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Subscribe to RSSIt's hard for me to understand the appeal of competitive eating. See the video below to see how this one turned out.
Juan Carlo / Ventura County Star via AP
Jim Geiger and his wife June Geiger bring the five pounds of beef on a bun served with 10 slices of cheese plus lettuce, pickle, onion, tomato, one pound of fries and, for dessert, two cups of banana pudding for two participants on Friday, Oct. 28. The Elk Burger Challenge offered fourth Fridays of every month by Elk's Lodge No. 1430 in Ventura consists of those who think they can eat all that in 60 minutes or less and pay an entry fee of $25 to give it a try. The winner will receive $100 cash and his/her picture on the Hall of Fame at the Lodge. But thus far, none of the entrants, who range in age from 19 to 65 have finished the burger, much less the banana pudding.
Juan Carlo / Ventura County Star via AP
Ken Stamps, 63, of Ventura starts eating the five pounds of beef on a bun served with 10 slices of cheese plus lettuce, pickle, onion, tomato, one pound of fries and, for dessert, two cups of banana pudding on Friday, Oct. 28. About 50 minutes into the eating contest Stamps threw in the towel. The Elk Burger Challenge offered fourth Fridays of every month by Elk's Lodge No. 1430 in Ventura consists of those who think they can eat all that in 60 minutes or less and pay an entry fee of $25 to give it a try. The winner will receive $100 cash and his/her picture on the Hall of Fame at the Lodge. But thus far, none of the entrants, who range in age from 19 to 65 have finished the burger, much less the banana pudding.
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The amount of beef in the burgers is 5 lbs? So including the bun(s), toppings, fries, and pudding, it's probably safe to say that's close to 6 lbs of food.
Eat 6 pounds of food in 60 minutes. That's a pound every 10 minutes. I was curious how this compared to competitive eaters at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (NHDEC) so I did some Googling. Joe Chestnut ate 62 hot-dogs in his last contest. Giving each hot-dog a weight of 100 grams, that's 6200 grams, or ~13.7 pounds of food. The contestants at NHDEC are allowed 10 minutes...which means he ate 1.37 pounds of food a minute.
Putting it in that light, it seems like the photographed contest should be feasible by someone who trains (somehow) to make their bodies capable of consuming 6 pounds of food in an hour. I've consumed an entire box of pasta at some points when famished (1 pound uncooked pasta translates to ~2.5 pounds cooked)...but I fall into a food coma soon after.
Looks like a good case for a heart attack.