One of our summer students from the trading floor is on his last day today. He earned fame and notoriety, and the rest of the firm actually knowing his name, by taking a bet with our trading floor early in his career about eating a flat (33 cookies) of Chunks Ahoy cookies in under some pre set time limit designed to impress. He got to only 32 with the aid of a blender, but went down with pride.
In commemoration of this last day, corporate finance was teeing off on a bet with someone to eat a Mondo Burrito a day for an entire month, with a good book of odds built... when we received an email from the trading floor...
... where simultaneously a "nugget off" was happening. A new-ish guy and a brand new guy were eating as many chicken mcnuggets as possible in 30 minutes for what amounted to be a sizeable prize pot. A desk of nuggets, dip and water were present, as were garbage cans. Throwing up is ejection... err... from the contest of course. It's good this is after market close - but a sprint finish earned someone the pot.
Suffice to say, winning a nugget eating contest by a margin of 42 to 37 does not at all sound like victory 5 minutes afterwards in the washroom... good god. I think the victory here is new guy taking on the the tough bet and coming out on top... way to mark an entrance to the firm.
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