Nathan's Hot Dog eating Contest!

You know, when you hear the number, it's crazy. And I suppose this goes back a long way and can be fun. I can also probably guess you are not in training to be in eating contest.... but when I see stuff like this it just pops a vein out in my forehead.

People actually train to enlarge their stomach to see how much and how fast they can shove stuff into it. Of all things to spend ones time on, I find this one to be less productive than a crack habit. I just don't get it. So wrong on so many levels.

Sorry to be the 4th of July Scrooge. I realize some folks just like to have fun. Carry on, and get off my lawn.

The internet must really drive you crazy telling everyone how much you don't care about what others think.

You should see the other contests these guys do.. They will competitively eat anything...

edit.  Here's a link to eating records...

I think I'm gonna be sick now, and I didn't even make it halfway through the list.

Six in a row!  He must be on steroids and such, get him tested!

I missed it this year, but it is always fun to watch.  It's amazing how fast and how much they can eat.

It is possible to train ahead of time for an eating contest, although the IFOCE does not recommend it. Competitors can train their brains to ignore the "full" feeling (actually the stomach muscles relaxing as they stretch) by repeatedly filling the stomach with large meals or through water training. Water training requires drinking an entire gallon of water in 30 seconds. The water stretches out the stomach. Supposedly, this makes it easier to down food in huge quantities. Neither of these activities is healthy. The water exercise can be very dangerous, resulting in perforations of the stomach lining and water intoxication, which is potentially fatal.

Perhaps BT can put out a "Couch to 50 hotdogs in 10 weeks" program.

Be honest...which of those records do you think you'd have a chance at breaking???  I'm rollin' with 2.76 pounds of bologna in 6 minutes.  That just doesn't seem too hard.  

Serious question, do you think elite level triathletes live a healthy lifestyle?  I mean elite.

Compared to what? I'm not going to compare a gifted human athlete at the extreme end of athletic performance with a guy that can shove 60 hot dogs down his pie hole faster than anyone else because he stretched his stomach.

I just had to look up pomme frites.    I may not be able to do it, but it sure would be fun to try!

Bacon?

Better yet a bacon burger.

This guy already tried to eat a huge bacon cheese burger..  It didn't go so well..