“Quite frankly, I can’t believe people can actually eat it,” said café owner and Hibernator mastermind Taylor Montigny.

The Hibernator is the size of four breakfasts. It includes a Sylvia’s scrambler (two scrambled eggs served with cheese and your choice of vegetables, bacon, ham or sausage), topped with corned beef hash, piled under two more eggs and surrounded by bacon, sausage and ham. A stack of buttermilk pancakes and a biscuit rounds out the meal. Eat it all in 30 minutes and the food’s free. Winners also earn a T-shirt and have their photograph posted on the restaurant’s “Wall of Fame.” Losers pay the $30 bill and are featured on the “Wall of Shame.”

Television food shows inspired Montigny to create a Downeast eating challenge. He is a big fan of Adam Richman, host of “Man v. Food” on the Travel Channel. The Hibernator is thus named because those who eat the meal tend to go home and curl up for a nap afterward, Montigny explained. The Hibernator is hard to forget.