Kobayahsi Still Has Scoreboard

After all, a competitive eater who refuses brains is no real competitor at all:

One day after his stunning July 4 victory over six-time world hot dog-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut put to rest persistent rumors that he would now target what many believe is competitive eating’s true Holy Grail: Kobayashi’s cow-brain-eating record.

Many longtime observers of the sport — among them, this reporter — were convinced that winning the Mustard-Yellow International Belt would not satisfy Chestnut’s savory tooth and that he would need to chew further into Kobayashi’s territory by eating more than 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains in 15 minutes, a record that most people think can never be broken.

Chestnut is not even going to try.

“That’s not for me,” he told The Brooklyn Paper exclusively. “There are a lot of foods in this sport that I don’t want to eat because it would take the fun out of it for me. I once did a jalapeno contest and I really regretted it. So, no. No cow brains for me.”

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