Being the world’s most prodigious eater wasn’t quite the life or the career that Joey Chestnut had planned for himself when he was studying engineering and construction management at San Jose University, but a lobster-eating contest changed everything.
He already had a reputation for being the fastest around his family-of-eight dinner table and in his college dorms too, but he told CNN Sport that it was a different story when a competitive element was introduced. “I was actually hesitant,” he recalled during an interview to promote his latest challenge, “because I didn’t want to eat fast in front of people. But as soon as I did the first contest, I fell in love with it.
I can guarantee we’re gonna get a new record, if not one of us, then maybe both of us!” Despite being arguably the two most famous eaters in the world, it doesn’t sound like they have much of a relationship, partly because Chestnut says he wasn’t nice to Kobayashi after the contractual issues in 2010. “I tried to say, ‘Hello,’ this morning and he kind of looked past me, which is alright, we’re competitors,” he explained.
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