Fruitcake Failure

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks on December 28, 2008 at 1:54 pm


Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi {wiki} has won awards for eating hot dogs, hamburgers, dumplings, bratwurst, lobster rolls, cow brains, and rice balls. But he completely gave up on the world record at a fruitcake eating competition!

With only a 1/2 pound to go at 8 minutes, Kobayashi began crumbling the nutty cake before jamming it into his mouth, a technique that seemed effective.

“Koby! Koby! Koby!” the crowd of about two dozen shouted, as his pace quickened.

By 8 minutes and 35 seconds, Sonya Thomas’ 2001 record was still almost a pound out of his reach. In the end, Kobayashi managed to eat 4 pounds and 8 ounces.

“It was very difficult to eat because it was so dense,” Kobayashi said through a translator, admitting that he had never eaten the cake before.

The fruitcake record remains at 4 pounds 14 ounces, eaten in ten minutes. The event held Friday raised funds for a food bank in New York City. Link -via Unique Daily

(image credit: Handschuh/News)


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10 comments to "Fruitcake Failure"

  1. gtron
    December 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    being slender and surrounded by fat folks and excessive consumerism, I have a real problem with gluttony and wasted food, and so this sort of story has always pissed me off - even the "sports" news shows these eating "contests" as though there is something athletic involved - with all the starving people out there, this should be outlawed - I really cannot understand why it is newsworthy in any sense - not neat at all

  2. Gauldar
    December 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Gluttony, brought to you by the FOX Network.

  3. Barm
    December 28th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    Kobeyashi is also a slender person surrounded by fatties, so deal with it.

    But how did he move from being half a pound away at 8 minutes to being a pound away at 8:35? That doesn't make any sense.

  4. Evilbeagle
    December 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    gtron, lighten up. If I were starving I wouldn't eat fruit cake anyway. :P

    I can't imagine it being easy to eat something like that so fast. The choking hazard must be scary.

  5. Evilbeagle
    December 28th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Oh, gtron, this excessive waste is being held for a food bank. But that's just not good enough, I reckon, because you just want to stand on your soap box.

    I'm slim too, and I don't hold fat folks with such contempt as you seem to. I see people with personalities, not fat. Their weight issues are none of my business and not my place to address or judge.

  6. Noelegy
    December 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    I have to admit...I like fruit cake...

  7. liphttam1
    December 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    Barm to anser your question... Vommit. I doubt he likes fruit cake.

  8. Dinflux Ed
    December 29th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Thats pretty interesting I didnt really think that the density of the food made much of a difference. I thought competitive eaters could just shove anything in their stomach...

  9. GailW
    December 29th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    How sad to have eaten so much fruitcake and still win no prize.

  10. violet
    December 29th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    I love this man. I love it when people go all the way, even, or maybe especially, in the realm of the absurd. And congratulations go out to Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, all 90 pounds of her, for keeping her fruitcake title. She's a machine.

    And gtron, if you're going to whine about wasted food, you might want to look into some tons upon tons of rotting corn and other crops that sit around in this country because they are overproduced. Honestly, 4 pounds of fruitcake? Perspective fail.

    And many of us would consider Takeru a martyr for taking this fruity abomination off our hands. Our slender, judgy, non-wasteful hands.


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