Comments on: Fruitcake Failure

By: violet

violet — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000

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.

By: GailW

GailW — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:07:08 +0000

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

By: Dinflux Ed

Dinflux Ed — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:18:24 +0000

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…

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:05:10 +0000

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

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:40:40 +0000

I have to admit…I like fruit cake…

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:28:20 +0000

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.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:20:23 +0000

gtron, lighten up. If I were starving I wouldn’t eat fruit cake anyway.

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

By: Barm

Barm — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:11:23 +0000

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.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Gluttony, brought to you by the FOX Network.

By: gtron

gtron — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:33:48 +0000

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