who pushed the contenders on, didn’t eat any ice cream himself, and enjoyed an ice cold glass of water throughout the competition!
Seriously though. If I had 1 more minute, I would have been able to finish.
A part of me was glad that I’m lactose-intolerant, but another part of me felt like I missed out on the Fenton’s Challenge. Ahhh… no worries, I had a blast taking pictures while you guys ate and ate and ate… and ate… and…