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Takeru Kobayashi Loses Hot Dog Eating Contest again. Shouldn’t go swimming for at least 30 minutes

Started by tofugu · 1 year ago

Maybe it’s time he commits seppuku, though, I don’t know if I’d want to see a stomach full of hot dogs get disemboweled.
It’s been a year since the last “Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest” at Coney Island, when reigning king (at the time) of eating food “really really fast” lost his title, and his ... Continue reading »

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  • Chester_King

    1 year ago

    Okay,

    A quick calculation shows that 59 hot dogs multiplied by the average length of six inches (15 cm) equals 29 feet and six inches (8.85 meters) of hot dogs. That is equivalent of standing end upon end, THREE stories high, of hot dogs.


    That's disgusting...




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  • Rimka

    1 year ago

    That.. Is just amazing o_o That brings it into a perspective I never really had before. xD All I have to say to that is

    My God. That is a lot of hot dogs.
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  • Viet

    1 year ago

    What goes in must come out. These guys must have mad #2.
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  • kakapoopy

    1 year ago

    he must poop out torpedoes .
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  • Viet

    11 months ago

    Well... Just recently Kobayashi beat out Chestnut in the annual Satay eating contest in Singapore.

    http://news.smh.com.au/world/japanese-eating-ch...
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  • Pachi_PMT

    11 months ago

    So according to the article, we'll get to see his eating skills with hamburgers soon. Cool!
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  • Digger

    12 months ago

    Ah! Did you notice Kobayashi off to the side with his stomach all distended?! Ouch! I mean, I half expect for a monster to break out of there like in Alien or something..........
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  • keirakibou

    1 year ago

    he looks pregnant in that second picture...
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  • Kobayashi Fan

    1 year ago

    I was really hoping he's win, although I still maintain that he eats more of the hotdog than Chestnut does. Chestnut wears most of his hotdogs on his face, which really shouldn't count...

    Go Kobayashi!
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  • Djarno

    1 year ago

    I have to give you props, Koichi. If one picture alone could sum up the entire world of competitive eating, it would be the one you chose for the beginning of this article.
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  • emiko

    1 year ago

    i wish i could eat like that sometimes . . . even though it is a little bit gross . . . but how does he stay so thin and eat so much? . . . it must be a gift
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  • Kitam

    1 year ago

    man.. i tried -_-

    but why does the lady in the first picture behind him look like shes in more pain than he is?
    and i cant even begin to imagine what word the announcer is trying to say that requires a person to bite off his own tongue.

    Also, correct me if im wrong.. but isnt that what it would look like when you go super sayian in reverse? if i was him.. id booboo in a bucket.. theres no way his system could process that properly, he has to poop out links. no doubt, either that or ballpark franks.
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  • Chester_King

    1 year ago

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  • Pachi_PMT

    11 months ago

    It seemed as though Kobayashi had a (somewhat) easier time with the hotdogs than Chestnut, who looked like he kept trying not to gag. Though maybe that was because he was trying to stuff himself faster than Kobayashi (Biting off more than he could swallow, perhaps?).

    Anyway, thanks for putting up vid links!
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  • Rin

    1 year ago

    This brings up many questions for me... does Kobayashi exercise a lot? How long does it take him to lose the weight gained in one of these contests? How many cows/pigs/hot-dog-meat-animals died for that amount of hot-dogs? XD
    Even though he lost this year, at least Kobayashi has much cooler hair.
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  • ghindo

    1 year ago

    The ANGUISH on Kobayashi's face in the first picture is priceless.
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  • WOTDsctoo

    1 year ago

    Ahhh, I remember my dad telling me about Kobayashi years ago before I even started studying Japanese. He likes wierd things like that. I was soo psyched when I learned how to write his name in kanji. Hooray for simple kanji names!

    But I'm sad he didn't win. Such dazzling hair! Although I probably shouldn't base my support on that... XD

    Anyway, that stomach picture is rather frightening, eh?
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  • Mizuu

    1 year ago

    I alwayd liked Tsunami, because in each and every show I watch starring him, he seems so... kind :). My fav so far was an MTV produced 2-hour show which was something like a video diary before one of the contests. It included what physical exercises he does, how he doesn't eat before the contest or how he eat increasingly more before his "diet".
    With a giggle I'm recalling the part where he went into a restaurant (small, yes), and ate EVERYTHING that poor guy had in storage. XD
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  • kakapoopy

    1 year ago

    haha did u see his stomach!!? thats just wrong. it looks like he stuck like 3 binders in his stomach haha
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  • Fredy

    1 year ago

    I bet Sonic would beat him. :D
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    I dunno, Sonic is pretty tiny. Maybe the first couple hot dogs, but after that he'd explode like a goldfish
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  • Fredy

    1 year ago

    He could just pretend and put them somewhere so fast people wouldn't notice. :D He's just gotta go Supersonic. But then again, Kobayashi just has to take his rings and Sonic would fail.
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  • WOTDsctoo

    1 year ago

    Exactly. He could make them dissapear before people's eyes...but that doesn't mean they were eaten.
    >.>
    <.<

    Maybe he could win the “who can eat 5 hot dogs the fastest contest?” Whaddya think?
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  • Djarno

    1 year ago

    I know that this is a Japanese culture blog but I'm with Chestnut all the way. If we Americans are going to suffer the ill effects that come with our love affair with processed, fatty foods (obesity, heart disease, etc.) then at least one of us should be able to hang on to the Hot Dog Eating title. I don't mind so much if Japan or other countries beat us in lesser competitions like the Olympics for example.
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  • Chester_King

    1 year ago

    Quoting Koichi:
    " Maybe it’s time he commits seppuku, though, I don’t know if I’d want to see a stomach full of hot dogs get disemboweled."



    I know I would.




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  • Rimka

    1 year ago

    Wow, that is a hell of a lot of hot dogs @_@ and not being a hot dog lover in the first place, it nearly makes me gag thinking about it.
    I really hope this Kobayashi guy wins back his title though, whenever I think of insanely fast hot dog eating he's the dude that comes to mind! Not some Joey Chestnut (Reminds me of Johnny Appleseed) guy D:
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  • Lenners

    1 year ago

    Poor Kobayashi, I hope he manages to beat the other guy someday! Still, 59 hot dogs... that's just a bit too many to stomach.
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  • J

    1 year ago

    i really want a hot dog now, with minimal ketchup and no mustard, please. it's been well over a year since i've last had one! you can't find a good place in Hawaii.

    by the way, so he lives in Japan, or..?
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  • kakapoopy

    1 year ago

    no hotdogs in hawaii?? wow im lucky to live in the georgia...

    the hard part is ignoring all the racism
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    yeah, japanese guy.
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  • Djarno

    1 year ago

    By the way, if you want a good hot dog, you have to find a place that hasn't changed it's hot dog water since the 20's. If, after finishing your hot dog, you don't feel like going to confession, then you should keep looking.
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  • Tom

    1 year ago

    God, there's something just so obscene about the whole competitive eating thing. Not just physically either. It's fairly tactless in a world of huge food shortages.
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  • Nikki

    1 year ago

    what I would really like to know, is how he discovered this 'talent' (if you want to call it that...). Went to a tabehoudai one evening and decided to turn his skill to hotdogs instead?
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  • Viet

    1 year ago

    Before Kobayshi joined the scene there was another Japanese man that dominated the Coney Island contest for a few years. The guy was also a skinny man. I think Kobayashi got his inspiration from his former.
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  • Jamaipanese

    1 year ago

    thats a tonne load of hotdogs they ate -_-
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  • St

    1 year ago

    Chestnut ate 66 hotdogs in 12 minutes in 2007? What would the record be if this "sport" became as popular as, say, baseball or soccer?
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  • Caitie

    1 year ago

    From a vegetarian's view point that's just disgusting..................no......from any normal person's view point that many hot dogs is frightening.

    Ick.

    On the other hand I bet Kobayashi still holds the hot dog eating record in Japan...so that's a plus...right? =]
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  • Girugamesh

    1 year ago

    WOW, thats a lot of hotdogs!
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  • james

    12 months ago

    Sorry for the offtopic post koichi, but how many kanji do you know?
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  • james

    12 months ago

    Edit: Actually, I am asking everyone. How many kanji do you guys know?
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  • koichi

    12 months ago

    I'm not the type that keeps track, so I've really got no idea...

    Sent from my iphone
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  • TomiWar

    11 months ago

    lmao thats f-ing kool
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  • james

    11 months ago

    convenient, eh?
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  • Grammar Police

    11 months ago

    "They followed him to a ramen shop where he at a ridiculous amount of ramen. " Got proof reading? just kidding:P
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  • emiko

    11 months ago

    my friend said that she watched a documentary on him and he DRANK a lot of oil (cooking) in a challenge!! that's amazing!
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  • little_bee

    11 months ago

    I think I remember watching him compete on TV a few years ago. Wasn’t he notorious for some sort of wiggle he did to force the food down a little faster?

    It’s amazing how much food these guys can eat. I’ve heard that even after just one oversized meal, your stomach can start to stretch. I wonder. Can stomach tissue develop stretch-marks?
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  • heartlessangel

    10 months ago

    idk it kinda just makes me want to throw up
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  • Ami

    10 months ago

    I was there at the contest and my god, it was crazy even trying to watch e__e
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  • Dietrich

    4 days ago

    These are my photos of the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest that you used for this article without my permission. Please remove them from your site.

    -Dietrich
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  • koichi

    2 days ago

    It's on Flickr under a creative commons license that allows use with attribution, which I did do (see link at bottom that says "image source"), so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong... I definitely _would_ appreciate being able to keep them up though. I could add links on the images themselves if that would help?
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