Hofmann Hot Dogs Texas State Fair contest
update Oct 16 #2 DMagazine has a gallery
update Oct 16 A video of Kobyashi’s exhibition where he ate 60 bunless hot dogs in less than three minutes is available.
update Oct 15 Dallas Observer contest report
update Oct 13 Bartlas Yuce won the amateur contest by eating 20 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Jeremey Gagnon was the runner up with 19.
Joe Biggs reports that Kobayashi ate 60 hot dogs in 2:30
Dallas Observer has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi and an article about Alex Perez‘ preparation
WFAA has a video of Kobayashi’s appearance this morning.
Yahoo! Postgame has an article which says that Kobayashi’s line of hot dogs might be delayed until 2013.
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Anonymous said
October 13, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
I suppose that Kobayashi could still represent the brand with his logo being something easily recognizable. As for the rest, you cannot have a spokesman who has to speak through a translator. I doubt highly that Hofmann’s, no matter how much money they have backing them in all of their ventures, is going to have Kobayshi be their ambassador, even in Asia, even in Japan. His time in Japan is honestly over, he does not have the personality to become what they call terebi talento, like Gal Sone. He is very quiet and not outgoing at all, polite yes, but you need a personality, what he has is huge capacity, eating machine like, and then he shows his belly and muscles at the end. It just is not compelling. What a nice guy does not buy much.