Posted on 05/30/2015 11:42:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Turns out Joey Chestnut is as good at eating burritos as he is at slamming down hot dogs.
Chestnut is best known for having won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest over and over and over again.
His 2014 victory marked his eighth straight triumph.
But Chestnut is no one-food pony, as he proved last night following a Denver Outlaws game at Sports Authority Field.
The food was provided by Illegal Pete's, as seen in this Denver Outlaws Twitter shot: The competitors even included Outlaws player Michael Simon — but Chestnut crushed the competition.
In just ten minutes, Chestnut stuffed down nineteen burritos.
That translates to approximately fourteen pounds of food.
For his trouble, Chestnut earned $2,500, as seen in this Illegal Pete's re-tweet from the Major League Eating account.
Afterward, Chestnut characterized his win as a nice warm-up for the next Nathan's contest, which is slated to take place on July 4.
With luck, all the burritos will have worked their way through his system by then.
Here's a 9News video of the gastronomic mayhem.
It’s certainly the most entertaining. :P
I’m not sure gluttony even applies, since he’s not eating for the traditional reasons. Greed, maybe.
After eating 14 pounds and not dying, it looks like they would legalize Pete’s burritos. They cannot be that harmful. Well, maybe the aftermath.....
I found it interesting that the petite girl to Joey’s left slammed down 18 to Joey’s winning 19! Wonder if she is a “pro competition eater”?
There was something recently about some tiny girl eating a huge steak in Texas or somewhere for a championship. It boggled my mind. I could not possibly eat that much, and I am a lot bigger than she is.
Back when I was little, a county fair I attended had a blueberry pie eating contest. People (mostly teenagers) would sit at a long picnic table and a blueberry pie was placed in front of them. They then had to eat with their hands tied behind their backs.
When the contest is over, everybody's face was smeared with blueberry. I found that to be quite disgusting and even to this day, a wave of revulsion comes over me when I see blueberry pie and think of that day.
Also, is a contest like this something you would want on your resume? I mean, if you are applying for a job and the interviewer asks you about your other achievements outside of work, would you really want to put out there that you can eat 23 hot dogs in two minutes?
After he’s been in the bathroom for 3 days, run through a carton of toilet paper and a box of industrial strength febreeze he may rue the day he accepted this particular challenge.
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Undocumented Pete’s PING!
He probably is sponsored by Roto-Rooter
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