Travel & Food - CANADA'S 'HEAVYWEIGHT PLATTER' CHALLENGE HAS ONLY BEEN CONQUERED ONCE!

All right, I'm down the pub tonight. Yeah, more specifically the Oasis Pub in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The oldest pub in the whole city. And I'm doing this today. The heavyweight challenge. 5.5 pounds of deep fried goodness. That's what it says on the menu. 75 bucks. 30 minutes. We've got a pound and a half of chicken wings. We've got a pound of pepperoni. We've got a pound of onion rings. And we have a pound of matcha sticks. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness is right. Enjoy, good luck. Thank you very much. It's a lot of fried food. Is there a hospital near here? Yes, there is. Two. The oldest tavern in Halifax. Cool. And it was the first place that they allowed women to attend unaccompanied by a man. Yep. Which is very progressive. This is the heavyweight platter challenge. And it's just a bunch of deep fried bar snacks pretty much, right? 30 minutes. And if you can finish it, the meal is free. If you can finish it, it's free. Do you know how many people have attempted? Lots. Only one person has been able to finish it. Everyone else failed dramatically. Three, two, one. Yeah, well, that usually is the case, statistically speaking. Understandable, since the pepperoni alone could impact even the healthiest of colons for a good few days. Yeah, don't eat that mate. What's up everyone, welcome back to another episode. Today, or actually tonight I should say, it's the heavyweight challenge at Oasis Pub and Grill in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. A pub so dark, I briefly considered shooting this whole thing with a night vision camera. I don't think I've ever eaten this much pepperoni ever. I'm not sure I've ever eaten pepperoni not on a pizza, come to think of it. Oh my god, thank you. Indeed, that's a true Nova Scotian right there if ever I've seen one polite and practically entombed in about six layers of clothing. Looks like we got some ancillary sauce on route. Here's where it started being just in case. Oh. You don't have to finish the sauce. That's a bonus. This pepperoni is kicking my butt. No, I don't think the pepperoni is ever going to be gone. Stop being such a baby. Supposed to be a challenge, damn it. I mean, it is an objectionable pile of sausage though, it's got to be said. Thank the good dude, we got plenty of sauce on hand. I think that's my recommended decade's allowance of pepperoni just about done. Yeah, I think we may have about quadrupled our risk of colon cancer in the space of five minutes there. Fortunately, we have some fibre rich deep fried shafts of white potato to chase it all down. I think that's the last of the pepperoni. Chicken wings. See that? That's professional technique. Yeah, that is, of course, grade A British sarcasm. Nothing professional about what's happening here. What's been airdropped next? Napkins, I think? Napkins. Oh, yeah. This is unheard of. The wings are coming off perfectly every time. You got any fancy drinks here? What kind? Oh, um, anything that's not too strong and a little fruity. That is an interesting spec. The kind of thing that I'm sure would make the eyeballs of even the most stoic bartenders roll back in their very sockets. I was tempted to go with a pina colada, should be told, but the combination of heavy cream and deep fried bar snacks is at best unwise. Eleven. Ooh. Thank you very much. Was that you doing like a British accent there? It sounded like when you said Diet Coke, it sounded like you were doing a British accent. Thank you very much. It looks pretty fruity. If the Diet Coke doesn't quite get it done, I'm sure that whatever this is will cut through the grease like, I don't know, an overpriced, relentlessly advertised dish soap. What's the, uh, what's the cocktail? A Shirley Temple. What next? Probably the chips. Fries, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, although I think not unlike Americans, Canadians only really use the word chips in that particular context. Fish and chips. I don't even know what I'm dipping into here. I should have brought some doner sauce. It's almost a religion, right? Yeah, like a, I don't know, a creamy sacramental wine. They slap it on everything out here. Not that I can blame them. Lovely stuff. In case you missed it, this thing costs 75 Canadian dollars if you lose. Everything has to be finished within half an hour and you can have as much and as many different sauces as you like. You don't need to finish the sauce though. It is purely optional but, uh, necessary I would say. These are almost like Five Guys fries, which is a compliment. I like Five Guys fries. Halfway. 15 minutes. Onion rings. They've got a good crunch. They're not wrong, they're good. Yeah, I have to say when this thing landed, I did not expect the following 30 minutes to be quite as enjoyable a culinary experience as it turned out to be. But the onion rings were perfect. In case you wanted to play around with more sauces, here's some doner sauce too. That is doner sauce? Doner sauce, yeah. This is sort of like a brown doner sauce. Yeah, we can't get this in England anyway. I need a recipe. You're giving a secret recipe? Oh, this is delicious. Try some of this yellow stuff. Thank you. This is almost like jelly. It's good though. Hey, you're doing good, man. Nice. Well, thank you. Try it. Wait, I better get a move on. Yeah, you're making a bit of a meal out of this one, Sonny Jim. I'm not used to eating this late, that's my excuse. Much more of a morning person, if I'm honest. Pretty much just the cheese sticks left though. I reckon we're still on track for victory. Chef, the food tastes delicious. There are a few pesky pieces of pepperoni left. That's a tongue twister. I never want to see another pepperoni again. I mean, it's good pepperoni, there was just a lot of it. Yeah? It's quite a historic town, really. There are a lot of interesting things about it. City, sorry, not town. This is definitely better than British Halifax. Starting to get a little full. These things are thicker than expected. Yeah, but I mean, that's not a complaint. You can never have too much fried cheese, if you ask me. That cocktail's going down a treat. 24 minutes? This is taking a while. I'm feeling it now. Yeah, the phlegmy cough's a dead giveaway. Special thanks, too, to the man there right in frame. Without his undeterred support, I think I would have been much worse off. Let's have some more of this stuff. This is fruity mustard. It was good. Boy, sure it was. Just the two cheese sticks stand between me and victory now, and an unexpectedly pleasant one it was. Hope you enjoyed it. I know I did. And as always, I'll catch you in the next one. Can't waste any of this Doner sauce. All right, this is baby's food. And that was Oasis Pub's Heavyweight Platter Challenge. That took a while. That was a lot of food, though. I guess you don't have desserts here. We have the vending machines. I'll get a chocolate bar from the vending machine, yeah. Oh, we got some Madonna on now. Madonna, Shirley Temple, whoa. It's a great song. Oh, they actually spell it like the German word, wunderbar. I've had one of these. Try it. Oh, I'm not sure about that one. I don't think I like it. An honorary member of the pool team. They should be thankful that it is just an honorary member. Much better at mastication than I am billiards. Oh, I can't leave the Shirley Temple. Ah, yummy. Let's get out of here. Oh, you too, man. It's really nice to meet you. What a day. You got it. Are you happy with your beer? Yeah, that's good. It is? Oh, my life is complete. It looks good. I don't know what it tastes like. It looks good.