competitive eating

I caught an episode of man v food the other day, so has anyone ever entered a competitive eating competition, They come across as pretty disgusting, in fact the whole idea of competitive eating is awfull.

K-9

Might be better placed in After Hours, I can move it there if you want?

kfallon

Yeah I know what you mean OP, food is supposed to be enjoyable so I don't see the point in possibly alienating a certain food from yourself by eating too much of it to the point where you become/feel ill

Gummy Panda

I only believe in competitive fanny eating

Ghandee

Not competitive eating, but I've tried competitive drinking.

The centurion, is where you attempt to drink 100 shot glasses of beer in 100 mins, one shot every min....

Its harder than it sounds. Gets you completely locked too, ask the Ethiopian taxi driver who's cab I peed myself in, in Sydney after trying it if you don't believe me.

orestes

Ghandee wrote: »

Not competitive eating, but I've tried competitive drinking.

The centurion, is where you attempt to drink 100 shot glasses of beer in 100 mins, one shot every min....

Its harder than it sounds. Gets you completely locked too, ask the Ethiopian taxi driver who's cab I peed myself in, in Sydney after trying it if you don't believe me.

Last time I did the cunturion myself and three work collegues ended up naked on St. Charles Bridge in Prague at about 3 in the morning. Fun times.

Lumbo

Ghandee wrote: »

Not competitive eating, but I've tried competitive drinking.

The centurion, is where you attempt to drink 100 shot glasses of beer in 100 mins, one shot every min....

Its harder than it sounds. Gets you completely locked too, ask the Ethiopian taxi driver who's cab I peed myself in, in Sydney after trying it if you don't believe me.

I done that in an Irish Hostel in Peru. You're right, not as easy as it sounds. It's a great way to get a party started. Although, see a lad from Roscommon try it with Vodka one night, he didn't last long.

As far as the Man V Food thing goes. Does anyone really need to eat a 6lb burger in an hour?

stmol32

Ghandee wrote: »

Not competitive eating, but I've tried competitive drinking.

The centurion, is where you attempt to drink 100 shot glasses of beer in 100 mins, one shot every min....

I was going to call bullsh*t on this until I realised it was beer not spirits.
So 100 35 ml shots is about 7 pints in an hour and forty minutes.... you'd be twisted but it's doable.

The competitive eating thing seems to be a curiously American thing I haven't seen it done in other countries that I've seen only on television.

Mint Sauce

I have had competitions with friends at Pizza Hut and Pizza Express all you can eat buffets.

I think my record in pizza hut was 14 slices of pizza, 6 peices of garlic bread, a bowl of salad, and 2 bowls of ice cream from the ice cream factory.

Pizza Express had larger heavier slices so the count was slightly lower by one or two.

pabloh999

Man v Food makes me feel uneasy. Too much starvation and crap, then this f*cker stuffin his fat head

1ZRed

Get your head out of that glory hole ya durty bastard :P

Chuck Stone

I detest the way they make competitive eating look like some sort of achievement too with adoring 'fans' cheering on the heroic fat-letes.

It's disgusting dim-witted TV.

Abi

irish-stew wrote: »

I have had competitions with friends at Pizza Hut and Pizza Express all you can eat buffets.

I think my record in pizza hut was 14 slices of pizza, 6 peices of garlic bread, a bowl of salad, and 2 bowls of ice cream from the ice cream factory.

Pizza Express had larger heavier slices so the count was slightly lower by one or two.

How the hell did you put all that away! :eek:


I've never heard of it here, or know anybody that has tried it. But I associate it with Americans because thats the only reason I know of it. I just find it repulsive. I feel awful if I eat over just what I can manage, so watching someone gorge themselves is disgusting.

Eating is for body fuel, not a game or to gamble with your health.

EoghanIRL

I saw a hot dog eating contest before z. It was disgusting . Someone ate over 40 hotdogs !!!!

kowloon

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I only believe in competitive fanny eating

orestes wrote: »

Last time I did the cunturion myself and three work collegues ended up naked on St. Charles Bridge in Prague at about 3 in the morning. Fun times.

stmol32

Chuck Stone wrote: »

....fat-letes.

My new favourite word.
The best I could think of was gobble-ympians

pabloh999

Abi wrote: »

How the hell did you put all that away! :eek:


I've never heard of it here, or know anybody that has tried it. But I associate it with Americans because thats the only reason I know of it. I just find it repulsive. I feel awful if I eat over just what I can manage, so watching someone gorge themselves is disgusting.

Eating is for body fuel, not a game or to gamble with your health.

Nathans hot dog eating competition in Coney Island NY was won for years by some small Japanese(i think) fella.
But yea it is kind of an American thing

orestes

It's an off-shoot of the old competitive circuit in America. It used to be a bunch of independant contets, usually run by radio stations or restaurants as promotional stunts, but they ended up getting a hardcore following of people who would travel around to compete in them all, then it went to a national level of organisation, got syndicated, got tv shows, and now we have stuff that's more relatable for regular folks like Man-vs-Food.

It's pretty big money in America, for companies and professional competitors, the biggest competition afaik is the Nathans hot-dog eating competition. I read a few books on it a while back, it's a pretty weird reflection of their culture with people travelling around to take part in competitions, getting sponsors, etc., and then it ended up on national tv, with competitors trying to get it recognised as a legitimate sport. At least one national league was formed and competitors have to sign to the league to compete.

The greatest competitive eater of all time isn't an American though, he's a Japanese guy called Kobayashi. He had a long standing rivalry with an American guy named Joey Chestnut but I don't think they have had a direct competition in a few years due to Kobayashi refusing to sign the leagues contracts.

It's actually pretty fascinating stuff, but in a weird way, given that you are watching people who essentially get paid to gorge themselves, possibly the most decadant reflection of society possible.

Anyway, here's a video of Kobayashi competing in a hot-dog competition with a bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo

Chuck Stone

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I detest the way they make competitive eating look like some sort of achievement too with adoring 'fans' cheering on the heroic fat-letes.

It's disgusting dim-witted TV.

Plebs eh?

suicide_circus

EoghanIRL wrote: »

I saw a hot dog eating contest before z. It was disgusting . Someone ate over 40 hotdogs !!!!

Debbie Does Dallas?

El Guapo!

irish-stew wrote: »

I have had competitions with friends at Pizza Hut and Pizza Express all you can eat buffets.

I think my record in pizza hut was 14 slices of pizza, 6 peices of garlic bread, a bowl of salad, and 2 bowls of ice cream from the ice cream factory.

Pizza Express had larger heavier slices so the count was slightly lower by one or two.

I like the way you added in the bowl of salad.
Just to be healthy like.

Chuck Stone

Deleted User wrote: »

Plebs eh?

Wat you tryna say fatty?

admiralofthefleet

i ate 2 pizza's and garlic bread once and felt as full as adam richmans toilet pot

Meangadh

I don't really enjoy going out for dinner with my friends because bar one or two of them, it always feels like competitive eating- except it's who can eat less rather than who can eat more. What's the point of treating yourself to a meal out if you're just going to have lettuce leaves and tomato soup?!

DEFTLEFTHAND

The people who do this regularly and enter prize money competitions never seem to be overweight.

Do they purge themselves when it's over or something?

Max Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UITN9-GsFY

demanufactured

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UITN9-GsFY

Shut up Verne.

orestes

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The people who do this regularly and enter prize money competitions never seem to be overweight.

Do they purge themselves when it's over or something?

From what I remember the skinnier guys don't purge but they have to be really careful about what they eat outside of competitions and training, especially since they need their stomach to be able to expand to crazy proportions. They have pretty strict training lifestyles at the top level, same as other pro athletes (not saying I consider them real athletes, but they certainly believe they are and live/train accordingly, and their dedication is pretty intense).

Tetra

The last time I was in Texas I ate at the Big Texan Steak Ranch. It's best known for its 72 ounce steak. The steak is free to anyone who can eat the meal in one hour or less. The meal consists of the steak itself, plus bread roll with butter, baked potato, ranch beans, shrimp cocktail, and salad; otherwise, the meal costs $72.00. Those who have successfully consumed the meal have their names recorded and posted at the restaurant. It was quite interesting.

http://www.bigtexan.com/

I won a pizza eating contest once. Ate a 9 (or 11, can't remember) inch pizza in about 2 minutes. Was still starving afterwards, so had a huge sandwich and then home for dinner. Went to bed hungry. Fun day.

Fromthetrees

Man versus Food is great entertainment tv.

When you think about it though it seems a bit strange to make a competition of us people against food as if we have to conquer it, food is our freakin' friend yo, why do we have to fight it?

NegativeCreep

Tetra wrote: »

The last time I was in Texas I ate at the Big Texan Steak Ranch. It's best known for its 72 ounce steak. The steak is free to anyone who can eat the meal in one hour or less. The meal consists of the steak itself, plus bread roll with butter, baked potato, ranch beans, shrimp cocktail, and salad; otherwise, the meal costs $72.00. Those who have successfully consumed the meal have their names recorded and posted at the restaurant. It was quite interesting.

http://www.bigtexan.com/

Don't have to go to Texas for that. They do it in Spur in liffey valley :L

Tetra

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Don't have to go to Texas for that. They do it in Spur in liffey valley :L

Never heard of it before

IM0

screams of attention whoring

there are other less fatal ways to get attention though

think there was a thread here on someone dying after winning one the other week?

whatever about dying, its pretty ****ed up though
I like food, well dont dislike it so much that Id like to shovel heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of the same thing into me as fast as I can
well except a whole terry's chocolate egg or a full packet of one of the big bags of galaxy minstrels in one go over about a half hour. but at least they taste good and are loaded with sugar and cocoa, quite the headrush
Now I know why girls like chocolate so much, its like a brain orgasm!

orestes

IM0 wrote: »

I like food, well dont dislike it so much that Id like to shovel heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of the same thing into me as fast as I can

Not just food, condiments too. This one really can't be good for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxBtTXymT0

IM0

well people are retards. but you knew that right?

Lapin

Ghandee wrote: »

Not competitive eating, but I've tried competitive drinking.

The centurion, is where you attempt to drink 100 shot glasses of beer in 100 mins, one shot every min....

Its harder than it sounds. Gets you completely locked too, ask the Ethiopian taxi driver who's cab I peed myself in, in Sydney after trying it if you don't believe me.

Wuss.

paconnors

Does this count

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfobnpvhnA

12gauge dave

Would be something i be interested in eating competitions is there any resturant challenges in ireland like in man vs food that anyone knows of?

splendid101

I'd like to see a competitive **** competition.

See who could blow their load the most times in a 30 year period.

demanufactured

12gauge dave wrote: »

Would be something i be interested in eating competitions is there any resturant challenges in ireland like in man vs food that anyone knows of?

Think there's a place in Cavan that doss a huge Irish breakfast.

12gauge dave

demanufactured wrote: »

Think there's a place in Cavan that doss a huge Irish breakfast.

dont suppose you know the name of the place by any chance?

Chun Li

I'd say it's The Hard Boiled Egg Café.

orestes

GluttonNumber1 wrote: »

There are more competitive eating challenges and organised contests around Dublin than you'd think. You'll find them all here at the Irish Competitive Eating Association on Facebook :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/141387789206505/?fref=ts

Nom nom nom, all you can eat spam!

Duckworth_Luas

LARDASS! LARDASS! LARDASS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0JaEde4VI

Esoteric_

Aussie BBQ is doing an all you can eat challenge, current champion ate three burgers. :rolleyes:

I love watching Man vs Food. I'd never enter an eating challenge because I have a tiny appetite, but it's funny to watch.

Esoteric_

I would possibly manage to eat about a third of one burger.

Fr_Dougal

GluttonNumber1 wrote: »

There are more competitive eating challenges and organised contests around Dublin than you'd think. You'll find them all here at the Irish Competitive Eating Association on Facebook :

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1413879206505nospam/?fref=ts

Is dat your paige?

dirtyden

pabloh999 wrote: »

Nathans hot dog eating competition in Coney Island NY was won for years by some small Japanese(i think) fella.
But yea it is kind of an American thing

There was a discovery show I think where that Asian guy took on a bear at eating hotdogs. It was a show about humans who were the best at something taking on animals. The bear won obviously. I mean it was a half tonne bear. But they guy ate a huge stack of hot dogs in minutes. He was barely chewing or swallowing. The funny thing was he was not in any way overweight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo

Esoteric_

GluttonNumber1 wrote: »

I created it to unite Irish gurgitators. Come one, come all!

I would read the boards.ie charters and Ts+Cs if I were you. :rolleyes:

Fr_Dougal

GluttonNumber1 wrote: »

I created it to unite Irish gurgitators. Come one, come all!

Post it here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82