Food Eating Contests!

The most popular kind of food eating contests, hot dog eating contests! Picture from here.

Food eating contests are one of the grossest, weirdest things that happen with food. They can be just for fun with a friend or an actual competition with real prizes! Prizes can range to free food from the cook or restaurant to hundreds of dollars. The competitions are either are timed or have a set number of food to be eaten. This girl from my old school, named Isabel, competed in a food eating contest and won third! She was in a pizza eating contest and ate 12 pizzas in 30 minutes! The second place person was a “professional” and the first place person was a homeless person. He got free pizza for a year! There are also judges in the presence to make sure there is no cheating and warn the contestants of the dangers of food eating contests. There are many weird tricks that people do to get ahead of the game. Some people dunk their food in water to make it soggy and easier to eat. Do you ever have just two minutes to finish a test and just go as fast as you can? Well, some food eating contests do that with their food. It's called "chipmunking" and the contestant just scarves down as much food as he or she possibly can. They get extra minutes to finish the food off. Food eating contests are fun but some people take it very seriously and get extremely hurt and obese.

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