We just got back from an impromptu expedition to the closest Sonic to Center City that could find. That’s our friend Beto at right, with the Sonic Coney Island Hotdog. Thank your lucky stars that we didn’t take a close-up — it was total “This Is Why You’re Fat” material. Anyway, as always happens on trips like this, the conversation naturally turned to Meat Sweats, defined by Urban Dictionary as follows:

“Refers to an intense build up of perspiration as a result of the excess consumption of meat or meat related products.”

And while we found plenty of instances of the term on a Google search — the condition seems to be much-lamented in the world of competitive heating — scientific information on the meat sweats seems to be scant. Personally, we’ve only witnessed one in-the-flesh case of the Meat Sweats; it was last summer, and while the patient was clearly suffering, we could offer no certainty as to wither the patient was actually suffering from an overconsumption of meat products and not the fifth of whiskey and pile of substances we knew him to consume the previous evening. So what gives, then? Have any of you out there in CommentLand a case study to proffer? If so, please leave it in the comments. Here at Phoodie.info, we like to tackle the big questions.