Kobayashi sets another record

by Nicole Weston, Posted Sep 24th 2006 @ 12:03PM

It is extremely unlikely that you could out-eat world champion competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi, but what if you had three friends on your team? As it turns out, 4:1 are not good enough odds to take on the champ. In the World Lobster Roll Eating Challenge in Boston, a team of four young Massachusetts residents (about 19 years old or so) tried, collectively, to eat more than Kobayashi. Even with $10,000 prize money as an incentive, the four could only put away 25 rolls to Kobayashi's 41.Kobayashi, who has been called the Lance Armstrong of the competitive eating world, took home the prize money instead of the local team.

As with many things that Kobayashi eats, this number is the new world record for lobster-roll eating. He only tasted his first lobster roll the night before the competition and said that he thought he could beat his record in the future, now that he was more familiar with the food.

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Filed under: Food Oddities, Super Size Me
Tags: boston, competition, competitive, competitive eating, east coast, eat, eating, ifcoe, kobayashi, lobster, lobster rolls, oddities, super size me, takeru

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9-24-2006 @1:17PM POOT-TOOP said... How does this guy not get fat?
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9-24-2006 @3:52PM Dr. Electro said... I hate this fool on the priciple that he eats like a pig and never gains any weight. What does he do, work out eight hours a day?

Whatever his secret is, he has raised the bar on gluttony to stratospheric heights. So, congratulations one more time to the skinny runt with the bottomless gut. I swear his only limit is the timer.
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9-24-2006 @5:10PM MJ said... They might as well forget beating this guy,he has an abnormal stomch or something, to eat that many rolls without something bad happening! And the poor souls that keep trying to beat him. I watched him in the hotdog contest and what was even more gross was he dipped the hotdogand bun in water and just inhaled the thing.........LOL..........too gross!
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9-24-2006 @10:24PM al said... don't hate on kobayashi! just because he can eat alot and not get fat like u guys. u fatsos just need to exercise more!!! KOBAYASHI IS THE MAN!!!!
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9-25-2006 @3:10PM Ryan said... He works out ALL day and does this for a living (i'm serious). He trains by eating as much lettuce as he can in one sitting to stretch out his stomach and then works out all day. This is how he stays in shape.
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