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Samosa is a crunchy fried snack popular in North Indian cuisine. Samosas are made of all-purpose flour, potatoes, and spices. In Meerut Kurti Bazar, a shop owner named Shubham has prepared a samosa that weighs 8 Kg and the catch is to eat it within 30 minutes. On winning this challenge, Rs 51000 will be awarded as a cash prize. The food bloggers are seeming exhilarated over this challenge of Bahubali samosa.
The filling inside this samosa consists of dry fruits, vegetables, and cottage cheese which costs around 1100 rs.
I had been wanting to do something different to bring the samosa into the news. We decided to make a ‘Bahubali’ samosa. We began by making a four-kg samosa and then the eight-kilogram samosa.
Shubham, shop owner in Kurti Bazar Merut
He revealed that one person was successful in completing the challenge, and they are planning on preparing a 10 kg samosa.
All this can be seen as a gimmick to gain customers and popularity. These days, all these food challenges have become a fad and are being used by people to gain customers.
Consuming this huge amount of food in a single sitting doesn’t only affect the digestive system, but also the whole body. Eating such an insane amount of food at a single time can cause a person’s stomach to stretch out so as to adjust the food.
Food challenges involve continuously drinking water to help the compress and get it going down faster, and this can lead to water intoxication. This can lead to a situation where there is so much water in the body that the concentration of all the other essential components such as sodium, drops down and can be fatal.
Along with this, frequently getting into food challenges and chronic overeating of fried food can cause cardiovascular disorders and increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. So are these food challenges really worth it?
