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Nov 19 2004 10 Comments

Greatest glutton ever

After 4 straight wins in New York’s hot dog eating contest, Takeru Kobayashi has recently added another title to his already impressive list. Romping home by a large margin in Chattanooga’s hamburger eating competition.

His pulsating performance of 69 hamburgers in 8 minutes, was so stunning that it prompted David Baer of the International Federation of Competitive Eating to trumpet, “Kobayashi is, without a doubt, the greatest eater ever to live upon planet Earth.”

Er, right David, we get the message.

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And that’s him, the earth’s greatest ever eater. A proud and teary-eyed David on the left perhaps?

Categorized: Food and Drink, Odd

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  1. Toni says

    11/20/2004 at 3:50 am

    They must be hollow inside. It’s the only way skinny people like that can win these contests.

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  2. Lee says

    11/20/2004 at 11:12 am

    I don’t know how old that picture is, but I saw him on TV fairly recently and he didn’t look particularly healthy.

    He’d gained a fair bit of weight, and he had a very pasty complexion to say the least.

    It may have just been a bad day, but regardless, so many eating competitions can’t do him any good in the long run.

    He trains for them too (not sure how), so it’s not as though these binges are just resrticted to competition day either.

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  3. becky says

    4/12/2005 at 8:53 am

    Where do the calories go??????????

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