They say we eat to live. But some eat to win the eating contest. To do this, some people eat a lot, others - a lot and quickly, and still others - something exotic. Here is a small selection of facts.
Food records by quantity
Donald Gorske. USA
Apparently, justifying his name, he constantly ate Big Macs. By the time he was 33, he had eaten 20,500 Big Macs. The record was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records in 2005.
Robert Pinto. Great Britain
He ate the most high-calorie breakfast called “Kidz Breakfast”, the energy value of which was 6,000 kilocalories, and the weight was 4 kg. It took Robert only 26 minutes for breakfast. Breakfast included:
12 sausages;
- 12 slices of bacon;
- 6 eggs;
- 4 toasts;
-4 slices of bread with butter;
- 4 pieces of toasted bread;
- 4 pieces of black pudding;
- tomatoes;
- beans;
- fried potatoes;
- mushrooms;
- 8 omelets.
Edward Miller. USA
At one sitting, he ate 28 chickens, each of which weighed 900 grams, for which he received the nickname "Great Glutton". His record has not been beaten to this day, although it was set back in 1963.
Food records by number and speed
Mark Quincandon. France
Ate 144 snails in 11 minutes.
George Anderson. New Zealand
He ate a pizza with a diameter of 30 centimeters in 105 seconds. It happened in 2008. However, in 2012, the record was broken by Anup Sama Varma, a UAE resident, who completed the task in 64 seconds. But this record did not last long. Already this year, Takeru Kobeyashi, a Japanese, ate a pizza of the same size in 59 seconds.
San Jose Joy Chestnut. USA
One of the most active speed eaters among men, who even received the corresponding nickname: "Jaws". The 30-year-old eater has dozens of records, the most striking of which are:
103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes;
- 47 burritos in 10 minutes;
- 147 chicken wings in 30 minutes;
- 118 hot peppers in 10 minutes;
- 2.86 kg of asparagus in 11.5 minutes;
- 34.5 sausages in 10 minutes.
-69 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Sonya Thomas. USA
These are perhaps the most active female jaws. The woman is 44 years old, she has a delicate physique and the nickname "Black Widow". Sonya constantly participates in such competitions and often wins.
Her records are impressive:
45 hot dogs in 10 minutes;
- 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes;
- 35 sausages in 10 minutes;
- 65 hard-boiled eggs in 400 seconds;
- 44 lobsters in 12 minutes, by the way, the total weight of the lobsters was 5 kilograms 130 grams.
Jim Lingvild. USA
Ate 3 lemons in 28.5 seconds.
Ronald Alkana. USA
Ate 17 large bananas in 2 minutes.
Reg Morris. Great Britain
In less than 17 seconds, he butchered and ate 27 smoked herrings.
Peter Dowdeswell. Great Britain
Ate 91.5 meters of spaghetti in 12 seconds.
Oliver Farmer. Great Britain
Ate 49 cloves of garlic in 5 minutes.
Svetlana Koksharova. Russia
I ate half a kilo of red caviar in 3 minutes 29 seconds without dropping a single egg. Svetlana is 24 years old and she loves red caviar so much that she did not eat enough of the given amount.
Vladimir Striganin. Ukraine
He ate a kilogram of fat in 24 minutes, for which he was awarded a trip to Turkey. Vladimir admits that he liked the trip to Tunisia for winning last year's competition so much that he trained a lot to win this one.
Gennady Chipko. Ukraine
He ate 12 Poltava dumplings in 52.3 seconds, in connection with which he got into the Guinness Book of Records and became famous at the age of 19.
Andrey Smirnov. Russia
At the Maslenitsa holiday, he ate 73 pancakes (with a total weight of about 2 kilograms) in an hour, setting a Guinness book record.
Kevin Garnett. USA
He ate 44 ears of corn in 12 minutes and many people know him for this fact, although Kevin is a basketball player who plays for the US National Basketball Association team.
Exotic food records
Rene Alvarenga. Salvador
It feeds on scorpions. Every day he eats 2-3 dozen, and in total he has already eaten more than 35,000 scorpions.
Michelle Lotito. France
Decided to eat anything in 1959. As a result, he ate 15 supermarket carts, 18 bicycles, 2 beds, 6 candelabra, 7 TVs, a computer and much more, since the total weight of what he ate is over 9,000 kilograms!
Take note!
The walls of the human stomach can stretch, significantly increasing the volume of the stomach itself, but, nevertheless, this process is not endless. Many people who have tried to eat significantly more than the usual amount suffer the fate of traveling in an ambulance for emergency treatment. In addition, a lot of use saturated fat causes a sharp increase in the level of cholesterol in the blood, which ends in a stroke or heart attack. Therefore, professional eaters lead a healthy lifestyle, actively go in for sports: they run, swim, and after participating in competitions they arrange a fasting day. And only at competitions they allow themselves excesses, in the struggle for a prestigious or expensive cash prize, as well as for their name to be immortalized at least in the Guinness Book of Records.
The Guinness Book of World Records is a mixture of impressive records along with some of the strangest and least impressive world records. Based on the fact that everyone loves food, we decided to tell you about some records that are not particularly impressive and that you could even set yourself.
Most Big Macs Eaten
Don Gorske loves Big Macs. He ate over 25,000 Big Macs in his lifetime and kept all the receipts. Some people do really crazy things because they want to get into the Book of Records. But Don is not one of them. He just loves Big Macs.
The minimum time for which a bottle of ketchup was drunk
The world champion in fast ketchup drinking is a German who drank a bottle of ketchup in 32 seconds. Nobody loves ketchup as much as this German.
Largest serving of mashed potatoes
It took 200 Frenchmen to make a 1,042 kilogram vat of puree. Making this amount of puree is not at all difficult. It's hard to eat that much puree. Anyone who can eat that much puree can be hailed as a hero.
Most people eating breakfast in bed at the same time 
It took only 289 Australians to set this Guinness World Record. Everyone loves typical breakfast food. It probably wouldn't be hard to get at least a thousand people together if you promised them free eggs and bacon for breakfast. A lot of people didn't even go as far as to eat a couple of eggs and bacon.
Fastest Footed Sandwich 
There is an old saying worth thinking about. If someone makes a sandwich with their feet and no one eats it, is it food? Most likely, the answer will be negative. No one will eat what has been cooked with their feet.
Longest line of hot dogs 
Who cares if someone can put 1500 hot dogs in one line or not. If you don't make them or eat them, then you shouldn't get a record for them. There are also records for the longest lines of sandwiches, pizzas, tacos, and a bunch of other food items.
Largest amount of milkshake blown through the nose 
Gary Bashaw Jr from USA mixed milk and chocolate powder in his mouth and blew 54 milliliters of chocolate milk mixture out of his nostril... what the hell is that, why would anyone do that!? Let's hope he did it to fight his cocaine addiction.
most expensive pizza 
This pizza can be ordered at Steveston Pizza in Canada for $450. It's so expensive because they put a lot of rare seafood in it. That money would be enough to buy 90 Hot N Ready pizzas from Little Caesars.
Most people making sandwiches at the same time 
This record was set when 1,363 people in Dallas, Texas were making sandwiches at the same time in the same hotel. These people just slapped meat and cheese on bread and called it a sandwich. The Guinness Book of Records should not count as a record any sandwich that takes less than an hour to prepare.
The largest consumption of bread per capita 
For some reason, the Book of Records decided to give Turkey an award in the nomination of the country that consumes the most bread per capita. When they won this honor, it was estimated that the people of Turkey annually eat three times their own weight in bread.
A US woman has set a world record for eating chicken wings by eating over 500 wings in 30 minutes. Even according to the most conservative estimates, the record holder added 15 kilograms to her weight in half an hour and became a chicken by one-fifth.
How many wings can a person eat in 30 minutes? Fifty? One hundred? Two hundred pieces? If you think three hundred wings is the limit, then you just haven't been really hungry. Nebraska-born Molly Schuler, 39, broke her own record by eating 501 chicken wings in 30 minutes, according to NJ.com. That's about 17 per minute, or almost a whole wing every three seconds.
The champion weighs only 57 kilograms (excluding wings). Even at a modest estimate of 30 grams of meat per wing, Molly devoured 15 kilograms of chicken, or more than a quarter of her own weight. A woman could take pride of place on our list of people.
The Wing Bowl has been held annually in Philadelphia for 26 years. The festival is held two days before the Super Bowl, the most important event in the world of American football.
According to the Omaha World-Herald, in addition to a hearty meal, Molly will receive a Hyundai car, $5,000 and a champion's cup for the victory.
In August 2012, Schuler became the first woman to master the Stellanator, a giant burger weighing more than two kilograms, in 45 minutes.
Watch Molly and her rivals gobble up enough food to feed a small village for days in the video posted by NJ.com.
Philadelphia residents had an extra reason to celebrate this year — on Sunday, the local football team compete for the title in the cup final. On the day of the match for the Super Bowl, especially zealous fans were not even stopped
