Horsemen of the oesophagus
September 7, 2006 12:54 PM   Subscribe

Competitive eating continues to go from strength to strength in the USA. But there has to be another, more subtle role for a Horseman of the Oesophagus. Step forward Steve, a man who eats weird stuff so that we don't have to.
posted by PeterMcDermott (21 comments total)
 
The Sneeze! One of my favorites. I'm surprised it hasn't been on here before. (I'm sure someone will pop in and inform us that it has in a minute, but oh well.)
posted by danb at 1:01 PM on September 7, 2006


Also, check out previous competitive eating threads: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
posted by ericb at 1:04 PM on September 7, 2006


Not sure this qualifies as batshitinsane.

I thought this was fairly unimpressive until I got to where he made chocolate milk out of his wife's breast milk. C'mon, how cute is that?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 1:10 PM on September 7, 2006


So what are the theories as to why such small people can eat so much? I find that most of the featured big eaters are not the large folks we would think they would be.
posted by flarbuse at 1:14 PM on September 7, 2006


I remember Steve from this thread where he ate that corn smut.

Eww.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:28 PM on September 7, 2006


now this is wierd stuff. looks like im going to be glued to this subject for most of the night. - better than sleeping, insomniac aproach
posted by london escorts at 1:30 PM on September 7, 2006


Bun dae ki? That's for wimps. Try nak jii, Steve. (WARNING: YouTube link to NSF-sanity Korean food).
posted by Pastabagel at 2:02 PM on September 7, 2006


I refereed the Turkey eating contest last Thanksgiving, I might do it again :0
posted by onalark at 2:13 PM on September 7, 2006


for a second I thought the first link was about competitive editing, and I got all excited. Finally, a sport for me!
posted by scody at 3:02 PM on September 7, 2006


My buddy and I battered and fried a mess of minnows we caught in the lake.

They were delicious with homemade tartar sauce.
posted by Sukiari at 3:30 PM on September 7, 2006


The Steve Don't Eat It links are fairly old. I'm surprised they haven't been posted here before.
posted by JHarris at 3:32 PM on September 7, 2006


flarbuse: as I understand it, with many large people, the fat actually gets in the way. It prevents the stomach from expanding to the same Herculean proportions.
posted by Malor at 3:55 PM on September 7, 2006


Binge urge.
posted by rob511 at 4:14 PM on September 7, 2006


Pasta bagel: Nakjji just means "little octopus," and is almost always cooked....unless, of course, you mean Sannakjji, which is alive, and cut up on your plate.

It's also fucking delicious, but it's a good idea to dip the little squirmers in some sesame oil (chamgireum) before you eat so that they can't grab yr uvula on the way down.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:51 PM on September 7, 2006


flarbuse: as I understand it, with many large people, the fat actually gets in the way. It prevents the stomach from expanding to the same Herculean proportions.

That would be the "belt of fat" theory. Kinda sad that I know that.
posted by bob sarabia at 5:52 PM on September 7, 2006


It's also fucking delicious...
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:51 PM PST on September 7


I've had it/them. Let's just say I politely disagree...
posted by Pastabagel at 5:57 PM on September 7, 2006


Steve, Don't Eat It! would be an awesome TV show. In the standard half hour format, part 1 would be background on whatever he's planning to eat, part 2 would show him buying and preparing it, and in part 3 he'd eat it.

I'd watch it.
posted by Kronoss at 6:37 PM on September 7, 2006


I remember Steve from this thread where he ate that corn smut.

Well spotted, MrCD. I did search for the sneeze's url, but for some reason it didn't show up. Apologies for the dupe.

Though it may be old, I'd certainly never seen it before -- and I read that original corn smut thread. However, it isn't often I read something that makes me repeatedly laugh out aloud. And then when I pointed my daughter at it -- a PC teenager whose sense of humour is as far from mine as anyone's can be -- and she repeatedly laughed out loud as well, I thought it was worth sharing.

I'd also highly recommend the Fagone book. As someone who had no interest in the subject of competitive eating whatsoever, his book made the subject come alive through the many batshitinsane people who inhabit that world.

And if you don't think that the batshitinsane tag is justified, I'd urge you to read the book. However, as far as I'm concerned, just eating those pickled pork rinds is a more than adequate qualification for the title.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:11 PM on September 7, 2006


pickled pork feet are tasty.
posted by onalark at 7:45 PM on September 7, 2006


Two immediate thoughts.

One, my roommate works production on the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest every year, and as such knows Kobayashi by now, who is apparently a good guy, for someone who has plane loads full of groupies flying half-way around the world to watch him gorge himself.

Two, when I graduated from High School back in the day, the Student Bod President gave us all bells that we were supposed to give to our new principle, symbolic of her "ringing in" a new era. The only problem was that the new principal sucked, and a lot of us knew it all too well. She instituted bizarre policies purely to prove that she could, regularly performed random searches of students back-packs in the halls, and at one point threatened the staff of the newspaper (which until this point had been completely free of any administration oversight in it's history) with expulsion if they ran a story about HIV in the school. (She didn't want any bad publicity.)

So while we were all supposed to hand her a bell to symbolize the "ringing in" of an era most comperable to that of Delores Umbridge, one of my friends passed out baskets of "Potted Meat Food Stuffs," so that we could tie the bells to the ring on top of the can. It was our little symbol of "you suck and so we're going to make you stand on stage with an arm load of hobo pate."

I still smile thinking about that.
posted by Navelgazer at 7:50 PM on September 7, 2006


Steve, Don't Eat It! would be an awesome TV show. In the standard half hour format, part 1 would be background on whatever he's planning to eat, part 2 would show him buying and preparing it, and in part 3 he'd eat it.

Someone needs to pitch that to the food network. There's plenty of dead weight over there.
posted by bob sarabia at 9:16 PM on September 7, 2006


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