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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on October 10, 2006, 06:01:14 AM
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link (http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/weird_news/15719178.htm)
Man eats 247 jalapenos to win contest
DALLAS - A 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada swallowed 247 peppers in eight minutes to win the Jalapeno Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas.
Richard LeFevre won $2,000 for prevailing in Sunday's contest, which was sponsored by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
LeFevre, who has also won the fair's World Corny Dog Eating Contest three times, said his winning strategy was to mix three or four peppers in his mouth with a swig of milk before swallowing.
LeFevre was one of four professional eaters who took the top four places in the competition.
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas said she had never eaten a jalapeno before the contest. Ranked third in the world by the federation, she downed 239 peppers to take second place and $1,000 in prize money.
Christopher Huang, of Arlington, entered the competition even though he doesn't normally eat spicy foods.
"I eat mild salsa," Huang said. "But there's nothing like putting yourself through a lot of pain for no reason."
The 26-year-old required several minutes of recovery time after eating 53 jalapenos.
"I cant feel my face," he said when he was able to speak again.
Dr. Daniel DeMarco, a gastroenterologist and director of endoscopy at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, said the amount of jalapenos consumed in an eating contest is more harmful than the burn.
"It's really pretty stupid," DeMarco said. "Like any sort of abuse of your body, it doesn't make any sense."
I had no idea they had a pepper eating contest at the State Fair. I coulda been a contendah!
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Hope they gave em their own outhouses somewhere in the middle of death valley or something.
Either way.
The pain they felt going down will be nothing compaired to the pain they feel when it comes out
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I guess the next competition will : "how many pepper spray can your lung stand" ?
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Ringburn
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and in the end
the pain you take
is equal to the peppers
you ate
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Pfftst! Jalapenos arent even hot. You could get the same heat from 25 Thai peppers and they are only about 1/4 the size ... OTOH 247 Thai peppers might kill you.
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Jaelpenos aren't hot so far as I'm concerned but no one can eat 247 of them without uh, repercussions.
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Kobayashi wasn't there, doesn't count.
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SE Asian communist peppers are nothing compared to the tough american stuff...that guy with the milk knew what he was doing, a professional 100%