# Do you have the anatomical gifts to be a champion hot dog eater? (and other questions)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-anatomical-gifts-to-be-a-champion-hot-dog-eater-and-other-questions/986525 "2023-07-04T02:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-anatomical-gifts-to-be-a-champion-hot-dog-eater-and-other-questions/986525/21 "2023-07-07T19:16:57Z")

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Speaking of tasteless (ha!) ways of eating too much, too fast there is also [mukbang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang). There are losts of videos about this perversion in the net and they are disgusting. No, I don’t have what it takes to eat like that. But some people make money out of this.

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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-anatomical-gifts-to-be-a-champion-hot-dog-eater-and-other-questions/986525/22 "2023-07-07T19:35:03Z")

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Just a link to an unknown slang term for some eating perversion? nope not going there!

Eating contests are not entertainment 🤮this is a new low for cafe society 🫢

But I love the thread title

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-anatomical-gifts-to-be-a-champion-hot-dog-eater-and-other-questions/986525/23 "2023-07-07T19:41:19Z")

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It is a link to the wikipedia page where they explain it better than I could. You still have to find the videos yourself. But you really don’t have to.

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-anatomical-gifts-to-be-a-champion-hot-dog-eater-and-other-questions/986525/24 "2023-07-07T20:04:52Z")

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I wasn’t at the actual eating event, so I’m not sure. But my recollection of what I heard at the time is that everyone assumed he knew that prunes were a laxative and yes, they egged him on, but thought he was aware of the consequences.

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