Taro Toporific wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 8:05 PM ET
APTakeru Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, recovers at the end of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York, winning for the third consecutive year, eating 44 and 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Kobayashi set the record of 50 1/2 hot dogs in 2002....
See the old FG threads:
J-Wiener Eater: Chompin' Champ AGAIN,
Hot diggity! Kobayashi wins third straight Coney Island hot,
J-job: $150,000/8 hours/year

&quot wrote:He downs the 'dogs by biting them in half and swallowing the halves in one gulp.[/]

The Solomon Method

dingosatemybaby wrote:Apparently, when he subsequently defecates - and this is where it gets interesting - he's able to push out the halves intact and undigested.

dingosatemybaby wrote: Apparently, when he subsequently defecates - and this is where it gets interesting - he's able to push out the halves intact and undigested.

dingosatemybaby wrote:Apparently, when he subsequently defecates - and this is where it gets interesting - he's able to push out the halves intact and undigested.

dingosatemybaby wrote:..... I swear I read something about this kid that he has some kind of patented digestive technology....

..the Japanese star methodically chomped dog after dog, often dipping them in a soft drink before cramming them into his mouth.

...53 3/4 frankfurters in 12 minutes...

Iraira wrote:53 3/4 hot dogs in 12 minutes. He's definitely barred from every all-you-can-eat shabu shabu restaurants . . .

AP - Takeru Kobayashi chomped through a record 58 brats at the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship on Saturday, easily winning another tasty title and slicing through the record of 35 set last year by Sonya Thomas.

"They're good," Kobayashi said through a translator. "I want to take some home."

The 72kg Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, earned $US8,000 ($A10,536) for his effort.

There was no extra charge for the 16,820 calories, 1,450 grams of fat and 19 days worth of the recommended amount of sodium he consumed in besting Joey Chestnut and Thomas in front of a crowd of about 3,500 people attending Sheboygan Jaycees Brat Days.

Kobayashi is a seasoned veteran at 27 and by far the world's best competitive eater.

But he narrowly beat 22-year-old Joey Chestnut of San Jose, California, in this year's Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on the Fourth of July in New York.

At Saturday's showdown in Sheboygan, competitors had 10 minutes to eat as many brats as possible with no buns.

The Fourth of July contest is 12 minutes and competitors must eat the buns.

. . . He said he was going for 50, and plans to come back next year to break another barrier.

"I want to do 60," he said . . . more

mr. sparkle wrote:I'm hopin' my man from San Jose can kick his ass next year.

LOS ANGELES - As the crowd counted down -- "four, three, two, one!" -- Joey Chestnut hovered over a plate of Japanese gyoza dumplings. Flanked by a dozen other "gurgitators" in Little Tokyo, he gritted his teeth and readied himself.

Months of voracious training -- gorging on food and guzzling gallons of water to keep his innards stretched -- have turned the stocky 22-year-old San Jose State engineering student into a red-hot newcomer on the competitive-eating circuit. It's a regular feeding frenzy that's circus sideshow, World Wrestling Entertainment farce and novelty endurance sport.

Proponents, with the fervor of carnival barkers, say eating events are as American as the hot dog, which, not coincidentally, is consumed at the tour's premier event on Coney Island each July 4.

Critics say the eat-offs are crass and risky spectacles that mock nutritional habits by promoting gluttony and bulimia.

"Signs of a societal decline," Ralph Nader once called such competitions....more...

kurohinge1 wrote:Japanese man eats record 58 snags