Scientists say human hotdog-eating record is 9 hotdogs shy of physical limit

he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies,

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I keep waiting for a hot dog eating contestant to end up on my other favorite YouTube channel, the fantastical ChubbyEmu:


“…presenting to the emergency room…”

The sodium levels alone are enough to induce hypernatremia. Hyper meaning “excessive”, NAtrium meaning the element sodium, and “emia” meaning presence in blood.

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And 10 hotdogs short of a dog food explosion.

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This ignores the gains all sports see in performance through technological improvements in equipment.

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“It’s only wafer-thin”

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If the limits are more a matter of chewing and swallowing rather than internal capacity, then it seems possible that new techniques could be developed to radically change the possibilities.

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Competitive gluttony, what a concept.

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“Nine hot dogs shy of physical limit” sounds like a euphemism for… something?

Hey, I though John was going to cook dinner tonight?
[ John’s been arrested / he can’t cook / the kitchen is on fire ]
John? No, he’s nine hot dogs shy of physical limit…

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This sounds like the same assumptions that would have bet against the great Takeru Kobayashi.

Came here for this. Not leaving disappointed.

Better get a bucket…

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Pretty sure that amount of sodium nitrite would literally kill me. (Or at least make me wish it had.)

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