Eat to Live
Posted on July 5, 2005
America is another year older, and you know what that means! It’s time to eat till our stomachs explode! For the fifth year in a row Takeru Kobayashi has won the hotdog eating contest at Coney Island at according to the website “what is believed to be the 90th installment of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest.” I just like that the contest is so awesome that they don’t even know how long they have been doing it. Local tinywoman Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas came in second, striking a blow for Asian American Professional Eaters around the world (AAPE for short). Here in Japan nothing happened for America Day, but I’m sure somewhere there is a cute character shooting flaming volleyballs while wearing a huge Star Spangled Uncle Sam hat and screaming the Gettysburg Address. Still, no matter how overpoweringly American it may be, it will never replace the battlin’ beetles in the hearts of Japanese youth.
