Outrageous Food on the Food Network

Tipped off by a small story on our local newspaper's website I rode across Old Town to find a taping of Outrageous Food happening later in the afternoon. I went back at the time posted on the door of Pizza Casbah and found a mini studio set up inside this tiny pizza spot.

Underneath all the lights, wires, microphones and camera were three tables with six people sitting there looking eager and hungry. The challenge was to eat a thirty inch pizza that weighed close to ten pounds in under an hour. Up for the challenge was a team of two tiny girls from Colorado State University, two hippy-looking guys that seemed more eager than hungry and two big guys that came prepared with a training program and elastic waistbands. The three teams got their choice of pizza to eat. The girls went for a veggie(team Veggie), the hippy guys went for a jalapeno/pepperoni(team Spicy) and the big guys went old school with a Hawaiian(team Hawaii). To find out who wins you'll have to wait for the episode to air on the Food Network. I'm not going to say a word about who wins.  You never know if they'll send a black windowless van after me. You might even catch a glimpse of yours truly in the background but I'm not going to hold my breathe. You'll know who I am when you notice a dorky guy hanging out in the corner not knowing what to do besides smile at the camera. Yeah, I was that guy.  At least I wasn't giving someone rabbit ears.

I was torn about bringing my camera to the contest and finally decided not to bring it. I wasn't sure if I could get in with it and I wasn't overly excited about being turned away at the door. Upon my arrival I noticed almost EVERYONE had a camera of some sort. Not wanting to waste the moment I reached for my only option left. The attached pictures are from the amazingly awesome .5 megapixel camera on my phone.