{"id":5444,"date":"2013-09-27T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T23:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2013-09-27T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T23:42:38","slug":"fair-food-friday-eating-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2013\/09\/27\/fair-food-friday-eating-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Food Friday: Eating Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we mentioned our Fair Food Frenzy, which happened this afternoon! 16 participants competed to see who could chow down a <strong>1 1\/2 pound<\/strong> Krispy Kreme cheeseburger the fastest (the equivalent of a sugar-loaded 4&#215;4 from In n&#8217; Out).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/exymT3nBpJ\/embed\/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWe had a wide variety of contestants but all of them had one thing in common: They could eat. And eat a lot. We have to give them kudos for not running away when they saw the size of these burgers.<br \/>\nIt was fun to see everyone attacking these ginormous Chicken Charlie burgers. Our winners finished their dishes within minutes (maybe 3 minutes max) and it was crazy to see! Strategies included compressing the doughnuts flat, drinking a lot of water and even dousing the burgers with water for easier chewing and digestion. (Are you grossed out yet?)<br \/>\nWe had first, second and third place winners, with 1st and 2nd place receiving a VIP Weekend at the Sheraton Fairplex hotel. A special big thank-you to the Sheraton Fairplex and McKinley&#8217;s Grille for generously donating these prizes!<br \/>\nI guess its just another day at the Fair&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we mentioned our Fair Food Frenzy, which happened this afternoon! 16 participants competed to see who could chow down a 1 1\/2 pound Krispy Kreme cheeseburger the fastest (the equivalent of a sugar-loaded 4&#215;4 from In n&#8217; Out). We had a wide variety of contestants but all of them had one thing in common:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,13,14],"tags":[187,605,640,646],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-competitions","category-fairnews","category-food","category-funatthefair","tag-chicken-charlie","tag-krispy-kreme-cheeseburgers","tag-la-county-fair-eating-competition","tag-la-county-fair-food-frenzy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}