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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: 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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