Joey Chestnut breaks Pizza Eating Record with 45 slices in just 10 minutes

13 October 2008 @ 01:15 pm EDT

Joey Chestnut, an acknowledged eating competitor added another victory to his record after he ate 45 pizza slices in 10 minutes Sunday at the "Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship" in New York City.

Chestnut's achievement makes him the Pizza-eating champion of the entire world. The previous pizza eating record holder, Patrick Bertoletti, ate 22 slices in 10 minutes.

On the pizza contest he consumed about 11,700 calories and 450 grams of fat, according to the New York Daily News which reported he "never appeared to chew the slices."

He prepared two days in advance eating nothing but protein supplements. The morning previous to the contest he drank a coffee and a gallon of water to stretch his stomach muscles, the source reports.

Chestnut was awarded with $5, 000.

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