How To Win Hotdog Eating Contests

Oddly enough, one of the requirements in order to be a champion hotdog eating contest winner is a healthy diet. It stands to reason that if you are going to abuse your stomach on a regular basis, you should be kind to it the rest of the time. If you are going to enter a hotdog eating contest, your first task of the day is a massive bowel movement. Don’t go to extremes and take anything to force a clearing of the bowels, just eat plenty of roughage th night before. Kobayashi, a long-running champion in the hotdog devouring world, eats his hotdogs according to a carefully though out plan. First a swallow of cooking oil to make the progress of the food as smooth as possible. He then removes the weiner from the bun and breaks his dog into two halves, proceeding to take as large a bite as he can swallow from two hands alternately. When it is time to eat a bun, Kobayahsi soaks it in water and rolls bits of the sodden bread into easy-to-swallow balls. Kobayashi is also a master of the gag reflex. That takes practice.

Here is a video of Kobayashi showing how tastefully a hotdog can be eaten. Unfortunately, he didn’t win this one.