Competitive Eating & Drinking: A Sport For Debased Times?

[hunck]

There is a thing called mukbang, where people eat while being filmed, because the world is a mess.
One of them overdid it and died while on camera.

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/...er-dies-live-on-stream-due-to-overeating.html

I wouldn’t even like to hazard a guess at what she’s eating here.

 

[Steven]

Krispy Kreme earrings made out of deflated bagels.

 

[cycleboy2]

Takeru Kobayashi can eat 50 hotdogs, 41 lobster rolls or 159 tacos in 10 minutes - Kobayashi is competitive eating’s first elite athlete.

Long article in the Guardian as he makes a return to competitive eating after five years off.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jul/24/competitive-eating-takeru-kobayashi

(My personal best was in my university days in 1981-1982. One of the UK's pizza chains, the long-lost and non-lamented Pizzaland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzaland, had an all-the-pizzas-you-can-eat for a quid offer one day a week. So me and a few tight-fisted uni friends would go occasionally. Three and three-quarter regular-size pizzas in one sitting, though of course there was no speed element to it. The final quarter would have been taken home. No waste...)

 

[Steven]

Three and three-quarter regular-size pizzas in one sitting

!!!

 

[cycleboy2]

!!!

I was young.

I weighed nine and a half stone, was playing football, cricket, squash, running and I was cycling every day - I was sooooo fit!! And they were thin-crust pizzas!

These days when I go out for a pizza, I normally take half of it home for lunch the next day. Different times, eh?!

 

[Steven]

That's the trouble with pizzas - even the cheapest ones can nevertheless be delicious.