Shit Pookie, do you mean there’s even eating contest science now???
The end of the World is nigh, I tell ye!!
Yup, I work in a bar on Friday and Saturday nights. In lieu of the UFC, that shit was on last night! Unbelievable. Only in America would gluttony be a sport.
I can’t wait for it to be an olympic sport…
Here in Austria, pie eating is still relegated to underground subcultural scenes. But how long until the dam breaks?
[quote]Robert Monti wrote:
Yup, I work in a bar on Friday and Saturday nights. In lieu of the UFC, that shit was on last night! Unbelievable. Only in America would gluttony be a sport.[/quote]
Except the world eating champion is Japanese. And in the contest I saw, he threw out some poses and the guy actually is fairly ripped.
[quote]pookie wrote:
Big-titted blonde eating bugs on Fear Factor (stupid, but tittillating and gross): high viewership.[/quote]
I like the concept of Fear Factor, except for the eating-gross-things part. They seem to have confused fear with disgust, and should probably just split it into two shows, Fear Factor and Gross Factor.
[quote]AMIRisSQUAT wrote:
Chad, chad, chad. Modern sporting eludes you. It isnt a contest, its a competition. And theyre all using your high frequency protocols (applied liberally to food intake regimes) to cause an overload and experience a training effect. So before you knock cutting-edge organized gluttonny; think outside the pie.
Amir[/quote]
Ha! That’s good!
[quote]pookie wrote:
My theory is that the stupider the show you put on TV, the wider your potential audience is. Large viewer audiences equals more ad revenues, equals happy network executives.
British theater on PBS (sophisticated, high-brow entertainment): low viewership.
Big-titted blonde eating bugs on Fear Factor (stupid, but tittillating and gross): high viewership.
Your pie eating contest goes right into the second category. Low bugdet (unknowns eating pie is almost a zero dollar production), universally “appealing” (everyone eats and can “relate” to eating a lot of pie). Making a contest out of it provides just enough drama to interest enough viewers to make such a show a success. Sad, but true.[/quote]
Sad but true, indeed.
[quote]Tizza wrote:
ToShinDo wrote:
It cracks me up to see that tiny little Japanese guy totally smoke guys that are twice his size. It’s unreal how fast he eats.
What about the tiny Oriental girl? There was a contest a few weeks back (not really themed, as they were eating basically huge plates of appetizers) where the little guy was matched with the little girl. The two of them together put away something like 22 pounds of loaded potato skins. Disgusting, yet I couldn’t look away…[/quote]
22 pounds?! Man, can you image the size of the dump…well, I won’t go there.
[quote]bikemike wrote:
Part of the problem is the huge amount of cable channels, including sports channels. There is way to much air time to fill, so the networks find anything that slightly resembles “sport” to put on the air. I think the poker and billiards and spelling bees are equally stupid on the sports channels.[/quote]
Actually, I kinda dig the Spelling B’s - at least they require intelligence. But I wouldn’t call it a sport either.
[quote]Disc Hoss wrote:
CW,
On a side note, how much JD do you allow on the weekly splurge and do you feel it is significant enough to adversely alter hormonal output?
DH
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One double on the rocks - that’s it. Does it affect hormonal output? Probably to a certain extent, but that’s what a splurge is!
[quote]pookie wrote:
I remember reading somewhere that fat people didn’t do as well as expected in those competition because their intra-abdominal fat prevented their stomach from stretching to as large a size as some of their thinner competitors.[/quote]
Hmmm, interesting.
[quote]michael2507 wrote:
Here in Austria, pie eating is still relegated to underground subcultural scenes. But how long until the dam breaks? [/quote]
I give it 6 months.
[quote]vroom wrote:
It seems we brainy folks are losing out on the race to spread our genes across the Earth…
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you’re right, I think we need to start picking up the slack a little
[quote]Chris Shugart wrote:
Eating contest secret: If bread items like hotdog buns or hamburger buns are on the menu, shove them in your glass of water first for a soaking, then eat them.
Can’t remember where I read that, but I filed it in my Big Book O’ Knowledge I’ll Never Use.
Oh, and oddly enough, most of the “champion” contestants don’t starve before the contest. They eat breakfast and everything. [/quote]
GRRROSS!
I once ate 22 tacos at one sitting. It wasn’t a contest, it was an all you can eat taco night for $6 and I was going to get my moneys worth.
Another time I ate 44 buffalo wings. It was 10 cent buffalo wing night at a local irish pub in Redondo Beach. I had just come from lifting and figured I could use the extra protien.
They were really hot, so I got to enjoy them twice.
Not proud, just a sharin…
[quote]dahun2 wrote:
I once ate 22 tacos at one sitting. It wasn’t a contest, it was an all you can eat taco night for $6 and I was going to get my moneys worth.
Another time I ate 44 buffalo wings. It was 10 cent buffalo wing night at a local irish pub in Redondo Beach. I had just come from lifting and figured I could use the extra protien.
They were really hot, so I got to enjoy them twice.
Not proud, just a sharin…[/quote]
There was this oyster bar where I used to be stationed and they had boiled shrimp on Monday nights for $1.80/dozen. The “dozen” was usually more like 20 though. Anyway, I ate 180 shrimp one night there (plus drank 8 of the dollar beers). I think because you had to peel the shrimp, that I burned off most of the calories just during the eating process 
[quote]dahun2 wrote:
I once ate 22 tacos at one sitting. It wasn’t a contest, it was an all you can eat taco night for $6 and I was going to get my moneys worth.
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This isn’t really a personal best, but some friends and I would go to Taco Bell quite often when I was in Monterey. I’d always get the taco six pack and have it finished by the time we got back to the barracks (about a 1 mile drive).
Then I’d go down to McDonalds later that night and get a double Big Mack value meal (super-sized, of course). That was back when I was tipping the scales at about 140 (still 5’9"), so it doesn’t really boggle my mind that the world’s best eaters are relatively small people.
[quote]Tizza wrote:
dahun2 wrote:
I once ate 22 tacos at one sitting.
This isn’t really a personal best, but some friends and I would go to Taco Bell quite often when I was in Monterey. I’d always get the taco six pack and have it finished by the time we got back to the barracks (about a 1 mile drive).
Then I’d go down to McDonalds later that night and get a double Big Mack value meal (super-sized, of course). That was back when I was tipping the scales at about 140 (still 5’9"), so it doesn’t really boggle my mind that the world’s best eaters are relatively small people.[/quote]
I bet a bunch of T-Doggers have big-eating, war stories such as these to tell.
I remember eating 5 dozen raw oysters, back-to-back, while in New Orleans at an oyster bar. Man were they good. Those tacos I ate, bye the way, were the home-made type.
I think once-in-while, good ol, total glutany is good!! Hell, if the porkers can slam down a whole box of cookies and a gallon of Ben & Gerries, why can’t we pound down a boat-load of protien, right?
I once had 38 slices of pizza in 2 hours. In the name of bulking, me and some friends decided to go to a local pizza buffet and have a contest.
About 7,000 thousand calories later, I was crowned champion.