Comments | emustrangler: I haven't eaten yet today...and yet I feel strangly full...

emustrangler

I haven't eaten yet today...and yet I feel strangly full...

Jul 04, 2007 13:03

Wow, Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest was intense. The skinny Japanese guy that always wins was neck and neck with the American record holder. They both went past the world record of 58 dogs and ended 63-66, with the American winning. Finally the title for Gluttony has returned to where it belongs (though poor Japanese, first they loose WWII, now ( Read more... )

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phasedweasel July 5 2007, 13:40:41 UTC

Do they have an in the locker room follow up interview? Complete with retching?

emustrangler July 5 2007, 16:54:23 UTC

No retching (I think your required to keep it down for a certain amount of time or be Disqualified, the official term for vomiting leading to dismissal is a "Reversal of Fortune") but some of the contestants looked distinctly uncomfortable in the immediate aftermath.

vulpez July 5 2007, 17:41:02 UTC

Would two sudden "Reversals of Fortune" in a row be compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the hapless Japanese contestant?

phasedweasel July 5 2007, 18:29:37 UTC

Send this man some political asbestos!

emustrangler July 5 2007, 20:21:46 UTC

So having broken all the equipment I need to do work today within the first hour after coming in, I looked up some more info on the lead competitive eaters.

Apparenty, the woman record holder can eat 12% of her bodyweight in Cheesecake in nine minutes.

I pity the men who ask her out and offer to pay for dinner, only to watch slackjawed why she orders and consumes 57 cheese burgers.