So the bet is...

[flannj]

It's Friday, the markets are slow and everybody is bored.
The bet is that a clerk on the CBOT floor will eat 21 McDonalds single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.
There is at least 10K riding so far.
Starts at noon.

This kid easily ate 60 Mcnuggets in 12 minutes last go around.
And then ate a beef sandwich for his lunch.

[Chuck to Chuck]

[flannj]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

[Quality Start Machine]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

Is there a no-puke clause?

[PenPho]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

$10K seems like very significant motivation for some kid on the trading floor, but that's 32 seconds a hamburger for 22 straight...I'm taking "no" on this one.

[morpheus]

So, did he do it?

[flannj]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

Is there a no-puke clause?

No puking allowed.

Start time pushed back till 12:30

The kid doesn't get the 10K. The betting is being done between others.
Our desk has already brokered bets from London, San Francisco and New York.

[PenPho]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

Is there a no-puke clause?

No puking allowed.

Start time pushed back till 12:30

The kid doesn't get the 10K. The betting is being done between others.
Our desk has already brokered bets from London, San Francisco and New York.

Wait...does the kid get anything other than 22 cheeseburgers?

[flannj]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

Is there a no-puke clause?

No puking allowed.

Start time pushed back till 12:30

The kid doesn't get the 10K. The betting is being done between others.
Our desk has already brokered bets from London, San Francisco and New York.

Wait...does the kid get anything other than 22 cheeseburgers?

One of the large local traders is covering the vast majority (at least 7K) of the bets saying he can do it. The kid will get a piece of that.

[flannj]

6 down in 3:45
9 down in 5 min
11 down in 9 min.

It's not gonna happen!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foods-from-mcdonalds/6223/2

1 cheeseburger: 119g

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fast-foods-generic/9336/2

10-piece McNuggets: 159g

So ~7.48 nuggets to the cheeseburger

22 cheeseburgers = 164.65 nuggets

[flannj]

Final: 11.5

[PenPho]

The bet is now 22 single cheeseburgers in 12 minutes.

Is there a no-puke clause?

No puking allowed.

Start time pushed back till 12:30

The kid doesn't get the 10K. The betting is being done between others.
Our desk has already brokered bets from London, San Francisco and New York.

Wait...does the kid get anything other than 22 cheeseburgers?

One of the large local traders is covering the vast majority (at least 7K) of the bets saying he can do it. The kid will get a piece of that.

[Bort]

So, by my calculations, he ate ~86 nuggets worth of mass. Still pretty impressive.

[flannj]

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foods-from-mcdonalds/6223/2

1 cheeseburger: 119g

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fast-foods-generic/9336/2

10-piece McNuggets: 159g

So ~7.48 nuggets to the cheeseburger

22 cheeseburgers = 164.65 nuggets

I wish I knew this 30 minutes ago.
We would have shorted this trade a lot more than we did.