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Thrillist New YorkYou fancy yourself a real Thanksgiving assassin, but when it comes to true holiday gluttony, you're a little boy. Not this year. To help you reach true gastrointestinal glory, we spoke with two of the world's most feared competitive eaters -- Crazy Legs Conti and Badlands Booker -- to develop this exclusive feast-demolishing strategy.
Today
Expand your stomach from its natural and inadequate fist-sized dimensions to an awesome, basketball-sized pit. Crazy Legs suggests decimating an all-you-can-eat spread, or acclimatizing your body to turkey by doing a 1/2lb cold-cut "sprint". Badlands stretches his digestive sac with things that'll pass quickly -- like a gallon of water, 10-15 lbs of fruit/vegetables, or a half dozen succulent infant children.
Tomorrow
Go light. Consume noodle soups or raw fish. Try your very best to poop.
Day-of Strategy
Do:
Do Not:
Bloat yourself with water. Instead, eat turkey au jus or with whatever gravy is remaining after mixing a round of wildly unpopular gravytinis.Post-meal Recuperation
Enjoy natural digestive aids such as pineapple or grapes, and take shots of the digestif Fernet-Branca (Crazy Legs calls it "delicious Drano"). After that, you're essentially doomed to fall into a tryptophan-induced coma -- where you'll dream of next year, when you'll reach higher, train harder, and take your game up to the level of these immortal champions.
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