Dear Zulk can help you.

There's this guy who hangs out at my apartment a lot who refers to himself as my boyfriend. This guy really likes bacon, as he should, because it's delicious. However, I think he likes bacon a little too much because one day, he came up with the declaration that he could eat a lot of bacon at once. I mean a lot. Forty pieces, to be exact.

The following conversation went something like this:

"No you couldn't."

"Yes I can."

"No."

"Yes."

"Forty pieces?"

"Yeah!"

"We're talking 40 slices of bacon, not, like, pieces of slices of bacon."

"Wait, like, the kind you get in a pack, right?"

"Right."

"Yeah, I can do that."

"Shut up! Wouldn't you get grossed out?"

"Mmmm."

This fact remains to be proven, although after this debate, I recalled a lofty claim I once made several years ago. I was on a canoe trip and to pass the time, we played a game wherein we predicted how much we could eat, and I resolved that I could put away (at one time) 3 boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

So who am I to decimate the hopes and dreams of one person to eat a large quantity of food in one sitting?

Anyway, I know I just did this last week, where I ask people to write in, but tell me...what can you eat 40 of? And don't chicken out and say that you can eat 40 potato chips or 40 jelly beans or something. 40 pieces of sushi? 40 fun-sized Snickers bars? Don't forget, this is all in one sitting, not over a week or a day or something.

For the record, my response was that I could eat 40 spoonfulls (normal-sized spoons, not, like, serving spoons) of Nutella. Perhaps one day we can all have a party and sit down and eat huge quantities of food, and then throw up together. And then dance, dance, dance!