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...Maybe. But there's also the uniqueness to be found in Japan's relationship with food, and the cultural fixation on eating it or appraising it. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi wasn't six-time champion of Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest without the backing of a culture that knows how to stretch their stomachs. Many celebrity "tarento" (talent) become famous by stuffing their faces, and "oogui" (or competitive eating) is so popular that TV Tokyo, a major network, has a seasonal special program to determine the "King of Gluttons." This September, "food fighter" Ayari Sato won against seven competitors through...
...Like more established sports, competitive eating has its own body of myth (skinny competitors do better, supposedly because their stomachs have more room to expand), strategy (dunking food into juice or lemonade helps it dissolve) and controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch...
...Takeru Kobayashi, handicapped by wisdom tooth surgery and an arthritic jaw, seemed to match Joey Chestnut dog for dog until the end, when he appeared to regurgitate a couple of them. Both men broke the world record of 59, but when the July 4 competition was over, Chestnut was proclaimed the new champion of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, with a total of 66. Kobayashi was credited with...
...TAKERU (TSUNAMI) KOBAYASHI, 26, title of world hot-dog-eating champion; by gulping down 53-and-a-half hot dogs in 12 minutes; in New York City. Kobayashi broke his own 2002 record by three hot dogs in his fourth consecutive victory at the annual July 4 wiener-eating contest organized by the legendary hot-dog stand Nathan...
NATHAN'S: N.Y.C. Thomas rival Takeru Kobayashi, who ate 44.5 hot dogs in 12 min. to win last July, once scarfed down 57 cow brains...