What is with the cuts on her wrist?
Posted on 07/05/2005 5:43:01 AM PDT by 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.
Beautiful....... I remember that.
I forgot to mention before, as you were kind enough to list some of this nice girl's accomplishments..........don't you think that her accomplishments far outshine anything the wicked Hillary has ever accomplished in her miserable life???
And........... what's with the '12 minute' thing? They didn't even give us that much time to eat in basic training back in the 60's.
;-)
What is with the cuts on her wrist?
From your tagline........
Everything (including hot dog eating contests) happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.
You said it.
;-)
There's also a difference between worrying, and commenting on a website.
Quite true...but He also made me the way I am, and you, the way you are...
That's just nuts.
I guess, God wants some of us to lament, and some to call other people silly or nuts...
That's just nuts.
No kidding, they should ditch the cable TV and buy some food...
Save the overwhelming sanctimony for someone else........ and go have a hot dog.
;-)
LOL.
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So, here's a question for you about this historic and scintillating Coney Island hot dog eating contest. What's with the 12 minute thing???? Why not 10, 15 minutes , etc.? For years everyone was pondering why the Scottish decided on 18 holes in golf...... until they figured that's how long it took to drink a good bottle of whiskey comfortably.
Well, why 12 minutes in the hot dog eating contest?
12 minutes = how long it takes to cook a hot dog?..........
When I was in high school, a friend and I had a pancake eating contest on a campout. I ate 13, he ate 17, but he threw up five minutes later, so I won by default. :-)
As someone who has spent years cooking in commercial kitchens, those marks could well be burns (she works at a Burger King I believe). You lay your arm in the wrong place (like the edge of a hot sheet pan or grill) for a fraction and... ouch!
LOL....... from post # 26: • Maine Lobster: 38 Maine Lobsters (9.76 Pounds of meat) from the shell / 12 minutes/ Aug. 21, 2004 ------- • Turducken: 7 3/4 pounds Turducken.com Thanksgiving Dinner / 12 minutes/ Nov. 26, 2003
12 minutes to cook these too? ;-)
We did that too. But, if someone punked out and threw up, we made them eat that too. Tough neighborhood. ;-)
'Mumbly Peg' was torture.
Then you should be paying more attention. Japan has eating contests constantly, and they actually pay cash prizes as opposed to silly belts like our competitive eaters get. That's why the Japanese have been kicking our butts lately, they can be full time professional competitive eaters earning a decent living on it, you can't do that in America. the Nathan's Hotdog contest is still the most famous and generally considered the most prestigious but the land of competitive eating is Japan.
As I said, I'm sure there must be others, I just don't read or hear about them. All the time I've spent in Japan, watching local tv, I've never seen an eating contest. I've seen hundreds of programs about food, and restaurants, but never an eating contest.
Cook a turduckhen in 12 minutes? With what? A nuke weapon?.......
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