Takeru Kobayashi failed to break world fruitcake eating championship Friday at Gabriella's Restaurant in Manhattan. He came in six ounces shy of the 4-lb 14 ounce record.
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The 30-year-old Kobayashi - who keeps washboard abs even as he shovels a refrigerator full of food down his mouth - can't fight nature forever. He's gained more than 30 pounds over the last six years.
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Kobayashi has mired in a slump after holding the world hot-dog eating record for six years in a row since his 2001 debut at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest...
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...only to lose the mustard belt for the last two years in a row to American upstart Joey Chestnut.
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(From l.) Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Pat Bertoletti put their mouths where the money is at the 2008 Nathan's contest.
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Chestnut and Kobayashi aren't the only big mouths on the circuit: New Yorker Eric 'Badlands' Booker is a repeat title-holder of the Ben's Restaurant annual matzo ball eating contest.
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Sonya Thomas, who weighs 99 pounds, is known worldwide as 'The Black Widow,' having consumed records in chicken-wing-eating competitions.
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Tim "Eater X" Janus, winner of the Nintendo World Naruto Ramen Noodle Eating Contest.
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Mohawk sporting Pat Bertoletti won this blueberry pie eating contest in 2007, but hasn't been able to keep up with the big boys in the Nathan's contest.
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L-R Competitive eaters Bob Shoudt, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bartoletti, Juliet Lee, Eric "Badlands" Booker, T plow through pizza pies in Times Square Sunday. Joey Chestnut, who won the Nathan's hot dog eating contest this summer, won with 45 slices.
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'Crazy Legs' Conti dominates the annual cannoli-eating contest in Little Italy earlier this year (2008).
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The 5th annual Tuttorosso Pasta Eating Competition in front ot Sal Anthony's in Little Italy goes against conventional table manners: contestants like Jesus Morales eat with their hands.
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Contestants eat devour Buffalo wings at a contest in Williamsburg.
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Even amateurs get in the act: Erica Foeldvari stuffs her face during the Bridezillas Cake-Eating Contest in Times Square in a bid to win $25,000 for a dream wedding.
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Fun games.i like these games.
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