Japanese Man Eats 69 Burgers in 8 Minutes
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi ate 69 Krystals in eight minutes to collect $10,000 and be crowned the first Krystal Square-Off World Hamburger Eating Champion. "I feel great," the 24-year-old from Nagano, Japan, said through a translator after Saturday's contest.
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Hundreds of people queued up at a central   Tokyo restaurant on Monday to savor a dish not tasted for more   than two years -- "beef bowl" made with U.S. meat.
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PARIS  - A German man has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years, thanks to a pioneering surgical technique in which the patient incubated a replacement jawbone in a muscle on his back.
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Veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata has been named as the first Japanese to stay long-term in space, and said he hoped to bring ramen noodles to the International Space Station.
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A person could consume 800 pounds of meat in a single day from animals that ate feed made with tainted pet food before having any health effects from the toxins in that pet food, government scientists said yesterday.
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A chain goes for the testosterone with big burgers and video games.
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The burgermeister's latest numbers are meatier than they seem.
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Japanese glutton licked in 66-dog thriller US forces in Iraq can today console themselves that if all is not going exactly according to plan in that sun-kissed land astride the Tigris, the Land of the Free has at least reestablished world domination where it really counts - in the sport of stuffing your fat face with hotdogs.â¦
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Life & style: Study into eating habits also shows that we eat later, faster and increasingly in Asian restaurants
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German doctors have given a man the ability to have his first solid meal in nine years, by growing him a new jaw bone on his back.
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ST. LOUIS - The Hardee&#39;s fast food chain has rolled out its new 1,400-calorie Monster Thickburger, with 107 grams of fat. The sandwich boasts two-thirds of a pound of beef, four strips of bacon, three slices
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A man has eaten his first solid meal in nine years after his face was rebuilt using a pioneering jaw-bone graft.
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has   basked in five minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million   times over.
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After reading a book this year about serious flaws in Japan's pension system, retired deliveryman Yoshikazu Hirano thought he'd check his own records just to be safe. He's glad he did: The 74-year-old discovered the government had shortchanged him by 460,000 yen ($3,770) in benefits he accrued while driving a truck for three years in the 1950s and 60s.
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By BOB CHRISTIE  PHOENIX - A California man smashed the world record for hot dog eating at a contest Saturday, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes.
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Profits triple at McDonald's Japan after the fast-food chain starts selling larger burgers.
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To woo young customers more fond of burgers than traditional whale cuisine, a Japanese restaurant has come up with a new taste sensation: the fried whaleburger.