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Sunday, October 12th 2008, 4:01 PM
Competitive eaters Dave Goldstein, Adam Gertler, Crazy Legs Conti, Bob Shoudt, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bartoletti, Juliet Lee, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Tim Janus, Pat Philbin, Eric Livingston plow through pizza pies in Times Square Sunday.
Handschuh/NewsChestnut won the contest by eating 45 slices in 10 minutes.
Joey Chestnut, the world's hot-dog eating champ, is a crossover king.
He set a new gut-busting record Sunday with New York City's otherfavorite food - pizza - by downing 45 slices in 10minutes at the Famous Famiglia pizza-eating contest inTimes Square.
"I might be on a liquid diet tonight," the 24-year-old San Jose, Calif., construction manager said through a grin.
GALLERY: CHESTNUT GOES NUTS ON PIZZA IN TIMES SQUARE
He beat 10 other contenders, including the previous pizza-eating recordholder, with a technique that gives new meaning to the expression "fast food."
He folded the slices - very quickly - and shoved them into his mouth. He jumped around some, to help them go down the hatch, or knocked back water from paper cups. He never appeared to chew.
The slices were the typical cheese and tomato sauce variety, dished from a 16-inch pie carved into eight wedges.
Chestnut is a practiced hand at Major League Eating, organizers' George andRichard Shea's tongue-in-cheek name for food faceoffs that include the Fourth of July Nathan's hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island. Chestnut holds that record, too: 66 dogs and buns downed in 12 minutes.
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The morning of the pizza matchup, he had coffee for breakfast - and a gallon of water to stretch his stomach muscles. He hadn't had anything but protein supplements for two days before that.
"It's as weird as it gets," he said of competitive eating. "But it's fun. We make people smile."
During his $5,000 prize-winning performance, Chestnut consumed an estimated 11,700 calories and 450 grams of fat. (The city Health Department is campaigning to get adults to eat only 2,000 calories a day.)
He barely beat out Patrick Bertoletti, who sucked down 43 slices. The Chicago chef holds the previous pizza-eating record of 22 slices in 10 minutes. That crust was thicker, Bertoletti noted.
"He is truly a god among eaters," contestant Adam Gertler said of Chestnut. "He could probably put an entire work boot in his mouth."
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