At the Fat Boys cafe in the UK’s town of Thorton Heath, owner Farouk Hassanein has devised “a 4,500 calorie behemoth containing a packet of bacon, two jumbo sausages, two eggs, tins of beans, mushrooms and tomatoes and a fried slice.”

Writer Harry Miller took on the mammoth breakfast and reported his valiant defeat in the Epsom Guardian. Read the article.