Cool Hand Luke can eat six saltines in a minute

Sister food blog The Daily Fork evidently watches much more basketball than I do because I completely missed this challenge two nights ago of Charles Barkley trying to eat a piece of white bread in 30 seconds.

Having never heard of the white bread challenge I found an old bag of Wonder at my house (does that ever go bad?) and tried the challenge. Sure enough, I failed miserably. I tried again with a slice of wheat bread and the same result — bread by itself is like quick-setting concrete.

The Daily Fork took the challenge as a starting point to list three infamous food challenges and I’m proud to say I’ve failed two of them.