guy who ate 40 rotisserie chickens in philadelphia

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06/11/24 • 58 min

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In November 2022, one Philadelphia man took it upon himself to eat a rotisserie chicken every day for forty days. Why? Jamie flew across the country, went to his house, and interrogated him.

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In November 2022, one Philadelphia man took it upon himself to eat a rotisserie chicken every day for forty days. Why? Jamie flew across the country, went to his house, and interrogated him.

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Cool Zone media. If there's one thing Americans love, it's excess, and the most intense example of all that is one that I'm a bit of an authority on, not to brag. It's the Nathan's Hot Dog eating Contest on Coney Island on the fourth of July. I've been twice. By the time you hear this, I may have been three times, and I regret to inform you that competitive eating is the most interesting thing in the entire world, bar none, and like many of the m