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Pizza, cookies, and roadkill: The foods Twitter would pick for an eating contest

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

The Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest is a Fourth of July staple unlike any other. Every year, we marvel at the power of the human spirit to engorge on a stupid amount of tube meat dipped in water.

We all know that competing in the hot dog contest is impossible — so we asked you what food-eating contest you think you could compete in:

There were a lot of really good answers, and surprisingly there weren’t a ton of duplicates. We can really codify the foods into several groups.

The classic favorites group:

The way too chewy group:

The swallowed whole group.

The sugar rush group:

The “Oh God, no” group:

What could you win with?

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