New Poll: Handicap of Picnic rules

January 16, 2007 at 12:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Site News

The new poll asks how many hot dogs and buns you think Kobayashi could eat in 12 minutes if he was required to use picnic style rules (no dunking or separation).

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  1. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 12:29 pm

    I think Yashi could eat clost to 40. Most of the top 10 eaters in IFOCE could probly 25-30 or more. I doubt theres more than 2 indep. eaters who would do more than 18 using their own rules.

  2. the boy king said

    January 16, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

    that’s ridiculous, Luther.

  3. Mad Stork said

    January 16, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

    Is his whole premise ridiculous? or the ifoce part or the indep eater part?

  4. Mr Wright said

    January 16, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

    Boy king the guy is a whacko he wants attention . Don’t you know that by now?

  5. anonymous said

    January 16, 2007 @ 1:50 pm

    IFOCE eaters or any eater for that matter would not break 20 if there was no dunking. Like a female without makeup. Kobe is an enigma she can do 30 tops!

  6. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

    Mr. Wright your a helluvaguy to say somebody’s a whacko. Answer Mad Storks question please.

  7. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

    Anonymous youve got the right name because with that remark youve no credibility. I never had any to lose so there.

  8. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 2:32 pm

    Hell. Sonya Thomas could eat 2 per minute even with those rules. Lord! That’s nothing for any eater of any ability! That’s why you guys are where you are. Stay there because you don’t want to get your feelins hurt right?

  9. the boy king said

    January 16, 2007 @ 3:44 pm

    What’s ridiculous is thinking only 2 indep. eaters could do over 18.

    Seriously, disliking AICE is one thing, but most people who are posting to this board make themselves so much less credible when they say some crap like that.

    Damn.

    And yes, I know “Luther” to be generally ridiculous by nature.

  10. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 3:56 pm

    B–OO–YYY King! I believe I was stretching it a bit at that. Did you know that even Sonya did 18 at her first contest because I suspect she didn’t know abot dunking. But look at your greatest BOY Menchetti. He MIGHT be able to do more than 17 or 18 today, but maybe not. Even s GIRL kicked his ass in her second contest at Nathans when he was still in the IFOCE. He HASN’T improved, but it looks like Sonya has. A GIRL for God’s sake is bettert that all of you. My God!

  11. Luther said

    January 16, 2007 @ 3:59 pm

    As a matter of fact that damned Aniamal Planet show battle of the species or whatever is on tonight and sonya is there from what im told somewhere in the show. I think its called clash of the titans or something. Anyway it must be wild.

  12. Pieman said

    January 16, 2007 @ 7:00 pm

    I just did 16 in eight minutes (picnic style) on a local radio station in northeast pa. I think you all discount the pro’s.

  13. Mega Munch said

    January 17, 2007 @ 8:03 am

    I think if you can eat 20 or 30 in 12 minutes by dunking them, then you can eat 20 or 30 picnic style.

    Simple reason being, dunking them allows an eater to eat really fast in the beginning, but you start to slow down toward the end when you near capacity. Eating picnic style would cause an eater to start out slower, but they’d still have enough time (12 minutes is long than you think) to eat to the same capacity. In other words, you end hitting your wall at the 8 minute mark (picnic style) instead of the 5 minute mark (dunking).

    The only drawback might be diminished jaw strength due to the additional chewing needed under picnic style rules.

  14. Anonymous said

    January 17, 2007 @ 9:59 am

    Mega munch……..

    NOPE! Stop and think………Do you REALLY think Yashi or Joey could go north of 48 dogs w/out the quick starting numbers?

  15. Rhonda Evans said

    January 17, 2007 @ 10:17 am

    That’s a good point MM. Also, with dunking you drink more water/liquid. Water or similar liquids weigh 8 pounds per gallon and that limits capacity of actual food eaten. So in an 8 – 12 minute contest I doubt the final tallies would vary too much between styles.

    I also believe that many IFOCE eaters would RATHER have picnic style rules, as it’s less “nasty”. But the lack of water would put a slight damper (no pun intended) on extending or maximizing the records, so I doubt that will happen.

  16. anonymous said

    January 17, 2007 @ 11:25 am

    agree with Rhonda. If you have the ability to eat a certain amt of dogs dunking means very little. As long as you have some type of liquid to drink it down then thats ok. Dunking is like an extra added crutch or something to fall back on just in case you need it. If you don’t have the capacity to begin with, then dunking wont make much of a difference in your final totals.

  17. Anonymous Coward said (Registered January 17, 2007)

    January 17, 2007 @ 12:48 pm

    This is the kind of thing that should be in the Science of Competitive Eating show. They could have someone do both and measure the results. Then take a look inside (X-Ray or some such thing) and see what’s happening “under the hood.”

  18. Mega Munch said

    January 17, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

    Anonymous…yes, I agree that the “big numbers” (50+ hdb) might be affected under picnic style rules, simply because there’s not enough time–even in a 12 minute contest–to eat that many dogs without dunking. So yes, the early sprint that dunking affords Koby and Joey does help them.

    But I think it’s possible to eat 35 or 40 dogs picnic style in 12 minutes if you have the capacity.

    And good point Rhonda about dunking perhaps INHIBITING capacity by adding more liquid to the stomach, though I’m not sure which method truly uses more water. I’d like to see an experiment in which an eater eats 20 hdb’s dunking and then 20 hdb’s picnic style and measure how much water is consumed in both scenarios. (Picnic eaters drink from the cup alot more often than dunkers.)

  19. Anonymous said

    January 18, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

    dunking doesn’t inhibit capacity. more fluid is consumed while not dunking than dunking, that is if an eater is going to go anywhere near forty nevertheless fifty hdbs. that would take a bunch of fluid. it looks like they are mentally taxed towards the end. if they are dunked they appear to be much easier to get down in the closing minutes. not dunking looks like a struggle down the stretch. that is why people dunk because it is significantly easier and twice as fast. yashi doesnt hit capacity so it doesnt affect him. so if a person takes the time to unravel what i just stated, deductive reasoning would lead you to believe he would be pressed to do thirty – forty hdbs. i would love to witness that out of curiosity. i think i saw where they have x-rayed eaters before. someone get ahold of joey and see how many he can do in one minute and five minutes. he had a ten and thirty split on the 4th last year i think. i am still awe struck. have him do a reverse experiment of what was done with tacos and post it.
    just thoughts

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