The Elites vs. The Monocellular Organisms: Oh, It’s ON!
July 2nd, 2009A few days ago, 2 of Tony’s 3 kids from Michigan flew in for the summer and we barely had time to catch up before we broke out into a high stakes game of Reality TV-style break neck challenges.
Team one: The Elites
Dalton, Ethan, Addy & Tony (to make it even)

Team two: The Monocellular Organisms
Paige, Teegan and Noah

Tonight’s Challenge: in 10 minutes or less, as a team make a sandwich no bigger than 2″ tall for the other team to eat.
Team MO’s sandwich:
rye bread
peanut butter
jelly
honey
frozen peas
sour cream
pickles
hot sauce
steak sauce
chili & lime almonds
applesauce
town house crackers
Italian dressing
cocktail onions
parmesan cheese
sauerkraut
Team TE’s Sandwich:
rye bread, burnt
honey
coffee grounds
smoked salmon, skin still on
sauerkraut
pickled cauliflower
capers
cocktail onions
sour cream
ketchup
applesauce
pickles
red curry paste
vanilla yogurt
dried apples
uncooked macaroni
Rules of the game: teams could use as many members to eat as they wanted. Both teams basically had two eaters. They had to eat as much as they could in 10 minutes. If the person threw up or spit food out, they were eliminated but their team could continue. If the person threw up or spit out ON the other team, the other team won. You have to cover all your bases
The winner: Team TE, by a landslide. Poor Teegan and Paige, the eaters on Team MO, both almost threw up multiple times. Apparently the salmon was just too much to get beyond. I thought for sure they would win so it was definitely an underdog victory. And in a shocking turn of events, one of Team TE’s members who shall remain nameless for his own protection actually loved the sandwich and ate long after Team TE was eliminated. Wow. I actually have video of the whole thing. Maybe I’ll post it tomorrow. It’s not great: mostly a lot of screaming and me laughing so hard the camera shook. Nice.
The reward: No one but me knows the reward before the teams begin. Sometimes the reward will be totally lame, like a bar of soap. Sometimes they will be awesome, like staying up late or ice cream for dessert. Tonight’s reward was soda pop flavored icees. The winners totally thought it was worth it. I felt bad enough for the losers that I gave them 100% fruit popsicles just for being good sports
Addy got bonus points for sneaking off with the cocktail onions for an after dinner “snack”. gag.
I’m taking requests for other challenges. They don’t all have to be awful but the awful ones are the most humorous for me, keep that in mind! ha!








