Said the champ: 'If I needed to eat another one right now, I could.'
American Joey Chestnut took advantage of a weakened and injured Takeru Kobayashi to win the annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island this week. He ate 66 hot dogs (about 12,000 calories worth) in 12 minutes, besting Kobayashi's mark of 63.
Below is a picture of Chestnut at approximately the half-way mark. I post it not to show his look of intense concentration, but so you can see the look of sheer disgust on the face of the card girl standing behind him. She looks like she's getting a contact high, but with a food coma instead of pot.
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posted by NaturalBlog @ Friday, July 06, 2007
3 Comments:
A Last Hurrah for the former champ. We'll miss you Kobayashi. What sort of nickname does Joey Chestnut have? He has to have one. Joey "the Mouth" or Joey "the Inflammed Gall Bladder."
Ah, losing to the dreaded "reversal". This was my favorite part of the story...
Kobayashi, the Japanese eating machine, recently had a wisdom tooth extracted and received chiropractic treatment due to a sore jaw. But the winner of every Nathan's hot dog competition from 2001 to 2006 showed no ill effects as he stayed with Chestnut frank-for-frank until the very end of the 12-minute competition.
Once the contest ended, the runner-up suffered a reversal — competitive eating-speak for barfing — leading to a deduction from his final total. Kobayashi finished with 63 HDBs (hot dogs and buns eaten) in his best performance ever.
Competitors receive credit for anything in their mouths at the 12-minute mark, provided they can swallow it.
"Obviously, the last bit exited his mouth quite dramatically," said Rich Shea of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Kobayashi's gastric distress was the only sour note in the tube-steak tussle, which aired nationally on ESPN.
I have to admit...I'm not looking at that girls face.
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