You know what I've learned? First off, many people on this forum seem to be either large beefy people or scrawny toothpicks. Second, the most hotdogs I've ever succeeded in putting away at once was 11, so 50-something is kind of gross when you think about it. Thirdly, a guy who entered hotdog eating contests was actually on Wifeswap last night (my girlfriend loves it... not me... seriously...), so thats kind of coincidental for me.

I'm 5'11 and 170 lbs. Solid muscle I tells you.

We're all a bunch of nerds on this site! Nerds only come in scrawny or large flavors! D:

As long as we are disclosing our attributes to avoid being polarized.... 6'1" 170lbs, prizefighter....

I guess being 6'4.5" and 280 has made me a bit skewed in my view of large. :P

Well, one thing, the contest is how fast one can eat umm, 86 hotdogs. It's not an endurance contest. You give those chubby 450 pounders long enough time they could probably pack away hundreds of the things, non-stop.

But having the hugely distended stomach of Kobayashi shows that being fat is not the real way to winning.

I wonder if he also set the record for them coming out the other end. If I ate 59 hotdogs I pretty sure it would be a marathon event for me the next day.