Anyone here care to explain?

magnificentsynthesizer said:

I think its mostly one of those things thats for self pride. Like that Koboshi guy who always wins, the skinny Japanese guy, All the guys that compete against him are like massive lardo's who are thinking how in the hell does this 125 pound kid beat a 300 bruiser like me. Its ego

i guess "i can show you better than i can tell you" is not the most appropriate response, is it?

oral fixation

make of that what you will

and maybe the guys just like the flavor of the food!

to see who gets the first heart attack

gluttony,to show other countries how glutton america is,well forget starving children and people in third world countries,why dont we stuff 10 pounds of pork into our stomachs! becuase you know colon cancer is fun!

weepingwall said:

it's not an exclusively American phenomenon. it's very popular in Japan, where they had competive eating game shows in the nineties..... you almost never see it televised in America.

byronic said:

the same explanation i gave for america,i give it to japan.

Anxiety said:

um...well not if that's a pick up line.

It's so fucking gross, I don't understand what idiot could actually become involved in this stuff

magnificentsynthesizer said:

you know, i never thought about trolling a hot dog eating contest. it's like a whole new world has opened up for me now.

Too much food overload

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Maybe the guy does not think about the food and just eats.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

i have no answers. none.

Disgusting. I picture Kobayashi binging & purging as practice to stretch out his stomach.

But didn't some guy just break Kobayashi's record?

this thread isn't helping.

NDRU said:

Didn't they say eating cabbage will stretch your stomach. I could've sworn I heard that from somewhere. Yeah, I saw on the news where the new record is 59 1/2 hotdogs in 12 minutes.
http://www.boston.com/new..._hot_dogs/

AnckSuNamun said:

What about dried fruit & water? or Pop Rocks & soda?

NDRU said:

Dried fruit and water....really? I eat dried fruit a lot and drink water. I've tried the pop rocks/soda thing too as a child.....curious to see what would happen. You know how kids are.

AnckSuNamun said:

didn't you hear that Mikey from the Life Cereal commercial died from Pop Rocks & soda?! probably not, you're too young, also it wasn't true.

My mom told me about dried fruit & water. But my mom was notorious for lying.

Anxiety said:

I'm pretty sure at the end of the contest it's really a Gas.