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Man dies after competing in California taco-eating contest
AP ^ | Aug. 14, 2019 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/14/2019 5:32:39 PM PDT by PROCON

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To: Viking2002

Good though... </Utah Phillips>


21 posted on 08/14/2019 6:11:23 PM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: Husker24

Oh, Please. NO thanks.


22 posted on 08/14/2019 6:11:27 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: PROCON
My first experience with tacos was in 1976 in South Carolina.

Up until the early 1970s, food was rather bland in America. Most people had meat and potatoes just about every night. Nothing too exotic. One in a while, we'd get chinese food on a Friday or Saturday night. We'd get pu-pu platters and take it home in greasy white take-out bags. Tucked into a waxy bag would be fortune cookies.

I liked the meat on a stick. Also, the fried pork.

But tacos? None of that in my childhood until 1976 in South Carolina. I did not have tacos again until I was in the Marines in the early 1980s. They served them in the mess hall over at Camp Pendleton. Also, I discovered Taco Bell in Southern California. That was the beginning of more exotic food for me.

23 posted on 08/14/2019 6:15:49 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: PROCON

I have always hated the waste of food.

We always had enough food but there were a couple of years when my parents had to scrape to supply us with food. My Father had a good job at Tyndall but there was a huge layoff around 1953. Daddy tried selling vacuum cleaners, then brushes etc. before he got back on at Eglin.

I can recall them feeding us powdered milk and we complained. They then tried to mix it with real milk but we immediately knew. I had no idea how hard they had it for about a year. Mother worked at a shirt factory but they could only use her part time.

I still can’t stand the idea of wasting anything but mostly food.


24 posted on 08/14/2019 6:16:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: BenLurkin

LOL!


25 posted on 08/14/2019 6:18:12 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: PROCON

Severe food poisoning?


26 posted on 08/14/2019 6:24:56 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Husker24

“Look up Molly Schyler on YouTube she at 22.5 lbs of brisket in around 45 minutes”

She must have a Playdough factory for a colon.


27 posted on 08/14/2019 6:29:06 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: PROCON

28 posted on 08/14/2019 6:29:25 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: yarddog

We were poor. Lived with my grandparents. 5 of us in a one bedroom house. We got commodities. And we lived in a farming community so as soon as the fields were cut loose we went and got what was left. My grandmother and mother canned everything that was brought to us or we went to the fields and got. And boy could they cook from scratch. I don’t ever remember being hungry but I guess even then i knew we worked for what we ate. I hate throwing away food too.


29 posted on 08/14/2019 6:29:37 PM PDT by sheana
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To: no-to-illegals
It was hard shell can believe that some of the hard shells behaved as razor blades in the esophagus.

Good deduction. Eating hard-shelled tacos as fast as one can could very likely cause the kind of injury you suggested.

30 posted on 08/14/2019 6:31:32 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: EEGator

He’s a diabetic so it sounded like hypoglycemia. He had been starving himself and probably shot up insulin and waited too long, went into seizures (misinterpreted as choking), the EMTs treated it as choking and only later checked his blood sugar.


31 posted on 08/14/2019 6:34:56 PM PDT by struggle
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To: null and void

LOL. Ole alligator mouth.


32 posted on 08/14/2019 6:39:08 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: struggle

Congratulations on having zero facts and pulling everything straight out of your keister.


33 posted on 08/14/2019 6:43:59 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Rebelbase

Honestly, I doubt any of it makes it to her colon.


34 posted on 08/14/2019 6:48:46 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: exDemMom

I agree, and I find the contests disgusting too.


35 posted on 08/14/2019 6:56:30 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: SamAdams76

“My first experience with tacos was in 1976 in South Carolina”

Mine was 1967, Grapevine Texas area, I was 8 years old. It was absolutely foreign to the entire family having traveled from So Cal on vacation. Not that Tacos were all that great in So Cal. Soft Tacos didn’t exist then, at least not in (then) conservative Orange County.


36 posted on 08/14/2019 7:00:59 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Kozak

>Congratulations on having zero facts and pulling everything straight out of your keister.

https://gvwire.com/2019/08/14/sheriffs-office-ids-fresno-taco-eating-contestant-who-died/


37 posted on 08/14/2019 7:01:10 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Amberdawn

So do I.


38 posted on 08/14/2019 7:02:24 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: PROCON

Blew up like in a Monty Python movie.


39 posted on 08/14/2019 7:05:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Husker24

She also likes steak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFEBR0ORq7s


40 posted on 08/14/2019 7:13:54 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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