Recession Bargain or Fool's Challenge?

A Big Dessert

That might be a great way to start your day, but to end it consider the Dare to be Great Sundae served at The Parlour in Jackson, Mich.

It's 21 scoops of ice cream plus chocolate syrup, pineapples, strawberries, marshmallows, chopped nuts and whipped cream and, of course, cherries.

Wow, that's a lot of dessert.

"And our scoops are really big, they're like baseball sized," said general manager Elaine Strader.

The Dare to be Great Sundae at The Parlour in Jackson, Mich.

Eat it by yourself in an hour and it's free. Only one or two people a year succeed. The rest have to pay $29.99. Winners and losers get their names on a board. There are a lot more names under the attempt column than the success column.

"It's a very an elite group," Strader said. "I've personally never seen anybody try it twice."

Attempting the sundae challenge is about pride more than anything else. Strader said that most of the challengers tend to be teenage males.