Feast your eyes on the accomplishments of past champions and weep, you skinny, pusillanimous weaklings as you pick over your salads and plain, vanilla yogurt. The world title has come back home where it belongs!
Hot dog! San Jose’s top eater wins contest by eating 66 dogs with buns
San Jose’s Joey Chestnut won the dubious distinction Wednesday of being the world’s fastest eater, setting a new record at the Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest in New York and snatching the title belt for the Americans.
Chestnut ate – if you could call it that – an astounding 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. That’s a rate of one dog every 10.9 seconds. Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese competitive eating champion who has won the contest for the past six years, placed second, ingesting 63 dogs during a stomach-turning race to the finish.
“There’s people who don’t understand ballet or don’t understand drag racing cars. And those same people see competitive eating as wasteful,” he said. “It’s innocent fun.”
The crew was heading out to a party – not that Chestnut was going to enjoy a victory meal. Afterall, he had just ingested 20,394 calories.
“I can go there,” he said, and “hopefully waddle around.”
Joey Chestnut, American Hero!
Fatso sport? Hardly… There aren’t any fat people that I can think of that are competitive eaters. Sometime that have fattys show up for a guest appearance but they don’t contend. The champs are all lean and trip.
Absolutely disgusting! Americans are fat, people are starving on the streets and in various places around the world, and here we are having MLE. Shameful…
If people are starving someplace, its not because of a stupid hotdog eating contest on Coney Island. I’m getting tired of you ignorant Bash America First bunch.
Starvation is not a result of lack of food. Its the result of corruption, greed, and genocidal policies on behalf of third-world governments. You USA-bashers clean up the shit in your own house before you start blaming us. “Fat” Americans saved the world from Communism, Naziism, Facism and Japanese Imperialism in the last century, what have you done lately?
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I know how you love to slam the USAians every chance you get but you might won’t to read the article you use to do it.
“Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese competitive eating champion who has won the contest for the past six years,…)
George…
All true except lately your namesake has done more to make the world perceive us as Ugly Americans than anyone in history. Democrats are no better — but denying US greed and gluttony in everything from oil to food is simply being naive.
George (#3 & #4) and Gig (#5),
I don’t slam my fellow U.S. citizens regularly, I just happen to find this disgusting and shameful.
Oh yes and what have I done? Volunteered (enlisted) to serve in the U.S. Army Infantry in 1991, served two weeks on jury duty in a murder trial (could’ve gotten out of it but didn’t). regularly volunteer at a food shelter in Dallas, run a successful business, donate money to a relief organization, etc. etc. etc.
So, George, what have YOU done to help the U.S.A.?
Gig.
And regardless of who won in previous years, where again is this competition held every year? Oh yeah, New York…
Getting back to the eatting contest.. What I always wonder, and perhaps someone can provide some insight on this, if they induce vomitting after these contests or do they allow all this material to be digested. Surely eatting 66 hotdogs at once cant be good for your body, we all know the jokes about hotdogs, and you would be crapping hotdog for a week. Seems if you were going to do this you would want to get rid of the material quickly, but these contestents arent attracted to this sport because they are smart.
While I find the hot dog eating competition fascinating, I can’t help feeling that we’re encouraging the wrong things. In a country that has a problem with childhood obesity, why are we cheering people for gluttony?
Josh Centor
NCAA
Eating competitions are legit.
It may be wasteful but it’s not your hot dogs they are eating. Should we regulate gluttony?
I have followed the sport for years. It was impressive to see Chestnut beat Kobayashi. Not anyone can do that.
It’s a sport. I think it’s more of a sport than baseball. Baseball is stupid. Does it even make sense to throw a ball in a small defined zone so that it can be hit, yet try to prevent it from being hit? Meanwhile nearly every other player sits (or stands) and watches. Baseball is stupid.
These are the real heroes:
http://www.ifoce.com/rankings.php
ethanol,
Yep, and the soccer’s World Cup was held here in 1994. I guess that made soccer a US sport as well?
I’ve always wondered how much farting the contestants do after one of these competitions.
It is interesting to me, and MEN are so good at this…
Consider What other activity in LIFE requires a person to Shove a 4-6″ Phallic down your throat.
It must be the requirement of the Bun.
Gig,
My point was the USA was hosting this event and I disagree with it. If Tokyo wants to host it, fine. I still won’t like it, maybe complain a little, but won’t claim the fat Japanese shouldn’t support this…
iGlobalWarmer,
Too funny!!! Although won’t those emissions add to Global Warming?
The only value this has is in pissing off non-Americans.
Therefore, I love it.
ECA – You must be filling in for Angel today.
#16 – All the more reason to have these competitions. Anything to contribute to global warming.
You could have the Gasmasters Professional Farting league hold it’s competitions right after the eating competition for those who wanted to enter both.
#7 – Yeah! You win that round 🙂
Here’s one fat American who won’t apologize for his gluttony and avarice, basically because I’m not gluttonous and I’m not greedy. I have a better quality of life than others in the world; my house is heated in winter and cooled in summer. I drive a car to work (but I do make the effort to try to live near where I work, not 20 to 40 miles out). I have and keep clean clothes and I shower every day. If I’m fat it’s because I haven’t learned to live on one meal a day (Lord knows I should); it’s not because I shove incredible amounts of food in my gullet in 5 minute intervals. I’ve been weaning myself off of high-fructose corn syrup based drinks and I’m thinning out. So I’m learning.
That having been said, I cannot see myself watching other people pig out, whether for sport or for entertainment. But I don’t get most of TV, anymore. Too much garbage in between an increasing number of commercials. Whatever happened to 50 minutes of intruiging story telling in an hour’s time? I’m afraid that by the time I get a high-def TV that there won’t be anything worth watching on cable or satellite. Doh!