{"id":5665,"date":"2020-07-09T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2020-07-09T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:13:08","slug":"joey-chestnut-and-the-science-behind-competitive-eating-sport-science-espn-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"Joey Chestnut And The Science Behind Competitive Eating | Sport Science | ESPN &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joey Chestnut And The Science Behind Competitive Eating | Sport Science | ESPN\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TkUdqNuGCl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sports&#8221; &#8211; un-huh.\u00a0 I&#8217;m an athlete &#8217;cause I can do this thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Science&#8221; &#8211; sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eating&#8221; &#8211; no, that&#8217;s not eating.\u00a0 Love the bit where the forcing of food down the esophagus is like &#8220;squeezing a tube of toothpaste&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a very &#8216;Murican thing.\u00a0 Paraphrased from Wikipedia, &#8220;popular mostly in USA, Canada, and Japan&#8221;.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever heard of such a contest in Canada, at least on the scale of US ones.\u00a0 Not saying it never happens.<\/p>\n<p>How does this intersect with the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mukbang\">mukbang<\/a>&#8221; thing, which seems to have originated in East Asia (South Korea?).<\/p>\n<p>Also, no competitive eaters are eating &#8220;hot dogs&#8221;.\u00a0 They are eating wieners and a slurry of bun water.\u00a0 Which adds to the gross factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sports&#8221; &#8211; un-huh.\u00a0 I&#8217;m an athlete &#8217;cause I can do this thing&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[73,72,9],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-funny","tag-usa-usa-usa","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}