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NO, you really don’t. As a former Chesapeake Bayer, in Detroit or the Midwest, the “all-you-can-eat” something called “crab legs” is in no way what you are thinking of. They probably come from the West Coast or Alaska or somewhere alien. This “food” bears NO resemblance to CB Blue Crabs.
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Actually, thanks for posting this. I was coming back here to say something like this because I had a pang of guilt. Here’s this guy (poor, defenseless** Figaro**) lookin for a good crabbing (and he knows his crabs, dammit), and he gets a plate full of…well, they ARE crabs, but they’re not king crabs or anything ultra sweet.
Yeah, lower expectations, kind sir. (If we go to Joe’s Crab Shack, raise them up a little more, though).
Edited to add: Hey! Alaska gives me good crab, dammit! Don’t you pick on Alaska, or I will be forced to deal with you by…um…force!
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]
His next life won’t be as a male escort, I can guess that much.
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Actually, you’d be surprised at how good-looking his body is. He works out as part of his training. Yes, he works out to eat competitively. I didn’t know that either, until MTV’s True Life.
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]
Actually, thanks for posting this. I was coming back here to say something like this because I had a pang of guilt. Here’s this guy (poor, defenseless** Figaro**) lookin for a good crabbing (and he knows his crabs, dammit), and he gets a plate full of…well, they ARE crabs, but they’re not king crabs or anything ultra sweet.
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They’re sea spiders. Crabs exist along the East Coast of the United States. The Mid-Atlantic states are the home of the Blue Crab.
I might allow some FL. residents to say that stone crabs are pretty good. They are.
But, West Coast stuff masquerading as crab meat?—give me a break.
[QUOTE=Figaro]
I wish to know more about this all-you-can-eat crab place…(says the displaced Marylander who still thinks all food can be eaten with a hammer…)
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Hooter’s has cheap crab. Not all you can eat, but something like a pound for a few bucks. Hooter’s should think about having an all you can eat crab deal, they’d make a killing.
[QUOTE=Leaper]
Actually, you’d be surprised at how good-looking his body is. He works out as part of his training. Yes, he works out to eat competitively. I didn’t know that either, until MTV’s True Life.
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I was aware of that fact. I was making fun of the jaw-arthritis-meaning-he’d be-bad-at-sucking-dick angle.
I’m vulgar.
[QUOTE=devilsknew]
Hooter’s has cheap crab. Not all you can eat, but something like a pound for a few bucks. Hooter’s should think about having an all you can eat crab deal, they’d make a killing.
[QUOTE=mazinger_z]
You know, I never understood this part of the competitive eating…do they all throw up afterwards? At some point, they must retain some calories. Why isn’t that black widow girl huge? I thought contestants weren’t allowed to vomit.
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Mr. K and I were discussing this very subject the other day. I think they have to hold it down for X minutes afterward.
I find competitive eating to be both repulsive and offensive. I keep thinking of the 42 people who could be having a much-needed meal with all those hot dogs…and it’s twice as bad if indeed they do puke them up.
[QUOTE=Telemark]
Throwing up isn’t allowed, at least until quite some time after the contest.
They aren’t huge because they rarely eat in those quantities except during competitions.
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Not according to the piece I saw on the Little Japanese Chick who is the current champ. She eats like that all the time to stretch her stomach. They followed her into a buffet-style joint and she ate six overflowing plates of food. She does it regularly, and then fasts the day before the event.
[QUOTE=Kalhoun]
Not according to the piece I saw on the Little Japanese Chick who is the current champ. She eats like that all the time to stretch her stomach. They followed her into a buffet-style joint and she ate six overflowing plates of food. She does it regularly, and then fasts the day before the event.
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So while she does consume large volumes, a lot of is its water to stretch the stomach.
Not sure if she’s the person you saw on TV, Sonya was born in Korea and is now an American citizen, but apparently there’s a Japanese woman named Gal Sone who has done some TV shows where she ate vast amounts over the day.
[QUOTE=Telemark]
Here’s a video of Gal Sone eating 7 kg of soup/noodles on a Japanese TV show. Is this the person you saw? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iurH9hU7ODY
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Nope. She was dark-haired and very petite. I think they said she weighed around 105 lbs.