(wo)man vs. food

c and i are slightly obsessed by the show, "man vs. food." by slightly, i mean, we don't dvr it or anything, but we will sit and watch the mvf marathon if it's on, and we do know many of the challenges and have been known to bring them up in casual daily conversation. with this being said, the other evening c posed the question, "what challenge do you think that you could conquer?" i had to think about it, but her immediate response was the mammoth mac daddy pancakes... 3 HUGE pancakes topped with a full pound of toppings. it takes a gallon of water to make these things and a pizza paddle to flip them. i told her there was no way that she could consume that much pancake and challenged her to a friendly competition. she accepted.

today, dear friends, was challenge day... the day of the mammoth mac mami pannycake challenge. i began by using the largest pan we had... and i made the cake extra thick.

my dinner




i chopped up a banana and a few strawberries, served the cake on the largest plate we had, and went to work on mammoth mac mami pannycake #2.

c's first strategy was to separate the toppings from the cake.

her second strategy was to bribe our kid to help her eat her pannycakes after he had already eaten three of his own.

when she finally made it to pannycake #2, her third strategy was to tear the thing apart.

after doing some breathing exercises and tossing a few handfuls of pannycake to the dogs, c threw in the towel.

after one and a half mammoth mami pannycakes, food came out the victor!

better luck next time, mama c!!!