Posted on 08/14/2019 5:32:39 PM PDT by PROCON
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man died shortly after competing in a taco-eating contest at a minor league baseball game in California, authorities said Wednesday.
Dana Hutchings, 41, of Fresno, died Tuesday night shortly after arriving at a hospital, Fresno Sheriff spokesman Tony Botti said.
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Good though... </Utah Phillips>
Oh, Please. NO thanks.
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.
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.
LOL!
Severe food poisoning?
“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.
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.
Good deduction. Eating hard-shelled tacos as fast as one can could very likely cause the kind of injury you suggested.
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.
LOL. Ole alligator mouth.
Congratulations on having zero facts and pulling everything straight out of your keister.
Honestly, I doubt any of it makes it to her colon.
I agree, and I find the contests disgusting too.
“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.
>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/
So do I.
Blew up like in a Monty Python movie.
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