Our reporter takes on 24-inch pizza eating challenge at Slice Sunderland

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Sunderland Echo reporter Neil Fatkin takes on the challenge of eating a 24-inch pizza at Slice Sunderland

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00:00 A couple of months ago I tried the Beastie Burger Challenge at Sarah's place and unfortunately failed.

00:04 So today I've come to Slice in Sunderland where I'm going to be taking on their 24-inch pizza challenge.

00:09 Again I've been doing my preparations, I've been at my bike this week to burn off some of the

00:13 calories I've put on. I've not eaten since last night so I'm certainly getting very hungry

00:18 and whether I can take on a 24-inch pizza or not, well maybe time will tell. So it's time to go in and get

00:23 eating and hopefully I'm not putting off more than that too.

00:26 We've got a shop in Seaham, the original shop, and we sell it by the slice, pizzas by the slice.

00:30 And we had a few of the big lads come up and say "I could smash that whole pizza"

00:34 and had that a few times and then we said "well do you want to try it?" and that's where the first

00:40 challenge came about. So we had about nine people that did the first challenge and one mastered it.

00:46 And since then what's the success rate been like?

00:51 I've done three or four challenges now I'd say about 20% success rate. So a lot of people tap out

00:58 about after five or six slices.

01:00 Is there a strategy?

01:01 I've seen many strategies, some people kind of fold them up on top of each other like sandwich,

01:06 some roll, some do crust first, some are flushing it down with water but I think

01:11 whatever works for you.

01:14 Right so strategy for today with the Beastie Burger challenge I think I went off too quickly

01:18 and so I ended up really struggling in the second half. You do get more time to cover this one

01:22 and I'm also going to go for a Margherita pizza which is the basic and plain and simple one.

01:28 Apparently only five could have done this before and they all had Margherita so I think that's a

01:31 sensible choice. But obviously 24 inches not sure if I'll be able to do it but we'll just have to

01:37 wait and see.

01:37 Right I think I've gone for a bit of a changing strategy here so I was going to go for all

01:41 Margherita and that's got the highest success rate but just thinking about it a balance up you

01:46 know sort of not eating the same thing all the time and what I find the most appetising. Pepperoni

01:50 is my favourite so I'm going to go half pepperoni and half Margherita.

01:54 Oven's 500 degrees so nice and hot, take maybe three four minutes to do.

02:00 On your lucky day Neil.

02:08 This looks a lot bigger than 20 inches to me. I can definitely say I've never

02:11 seen a pizza that size before.

02:14 Easy.

02:16 Is that basically two 12 inch pizzas?

02:18 Yeah.

02:18 Looks a lot bigger than that.

02:19 It's the crust I'm telling you.

02:22 Yeah well I've got my water ready.

02:23 I'll add that yeah the crust I think that could be the problem but wait.

02:26 Is the tape starting now yet?

02:28 Three, two, one, go.

02:29 It may get a bit messy mate.

02:30 Yeah I'm hungry I'm trying to go off to a fast though because I think I've

02:34 got a pizza last time I had two pizzas.

02:36 Strong pizza.

02:39 Sliced cheese.

02:41 Nice, nice pizza.

02:43 Have you done this before Mark? Have you tried it before?

02:49 No, no.

02:49 No.

02:49 I know my limits.

02:49 Margherita now.

02:54 Trying to overload too soon the pepperoni.

02:56 Last time I did I got halfway through and I was ahead of schedule but I was going to do it and then

03:04 a while I couldn't anymore.

03:06 I couldn't do it.

03:07 Yeah.

03:08 So that's due to the pizza all right but these crusts are going to be a problem.

03:11 You see the mail off.

03:13 These crusts are going to kill me.

03:15 Yeah it's a balance to see if you're trying as much now as quick as you can before your

03:19 body starts rejecting it or you pierce yourself and you don't get that situation.

03:25 My stomach's starting to say wait more pizza, you've had more pizza.

03:31 I was wondering how many time I've got me bite to burn this off.

03:36 How are you doing today mate?

03:37 You're on nearly a third of the way.

03:44 Two minutes.

03:48 My body's starting to see it.

03:50 Anyway plenty of food now what you got pizza doing next up?

03:53 Well just have a little breather.

03:56 This is the best bit.

03:59 The speed's definitely slowing down mate.

04:06 I thought this um maybe a bit easier than the uh

04:09 beastie burger challenge but it's proven quite similar.

04:13 You get to a certain point whenever you're eating you get to a certain point your body starts um

04:17 what you're doing this for.

04:19 I've had enough white lies to eat.

04:20 There's a time when I just pushed through and kept going.

04:25 I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to do it.

04:27 I'll keep going through it to see how much more I can do.

04:30 I've given up just yet.

04:42 I've just not given up just yet.

04:44 It's a tame app.

04:46 You're only halfway through.

04:47 It's not the tame it's the volume that's gonna do is like.

04:51 Maybe part of your body's saying stop eating.

04:55 Yeah.

05:05 Can I eat any more?

05:20 Oh.

05:24 So.

05:37 So.

05:49 You eat more when you're beat.

05:53 No.

05:53 I ain't gonna beat.

05:54 Still got half the time.

05:57 Not the time.

05:58 It's not the time.

06:00 I know for a fact I love you all that.

06:01 I'll be.

06:02 Killed I go like.

06:05 Right I've had to accept defeat.

06:07 I think to keep going.

06:09 I don't think I was gonna make it.

06:10 So to keep going I wouldn't be making myself ill.

06:12 I'd say I've got through two thirds maybe three quarters of the push but.

06:17 There's no I was gonna get through those crusts nowhere.

06:20 And uh what do you got the point was there.

06:22 Just say enough is enough.

06:25 That's two eating challenges I've done now mine failed on two occasions.

06:28 I think it's maybe time to hand over to a new report on these food challenges.

06:33 so I gave it my best shot but the pizza beat us.

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