“Nae bother”

“A could dae that!”

“90 minutes? Pffft!”

… just some of the things that go through your mind and everyone else’s when the Toni Pizza Challenge is mentioned.

A friend and I took on this monster at 3pm today.

Here it is being made… or doesn’t even fit on the ruddy worktop!

Salvador Dali Special to sit in, please!

Contenders, ready!?

A photo posted by @tonispizzeria on Jul 3, 2016 at 7:28am PDT

The challenge is to finish a whole pizza to yourself, but seeing how it is a small place, they only had room for one at a time. We were to finish a half each then bring out the next one to walk to victory!

My strategy was: as soon as the clock started ticking… just go for. Simple and logical one really!

This worked immeasurably well (Toni said so!). All Those years of greed finally paying off! I got half (of my first half) down in 10 minutes. Up to this point the pizza was delicious. But that was before the regret made an appearance.

Shortly after the 10 minute mark, the pizza cooled down below the point of the “enjoyable mozzarella zone” and became thicker, and harder to quaff.

This was the turning point. After this, the end goal kept looking back at us and laughing like we were a right couple of inexperienced food challenge competitive eaters…. fair enough, then.

After 25 minutes I had my half completely down except half the crusts. This is when we were asked if we wanted the other pizza made up and cooked for us. Delirious with joy that the other pizza was not being cooked for us, we bowed out of the second one and I finished the crusts of my remaining cold slab of failure.

David managed to eat half of his half and got the rest boxed up to take home… I don’t know why, because I wouldn’t be able to look that thing in the face again.

A painful and slow drive home then we said our goodbyes and decided to never speak of this event again!

All in all, a great day out.

Cheers Toni’s Pizzeria!

I took a “before” picture and I got my camera out to take an “after” picture. I even pointed the thing at the empty table and I believe I took the “after” shot, but my phone doesn’t seem to agree. The pizza must have got to my head and caused me to hallucinate some post-challenge photography. Sorry about that.

p.s. according to the staff, I apparently managed more than what most people could manage. I ate the equivalent of two 16″ pizzas. So that’s something to take away from this because I certainly wouldn’t be taking any of their pizza away any time soon… regardless of how delicious is really is!