A Canadian YouTube star known for his competitive eating challenges has smashed not one but two of the Dalby Café’s famous mega-breakfasts – both in record time!
Joel Hansen, who has also done some model work in the past, shocked Dalby Café owner Mark Ezekiel when he became the first person to conquer the challenge since Libertines’ star Pete Doherty in 2018 – and then the first ever to tuck into a second mega breakfast and clear the plate!
The mega breakfast consists of 4 eggs, 4 bacon, 4 sausages, quarter pound beef burger, hash browns, mushrooms, chips, onion rings, bubble and squeak, beans or tomatoes, 2 slices of bread and a mug of tea or coffee.
The challenge is to clear the plate – which includes a kilo and a half of chips- in under 20 minutes. The prize is a waiver of the £30 cost. In the last 20+ years that the challenge has been running at the Dalby around 11 people have cleared one plate out of the thousands who have tried.
Joel cleared the first plate in 12 minutes 13 seconds, even downing most of a second cup of tea.
Then he shocked Mark by popping into the kitchen to say his plate was empty and he was awaiting the second breakfast.
Mark was so sure the second round would defeat the Canadian that a £2000 wager was made!
Amazingly, Joel demolished mega breakfast number two in 15 minutes 30 – even adding two cans of fizzy drink and literally drinking vinegar with his chips as he went.
The 29-year-old, who is around 5’11 and of slim build, tasted bubble and squeak for the first time – deciding it was ‘ok’ – but said he would have liked some black pudding on the plate too.
He said: “From my recollection, the eggs were an amazing quality and the bacon, sausages, and bread were delectable as well. Plus, I love some English mustard along with the beans, etc..
“It’s an English breakfast so combining them all together definitely is a good taste.
“The day prior I did a massive burger challenge in Maidstone, which featured 16 burgers. The video is available on my channel to watch.
“It is a lot of food and I do not recommend anybody over indulging or attempting anything I do in my videos. They are done exclusively for entertainment purposes only!”
Joel stayed at the Old Town House in Margate the night before and took a quick tour around the Old Town, seafront and College Square on the morning of his challenge.
Despite being slapped with a parking ticket he said the town was “cute, quaint and charismatic,” although he was not so keen on the wake-up call from the seagulls!
Mark, who came up with the mega breakfast challenge the year before Man vs Food hit TV screens, says the YouTube star even managed to eat in a “graceful” style with little mess.
He added: “I was truly astonished, I really couldn’t believe it!
“He had a 6-7 hour drive ahead of him and I offered him a chance to go back to hotel and relax. He was doing another challenge in the UK.
“He said he was fine and felt he could of done two and a half breakfasts! Crazy! He explained that he eats lean in between his video tours. It is like someone who runs one hundred marathons and then stops for 6 months, they’d soon be able to run the marathons quicker than the next person.
“If he didn’t film it , you wouldn’t believe, he made it look so easy!
“He said he does a strict training regime to keep the weight off.
“I’m hoping now that a female competitive eater will give it a go as we have never had a female complete it.”
At the end of his double breakfast Joel asked if there was dessert….
Find videos of Joel’s challenges on Youtube: Joel Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/@JoelHansen
The Dalby Café in Dalby Road, Cliftonville, is one of Margate’s oldest, opening just after the Second World War in 1946.
It is steeped in history, with the seating from old Margate trams and still sporting the original formica tables.
Find the cafe on facebook here
And on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/dalbycafe/
“a youtube star”.
How come he’s so comparatively thin? I’d love to know his diet.
Eat so fast that your system doesn’t have time to assimilate it. You’re welcome!
“A nobody does something completely pointless for online adulation”.
He cheated, as he left one baked bean on the side of the first platter, clearly visible; and he should have licked the platter clean or wiped it with the bread. It looked increasingly disgusting as it went on, especially his burping: but at least it’s the local culture as you hear burpers in the street each day.
Youtube star? Youtube Joke more like.
This place has got nothing on Fatties Towers!
The guy has over a million subscribers on YT and 600,000 people have watched the Dalby video.. he’s also been doing it for 8 years from the looks of things.
So it’s safe to assume he’s pretty successful and rather popular…unlike most of the previous correspondents.
Maybe if he self-published a book of pervy photos that no one reads he would satisfy the arch-boron’s criteria for content creation?
I’d rather be known for my (highly-acclaimed) books on The Tremeloes and The Dave Clark Five than for over-eating, much as it may appeal more to the average person in Thanet.
More to the point, Jason, what are you known for? Would love to check out your books/videos/photos/arts/etc. Looking forward to you posting a link.
And don’t forget being know for your book of photos of naked ladies of thanet.
BOOKS of naked ladies of Thanet. Plural.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Peter-Checksfield/author/B07FW8BS1M
Mark is a lovely bloke and has worked hard to make the cafe a success. Lovely to see this. Hopefully brings him some extra business.
Ridiculous amount of food and drink to nail! Fair play.
It looks like a dreadful and pointless waste of food. It also looks very unhealthy.