The Gallon Challenge (sites
here and
here, along with many
others) is one of the dumbest, but most entertaining wastes of times invented by bored high school boys with video cameras and waaay too much time one their hands. If you haven't heard of this lovely game, The Gallon Challenge dares you to drink an entire gallon of milk in one sitting in one hour. Many have tried, and most have failed. Even for those who get it all down, it's coming back up just as quickly. But why? Is it really impossible?
Milk has lactose which is digested in our bodies by an enzyme called lactase. The amount of these enzymes varies person to person, and for those with a very low amount, they are labeled as being lactose intolerant. Even with a high amount of lactase, humans can only digest so much dairy at a time. This is why the gallon challenge is next to impossible- your body just can't break down the lactose quick enough to allow to be digested and stored away, which results in rejection, aka: involuntary puking.
A way to test how much milk you can take in a sitting is try drinking small portions of milk then building up to higher amounts in a short time. When you start feeling gassy or sick, that is your lactose limit. For people with a lower tolerance to dairy, symptoms can be a lot worse than just a quick trip to the bathroom, so knowing your limit is a good way to avoid a night on the toilet.
Have you or anyone you know ever tried The Gallon Challenge? Could you drink a gallon of a different liquid in under an hour and keep it down?
Comments (46)
Wasteful and stupid.Â
I'm gonna do that, as soon as I finish my pizza.
My boyfriend can do it. But thats freakin' nasty.
It's not only the lactose in milk, it's the amount of liquid as well. The human stomach isn't meant to hold that much at once. And when a person drinks more when the stomach is already full, there's only one place for it to go... back out the way it came in.
People around the world are starving, and morons are playing games with food (essentially wasting it).
Humans are stupid.
Drink a gallon straight out of a cow, then I'll be impressed.
I have trouble getting one glass of milk down. No way I would try the gallon.
I don't drink cow's milk anymore.
lol.. this is by far the stupidest challenge i've heard. let's drink as much milk as possible until you puke your guts out.. GREAT..i'll do that!
lol, I didn't know about the gallon challenge 'til now. I had two guys come in the store with their friends and they had a gallon challenge in the parking lot. I guess no one puked because the parking lot was clean in the morning xD.
Guys in the freshman dorm here love to do that. It's some big initiation ceremony that occurs randomly in the middle of the night.... older guys line the halls with tarps and make the freshmen go at it.
Personally, I think it's wasteful and stupid.
I could do a gallon of water, or tea but nothing much beyond that...
I'm lactose intolerant.
i hate milk, but we do a milk mile every year in cross... you chug a glass of milk, run a quarter mile, chug another, etc.
I could drink a gallon of water or green tea and keep it down. Not milk though, I get headaches if I drink more than two cups of it.
My brother tried it and failed. And he eats alot and drinks a lot of milk.
There's also the cinnamon challenge and capri sun challenge.
@psykoaznballa@xanga - Haha, I have done the cinnamon one before. I didn't realize it would make you vomit at the time... ohh, live and learn.
I would certainly be very sick. After having been vegan for two years, I accidentally drank a coffee drink with cow's milk in it. It was actually in a powdered form. And I felt like utter shit, totally nauseous all night. I would probably be puking for at least the next twenty-four hours. Now, I might be able to take down a gallon of soy milk or maybe coffee, but neither of those seem like a good idea. I wouldn't want to drink that much at once either way, but if I drank a gallon of coffee in an hour I'd probably have a heart attack :/ either way, stupid idea. Not that I probably wouldn't watch someone try. I have a friend who probably could do it. Not sure if it would stay down.
Ha, I could never do that, nor do I want to. x__x
well shit, i am one for three on attempting the gallon challenge and, i gotta say, it was much more fun in my two failing efforts than it was when i succeeded. good googly moogley. deets deets, this is about to be a post...
Is chocolate milk allowed?
I hate milk, it makes my stomach hurt.
But this reminds me of a recent challenge I had to sit through. Power Hour: a shot of beer every minute. My boyfriend and our friend failed because we ran out of beer. Entertaining, but doing it with 211... as gross as milk :3
Digusting & pointless...period.
That is pure ignorance. I've never tried that, I'm never going to. It's a challenge to see how dumb somebody can be, so that's not too appealing to me.