Chew On This . . .

Dave “Coondog” O’Karma once ate 17 hotdogs on the Fourth of July at Coney Island, N.Y. He devoured 126 chicken wings in front of 20,000 people in Philadelphia and bested a 600-pound bear in a pizza-eating contest on the Big Chuck and Li’l John Show. The Cuyahoga Falls resident and competitive eater is also a character in Jason Fagone’s book “Horseman of the
Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream.” During the summer of 2004 and 2005 O’Karma penned two columns for us on his experiences as a competitive eater, with his 2005 installment detailing O’Karma’s trip to Japan with Fagone to track down his old friend and arguably the best competitive eater in the world: Takeru Kobayashi.

Dog eat dog … after dog, after dog, after dog, after, dog

Coondog O’Karma Goes to Japan