[jasonraymondson]

15 lbs is 15 lbs. The biggest steak I ever ate was 3.5 lbs, and I damn near died.

[Stratovarius]

Damn. That must have been an expensive burger.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he biggest steak I ever ate was 3.5 lbs, and I damn near died.

[PenultimateManStanding]

How soon we forget Paul Newman. He ate 50 eggs in Cool Hand Luke.

[gampy]

What about those skinny little Japanese kids who win those hot dog eating contests at Coney Island?

The human stomach can stretch quite a bit, as well as the tissues surrounding it. Who knows? Maybe the guy is one of those people who eat huge meals once a day. Like freaking snakes.

I wonder how much a turkey dinner with second helpings weighs?

4-5 kg?

Haha....all that fat and protein at once must have given him serious problems 36 hours later, though.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', 'W')hat about those skinny little Japanese kids who win those hot dog eating contests at Coney Island?

The human stomach can stretch quite a bit, as well as the tissues surrounding it. Who knows? Maybe the guy is one of those people who eat huge meals once a day. Like freaking snakes.

I wonder how much a turkey dinner with second helpings weighs?

4-5 kg?

Haha....all that fat and protein at once must have given him serious problems 36 hours later, though.

[Falconoffury]

Skinny people can eat more than fat people because the fat restricts the expansion of the stomach.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'S')kinny people can eat more than fat people because the fat restricts the expansion of the stomach.

[Daniel_Plainview]

That's the equivalent of eating 60 MacDonalds Quarter Pounders[sup]TM[/sup] with cheese.

[Pretorian]

The burger was over 20 pounds with all that bread and tomatos. I could eat a bigger half of it 5-6 years ago in a couple of hours.

[vision-master]

[gampy]

Apparently it took 4 hours to do it.

How fast can your stomach squeeze food through the pyloric sphincter (sp?) into the upper duodenum?

[Minvaren]

20 minute flush cycle for the stomach, IIRC.

3 flushes per hour, 4 hours = 12 flushes.

15lbs = 240oz /12 = 20 ounces of food per flush, one ounce per minute, or a quarter-pounder every 4 minutes for four hours.

Insane.

[TheDude]

But why stop at 15 lbs? 100 lb burger:



Next stop vomitorium! Where's that wafer-thin mint?

[jasonraymondson]

that kind of waste. This is why is america is doomed to fail. That much food could feed?

It is nuts.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 't')hat kind of waste. This is why is america is doomed to fail. That much food could feed?

It is nuts.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 't')hat kind of waste. This is why is america is doomed to fail. That much food could feed?

It is nuts.

[Stratovarius]

Lol, just looking at that picture of him biting it...I don't know how that fit in his body.

Takeru Kobayashi

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n June 25, 2007 Kobayashi announced on his blog that he seriously injured his jaw during training. He stated that he can only open his jaw about the width of a fingertip. Kobayashi's participation in the July 4, 2007 Nathan's contest continued as scheduled. He was able to eat a personal record 63 hot dogs, though his mark was bettered by Joey Chestnut who ate 66.[10]

[pinewillow]

Pure hedonism, the world is going to end because of this.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 't')hat kind of waste. This is why is america is doomed to fail. That much food could feed?

It is nuts.

[gampy]

Anyone seen this?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')AIPEI (Reuters Life!) – A man died just as he was about to win a university binge eating contest in Taiwan, scoffing down two buns filled with rice and cheese as well as some of his teammate's food, the college said on Friday.

The 23-year-old, described as tall and strong, vomited relentlessly, passed out and died on Thursday during the "Big Stomach King" contest at Dayeh University in central Taiwan. He had pulled ahead of 30 other teams.

"I can't say why he died," said Huang Te-hsiang, the university's dean of student affairs. "He had been in the contest before. He was a strong guy."

The graduate student, surnamed Chen, may have eaten too fast rather than too much, a campus publicist said. Chen was on course to win the five-year-old annual competition, she said. He would have won T$2,000 ($60).

Taiwan's education ministry has halted campus-based eating contests while an investigation is launched.