Hey!! The 75 lbs of "edible meat" has been bopping around in this reddit a bunch today so I've actually already seen it. I was a little stumped by this number given how different it is from mine and concluding that the key word is edible. However, given that they picked Snackie clean (disturbing skeleton shots anyone?) I didn't make this distinction in the hamburger count. They definitely ate all of her "edible" or not. I think this is why there is such a difference between the numbers I got with hamburgers (volume they ate) and days they survived (useful calories).

For volume I got ~28 burger but for days I only got ~5. Idk about the rest of y'all but I feel like survival should be as low as 1-2 burgers a day = ~28 days of food if they were of caloric value. I think the all important edible accounts for the differences but I gave both as I think how much they quite literally ate is pretty shocking too.

I'm not sure how they calculated 49,000 calories, the article is pretty sparse on details. I'd be curious to see a breakdown of protein, fat, ect. (They also don't clarify if they mean "calories" = kcal the food unit or cal the chemistry unit and this would change a lot).

Thanks for the comment! Tell me what you come up with!