In the Krystal Square Off III World Hamburger Eating Contest in Chattanooga, Tennessee this past weekend, Takeru Kobayashi brought home another championship title by eating 97 hamburgers in 8 minutes. Joey Chestnut came in second, finishing with 91 hamburgers, followed by Patrick Bertoletti in third with 76. All the numbers are up hugely from last year's contest, in which Kobayashi narrowly beat Chestnut with a final total of 67-62 burgers. One other big change from previous years was that the contest was televised on ESPN2, which gives the sport a much wider audience and much more publicity than it enjoyed before.
The contest is known as the "square off" because the burgers that the competitors wolf down are square, but Krystal's burgers hosts the contest because they have been holding eating contests at their stores since the first one opened in 1932. According to company legend, the tradition was set when the second customer challenged the first customer to a head-to-head hamburger showdown.
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10-30-2006 @ 2:44PM
complex said...
Awesome. HAIL KOBAYASHI!
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10-30-2006 @ 4:03PM
Rkmase said...
He's getting a little pudge on him! He used to be a stick.
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10-30-2006 @ 4:22PM
tr said...
dude, that's not pudge. that's muscle. kobayashi works out like 3 hours a day, bench presses like 300 lbs.
http://paper.sznews.com/images/n3/pic_215342.jpg
check out those muscles!
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