Holy crap. This guy is unreal.

 Competitive eater and real American hero Joey Chesnut performed another feat of eat yesterday when he downed 45 pieces of pizza in 10 minutes.

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"The 24-year-old rocketed to competitive-eating celebrity when he won Coney Island's July Fourth hot-dog eating contest in 2007. He took the title again this summer by gulping down 59 dogs in 10 minutes.

He won a contest in Tennessee last month by wolfing down 93 Krystal hamburgers in 8 minutes.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2008/10/joey_chestnut_eats_45_slices_o.html

I guess I'd be more impressed if I knew how big the slices were. Were they cut in small triangles, or cut New York style? Did they have toppings? Did he dunk them in water?

We used to have this contest when I was in high school at the Pizza Hut near our school, where there'd be like 10-15 guys trying to out eat each other, and the winner got 20 bucks and his meal paid for. I think I downed like 18 of these small-ish triangle slices and got beat by a guy who ate 20. What neither of us knew was that it was marching band day in band class, and it was like 95 degrees outside. So me and the guy who ate 20 each threw up during marching band. It was not pretty.