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How many hot dogs can a human possibly eat? Science finally has an answer:
How many hot dogs do you think you could eat in one sitting?
You know, if you had to?
Fortunately, science has now provided an answer. Researchers analyzed 39 years of data from the annual Nathan's Famous Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest[*] and, using mathematical modeling, calculated the maximum number of hot dogs one person could possibly eat during the contest's 10-minute duration. The new study published Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters.
The answer, it turns out, is 84.
[*] Contest web site and Hall of Fame.
Journal Reference:
James M. Smoliga. Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans, Biology Letters (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0096)
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:39AM (5 children)
His gobbling skills come in handy sometimes, and his handy skills let you come too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:04AM
Swallows them whole... through a garden hose.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:09AM (2 children)
Please don't let that AC troll appropriate my name. I'm trying to be a better person and stop trolling the net for lulz. Well, at least I'm trying to make my trolling more humorous and not just to piss people off.
Thanks for calling them out though,
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:19AM
eat my horny anus
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:31AM
Also, I still love cocks.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:07AM
Who cares about humans, what we really need to know is how many hotdogs could a hot dog eat if a hot dog could eat hotdogs?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:40AM (6 children)
Who cares?
Why is soylent encouraging heart disease and type 2 diabetes?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:13AM (3 children)
please note, there is an unwritten caveat "..eat in 10 minutes without dying immediately"
there is nothing about how much someone might hasten their appointment with their maker by participating in such a competition, nor anything about additional costs to themselves and/or to their country's health system.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:11AM (2 children)
Good grief!
Man used to bring down a wild beast, and gorge until he could barely move! Eat it all, before the meat spoiled in a few hours.
We are no different than animals. To gorge, is to take advantage of the plenty in the now.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:29AM
except the next block down also has a drive-through McDonald's and a Hungry Jack's, as well as an all-you-can-eat pizza place AND a supermarket, so we're not having to wait two weeks for our next feast... there is no 'off time'..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:03PM
Actually, that should read "before the meat spoiled in a few days". But quite long ago people discovered that meat submerged in a cold quiet lake would keep for a week and still be edible.
OTOH, if you go back a bit further, people did try to leave the kill quickly before the other predators converged on the kill site ... unless, of course, they were the scavenger rather than the predator, which was often the case. But they still tried to hack off what they wanted and leave quickly. There are reasonable arguments that part of why we stand erect is so that we can carry off more meat.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:50AM
Oh, c'mon, man, it's 42! Twice!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:37AM
Because US will have overproduction of pork soon, when China stops importing it.
And soybeans too, so that the soylent price will plunge into abyss. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:57AM (2 children)
I guess the summary did leave out some crucial details or definitions here. In that is what they do at professional eating competitions really eating or just stuffing as many things in as possible?
I don't know about other people but I don't really considering just sucking down a hotdog and then dunking the bun in water until it is almost dissolved as "eating hotdogs". That said since nobody has ever "eaten" 84 hotdogs in 10 minutes, or about one dog every seven seconds, that still makes the actual limit 75 since that is apparently the current world record. All the model does is perhaps allude to that there might be a minor room for improvement in the 10% range or so -- which is quite a lot. But until someone does it then it's just theory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:07AM
That one Jap chick that was world champion for many years had surgery to allow her stomach to expand further than normal. Anything for fame I guess.
(Score: 1) by petecox on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:15AM
And yet some competitive 'sportsperson' will come out the next year and smash 85, just to prove scientists incorrect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:03AM (1 child)
https://youtu.be/aczPDGC3f8U [youtu.be] obilgatory Monty Python (warning for sensitive viewers!!!)
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:05AM
Don't worry, I think Republicans get off on gruesome death scenes, you might want to warn them it involves humor though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:32AM (6 children)
Which do you prefer?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:30AM (5 children)
Hebrew National
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @04:39AM (2 children)
that bogus kosher hot dogs are about as good as oscar mayor.
Actually, I despise both kosher and halal ritual slaughtering - cut the throat and bleed it to slow painful death. Complete opposite of slaughter methods of mongols and turks that try to minimize pain.
I'm no vegetarain, but, like, fuck you.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:54PM (1 child)
How do those methods work? This is the first I've heard of them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:18PM
Mongols, when slaughtering a sheep, isolate the animal well away from the flocks and their view, cover up her mouth to prevent noise/scream, cut a small opening near the heart, insert a hand and squeeze the heart to stop the blood circulation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:02AM (1 child)
Look at Mr. Moneybags and his million dollar hot dogs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:27AM
ok oscar
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:25AM (2 children)
I'm pretty sure that's more hot dogs than I've eaten in the last 20 years. We ate them when we were kids. I can't remember the last time I bought one for myself. It's not like I'm super vegan or anything. It's just that if I'm going to eat meat, there are so many options that taste better.
Aside from that, I wouldn't mind if the whole eating contest thing just disappeared. Food is supposed to be savored, and enjoyed. I get the idea of being competitive; but I just don't see eating as a facet of life that benefits from competition.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 26 2020, @07:01AM
>Food is supposed to be savored, and enjoyed.
that's what she said, holding the cucumber.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:55PM
More to the point, in a world where so many are hungry or outright starving, this sort of thing is almost blasphemous...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:50AM
missing properly defined units in measurement? bah
as the renowed b-movie actor renzo montagnani said about a plate of little, purposefully cock-shaped, hot dogs: 'be careful with these, ladies, or your belly swells up".
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