Reply To: Hot Dog Eating Contest

Avram in MD: Wow I didn’t know that it was so dangerous and it def makes sense that it isn’t something to just do for someone who had never done it before.

Professional eaters practice and compete.

Water in general someone can die of if drinking too much and that is not something to play around with.

As for the hot dog eating contest, for a frum Jew who isn’t training professionally, it can have grave consequences.

I thought that maybe the hot dog eating contest to help the poor in CTLAWYER’s case may have only happened because that was the way that they could get the food and financial donations from maybe the good companies because it would give the companies free advertising and media coverage. Still if Hashem was going to help out then it would have to be in a better way.

I just Googled the effects of competitive eating and it’s scary.