The Glutton Bowl

The competition was set up to have 3 rounds — the qualifiers, the wild card round, and the finals. In each round competitors were to eat the most of one specified food in a set amount of time. The winner of each qualifying competition was automatically in the finals. The runner up in each qualifier competed in the wild card round and the winner of that was the last person put in the final.

The list of foods eaten in each round and the winning amount eaten are as follows (each competition was 12 minutes long):

• Hard-boiled eggs
  • the winner, Eric "Badlands" Booker (USA), ate 38 eggs
• Quarter-pound sticks of butter
  • the winner, Don "'Paula Deen' Moses" Lerman (USA), ate 10 sticks
• Whole beef tongue
  • 3 lb (1.4 kg) to each tongue
  • the winner, Dominic "The Doginator" Cardo (USA), ate 1 tongue plus a few bites of another
• Hot Dogs
  • the winner, Takeru Kobayashi (Japan), ate 31 hot dogs — bun and all
• Mayonnaise
  • 32 ounces (910 g) per bowl.
  • the winner, Oleg Zhornitskiy (Ukraine) ate 4 bowls which is equivalent to 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of mayo
• Hamburgers
  • 3 ounces (85 g) meat patties plus the bun (fast food type burgers)
  • the winner, Jed "The Jalapeno King" Donahue (USA), ate 11 hamburgers
• Sushi
  • 15-foot (4.6 m), 12-pound (5.4 kg). sushi roll, including two 1-foot-long (0.30 m) pieces of wasabi
  • the winner, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons (USA), consumed 3.8 feet (1.2 m)

• Cooked (but not fried) Rocky Mountain Oysters
  • 3 lb (1.4 kg)

• Cow brain (1⁄3 pound (0.15 kg) each)
  • one plate and on to second (10 pounds (4.5 kg) per platter and 5 lb (2.3 kg) for additional platter)
  • won by Takeru Kobayashi (Japan)