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[Ripclawe]

Next year... ONE FOR DA THUMB!


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040704/ap_on_re_us/hot_dog_contest_2

Takeru Kobayashi, center, of Nagano, Japan, poses with 53 1/2 hot dogs after winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating contest, Sunday July 4, 2004, in New York. Kobayashi, the number one eater in the world broke his previous record of 51 1/2 hot dogs by eating 53 1/2 hot dogs in twelve minutes. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

 

[Escape Goat]

Yuck

Hope they were kosher hot dogs

 

[belgurdo]

I'm surprised the Japanese porn industry hasn't picked up on this yet and made a line of "gorging" fetish videos

 

[Ripclawe]

Eric "Badlands" Booker, a 6-foot-4, 400-pound subway conductor from Long Island who came in fifth with 27 dogs, said he and the other competitive eaters were determined to unseat the Japanese.


"We aren't going to stop until we bring the belt back," he told ESPN.


Kobayashi seemed unworried. "I will come back next year and try and break the record once again," he said.

27 hot dogs and you talking trash????

 

[OmniGamer]

I saw this today....that body shake of his he did periodically was pretty funny.

 

[Hitman]

LOL I love how american eaters want so much for the title to be back in US soil. HAHA give it up you fat asses, your fat filled amiercan stomachs compare nothing to the stomach of the japenese.

 

[Kuroyume]

bah...

 

[DCharlie]

we get a lot of these programs on Japanese tv and some of them are amazing.

Three people in one eating final had to eat as many bowls of Ramen as they could in 1 hour.

One guy got up to around 30+ bowls... it was astonishing (anyone who has ever ate one bowl of Ramen will know how filling one is).

The winner was this tall skinny 25 year old guy - in his crowning ceremony, the crowd full of young nymphets where going crazy like he was a pop star...

 

[Hournda]

Yuck

Hope they were kosher hot dogs

I don't know if Nathan's hot dogs are kosher but they are 100% beef since the original Nathan was Jewish.

 

[Bog]

Why's it always hot dogs? Let's see who can eat the most lasagna.

 

[jenov4]

Wow this dude kicks ass.

 

[karasu]

I can't believe that National Pride and hot dog eating contests are somehow related. Amazing.

 

[HAOHMARU]

How did that 36 year old Chineese-American girl do? I thought she would have a shot at the title...and she is only 100lbs!

 

[Ripclawe]

..Meanwhile, 105-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va., could relish two new records: She ate more hot dogs — 32 — than any other woman and any other American in the contest's history.

 

[Thaedolus]

Bah, if I lost about 50 pounds and became a skeleton, I'm sure I could bring the prize back to American soil!