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Video: Kobayashi Beats Meatball-Eating Record

Right now history is going down (one man's throat) at Fulton Ferry Landing, as champion eater Takeru Kobayashi attempts to break the world record in meatball eating. How many meatballs can one human eat in one minute? Until now that answer has been 26. Our man Tien Mao is on the scene and we'll update as soon as we hear where the new record stands, that is, if Kobayashi doesn't buckle under the pressure of television cameras (it's being filmed).

UPDATE: Kobayashi has done it! 29 MEATBALLS. We caught it all on tape:

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By Jen Carlson in on March 8, 2010 1:18 PM

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  • Dr. Hotdog

    Kobayashi is the greatest eater of all time. We should feel blessed to be living in a time along with such a master.

  • Spirit of 76

    All the armchair critics here would probably puke it all back up after about ten meatballs swallowed without chewing. Those meatballs are probably almost an ounce each. That's almost two pounds of meat in one minute.

  • Squard

    You sir, have never seen me eat at a White Castle at 3AM :o

  • Kelles

    Why is this guy not 300lbs if he just likes to eat everything in sight?

  • luckmagnet

    His logo/banner should have 2 meatballs and a hotdog and read "swallows at world record speed"

  • Kevin Walsh

    He calls those things meatballs? And where's the competition? Where's Chestnut?



    www.forgotten-ny.com

  • j0sh

    Looking at the size of the meatballs, that didn't sound incredibly impressive until I realized that it was within one minute.

  • Rocknrope

    Can anyone translate the banner behind him?

  • govgovgobo

    The banner reads " Challenging the fast eating Guinness World Record of meatball".

  • rides on farts

    yeah who needs the times when you got gothamist original reporting

  • fuboy

    Does Kobayashi live here or does he just fly in for televised events of gluttony?

  • farleft

    Those are small meatballs. I'll bet even the cheerleaders behind him could do better.

  • hotstepper

    headline: Kobayashi Gobbles Those Meaty Balls

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