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Why are competitive eaters thin? — 10 Comments

  1. I sure wouldn’t want to cook for those guys. Six pounds of cabbage and nothing else? BORING!

  2. If you have the food, you can make a sport out of it. But if you are like North Korea, then there are no such things as eating contests.

    It’s rare to find a country that can put eating contests as a some kind of mass popular thing for the peasants. Other countries place a higher value on food and quantity, thus such occasions might be more special. And rarer.

  3. Please refrain from calling this a sport. It’s a competition.

    The rule: If you can smoke a cigar and drink a cocktail while competing, it is not a sport. Sports require athletic ability.

    Golf, Bowling, Checkers and Dominoes to name just a few are competitions not sport.

    Since the eating contestants were drinking water they could have easily grabbed a puff between Wieners.

    As a sidebar/exception. Major Leaguer John Kruk was at spring training years ago. He was swinging a bat with a lit cigarette in his mouth near the spectators. An elderly lady told him that athletes shouldn’t smoke.

    Kruk looked at her and said, “I’m not an athlete mam, I’m a baseball player.

  4. So as weird as it all is..it’s merely people “training” their bodies (or body parts) to triumph in a what is essentially another example of physical competition.

    Golfers and baseball players work on their swing, other athletes stretch arms, legs, adapt their diet, etc. depending on what the sport or competition requires for success.

    These guys (and they are mostly guys, right?) train their stomachs to be No. 1.

    I don’t think we’ll be seeing competitive eating high school teams or college scholarships any time soon, however. And Michelle O. surely wouldn’t approve 🙂

  5. And I don’t even like to think of the results of that cabbage competition.

    Wasn’t there some official case where someone’s cause of death was that they asphyxiated themselves by farting while asleep in bed?

  6. I heard on the radio that the winner (Chestnut) has a $100K per annum endorsement deal for Pepto Bismol. Don’t know if it’s true or not but too good not to pass along.

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