The Mustard Belt

[Yeti]

The belt is back where it belongs. In the good old USA. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut set a new world record downing 66 Nathan's hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. Kobayashi was incredible as he wolfed down 63 dogs with an injured jaw. I watched this contest live on ESPN and it was a nail biter.

You can access the story or video of this incredible event on this link....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/07/04/hot.dog.contest/index.html

[Bob]

Not since Joe Frazier defeated Muhammed Ali in the 1971 bout coined the "Fight of the Century" have two contestants battled so hard. Perhaps.

[Drederick Tatum]

eating contests are pretty perverse.

[Bob]

beats vomiting contests

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I read something once that pertained to these hot dog eating contests...the article proposed a theory as to why so often the smaller, lighter weight Japanese contestants seem to beat the larger American contestants year after year.

They thought that fat in the belly area put pressure on the actual stomach, thus not allowing an overweight person to eat as much as an under weight or normal sized one.

[Yeti]

There were very few fat contestants. A female nicknamed the Black Widow only weighed 100 pounds and a 63 year old competitor dubbed the Locust was very skinny.

Bob is correct that this years competition was on par with the Rumble in the Jungle.

[Bob]

oh no, i was just quoting something that was in the article you linked to, i didn't write that

[jabumbo]

like a good lawyer, bob covers his ass

[beastieangel01]

yeah I never really know whether to be sickened by competitive eating or be amazed. Usually it's a mix of both. I almost feel guilty watching it when it's on.

[QueenAdrock]

66 hot dogs is roughly 18,500 calories. :eek:

[Bob]

ain't gonna catch me writin' dirty

[cookiepuss]

oh man, I watched this and it was facinating and disgusting and exciting all at the same time. I could have done without the INSTANT REPLAY of Kobayashi barfing up his last three hot dogs and then eating the barf in slow motion. yeah that was fucking sick . I almost barfed myself. in fact I wasn't hungry for hour after watching that.

[jabumbo]

my favorite stat to think about was how he ate a hot dog roughly every 12 seconds or something.


terrible


that or the fact that it's pretty much a weeks worth of calories right there

[cookiepuss]

that or the fact that it's pretty much a weeks worth of calories right there


I pretty much assume that every contestant pukes shortly after the competition. I don't see how they could comfortably process all that food. and if they did they'd probably take a poop that was a mile long. is there a competition for the longest turd?


Also when you hear the credentials that the contestants have, it's sort of amazing to know there are so many different eating contests...from chicken wings to fried asperagus.

[befsquire]

ain't gonna catch me writin' dirty
they see you scrollin', they hatin'


ridin dirty is one of my favorite client sayings. that and "whateva's cleva" which has yet to catch on.

[paul jones]

I could do with a hot dog right now

[ET]

Nobody's mentioning how Kobayashi's reason for entering with a jaw injury(?) was due to his mother had passing away recently.