A legend puts down the knife and fork

[dixiehack]

We treat competitive eating as a punchline and never contemplate what a truly terrible idea it is. Sounds like the bill is coming due.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...obayashi-retires-health-concerns/73826492007/

 

[melock]

10k hot dogs. Respect.

 

[Starman]

Kobayashi Maru.

 

[playthrough]

Twenty years of competitive eating sounds like a 50-year NFL career in terms of what it must do to one's body.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Kobayashi does not just eat hot dogs. He's held world records over his career with different foods, ranging from Buffalo wings, lobster rolls and cow brains to hamburgers, tacos and pizza. The list goes on.

How does one decide to eat cow brains in addition to those other staples that aren't, you know, the brains of cows?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Did he use knives and forks?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Not with coneys. You dunk them in water and practically swallow them whole.

 

[Neutral Corner]

This guy's Youtube channel is basically him beating restaurant challenges for free meals, cash, trophies, whatever. Things like humongous pizzas, 64 ounce steak and a couple of baked potatoes, stuff like that. This is just the most recent one up. Two gigantic breakfast burritos. His anaconda capacity is amazing. Those things have a lot of hash brown potatoes in them.

Spoiler. He does it, then eats dessert. Not kidding.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

RAF Mildenhall used to be a huge USAF base in Britain. Still might be, it's been a minute.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

It's only wafer-thin ....

 

[TigerVols]

Kobayashi does not just eat hot dogs. He's held world records over his career with different foods, ranging from Buffalo wings, lobster rolls and cow brains to hamburgers, tacos and pizza. The list goes on.

How does one decide to eat cow brains in addition to those other staples that aren't, you know, the brains of cows?

To be precise, he won the title by eating exactly one cow brain.

 

[TigerVols]

 

[jr/shotglass]

This makes Joey Chestnut seem even more remarkable. (Until he suffers the same fate, I suppose.)

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

64 ounce steak

Reminds me of the scene in The Great Outdoors where John Candy takes up a challenge to eat a 96er steak and gets sick when they get back to the cabin.

 

[Neutral Corner]

You would not believe some of what that guy has scarfed down in an hour.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Not with coneys. You dunk them in water and practically swallow them whole.

I need the opposite of a "Like" button for this.

Maybe "Loathe" would be good.

At any rate, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Adam Richman had a show in which he would try all those restaurant challenges. Just as disgusting as it sounds. One of the places is less than a mile from me. A huge triple burger with about a pound of fries.

 

[goalmouth]

Per the thread title, I thought he didn't use a knife and fork.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

10k hot dogs. Respect.

That is a lot of lips and assholes.

 

[dixiehack]

Per the thread title, I thought he didn't use a knife and fork.

Poetic license