Joseppiās Mega-Meat Challenge is a fifty dollar pizza. The pie is a whopping 28 inches in diameter, and covered in a heady mix of pepperoni, sauasage, ham, gound beef and bacon. Bargain binger alert: if you and a pal can finish it off within sixty minutes, the pizza is free and you become immortal.
Well, maybe not immortal. In fact, finishing all that pizza might actually take a few years off your life. But, it’s totally worth it for bragging rights, a t-shirt and few other nice prizes.
In any case, start training for this one right now. The practices are way more fun than say, the tedium of marathon running or the stress of swimming laps. In this case, you can warm up with the same Mega Meat pizza in a smaller size.
Mini-sized at 11ā ($14.99), it doesnāt actually look all that deadly. Itās not a tower of toppings. Itās about the height of any pizza. In fact, Joseppiās Mega Meat pizza is even kind of pretty ā especially for something thatās topped only in meat. Itās an even landscape, constructed via careful layering that places the pepperoni and ham on the bottom (actually, ours had salami on it too), then cheese, then a uniform landscape of bacon and ground meats all mixed together.
And the taste? It makes you WANT to eat ad nauseam (āunto nauseaā: yes, please). Part of this drive comes courtesy a sweet tomato sauce. The sweet sauce teamed with piles of savory, cured meats fairly screams EAT ME.
One of the nice things about this particular form of wretched excess is that Joseppiās has actually won several pizza making contests on a local and national stage – it gives a classy angle to overeating.
Joseppi’s has four locations in the area. You can find the closest one here: www.joseppispizza.com. While you can get a Mega Meat pizza any day of the week, call ahead if you’re planning on doing the challenge; it’s an opportunity that’s available only on certain days of the week.
Remember, the only failure is a failure to try.
Photo by Walker Evans.