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This event took place last Saturday. Joey, who by the way is officially the world's #1 ranked eater, ate 9.25 pounds of shrimp in 8 minutes.
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Joey "Jaws" Chestnutof San Jose, CA, and the world's #1-ranked eaterate 9.25lb of Shrimp Cocktail on Saturday, December 7, 2013, in Indianapolis, IN, at The World Famous St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail-Eating ChampionshipLocated At The Meijer Tail Greater Party On Georgia St to set the inaugural world Shrimp Cocktail-eating record.
All of which is a very dry, fact-based way of saying that Chestnut did what Chestnut does. He came, he saw, he conquered. MLE's Latin scholars might muse that Chestnutin his veni, vidi, vici approach to lifeis our sport's Julius Caesar. Only without the toga or the assassination and with a smaller nose. On this day, the signature Shrimp Cocktail from famed Indianapolis steak house St. Elmo was to be Chestnut's Pharnaces II of Pontus. The jumbo shrimp, covered in St. Elmo's lauded and very horseradishy sauce, stood no chance. The battle was swift. The result unequivocal. Chestnut 1; Shrimp 0. This is what history records.
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