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So for years I watched the Nation's hot dog eating contest on TV hoping SOMEBODY would beat Kobiyashi, the 90-pound asian wonder-eater. My friends and I threw parties and everything to watch the eating events.

Well then a few years ago this guy Joey Chestnut shows up. White, goofy American guy. I cheered that guy on throughout all his second-place finishes.

Well then I move to college. One day, I am sitting in physics last year and I saw him walk in the room. It didn't register, at first, but he looked familiar. Then it clicked, and i freaked out. It never occurred to me that he lived here in San Jose! I ran up and talked to him and he is a pretty mellow guy. A pretty mellow guy who the second time I hung out with, chugged a gallon of milk in a matter of a couple minutes. Cold milk. and he would stop to talk every few gulps. The guy is amazing.

Well the funniest part is nobody around here knows him, or what he does. It's not a very glorified sport, competitive eating. But every time i see him, i give him some fan love. He lives just a couple streets over from me and I see him all the time at 7-11, haha!

Anyway, now that I have established I know this guy,

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A competitive eater who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to take home $10,000.

Joey Chestnut, 23, of San Jose, Calif., surpassed the previous record of 97 Krystal burgers - 2 1/2 inches square - held by Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year's Krystal Square Off.

"We never thought we'd see someone anywhere near, let alone past, the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004," said Brad Wahl, vice president of marketing for The Krystal Co.

Chestnut beat 12 other contestants. Kobayashi, who won all previous Krystal Hamburger Eating Championships, didn't compete this year because of lingering jaw pain from having a wisdom tooth extracted in June.

The 29-year-old Kobayashi received chiropractic treatment before losing his hot-dog-eating belt in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July tussle in New York.




Amazing. Might I add, his chugging skills come in awful handy around gallons of beer?.... for him, at least.
It's all fun and until someone loses an eye... then it's just a game to find the eye

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So for years I watched the Nation's hot dog eating contest on TV hoping SOMEBODY would beat Kobiyashi, the 90-pound asian wonder-eater. My friends and I threw parties and everything to watch the eating events.

Well then a few years ago this guy Joey Chestnut shows up. White, goofy American guy. I cheered that guy on throughout all his second-place finishes.

Well then I move to college. One day, I am sitting in physics last year and I saw him walk in the room. It didn't register, at first, but he looked familiar. Then it clicked, and i freaked out. It never occurred to me that he lived here in San Jose! I ran up and talked to him and he is a pretty mellow guy. A pretty mellow guy who the second time I hung out with, chugged a gallon of milk in a matter of a couple minutes. Cold milk. and he would stop to talk every few gulps. The guy is amazing.

Well the funniest part is nobody around here knows him, or what he does. It's not a very glorified sport, competitive eating. But every time i see him, i give him some fan love. He lives just a couple streets over from me and I see him all the time at 7-11, haha!

Anyway, now that I have established I know this guy,

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A competitive eater who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to take home $10,000.

Joey Chestnut, 23, of San Jose, Calif., surpassed the previous record of 97 Krystal burgers - 2 1/2 inches square - held by Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year's Krystal Square Off.

"We never thought we'd see someone anywhere near, let alone past, the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004," said Brad Wahl, vice president of marketing for The Krystal Co.

Chestnut beat 12 other contestants. Kobayashi, who won all previous Krystal Hamburger Eating Championships, didn't compete this year because of lingering jaw pain from having a wisdom tooth extracted in June.

The 29-year-old Kobayashi received chiropractic treatment before losing his hot-dog-eating belt in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July tussle in New York.




Amazing. Might I add, his chugging skills come in awful handy around gallons of beer?.... for him, at least.




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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10504627.stm

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Ex-hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi held in US
Page last updated at 23:04 GMT, Sunday, 4 July 2010 00:04 UK
E-mail this to a friendPrintable version AdvertisementJoey "Jaws" Chestnut says he has a lot of respect for Takeru Kobayashi
Former hot dog speed-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi has been arrested at this year's event in New York.

The six-time champion, who did not compete in this year's event, was arrested as he tried to get on the stage after the competition.

Mr Kobayashi had refused to sign a contract with the speed-eating body Major League Eating and was barred from the event at Coney Island.

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut won the contest for the fourth year running.

Mr Kobayashi, the thin Japanese contender who smashed all previous US records in 2001, jumped a barrier and tried to get up on the stage while the crowd chanted: "Let him eat!"

'Tsunami'

He briefly resisted police attempts to eject him from the stage, grabbing a barrier as they pulled him away.

The 32-year-old has been charged with resisting arrest, trespass and obstructing governmental administration.

Mr Kobayashi had refused to sign an contract with Major League Eating Mr Kobayashi, nicknamed "The Tsunami", had written on his Japanese-languange blog that he didn't want to sign a contract that would prevent him from entering speed eating competitions run by other federations.

Mr Chestnut, 26, won this year's annual Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest, winning a mustard yellow belt and the $20,000 first prize.

But his winning score of 58 hot dogs failed to beat his previous record of 68.

In a post-eat interview he reportedly said "if [Kobayashi] was a man he'd be up on stage", provoking Mr Kobayashi, who has been his main rival for the best part of a decade, the news agency Agence-France Presse reported.

The competition has become an Independence Day tradition.

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