Sport: Competitive Eating
Takeru Kobayashi is quite simply an eating machine.
Career Highlights: The five-time winner of the Nathan's Famous frankfurter eating contest held each Fourth of July at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. In 2004, he broke a contest record, eating 59 hot dogs in 12 minutes. In 2002, he won Fox's Glutton Bowl 1, and in 2003, he just barely lost to a Kodiak bear in a hot dog eating contest on Fox's Man vs. Beast program.
So, why are his opponents scared of him? Have you seen this guy?! Only 131 pounds, Kobayashi is an eating machine. The legend of the sport (and yes, this is a sport!) uses the innovative "Solomon Method" technique when digesting his dogs. A master of the eating style, Koboyashi breaks each hot dog in two, then stuffs both halves in his mouth at once. NFL great William "Refrigerator" Perry tried taking a stab at Koboyashi in 2003 but failed miserably. The 1985 Super Bowl star ate four hot dogs in the competition; Kobayashi had 44 1/2
So why did I post this? I don't know. Something about this appealed to me. Perhaps it's the thought of a small little Asian guy handling so many phallic-symbolic hot dogs.
I'm just glad I don't have to use the bathroom after him following a competition.
POLT = listening to nothing, as I'm posting this from work
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1 comment:
Did you know that it is impossible to drink a gallon of milk within 1 hour and not puke it back up? Too much lactose for a body to process, I'm guessing. One of my new co-workers and a friend of his were bored so they tried it out and sure enough......cheap entertainment. I'm still adjusting to the rural midwest mentality.
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