I hate to say it, but the longest I've gone without food is amazingly enough for the same reason as the resident bible thumper of the minute. Of course it was for a particular holiday where most every Jewish person does it (Yom Kippur), and it was only for one day. It's a yearly thing and all it really means is we eat a real big dinner before the sun goes down the night before hand, skip breakfast and lunch and then eat another real big dinner which is generally made into a nice happy gathering with bagels and lox and all that other Jewish food.

I'm curious about the wisdom teeth people. You guys didn't eat for weeks? I got all four wisdom teeth pulled at the same time and all four were impacted so my jaws got tore up from having those suckers yanked. I slept most of the day they were pulled and the day after but even then I made myself milkshakes while I was awake.