Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi {wiki} has won awards for eating hot dogs, hamburgers, dumplings, bratwurst, lobster rolls, cow brains, and rice balls. But he completely gave up on the world record at a fruitcake eating competition!
The fruitcake record remains at 4 pounds 14 ounces, eaten in ten minutes. The event held Friday raised funds for a food bank in New York City. Link -via Unique Daily
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With only a 1/2 pound to go at 8 minutes, Kobayashi began crumbling the nutty cake before jamming it into his mouth, a technique that seemed effective.
"Koby! Koby! Koby!" the crowd of about two dozen shouted, as his pace quickened.
By 8 minutes and 35 seconds, Sonya Thomas' 2001 record was still almost a pound out of his reach. In the end, Kobayashi managed to eat 4 pounds and 8 ounces.
"It was very difficult to eat because it was so dense," Kobayashi said through a translator, admitting that he had never eaten the cake before.
The fruitcake record remains at 4 pounds 14 ounces, eaten in ten minutes. The event held Friday raised funds for a food bank in New York City. Link -via Unique Daily
(image credit: Handschuh/News)
But how did he move from being half a pound away at 8 minutes to being a pound away at 8:35? That doesn't make any sense.
I can't imagine it being easy to eat something like that so fast. The choking hazard must be scary.
I'm slim too, and I don't hold fat folks with such contempt as you seem to. I see people with personalities, not fat. Their weight issues are none of my business and not my place to address or judge.
And gtron, if you're going to whine about wasted food, you might want to look into some tons upon tons of rotting corn and other crops that sit around in this country because they are overproduced. Honestly, 4 pounds of fruitcake? Perspective fail.
And many of us would consider Takeru a martyr for taking this fruity abomination off our hands. Our slender, judgy, non-wasteful hands.