2011 Rib Eating Competition

[clarkesk82]

Yesterday was the first day of the Rib Festival here in Reno, NV. To start things off they had a Rib eating competition and Joey Chestnut showed up to compete. For those of you that don't know who he is...he is the #1 competitive eater in the world and has won the hot dog eating competition something like 5 years in a row. Last year he ate 8 lbs of ribs in 12 minutes to win. This year he only ate 7.6 lbs in 12 minutes, but it was still enough to win. Afterwards we of course got ourselves some ribs and man were they good.






all of these pictures were taken from my phone while my daughter was on my shoulders, so maybe i can get some of my wifes pictures to post up here later as hers were 10x better

[thj0011]

What's crazy is how fit most of those competitive eaters are. Guys got like 12 packs and buff. Not all of them but the really good ones. I would love go have a Chestnut auto card or like memorabilia haha.

[posluzny09]

Where they boneless ribs?

[clarkesk82]

Where they boneless ribs?

no, each tray weighed approximately 4 lbs and were about 2 slabs, i think joey was on his 6th tray when time ran out, which means he ate more than 10 full racks. They were cooked really well though and some he just pulled the meat off as it slid off the bone and then ate from his hand.

[jywilli69]

Man, that is alot of Ribs lol.

[Leafsfan1967]

Crap, now I want ribs for dinner.

[clarkesk82]

Crap, now I want ribs for dinner.

oh we are going back out there tonight or tomorrow...they were really good