I received a direct Facebook message Saturday from a friend alerting me to the most astonishing display of British gluttony since the restaurant scene in “The Meaning of Life.”
That’s the 1983 Monty Python film in which an obese character named Mr. Creosote eats a meal that’s gargantuan and explosive. I decline to give you the messy details of that dinner.
My friend messaged me a food video that is fascinating, funny and tempting.
It starts out with two pizzas in a large box and it’s hilarious just how much other stuff the box can hold.
The video is from the Facebook page of Chip Inn, a fast-food restaurant in Nottingham, England, that launched its Mega Beast Box in March. In the box are two 10-inch pizzas, chips, cheese, doner kebab meat, chicken kebab meat, salad, onion rings, chicken nuggets and more than 2,000 calories.
The caption for the video is “these bad boys seem to be popular.” That’s an understatement. The video has more than 13.5 million views.
The Monty Python restaurant scene is all about the grossness of overindulging, but the Nottingham restaurant is all about the goodness of abundance.
Chip Inn also has a 10-inch meat box and a 12-inch meat box, and both are filled with chips, doner kebab, chicken kebab, cheese, sauce, and salad.
I’ve seen two United Kingdom stories about the Mega Beast Box. The Mirror calls it a “belly-busting” meal and The Sun says “customers have crossed the country for a taste of it…with inquiries also arriving from America.”
Many people from the U.S. comment on the Chip Inn Facebook page and this is a typical one: “Will they be opening up here in the US? The way we eat here it’ll definitely be a success.”
Imagine a British Beast Box Invasion of America. It would be The Beatles of Fab Food, but if you really want one or two or three of the boxes, plan a long road trip instead.
“We’ve had lots of people from America asking if we could post them a box,” Chip Inn owner Megann Altinoz told The Sun. “They asked if we could freeze it and send it but I don’t think it would taste very nice by the time it got to its destination.”
The Mega Beast Box costs £20, which is $27, and is sure to put boys and girls and men and women on the Creosote track if they make the whole thing their addiction.
