In probably the strangest news ever in competitive eating history, Takeru Kobayashi was arrested yesterday during Coney Island’s Fourth of July hot dog contest and charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and trespassing. Kobayashi held out of the event after refusing to sign a contract that restricted his professional eating activities to competitions affiliated with the Major League Eating organization, but decided to attend the event anyway. After Joey Chestnut won the contest, he jumped on stage and was immediately tackled my security guards and taken to jail.
I’ve always been a Kobayashi fan. Hell, the man changed competitive eating forever. Check out the video, though. I feel like the Japanese usually protest a little better than this. Couldn’t he think of anything better to do than rush the stage after the competition had ended and get all 145 pounds of him whooped and taken off of the stage by the police? I think it would have been pretty sweet if he somehow crashed into the stage during the competition completely ruining everything. Bonzzzaaaai!!!!!!!
On May 25th, 2009 I attempted to eat Bella Italia’s 30″ meat lovers pizza and failed miserably. Looking back on the attempt, we did fairly well, but our preparation was lacking. We decided to give it a try the day of, and our stomachs weren’t even completely empty. You may remember the end result looking something like this..
Well, I can’t let this embarrassment stand. I need to go back and complete their current challenge of a 30″ pizza with a 30 minute time limit. The beautiful part of this is I can bring two partners with me. I would like to bring two Epic Portions readers with me to attempt this challenge. We will arrange a date and time when we can go in, and you will be a part of the glory, a post on Epic Portions, and a write-up on AnnArbor.com. I will cover the entry fee, but it’s free if when we finish the pizza.
Comment here, e-mail me, talk to me in person, or however else you want to get ahold of me. If I don’t know you, I need some proof that you’re a serious eater. I can hold my own but I doubt I can finish the entire thing. Get at me before Sunday and I will announce the team on Monday.
Call me a conspiracy theorist – but a few things in this story don’t add up. First, is that the food these 12 young contest participants were eating makes no sense. Apparently this wasn’t a contest to see how many hot dogs the kids could eat. Rather, it was contest was a “game” to see who could finish a cooked hot dog and bun covered with whipped cream. What the HELL? Not Fear Factor, but not Great Eats either [Hats off to our EPIE winner!].
Additionally, and weirder, the contest itself was part of a charity event to raise money for the Haiti quake disaster. That’s weird isn’t it? An eating contest as a part of an event to raise money for poor people to get. . .food. Lastly, the prize for the kids upon finishing the whip-cream-dog. . .is described as some “candy.” As in – you kids finish your whip-cream-dog and we will give you some candy.
That is just creepy. Although,I suppose back in the halcyon days of middle school I might have had a go.
The only good news is that the event reported raising $150 for Haitian Relief. Come to think of it. . .that buys a lot of hot dogs.
A few months ago my buddy Steve brought me the news that his family had purchased a sandwich shop and they would feature a sandwich challenge known as The Double Dagwood. This sounded like a fantastic idea to me because I was fresh off my destruction of the Bomber Breakfast and I was ready to take out another local eating challenge.
On February 21st, 2009 I attempted the Bomber Breakfast for the first time and failed miserably. It was an embarrassing moment for me. The waitresses laughed at me, and the bus boy made me bus my own table. As I was pulling out of the parking lot, customers began throwing eggs at my car. I [...]
Kobayashi gave a giant middle finger to Joey Chestnut, in the form of slider consumption. In eight minutes Takeru was able to take down 93 sliders in the Krystal Square-Off this weekend. Chestnut only finished with 81. Holy shit.
“We knew today’s Krystal Square Off championship was going to be a battle for the ages [...]
So apparently Joey Chestnut was at Hooters last night practicing his hot dog eating skillzzz, and managed to put down 64 in 10 minutes. Wait, isn’t the record 66? This man is my hero.
edit: Chestnut’s record of 66 was done in 12 minutes(thanks Craig). The new time limit is 10. Holy 8 pound 4 ounce [...]
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