Competitive Eating???

[eaglobo]

There's actually a federation for this??? I honestly don't care how many hotdogs some guy from Japan eats...I usually conk out after 3 at most. I don't get this at all.

 

[TXGin]

I agree with you, Jerry. I have very few pet peeves, but this is one. I have never understood eating competitions. I find it disgusting and very wasteful. How is that entertaining to see how many hotdogs someone can stuff in their mouth? Totally disgusting IMHO!x(

Gin

 

[eminenz2]

In a world where millions go hungry every day, the fact this is a 'sport' is disgusting.

Susan L.G.

 

[ally1966]

I agree completely -- and when I heard competitive eating referred to as a "sport" in a news story on the radio yesterday, I almost choked on my coffee! Where do we draw the lines?

 

[Sunshine 1528]

Crazay stuff, huh?

There is a competitor from San Jose, CA, half an hour from me, who is quite near the top, though it sounds like he must have lost today?

Our local BBQ competition a couple of weeks ago featured a hot dog eating contest.

Definitely not for me. Good thing there were too many people around the tables so I couldn't even see what was going on. I heard the were dipping them in water to soften the buns and then pretty much swallowing them.

No thanks.

 

[MSJ]

Dh and I stumbled across this competition going on on the radio today. It was one of the wierdest things I have ever heard. I felt sick just thinking about how much food they were consuming. I mean I've heard of eating contests, but I had no idea it was treated like an athletic event. Very strange and disgusting....

Maggie

 

[diane57]

It really doesn't bother me at all - if that's what folks want to do, and that's what people want to see, it's fine with me. People waste food all the time every day in America - we all have too much of everything, restaurant portions are huge, I throw out food that is past its expiration date, the dozens of hot dogs that are consumed as part of the competition are not much in the grand scheme of things. And I guess to me, competitive eating is not much different from other hobbies that others love and I don't - any kind of sport to me is boring to watch, a bunch of guys trying to see who can tackle each other more and get a ball to one side of the field? 2 guys in a ring trying to pin each other to a mat? Totally don't get the appeal. Ditto with car racing, horse racing, rodeos, monster truck rallies, Broadway musicals, muscle-building competitions, sky diving, soccer, etc. But I do understand that other people like this stuff, there are risks with most of those things but the participants don't mind taking the risks and the audience is happy. No harm no foul.

 

[kathryn]

I happened to come across one of these on TV one day, so out of morbid curiosity, I watched.

Why rather than stuff like corn on the cob, watermelon (the typical state fair eating contest stuff), they make people eat really disgusting things (or things that are disgusting when eaten in large quantities): bull testicles, wasabi sushi, butter...?

And during the contest, the 'winner' of each separate event was then in the final event, so they had to pig out twice (I wonder what the person who won the second-to-last round did to be able to compete so soon afterwards).

It seems a bit like sanctioned bullemia.

I was amazed, though, at how slim the asian hot-dog-eating champ was.

 

[LauraMax]

I won a pie eating contest at camp when I was 13. It was pretty disgusting though. I ended up with it all up my nose & was swallowing, blowing & tasting blueberry pie for at least the next 24 hours. It completely turned me off to blueberry pie for the rest of my life.

But I can still put away more food than anyone else I know. If competitive eating was a career I think I'd sign up. :9 :7 :+