Joey “Jaws” Chestnut regained the Mustard Yellow International Belt Monday at the annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island on Monday.
How could a 120 pound woman and mother of four, eat 13 pounds of steak in 20 minutes? Molly Schuyler was up against football players and wrestlers to see who could eat as many pounds of steak you could in an hour.
One event that took place at this past weekend’s Daytona 500 that didn’t get a lot of publicity was a bacon eating contest. It too place before the race started and new world record was set.
The 23rd annual Wing Bowl was held in Philadelphia over Super Bowl weekend and a record was set. Patrick ‘Deep Dish’ Bertoletti of Chicago ate 444 chicken wings in 30 minutes. (what the?) He beat the record set earlier this year of 363 wings.
The U.N. recently released a report saying the world’s population should eat more bugs, it would solve the world food shortage and there are benefits from eating them. Well, guess what, we are already eating bugs in most food we consume. Not always whole bugs, but bits and pieces, heads, legs, bodies and sometimes whole bugs.