Could You Eat A Polar Gut-Buster?

Splinter · 07-10-2008 8:44am #1

brothers, i present, the dinner of champions

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A restaurant is offering customers the polar opposite of today's healthy diet - a 6,000 calorie menu inspired by an Antarctic explorer.

A huge steak is the conerstone of the polar diet

The £75 four-course feast is honouring the exploits of adventurer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

He tried, unsuccessfully, to become the first person to reach the South Pole a century ago.

The gut-busting grub includes pork scratchings, a 20oz steak and a thick stew called "hoosh".

This is all washed down with wine, beer and an ice cream shake.

The meal, offered at the Green Door Bar and Grill in London, contains the recommended amount of calories a grown woman should eat in three days.

Shackleton sets off for the Antarctic

It represents the amount that a seven-strong British team hoping to complete Shackleton's failed journey to the South Pole must eat each day to maintain their strength.

Also, £10 from each meal sold will go towards an attempt by descendants of Shackleton and his team to try to complete the mission their ancestors failed back in 1909.

Henry Worsley, leader of the modern-day adventurers, said: "Obviously this isn't a meal for the faint-hearted, but I'm sure there are a few people in the City who'll be up for the challenge."

Twenty-first century diners will eat a modern twist on hoosh that substitutes penguin, which was used by Shackleton and his men, with goose.

The Shackleton 6,000 Calorie Diet
Appetiser
:: Pork scratching with a sticky sweet chilli dip (1,030 cals)
:: Bottle of Stella (242 cals)

Starter
:: Hoosh - a stew, originally prepared by Shackleton over a methylated spirit burner, of goose (as a substitute for penguin), corned beef, oats, potato and seasoning (1,030 cals)
:: Bottle of Stella (242 cals)

Main course
:: 20oz Aberdeen Angus ribeye steak on the bone (1,040 cals)
:: Cauliflower gratin (300 cals)
:: Mushrooms and creamed spinach (300 cals)
:: French fries (200 cals)
:: 250 ml glass of red wine (160 cals)
:: Coke (150 calories)

Dessert
:: Chocolate fondant with two scoops of vanilla ice cream (1,000 cals)
:: Coconut vanilla ice cream shake (500 cals)

Green Door managing director Alexa Reid said: "I've always been a huge fan of Shackleton, and when I heard about the expedition, I thought that this would be a great way to get involved."

Army Lt Col Henry Wormsley, city worker Will Gow, and shipping lawyer Henry Adams will leave on October 29 for the same 900-mile, 80-day route chosen in Shackleton's 1908/1909 Nimrod expedition.

They will meet another four men 97 miles from the South Pole where, on January 9, 1909, their predecessors were forced to turn back in the face of icy blizzards and dwindling rations.