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Just responded to a comment Danny left on A More Perfect Market. 

 

He's annoyed at chinabites for making him hungry for food he can't have.  I told him he might want to use chinabites as an artificial hunger creator next time he challenges a superior eater to burrito crushing. 

But I didn't mention the burritos.  I just alluded to competitive eating, figuring that'd be sufficient to conjure nacho cheese images in Danny's sad, nauseous memory.

I thought about providing the whole backstory, but there's something embarrassingly wasteful about competitive eating, and I didn't think it'd fit well into the Prairie Blog comment thread.

Radical transparency is tugging, however, so I think it's important that I post a confession here.

I have participated in and possibly will participate in further eating competitions.  Ridiculous, I know, but sometimes people challenge me, and sometimes I feel the need to show them they shouldn't. 

I will make a resolution, however.  I will do everything I can to make all further eating competitions as socially and environmentally responsible as possible.  I'm thinking watermelons.  Organic, locally grown watermelons.  Supporting farmers that do good things for the world by producing clean, healthy produce and and distributing it locally.

It'll still be a waste of food, but there will be good side effects.

Attached is a picture of my cousin Sophie, a protesting non-spectator of last summer's burrito extravaganza.