Competitive Esus: The Art of eating.

In 1878’s Toronto a shop owner asked himself “Wouldn’t it be nice to watch people eat a lot of food.” So, he made it happen. The world’s first pie eating contest. And hence the sport of competitive eating was born. By the 21st century, it grew in popularity, to the point that there are entire organizations dedicated to organizing these events, such as ‘All Pro Eating’, ‘IFOCE’. Like sports, Competitive eating too requires vigorous training, like drinking absurd amounts of water and being tall, thus having a long stomach. The current reigning champion is ‘Joey Chestnut’ whose name complements his profession beautifully.

The Beginning

The first ever pie eating contest took place in the land of maple leaf ‘Canada’. When Albert Piddington pie shop owner asked himself “Wouldn’t is it be nice to see people eat absurd amounts of food in the name of charity?” and so he made it happen. And the winning price was “A handsomely bound book”. So with such high stakes an absurd but unknown amount of pies were eaten. With that the trend took of and eating contests became common sights in country fairs across the country and then spread to the United Nations

The Contests

The competitors

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