Man vs. Food

Metromix heads off in search of the area's most outrageous eating challenges

Joe Doyle

Special to Metromix
April 28, 2009

Man vs. Food
Hillbilly’s five pound hamburger (Credit: Hillbilly’s Restaurant & Saloon)
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Food, food... and more food. There are some great restaurants around town, and some of them offer heaping helpings of homemade goodness. Then there are the really ridiculous spots. Three local restaurants—Iron Barley, Crown Candy and Pappy's—were recently featured on Man vs. Food on the Travel Channel. We stopped by two of these places for this story - but there are many more crazy eating challenges around town.

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kramer from CWE - St. Louis - April 29, 2009 at 11:19 PM

Good Lord! That burger and anyone who attempts to eat it has to be a little insane. I have considered a run at the pointasaurus challenge, but ev...

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