July 05, 2004

All Hail Kobayashi, the Hot Dog King! 53½ wieners in 12 minutes... a world record. Let's see Turkmenbashi do something like that!

A Fourth of July Tradition (but not one of the more distinguished ones). Staged at Nathan's original stand in Coney Island; if it'd been Weinerschnitzel's, anything over 10 dogs would've been fatally toxic. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas set a women's record of 32 wieners, breaking the previous record set by [insert name of famous slut here].

posted by wendell 20 years ago
  • ? How did that happen? Sorry, I was trying to add a clever bit about Kobayashi.
  • Well! I'd just like to see her do it with 53 melons. I bet Turkmenbashi could. Something I read in the lead up to this event mentioned that her slender body may be an advantage. The 300-400 pounders who normally truimph are really hampered by the fat girdle that surrounds their stomachs, so their stomach can't expand as easily.
  • Nice moist hotdogs slide down easily Before contestents choke or react too queasily.
  • Mr. Soze will be pleased.
  • I saw a show on the Food Network about this one or two years ago (and no, I don't watch the Food Netowrk regularly). One Japanese competitor would eat 7 course meals (meant for multiple people) just for lunch. His waist could expand around 8 inches, as I remember. As Path said above, over-weght people have a harder time because their stomachs cannot expand due to fat. One thing I rememmber from the show I watched was that, one year, America's "only hope" in winning the contest had an upset stomach, and could not participate in the competition. This is the point where I really started to laugh.
  • Oh, and I believe the people who take place in these contests have to keep the hot dogs down for around a half hour in order to win. Don't be throwin' 'em back up now!
  • Lord, ONE Nathan's dog was too much for me. Of course it was washed down with a warmish can of Bud during a hangover brunch gone seriously awry. Hair of the dog that bites you in the ass and craps on your favorite sweater.
  • I wonder whether people who were really fat and have lost massive amounts of weight would be the ideal competitive eaters?
  • Nice moist hotdogs slide down easily Before contestents choke or react too queasily. The conveys the grossness of hotdogs wonderfully. I was trying to add a clever bit about Kobayashi. That's what I was going to do as soon as I got him unconfused with Keyser/Kaiser/sp? Sose
  • 53 hotdogs does not a megalomaniac make. Interestingly, animal lips and pig anus make hotdogs though. Coincidence??? I thought not.