Winner Downs 49 Hot Dogs in 12 Minutes (Coney Island)

Yahoo.com ^ | 7/4/05 | unknown

[beyond the sea]

W NEW YORK - For the fifth straight year, it was a victory Takeru Kobayashi could truly relish. Kobayashi, 27, captured the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Monday, gobbling a nauseating 49 dogs in 12 minutes — but missing his own world record of 53 1/2, set at last year's July Fourth competition.

The win means the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt will return to Japan for the ninth year out of the past 10. New Jersey's Steve Keiner, who won in 1999, is the only American to capture the title in the past decade.

Kobayashi, of Nagano, stands 5 feet 7 inches and weighs just 144 pounds.

The runner-up was Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va. — known as The Black Widow on the competitive-eating circuit — who set an American record by downing 37 hot dogs in the same 12 minutes.

Thomas, who manages a Burger King restaurant, separates the hot dog from the bun and eats them separately. She dips the bun in water to make it easier to swallow with less chewing.

"I want to be No. 1 in the world, so I practice," she told CNN shortly after the contest. "I'm working on more speed."

She said she was planning a light dinner — maybe a salad.

"My stomach doesn't hurt," she said, "but my jaw is tired."

Thomas, who weighs a remarkable 105 pounds, is a rising speed-eating star. Last December in Atlantic City, N.J., she finished off 89 meatballs — about six pounds' worth — in 12 minutes. And in August, she captured a lobster-eating contest in Maine by consuming 38 of the creatures in 12 minutes.

The hot dog contest takes place outside the original Nathan's in Coney Island. The contest was first held there in 1916.

[Right Wing Assault]

But a Japanese guy won, so they must be the real gluttens. Anyway, it's all Bush's fault.

[Right Wing Assault]

gluttons

[reagan_fanatic]

The runner-up was Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., who set an American record by downing 37 hot dogs in the same 12 minutes.

I want to marry this woman.

What the article didn't mention is that the hot dogs were tied together end to end. There were more than a few men watching who got weak in the knees...

[beyond the sea]

I bet all the starving people in the world, really appreciate our having these food-eating contests, and showing the whole world via satellite and media.

Yeh......... it's breaking my heart..... I hope you're kidding.

Mom to me in the 50's: "Finish what's on your plate..... people are starving in ..........fill in the blank."

[beyond the sea]

right on!

[Stand Watch Listen]

Sonya Thomas

Alexandria, VA
Age: 37
Weight: 105
• Armour Vienna Sausage: 8.31 pounds Armour Vienna Sausage /Lowe's Motor Speedway Charlotte / 10 Minutes/ May 28, 2005
• Asparagus: 5.75 pounds Tempura Deep Fried Aspargus Spears/ Stockton Asparagus Fest / 10 minutes/ Apr. 24, 2004
• Baked Beans, Long Course: 8.4 Pounds Baked Beans/ 84 Lumber / 2 minutes 47 seconds/ Aug. 7, 2004
• Cheesecake: 11 pounds Downtown Atlantic Cheesecake / 9 minutes/ Sept. 26, 2004
• Chicken Nuggets: 80 Chicken Nuggets / 5 Minutes
• Chicken Wings: 167 chicken wings / 32 minutes
• Chicken Wings, National Buffalo Wing Festival: 161 chicken wings, 5.09 lbs / 12 minutes/ Sept. 5, 2004
• Eggs: 65 Hard Boiled Eggs / 6 minutes, 40 seconds
• Fruitcake: 4 pounds, 14 1/4 ounces Wegmans Fruitcake / 10 minutes/ Dec. 30, 2003
• Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: 25 grilled cheese sandwiches/ GoldenPalace.com / 10 Minutes/ Feb. 12, 2005
• Hamburger: Giant Barrick Burger: 9 pound cheeseburger/ Plaza Hotel Casino / 48 minutes, 10 seconds/ Jan. 22, 2005
• Hamburgers: 7 Burgers (3/4 pound) "Thickburgers" / 10 minutes
• Jambalaya: 9 Pounds Crawfish Jambalaya/ LuLu's Mardi Gras / 10 Minutes/ Feb. 24, 2004
• Maine Lobster: 38 Maine Lobsters (9.76 Pounds of meat) from the shell / 12 minutes/ Aug. 21, 2004
• Meatballs: 6 pounds Meatballs/ Carmine's Restaurant at Tropicana Hotel Casino / 12 minutes/ Dec. 4, 2004
• Oysters: 46 Dozen Acme Oysters/ Acme Oyster House / 10 Minutes/ Mar. 20, 2005
• Pizza: 6 Extra Large Bacci Pizza Slices / 15 Minutes/ June 19, 2004
• Pulled Pork: 23 pulled pork sandwiches / 10 minutes/ Oct. 3, 2003
• Quesadilla: 31.5 4-inch Cheese Quesadilla / 5 minutes
• Sweet Potato Casserole: 8.62 pounds/ NC State Fair / 11 minutes/ Oct. 20, 2004
• Tacos: 48 soft chicekn tacos/ Zocalo Restaurant / 11 minutes/ Sept. 29, 2004
• Toasted Ravioli: 4 pounds toasted ravioli by Charlie Gitto's at Harrah's St. Louis / 12 Minutes/ Nov. 20, 2004
• Turducken: 7 3/4 pounds Turducken.com Thanksgiving Dinner / 12 minutes/ Nov. 26, 2003

[beyond the sea]

go have a hot dog

[beyond the sea]

Thomas, who manages a Burger King restaurant, separates the hot dog from the bun and eats them separately. She dips the bun in water to make it easier to swallow with less chewing. "I want to be No. 1 in the world, so I practice," she told CNN shortly after the contest. "I'm working on more speed." She said she was planning a light dinner — maybe a salad. "My stomach doesn't hurt," she said, "but my jaw is tired."

Me too ( I want to marry this woman)

I saw her yesterday (as I watched the contest). She's pretty funny and cute too. She was on Jay Leno a while ago knocking down dozens of oysters!

[beyond the sea]

It just bothers me that our country seems to promote over-indulgence in lots of things

Yeh ... like self-esteem.

Stop the silly bull about the hot dog eating contest. Worry about something a little more meaningful.

[beyond the sea]

37

;-)

[Muzzle_em]

Exactly!

[beyond the sea]

ROFL ...... all in one sitting!

[beyond the sea]

Oysters: 46 Dozen Acme Oysters/ Acme Oyster House / 10 Minutes/ Mar. 20, 2005

This gets me just a little excited.

;-)

[stuartcr]

Yeah, but I never read or hear about eating-contests in other countries, although I'm sure they must have them.

[beyond the sea]

The Sonya Thomas version of Michelle Malkin.......... I wonder if she can write like Michelle.

;-)

[stuartcr]

Not kidding...why?

[stuartcr]

Yeah, there's little that is less meaningful than starving people...

[Charles Martel]

Mom to me in the 50's: "Finish what's on your plate..... people are starving in ..........fill in the blank."

HAIL TO THEE, FAT PERSON!

by Allan Sherman

[Recitation with the tune of "America The Beautiful" in the background]

I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat.

Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service. When I was a child, my mother said to me, "Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe." And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of.

So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day, because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe. But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.

So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny or in some other way normal - when you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person, do not scoff at that fat person. Oh no! Take off your hat. Hold it over your heart. Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice say to him:

"Hail to thee, fat person! You kept us out of war!"

____________________________

Copyright ca. 1963 by Curtain Call Productions, Inc.

Recorded by Allan Sherman on the LP "My Son the Nut"

[beyond the sea]

Try to concentrate............ready????

There is something SILLY about worrying about a hotdog eating contest!