Jackson Free Press

I saw this challenge today on Good Morning America and had to try it. (Thank goodness I was by myself.) Anyway, the challenge is to chew and completely swallow six saltines in one minute without drinking anything to wash it down.

I shoved the first cracker into my mouth, chewed it up and swallowed it, and I thought to myself, Hey, this isn't so bad. The second cracker was a little harder to get down because I had less saliva in my mouth, but I still had hope. My troubles began at cracker number three. My mouth was completely dry, and the cracker turned into a big ball of dough that I couldn't swallow. I looked at the clock and saw that I had fifteen seconds left, so I hastily shoved the fourth cracker into my mouth, but all that did was create a bigger ball of dough. I failed miserably. Of course, as soon as I took a swig of water, I was able to swallow the remaining cracker goo in my mouth.

You can see this challenge tonight on the show "Food Detectives" on Food Network at 8 PM CDT.

Previous Comments

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132591

Comment

I'll have to try this one.

Author

Ironghost

Date

2008-07-29T16:33:10-06:00

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132607

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Let me know how it goes, Iron. They did not show the cracker segment on the show tonight, but if you read the article I linked to, you'll see that none of the participants were able to eat six saltines. One of them even crumbled the crackers up first. Amazing, huh?

Author

LatashaWillis

Date

2008-07-29T19:53:39-06:00

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132626

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Surely as a young boy stealing crackers, cake, tea cakes and other foods from my grandmothers, aunts and parents; I ate more than 5 saltines in one minute without any water. I think I even ate more weiners than that in one minute on one occasion. I darn near choked to death as a result of that. I learned to hide food in my pockets after that for later eating. To top it off, I couldn't ever remember stealing the food upon being querried about it. Good thing I couldn't remember else I'd have been tempted to lie. It's funny how memory returns for some of us as we age and our loves ones get to old to punish.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-07-30T12:34:45-06:00