No, but without the movie he has the sense of mind to cut it into slices first. With the movie he’s too preoccupied with getting to his seat before the opening credits roll.
Biscuits! You can easily slide 3-4 whole biscuits into your mouth, but as soon as you start chewing them you’re screwed as they drain all moisture instantly. Now I know you didn’t bite off the biscuits but that could be fixed by making a roll of unseparated “biscuits” and biting of 3-4 “biscuits” worth from the end before you start chewing. Basically just taking the dough used for the biscuits and bake it without separating it into biscuits first, resulting in a “biscuit-stick”.
The same is true for plain white bread. The unwinnable challenge at my grade school was to cram just one slice of (Wonder) bread in your mouth and eat it without using any water.
At that age I crammed an entire peeled banana in my mouth in the cafeteria on a dare, but nearly choked when everybody kept making me laugh so I couldn’t swallow. Would have served them right if I’d spit banana all over them, but I just barely had too much class for that.
Well, there’s a few weird people like mo who can eat a whole slice of bread in one bit without water. Not many of us, but a few who don’t need water to hork down giant mouthfuls of food at once.
Yeah, I was a dumb kid, had multiple times where I’d taken a big bite of something then couldn’t chew it. Sandwiches/bread were usually the culprits. Sometimes amazed I survived to adulthood.
Dried meats are the worst. Low quality jerky (i.e. rations for long trips, before modern freezers and sealed packaging) is tough to chew even in small quantity, and it expands and dries out your mouth when you try to chew it. And unlike bread, it won’t eventually break apart if given more time – it just gets bigger. That was probably the source of the expression. Honestly, if you have to eat black bear jerky, you had better slice it awfully thin, or else it would probably be easier to take a bite of the Chrysler Building.
Actually, it seems to me that the trickiest part would be the lip calisthenics you’d have to do to keep the item in your mouth to keep chewing. I mean, you gotta pull the food item in with your lips as you chew and swallow, and depending on what you’re eating, you might have to support it with your teeth so you can’t close your teeth all the way to chew and them you have to let your tongue and spit pick up the slack until you’re drooling saliva and half-chewed food particles out of the corners of your mouth.
Kind of sounds like something Bill Watterson might describe…
A few days ago, I had trouble eating a macaroon. I put a large one in my mouth, and couldn’t close my jaw very far.
Although, that wasn’t biting off more than I could chew – I didn’t bite it off. I suspect that it would be possible, however, if you counted “biting into a bit and then pulling until it rips apart” as biting off, because if you were both unable to bring your jaw down and unable to manipulate the food with your tongue because it couldn’t even fit entirely into your mouth, you would be unable to chew it.
I put an entire steak on my fork without cutting it up and then try biting off a big piece. Gets annoying when I have to chew and chew for what seems like forever, but at least I can still do it.
…and yet, bite into just one regular-sized tablespoon of cinnamon…
Thought it was a good example, but come to think of it, can you really bite and chew cinnamon?
Also, add water =)
Godzilla vs Mecha-Dracula’s just a ripoff from the original episode “Robo ninja Godzilla and flying kingkong vampire”
You need a movie just to eat the whole pizza?
No, but without the movie he has the sense of mind to cut it into slices first. With the movie he’s too preoccupied with getting to his seat before the opening credits roll.
I know I can take such a big bite off a sandwich that I can’t chew it. It’s just too much.
I see a new Ig Nobel Prize on the horizon.
Is it cheating to roll the pizza up first?
I think the idea is that the bite should be big enough to immobilize your jaws.
If its big enough for that, then I don’t think that you would be able to bite it off in the first place.
Take my word for it, you can
Like trying to shove an entire submarine sandwich in your mouth all at once.
Biscuits! You can easily slide 3-4 whole biscuits into your mouth, but as soon as you start chewing them you’re screwed as they drain all moisture instantly. Now I know you didn’t bite off the biscuits but that could be fixed by making a roll of unseparated “biscuits” and biting of 3-4 “biscuits” worth from the end before you start chewing. Basically just taking the dough used for the biscuits and bake it without separating it into biscuits first, resulting in a “biscuit-stick”.
The same is true for plain white bread. The unwinnable challenge at my grade school was to cram just one slice of (Wonder) bread in your mouth and eat it without using any water.
At that age I crammed an entire peeled banana in my mouth in the cafeteria on a dare, but nearly choked when everybody kept making me laugh so I couldn’t swallow. Would have served them right if I’d spit banana all over them, but I just barely had too much class for that.
Well, there’s a few weird people like mo who can eat a whole slice of bread in one bit without water. Not many of us, but a few who don’t need water to hork down giant mouthfuls of food at once.
Adam…your site just re-directed me to porn for some reason.
Just so ya know.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
It is when you’re at work. …Not that I should be looking at webcomics while I’m at work.
Yeah, I was a dumb kid, had multiple times where I’d taken a big bite of something then couldn’t chew it. Sandwiches/bread were usually the culprits. Sometimes amazed I survived to adulthood.
X) so true!
Dried meats are the worst. Low quality jerky (i.e. rations for long trips, before modern freezers and sealed packaging) is tough to chew even in small quantity, and it expands and dries out your mouth when you try to chew it. And unlike bread, it won’t eventually break apart if given more time – it just gets bigger. That was probably the source of the expression. Honestly, if you have to eat black bear jerky, you had better slice it awfully thin, or else it would probably be easier to take a bite of the Chrysler Building.
Stop spreading lies!
Everyone knows that The Chrysler Building is delicious.
I want a waffle!
I once tried downing a BK Whopper in one bite when I was 10 I wound up throwing up
Still, you’re a hero for trying.
even your comments are great. thank you
Actually, it seems to me that the trickiest part would be the lip calisthenics you’d have to do to keep the item in your mouth to keep chewing. I mean, you gotta pull the food item in with your lips as you chew and swallow, and depending on what you’re eating, you might have to support it with your teeth so you can’t close your teeth all the way to chew and them you have to let your tongue and spit pick up the slack until you’re drooling saliva and half-chewed food particles out of the corners of your mouth.
Kind of sounds like something Bill Watterson might describe…
A few days ago, I had trouble eating a macaroon. I put a large one in my mouth, and couldn’t close my jaw very far.
Although, that wasn’t biting off more than I could chew – I didn’t bite it off. I suspect that it would be possible, however, if you counted “biting into a bit and then pulling until it rips apart” as biting off, because if you were both unable to bring your jaw down and unable to manipulate the food with your tongue because it couldn’t even fit entirely into your mouth, you would be unable to chew it.
I put an entire steak on my fork without cutting it up and then try biting off a big piece. Gets annoying when I have to chew and chew for what seems like forever, but at least I can still do it.