Last week me and two mates went to Mario’s Cafe in Bolton to take on the Big Breakfast challenge! In the Big Breakfast challenge you get 20 minutes to eat 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 10 slices of toast, five black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans, oh and no drinks for the 20 minutes allowed. All for £10.95 (which I think is a bargain).
The breakfast is world record holding. When we where there the cafe owner told us only one person has ever finished it in the time period, so don’t be thinking this is easy!
If your wanting to go, you have to ring up two days before to book yourselves in and the most they will serve is 3 at a time so bear that in mind. Contact Details:
Mario’s Cafe
67 Market Street, Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3AG
01942 813 287
Tactics
The breakfast comes on a tray, not a plate a tray! The thing I struggled with the most was the toast. How the hell do you eat a giant breakfast AND ten pieces of toast. One tactic is to make breakfast sandwiches out of the food mixing the toast with the food (which a friend tried and failed). I decided to eat two pieces at the beginning, concentrate on the food then hopefully finish the toast afterwards… bad idea! Leaving the toast till the end lets it go cold and hard and it chews and chews and chews.
Yes I didn’t manage to finish but I really enjoyed the challenge, I finished with 3 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausage … and 7.5 pieces of toast left, a meal in it self! My tactic to get me that far was to pair beans, tomatoes or mushrooms with every bite keep it nice and juicy. I ate each black pudding in two bites, ate each bacon in 3 (tail first, then split the rest into two). Also the eggs split into 3. The sausage also went down in 3-4 pieces.
I highly advise you give it a go, just to say you have! It’s 20 minutes drive from Liverpool or Manchester and is picked up on the SatNav. If you do go after reading this please leave a comment with how you got on!
For the rest of my photo’s from the trip see here: Big Breakfast Challenge Photo Album
