PHILADELPHIA - Takeru Kobayashi, often called the greatest competitive eater of all time, set a new record Friday at Wing Bowl 20, the annual chicken wing-eating contest in this city.
In his first year of competition, Kobayashi downed 337 wings, smashing the record set by his closest competitor, Jonathan "Super" Squibb, in 2011.
Get your tickets early for next years event. They sold out and had over 20,000 mostly drunk, mostly men in the hockey arena this am.
How do you judge an eaten chicken wing? It's not like a hot dog, where it's eaten or it's not. There's always going to be some scraps left on the wing. What if the second place guy ate more off of each wing? If he ate 337, they were counting the total number of wings, not volume. These questions keep me up at night.
Oh, they have judges that inspect the wing bones to make sure they are clean after eatin' and to add to the disturbing list...
4. That 125 "women" (mostly strippers) competed for the title of Miss Wingette. Yes, I believe bonus points were given for scarcity of costume and possibly "special talents" displayed.
Mr. Kobayashi is Keyser Söze's right-hand man, and a snappy dresser. Ms. Kobayashi is the person I don't want to see in front of me at the Chinese buffet.