Virginia man eats 40 dozen oysters in 8 minutes to win world title

KIRO 7 ^ | 5/04/18 | Bob D'Angelo

[Libloather]

NEW ORLEANS - A Virginia man wolfed down 40 dozen oysters in eight minutes Sunday to win the World Oyster Eating Championship at the New Orleans Oyster Festival, the Times-Picayune reported.

Darron Breeden of Orange, Virginia, topped a field of seven contestants who participated in the annual contest, which is held in a park between the French Quarter and the Mississippi River.

[Libloather]

Breeden put away 480 south Louisiana oysters to defeat defending champion Michelle Lesco of Tuscon, Arizona, who polished off 27 dozen bivalves, the Times-Picayune reported.

A little squirt of hot sauce after every ten? It may not matter - it's all going to the same place.

[ml/nj]

If I ate one oyster in eight minutes, it would be a world record. Yuck!

ML/NJ

[Fungi]

He better hope the had no Vibrio.

[BBB333]

I’m with you.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yeah, I read the headline too quickly and I thought, "40 oysters? Eight minutes? I wouldn't like it (I prefer steamed clams) but I guess I can see a competitive guy doing it."

Reading more closely: 40 dozen. OMG.

[eastforker]

Hope his girl friend has good insurance and hospitalization.

[dforest]

Ugh, burp.

[SpaceBar]

The human garbage disposal craze.

[COBOL2Java]

Adam Richman only managed 20 dozen

[Sasparilla]

I was a contestant in a Guiness World record boiled shrimp eating contest in Houston in the 1970’s.
The Guiness record then was 5 pounds, but I don’t remember the time limit. I ate 4 pounds and 15 ounces, but I unknowingly slowed myself down while doing it because I was drinking beer and eating hush puppies at the same time.

[BBell]

I hear oysters are a libido booster. I guess New Orleans was a good place to be after he won.

[9YearLurker]

That’s an oyster a second for 8 minutes straight.

[Larry Lucido]

Regular oysters, or mountain oysters?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One per second. Egads.

[lee martell]

Those weren’t “Mountain Oysters”, were they?

[Tax-chick]

Eeeew.

[VeniVidiVici]

A Virginia man wolfed down 40 dozen oysters in eight minutes Sunday to win the World Oyster Eating Championship at the New Orleans Oyster Festival, the Times-Picayune reported.

And he's still sitting on the toilet.

[9YearLurker]

Ha—I was even worse, I saw it and thought, “40 oysters in 8 minutes? I bet I could do that!”

40 dozen oysters, ah, no.

[wally_bert]

Never cared for oysters.

Give me fried flounder and popcorn shrimp.

[Calvin Locke]

Jealous that Flagpole Sitting ain’t what it used to be?