Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 7, 2024

[sith_happened]

Well, the pond was green. Melted crayon green, not pond scum green. Anakin--who had spent entirely too much time watching the Olympics the past few weeks--could work with this! Everyone knew how to kayak, right?

But there was also new food in town, so there would be an eating contest, too. Because balance was important.

"Hello, Fandom, and welcome to Chicago!" he boomed through the megaphone. "Listen for your names!"

He was feeling indulgent today, so the list of voluntolds was relatively short (and the shirts were great):

Steve M
Don
Raiden
Eleanor
Vi
Steve R
Kamala
Stewart
Lydia
Kitty

Comments

Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[sith_happened]

And this competition is stacked. Eat as many fully loaded Chicago-style hot dogs (an all-beef hot dog with yellow mustard, pickle relish that matches the pond, chopped onion, two tomato wedges, a dill pickle spear, 2 sport peppers, and a dash of celery salt on a poppy seed bun) as you can in three minutes!

RNG knows what's up:
Raiden
Steve R
Eleanor
Steve M
Vi
Kitty
Kamala
Don
Lydia

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[giveittoyoursister]

The spirit was willing, but the competition was, well...

Vi still managed to put away a scary number of hot-dogs.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[slothbabyproductions]

Okay, Kamala would have done well but she had several questions about the hot dogs before they would go near her mouth.

Look a girl had to look out for her health and heritage.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[throughaphase]

"This feels really unfair with the toppings," Kitty announced, starting on the first hot dog.

What else was unfair: She was trying to get Portillo's later, come on.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[what_big_teeth]

This definitely wasn't the first eating contest at one of these things, and, just like that pie eating contest, Eleanor had no desire to really show off what she could do in this respect.

And even with deliberately not just inhaling everything like she knew she could and trying to eat like a normal person...

Sigh.

Those hot dogs were really good, though.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[x_wondrous_x]

And Stewart was promptly, clearly, disqualified from this event when he sat down with a smirk and produced a bottle of ketchup from his overalls and smugly plopped it on the table.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[heroic_jawline]

It wasn't often that Steve lost a food eating competition, but he had to respect Raiden's hustle here.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[carbsliftthespirit]

This had never been going to end any other way. Those poor hot dogs never stood a chance. Onlookers might be traumatized.

Raiden, meanwhile, was looking around for more hot dogs.

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[ifwebeworthy]

After his mouthful of pond water, Don's stomach wasn't feeling so great, and he had never understood why Chicago did this to poor innocent hot dogs, but, uh, he tried?

Re: Hot Dog Eating Contest!

[mustbeawitch]

"What on Earth?" Lydia wondered aloud when faced with the hot dogs. She poked one warily. She gave it a thorough visual inspection and a sniff. Finally, she took a rather delicate bite that was full of sport pepper and thus too much for her delicate nineteenth century English taste buds, and declared, "Oh. Oh, no, I'm afraid not," and set it back down.

Call it a forfeit.