3-2-1 Eat!
Glutton Bowl-Brains
Glutton bowl-eggs
Perhaps no event has ever tested the skills of the world's greatest eaters in such a broad variety of disciplines as The Glutton Bowl, a two-hour IFOCE-sanctioned eating special aired on Fox Television .The greatest eaters from the United States and around the globe convened in California for an event of enormous magnitude to the world of competitive eating.
The Glutton Bowl promised, and delivered, the most drama this sport has seen since the rivalry between Hirofumi Nakajima and Edward Krachie in the mid 1990s. In scenes that make Cool hand luke look like an amateur, eggs, Hot dogs, Sushi Butter and Brains are despatched by the elite IFOCE athletes.
3-2-1 eat! and may the biggest Glutton win!
STOP PRESS:
Here's the tale of the tape
The list of foods eaten in each round and the winning amount eaten are as follows (each competition was 12 minutes long):
Qualifying Rounds
Hard-boiled eggs
the winner, Eric "Badlands" Booker, ate 38 eggs
Quarter-pound sticks of butter
the winner, Don "Moses" Lerman, ate 10 sticks
Whole beef tongue
3 lb (1.4 kg) to each tongue
the winner, Dominic "The Doginator" Cardo, ate 1 tongue plus a few bites of another
Hot Dogs
the winner, Takeru Kobayashi, ate 31 hot dogs - bun and all
Mayonnaise
32oz. per bowl.
winner, Oleg Zhornitskiy ate 4 bowls which is equivalent to 8 pounds of mayo
Hamburgers
3oz. meat patties plus the bun (fast food type burgers)
winner, Jed "The Jalapeno King" Donahue, ate 1115-foot (4.6 m), 12 lb (5.4 kg). sushi roll including 2 one foot long pieces of Wasabi
the winner, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, consumed 3.8 feet (1.2 m)
Wild Card Round
Cooked (but not fried) Rocky Mountain Oysters
3 lb (1.4 kg)
Finals
Cow brain (1/3 pound each)
one plate and on to second (10 lb per platter and 5 lb (2.3 kg) for additional platter)
won by Takeru Kobayashi
Kobayashi KING of Gluttons