If you watch Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, you might have seen the “Fire in your Hole” wings challenge episode he miserably failed at.

That challenge took place at Munchies 420 Cafe in Sarasota and ever since Dave and I saw that episode, we’ve been dying to get Dave’s friend Lou to do the wing challenge. He’s done a few food challenges in the past and is proud of his glutton status… and can definitely handle the hot stuff. I’ve seen this guy eat wings that the smell alone made my eyes water. We knew he’d be up for this.

We called Munchies just to make sure they open and still did the challenge. Then drove an hour and a half to Sarasota (we didn’t have anything else to do). We get there, Lou orders the wings and they tell us they are all out of the sauce. You think they could have mentioned that to Dave when he said “I have a fat ass that wants to do your wing challenge” (that’s really what he said) on the phone. I guessed it slipped their stoner minds.

So we figured since we drove all that way, we might as well eat something. Besides the Fire in your Hole challenge, Munchies is known for their enormous sandwiches loaded with all kinds of weird shit. We each ordered one. Mine had steak, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, and french fries on it topped with onions and peppers. Talk about blowing any diet I was on.

It was ok for the first couple bites, but after that not so much. With every additional bite I kept asking myself “why the hell am I eating this?” It wasn’t anything spectacular…in fact it was loaded with the exact same crap you could buy in the freezer section at a grocery store, so I was pretty surprised that the food here was on the list of Travel Channel’s best places to eat.

All in all, the night was a bit disappointing. I didn’t get to watch Lou battle hot wings and drove and hour and a half to eat sub par food. We all said we’d go back, but only to watch the wing challenge. That is, if they ever get the sauce!

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