Grossest Food Records – The Weird Side of the Internet

Grossest Food Records – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I don’t really do top tens here, just not normally my thing. But if you follow me on Facebook, you would know that pondering the culinary wonders of disgusting food, and presenting said concoctions before a live studio audience, is definitely my thing. So as I come across a list of the “Top Seven World Records for Gross Food and Insect Consumption,” well you know I have to cover it. So here goes the Top Seven World Records for Grossest Food and Insect Consumption.

According to Fox News, anyway.

1. Most Big Mac burgers eaten in a lifetime – I don’t even qualify this as gross food, this is not a competitor. If you eat a lot of these, you’ll probably die, but live doing what you love, right? And the record is held by Donald Gorske, with 34,128 Big Macs in his life. I could knock that down in a month if they double the special sauce.
2. Most cow brains eaten in fifteen minutes – held by Takeru Kobayashi, 57 cow brains in fifteen minutes. Why fifteen minutes? Why not ten? Why not an even number? He can have this record, unless they were cooked with A1.
3. Most cockroaches eaten – Ken Edwards takes this one with thirty-six in a minute. He can definitely have this one. And these were the Madagascar roaches, not the apartment roaches, which are much smaller, and are a petri dish of every nasty disease.
4. Fastest time to eat 50 Carolina Reaper chili peppers – Okay, I grew these, and just handling them, I can say that I would run breakneck away from any attempt to hold this record. But the holder is six minutes, and 49.2 seconds. I believe it.
5. Most mayonnaise consumed in three minutes – I like mayo on a turkey sandwich. But Michelle Lesco can eat three and a half jars in three minutes. Got’damn. That is a lot of mayo. I think this is the one that grosses me out the most so far.
6. Most hot dogs eaten in twn minutes – How is this under grossest food? This is more wholesome and patriotic than the Big Mac! But alas, the record holder is Joey Chestnut, with 76 total glizzies in ten minutes. A lot of franks.
7. Most Peeps eaten in five minutes – Okay, what I said about mayo? Forget it; this is the one that truly grosses me out. Peeps are a mass delusion of something that tastes good propagated by Big Mallow. But the record goes to Matt Stonie, who downed two hundred and fifty-five Peeps in five minutes. Glad my trash bin has a plastic bag in it, excuse me…

There you have it folks. Now you know that if you hide five Peeps in mayo and put it in a serving dish, I won’t be staying for dinner.

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