Gluttony / Hot Dog Contests

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Xpi said:
Yes, unchristian. When is it ever ok to do a gratuitous evil to obtain some ‘good?’ Let Nathan’s donate without the gross incentive. This is hardly a moral priority or a cause celebre for me, but the question was posed and, yes, Virginia, it is unchristian. WWJD? :
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Well, he wouldn’t eat pork hot dogs. 😉

I guess we’ll have to disagree about the evil nature of watching someone stuffing themselves with hotdogs. 🤷
 
VociMike said:
I find eating contests disgusting because they are disordered. They disconnect the act of eating from the reasons for eating. That’s why these contests have an aspect of the freak show about them. And on top of that, they are wasteful of something that should not be wasted.

The fact that people may use the spectacle to raise money for some good cause doesn’t make the spectacle itself any less disordered.
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VociMike,

For all I know watching **you **eat **one **hotdog could be disgusting and disordered. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
 
Well, it might be disordered if someone ate hugely like that at every meal.

But … a once a year eating contest … although on the edge of grossness and uncouthelocity … might skate by as “entertainment” or as an “athletic event”. Or even as a spectacle (but less dangerous than bull fighting).

It could also be considered as a way for the contest entrants to eat for free (I’m assuming they didn’t pay an entry fee).

It’s really no worse than any other extreme sport or even some non-extreme sports (like rodeo riding).
 
Newbie2 said:
Oh, I agree with you, it’s a freaky experience. Eating 60-some hotdogs at a time just ain’t right, let alone in 10 minutes. Not that there’s any connection, but I’d rather watch the Nathan’s hotdog eating contest, with the idiocy of the coverage (they never showed how they train for such an event :hmmm: ) than something trashy like some of the “reality” shows or the other bilge they have on TV.

But, there are other “spectacles” that waste things that shouldn’t be wasted…like motor racing, which disconnects the act of driving for transportation (the reason for mororcars) from driving. 😉

Or…The MetRx “World’s strongest man” competition. Most of those dudes are juiced up and eating way more than a normal person needs just to get freaky big and strong and lift and pull big, heavy things. 🤷
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Yeah. But car racing develops fuel eficiency and improved controls, ultimately saving fuel and lives because those developments can be applied to regular cars. And fitness contests give us something to live up to, a standard of using the body well, encouraging healthy living. Eating contests don’t develop or model anything but eating more – hardly what Americans and Europeans need.
 
PeteZaHut said:
Are hot dog eating contests wrong if you still keep yourself generally healthy?

Does the sin of gluttony constitute grave matter?
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I think eating contests are disgusting and disrespectful. There are starving people in the world.
 
VociMike said:
I find eating contests disgusting because they are disordered. They disconnect the act of eating from the reasons for eating. That’s why these contests have an aspect of the freak show about them. And on top of that, they are wasteful of something that should not be wasted.

The fact that people may use the spectacle to raise money for some good cause doesn’t make the spectacle itself any less disordered.
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👍

~Liza
 
strngrnrth said:
Yeah. But car racing develops fuel eficiency and improved controls, ultimately saving fuel and lives because those developments can be applied to regular cars. And fitness contests give us something to live up to, a standard of using the body well, encouraging healthy living. Eating contests don’t develop or model anything but eating more – hardly what Americans and Europeans need.
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Drag racing…fuel efficient? Um…no. I know a guy who builds engines for those things and they couldn’t care less how much fuel they use.

Like the loads of anabolics that they take? 😉

Eating hot dogs isn’t exactly healthy either; good point.
 
Claire_from_DE said:
Just reading this is making me hungry and there’s not a hot dog in the house. Ummm… Nathan’s:D
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Hi Claire, Howdy neighbor, (i’m a Delawarian too) 👋

I was just thinking the same thing.

Me getting hungry reading these posts 😃

I love “Nathan’s” hotdogs. 🙂
 
Maybe take a few folks down for free hot dogs.

“I’m not here to compete…I just have the munchies.” 😃
 
I personally find hot dog eating contests to be disgusting and totally depraved. It’s gluttony at its worst.
 
strngrnrth said:
Make a quiet money donation? Send the hot dogs straight to a soup kitchen? Have a feeding contest, but without most of the fanfare, where the winner is the one who can distribute the food to the most needy people, not the one who can eat fastest? Food for thought.👍
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Great idea strngrnrth. 🙂
 
DL82 said:
Only in America could eating be a competitive sport!
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They’re actually pretty big in Japan too. Bigger, as I recall.

Anyway, I don’t like watching eating contests, but I don’t think they’re sinful.
 
DL82 said:
Only in America could eating be a competitive sport!

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Without commenting on whether or not it is sinful, let me just say that this is not just America…contestants are from all over the world.
It’s almost an olympic sport.
 
Its only a contest. No big deal.

The real deal is, I would hate to be the winner and the pain they would go through the next morning on the toilet…LOL
Now thats a sin…destroying your body
 
Well, what do you think of competive sports in general. They are wasting a lot of time, that they could be spending on more important things, aren’t they?
 
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