Only 5 people have ever finished this nearly 4-pound South Texas taco

Chachos Tacos in Corpus Christi challenges customers to eat a nearly 4-pound taco in 10 minutes. Chachos Tacos in Corpus Christi challenges customers to eat a nearly 4-pound taco in 10 minutes. Photo: Norma Toro Photo: Norma Toro Image 1 of / 102 Caption Close Only 5 people have ever finished this nearly 4-pound South Texas taco 1 / 102 Back to Gallery

If life with tacos wasn't scrumptiously spectacular enough, a Tex-Mex joint in Corpus Christi challenges customers to eat a nearly 4-pound bundle of homemade tortilla, beans, cheese, carne guisada, egg, potatoes and bacon.

Chachos Tacos, at 3700Ayers St., propositions its bravest foodies to tackle the All-Mighty Chacho's Taco Challenge in 10 minutes. The chomp champ wins a T-shirt, spot on the hall-of-fame, bragging rights and probably some feelings of self-loathing and lethargy. Of course, they also don't have to pay for the $9.99 taco.

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Owner Mary Gutierrez told mySA.com she has never finished the behemoth taco, but five customers in the restaurant's 18 years have. Norma Jean Toro, a Corpus Christi transplant living in Austin, isn't one of those people. She shared the taco with her husband because she wasn't contending to win a title, but she inadvertently won on social media.

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A photo of Toro noshing on the giant Chachos Taco has been circulating throughout South Texas in recent days, but she said it's actually a year-old Facebook post she shared from the "memories" feature. She never expected it to rack up 2,000 shares. "(The shares) kept going and going and I'm like 'what the hell,'" she joked.

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Toro said she savored the taco, rather than gobbling it up in 10 minutes. The 14-inch tortilla earned Toro's foodie fondness the most. "That tortilla, oh my god," she said. "The tortilla is homemade and so big, I don't know how they get it so big."

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