The wife and I met Takeru Kobayashi, the former Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion, and all-around top-ranked eater. We met him @ the Fremont street experience in Las Vegas, NV. Spike TV was having a "Chowdown" event called Battle of the Bird. The first event was a cranberry sauce eating contest, followed by the main event, eating a 20lb turkey in 8 min..... It was crazy.. In the downtime, we were able to carry on conversation w/ Takeru about how he started into eating, about his latest jaw problems, and misc. other stuff. Overall, it was a fun night and just like on TV, Takeru is a really down to earth nice guy. We cheered him on, but because of his jaw problems, he was not able to win. Ah well. He's still a cool guy in our book.
