New poll: % of food eaten vs. % of debris

April 3, 2007 at 1:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations, Site News

The new poll asks what you think is the average breakdown between the amount of food winding up in a competitor’s stomach vs. the amount of debris falling on the floor or table in a typical IFOCE contest.

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  1. Mad Stork said

    April 3, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

    depends on the eater

  2. The_Hangman said (Registered August 30, 2006)

    April 3, 2007 @ 5:32 pm

    I’ve seen some eaters very clean, some with a mess on the table and floor and as clean up takes place after a contest I have seen some have a huge percent left over in their cup that never gets counted.

    This poll is hard because of many variables including different eaters, different products and many other variables.

  3. Mad Stork said

    April 3, 2007 @ 5:37 pm

    hard poles

  4. KevinRoss said

    April 3, 2007 @ 9:49 pm

    Cookie Monster (the muppet, not Jarvis) is always leaving too much debris. I’m starting to think he just shoves the food in his open mouth and it falls right back out. They should stop letting him enter contests.

  5. Jim Reeves said

    April 5, 2007 @ 6:51 pm

    Depends on the food, but the worst contest (I’m embarrased to say) is Buffalo wings. The top three finishers last year were given 18, 16 and 16 lbs of wings, respectively. They all came in with totals eaten around 5 lbs (They ate 28-31% of what they were given). I was given 6 lbs and finished with a total weight of 3.5 lbs eaten (58%), before we ran out of wings with 2 minutes left in the contest because the top three wasted so much. The first couple of years, they had an informal 90% rule where we were cautioned that we should try to clean 90% off the wing or we would be penalized. In later years, they decided they didn’t want to bother checking how clean peoples’ wings were, since they were weighing them anyhow. I don’t think they ever thought the top eaters would result to taking one bite off each wing so they could go faster. If they don’t demand that people make an honest effort to eat what they are given, they’ll have other contest go to crap, like this one.

  6. Wild Bill said (Registered September 19, 2006)

    April 6, 2007 @ 8:31 am

    I’ll have to concur with Jim on this one.

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