The ultimate food contest: eat mochi

Last Sunday there has been held a jummy contest in the prefecture Ichinoseki in Japan: The National Mochi eating contest. Too bad that I wasn't there, because I'm a big mochi-fan.

16 teams competed with each other, eating as much mochi as possible in five minutes. The winning team succeeded in eating 83 mochi's (with a 58 year old teammember, Mr. Hirokuni Takeda, who ate 64 pieces all by hisself). They didn't beat the record of 122 pieces. But whow, this is also a great score, knowing that you could easily choke eating a mochi, when you eat it too fast. Luckily there were no accidents during this annual contest :)