{"id":2503,"date":"2007-07-13T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/kobayahsi_still_has_scoreboard.html"},"modified":"2007-07-13T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T18:10:37","slug":"kobayahsi_still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/kobayahsi_still.html","title":{"rendered":"Kobayahsi Still Has Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/27\/30_27nobrains.html\">a competitive eater who refuses brains is no real competitor at all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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&#8217;s true Holy Grail: Kobayashi&#8217;s cow-brain-eating record.<\/p>\n<p>Many longtime observers of the sport &#8212; among them, this reporter &#8212; were convinced that winning the Mustard-Yellow International Belt would not satisfy Chestnut&#8217;s savory tooth and that he would need to chew further into Kobayashi&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Chestnut is not even going to try.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not for me,&#8221; he told The Brooklyn Paper exclusively. &#8220;There are a lot of foods in this sport that I don&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/more_like_rocky.html\">More Like Rocky IV &#8212; The One With The Russian &#8212; Or Probably Just Like A 1980s Tag Team Match Against Nikolai Volkoff And The Iron Sheik (Sgt. Slaughter, Where Have You Gone?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s true Holy Grail: Kobayashi&#8217;s cow-brain-eating record. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}