The Hamburger Eating Contest Of 2000

Before Joey Chestnut shattered all the Nathan's Hot Dog eating records, I covered Takeru Kobayashi crushing hot dogs on the 4th of July. If you don't remember Kobayashi, I don't know what you're doing here. He's literally the godfather of competitive eating. He's a tiny Japanese man with the hunger of a nation. In the 2006 Krystal Square off, Koby ate 97 sliders. Why is this an important fact? In the year 2000, my friends had our own Krystal Square off.

We didn't realize we were creating a competitive eating contest for White Castle knock off Krystals. But Derwood Morris and our friend B-Mo were watching an out of state hockey feed at a Taco Mac in Atlanta and saw a commercial for 25 cent hamburgers at McDonalds. Which should have raised red Canadien flags immediately. The next day Snacktion News assembled to have a hamburger eating contest.

After going to every McDonalds in Alpharetta, GA and told to get the hell out, we settled for Krystals. Things would go south from there. If you don't know what White Castle or Krystals are, they're burger slider fast food. 

We declared a winner. It was my roommate at the time, Rob. Let's go to Rob to recap his championship performance.

MTD: Rob, it was a grueling competition. Was eating the large fries on the way home to the event a successful strategy?

R: *can't answer because of mouth full of fries*

MTD: Couldn't have waited like five minutes?

MTD: You crushed everybody. You had like 12 before the rest of us got to six. 

R: I came to win. They're tiny burgers. 

MTD: It was an impressive performance. After we couldn't eat anymore, you asked if you could finish the rest of them. That would have gotten a flag for taunting. 

R: You two were napping on the kitchen floor.

MTD: Can we remove that in editing? We are a live news cast now? 

MTD: Rob, there are allegations of you cheating. 

R: Oh, name one.

MTD: Well, you threw up over our porch. That's usually a DQ. You took a nap in the middle of it and then smoked a bowl before you ate another dozen. 

R: There was no drug testing.

MTD: Yeah, we wouldn't have fielded a team. Thanks for your time, Rob. Congrats on that title. It was disgusting. 

Thanks for watching, up next is the episode of Alf where he has a cat eating competition.