What is competitive meals?

Competitive eating is the process of consuming large amounts of food in the required time frame. Traditionally, the competitions for eating were held at trade fairs to destroy the left of the food. Now competing meals have become a big deal. Competitors can participate in competitions throughout the country with large cash prizes awarded to winners.

International Federation of Competitive Catering (IFCO) organizes events for competitive catering around the world. In 2005, money from a total of $ 230,000 (USD) was awarded. One of the most popular competitions takes place every 4 July on the island of Coney in New York. Nathan's Hot Dog catering competition was established in 1916 and this event was dominated by Takera Kobayashi. The Japanese competitor managed to eat 54 hot dogs in 12 minutes and won the competition for six years in a row. Hot dogs, chicken wings, cucumbers, corn and pizza are the basis of competition. Competitions usually take about 8 to 12 minutes. Takera Kobayashi is currently ranked at firstPlace in the world after eating 57 cow brains in 15 minutes.

Although most competitors are men, women are also involved in competitive eating. Being large and overweight does not necessarily have to be the advantage of competitive eating. The biggest advantage that a competitor may have is the ability to actually stretch the stomach. Many competitors will drink gallons of water for some time to achieve it. This type of training is frozen by medical experts.

In addition to the unusually tensioning stomach, other important factors seem to be the speed and coordination of the mouth. After the competition ended, competitors have very swollen stomachs. Their stomachs resemble exaggerated balloons that are prepared for pop.

IFCO has very strong CT strip -strokes set out on competing meals. The competitions must take place in the controlled area and only competitors over 18 years of age can enter. Also dThey support any type of home training. There was a lot of talk about the inclusion of competitive eating as an Olympic sport. Although the IFCO has come to the Olympic Committee, it seems to be not at present.

Health aspects are a big factor in competitive eating. Competitive meals were very recently a big hit on Japanese television. Due to the sensation involving the death of a student of food speed is now practically unheard of in Japan. The biggest rule of competitive eating is that do not try it at home.