I fit into the "small Asian with big appetite" category. In fact, I need to eat that much in order to maintain my borderline marginally normal weight BMI. So watch out farm animals, when I'm hungry enough to eat a horse, I will do so.
suzieleung
· 1 month ago
Great post, Jeff! Loved it so much, we decided to blog about it, too! :)
Takeru Kobayashi is sent by the Japanese TV show "TV Champion" to kick American arses in fast eating because he couldn't make it as the #1 big eater in Japan at the time (He lost to Giant Shirada in 2001). Japan has a number of big eaters (not necessarily fast eaters, which is the competition in the US) promoted by TV Champion for over 10 year, and almost all of them are tiny men and women. On Japanese TV there are specials such as 100 men vs 10 - 100 hungry manly-man tag team versus 10 big eater tag team. And yes the big eaters won. The most famous big eater in Japan now is Gyaru Sone, a tiny ex-chef of a 109-gyaru who once an sundae as tall as her. Big eating shows was banned in Japan for a few years when some kids almost killed themselves trying to emulate them; but I think the ban has been lifted because I see Gyaru Sone everywhere on J-TV nowdays.
I guess the point is - Big Eaters are usually small in statue, and Asians dominate so much in this field that the loser of a TV show came to the US and dominated Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest for years.
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I guess the point is - Big Eaters are usually small in statue, and Asians dominate so much in this field that the loser of a TV show came to the US and dominated Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Champion
http://blog.watanabepro.co.jp/gyarusone/index.html
*it's so sad that the English entry in Wikipedia about TV Champion is so short. It's one of the most entertaining show ever created by mankind.
July 4th, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxXAorAEmw