VIDEO: Professional Eater Takes Down Entire Denny’s Hobbit Menu

Written by Vince Mancini / 01.03.13

This video apparently hit right before we broke for Christmas, but if you know anything about FilmDrunk, you know we love movie-related novelty food above nearly all things, save C-Tates storyboards, Gary Busey, and Danzig stories. By now you’re all no doubt familiar with Denny’s Hobbit menu, a veritable menagerie of schlock-themed grease stuffs, such as a grilled cheese sandwich filled with turkey and stuffing and fried red velvet dough filled with white chocolate chips and dipped in cream cheese sauce. So yeah, that. Here, professional eater Jamie McDonald takes down the entire menu in approximately 20 minutes. 20 minutes! It takes longer than that for Bilbo to rub his eyes and get out of bed at the beginning of the movie (“I’m late for Hobbit school!” he shouts, slapping on a back pack and jumping on his skateboard, as Huey Lewis starts to play The Power of Love).

What Jamie ate:

Hobbit Hole Breakfast: Two eggs fried right into the center of grilled Cheddar bun halves. Served with two strips of bacon and crispy hash browns topped with melted shredded Cheddar cheese and bacon.

Shire Sausage Skillet: Shire sausage with seasoned red-skinned potatoes, sautéed mushrooms and fire-roasted peppers and onions served on a sizzling skillet. Topped with shredded Cheddar cheese and two eggs.

Frodo’s Pot Roast Skillet: Slow-cooked pot roast, herb-roasted carrots, celery, mushrooms and onions over broccoli and seasoned red-skinned potatoes served on a hot sizzling skillet. Topped with shredded Cheddar cheese and served with dinner bread.

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Kobayashi pulls a Zoolander at Hot Dog Eating contest

Written by Vince Mancini / 07.05.10

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I know this story might not have the greatest repercussions to the world of film, but I couldn’t not talk about Takeru Kobayashi pulling a Zoolander yesterday.  Joey “Jaws” Chestnut won the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest, but then Kobayashi, who wasn’t competing, got arrested trying to storm the stage during the award ceremony as if hot dog eating was a matter of national security.  “What the hell is going on?  Am I on mescaline?” I imagine witnesses asking.

“Let him eat! Let him eat!” the crowd chanted as police handcuffed the man dubbed “The Tsunami.” Kobayashi, 32, did not enter this year because he refused to sign a contract with Major League Eating, the fast-food equivalent of the NFL. On his Japanese-language blog, he said he wanted to be free to compete in contests sanctioned by other groups. [WashingtonPost]

Time out. Competitive eating has an NFL now?  When did this happen?  This is not a sport, this is something you do on a dare.  “Make way, everyone!  Here comes the Muhammad Ali of wasabi snorting!  In all my years of covering puffy bunny, I’ve never seen anything like this!  They say he’s the Lebron James of professional fart lighting!”

The altercation came moments after Chestnut put away 54 dogs and buns and coasted to victory. Chestnut relished his win [I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!], despite falling far short of his own world record of 68.
“I came out here, I knew what I had to do. It’s Fourth of July, I was just having fun, eating hot dogs,” said Chestnut, clutching the famed Mustard Yellow Belt he successfully defended again. [NY Post]

HE WAS JUST HAVING FUN OUT THERE.  LIKE A KID.  EATING HOT DOGS.  JUST TRYING TO TAKE IT ONE HOT DOG AT A TIME.  I GIVE IT UP TO MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST FOR MIRACLING ALL THOSE HOT DOGS DOWN MY F*CKING THROAT.

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