Thursday, October 26, 2006
You know what day it is
Since my recent post about how Krystal has left me in the dust with their awesome new Krystal truck, I have gotten several suggestions, mostly from my artistically minded friends. I have many artistic friends. That is how I overcompensate for my utter lack of artistic ability. I will take the weekend to mull these ideas over, and feel free to keep emailing me any ideas as well. Most of the ideas center of me fixing up/altering MY truck. Since I just got it fixed I don't know how much I like those ideas. As you've probably heard, this weekend is the Krystal Square-Off in Chattanooga. While Brad (the Krystal King of Advertising) was down for the Perry Square Off, he invited me to come up for the Square Off weekend. You see, most of the eaters will arrive on Friday, the night before. They put them up at a hotel and there's a get together on Friday evening. Personally I'd hate to foot the food bill for a gathering of the biggest eaters on Earth, but then as we've seen, Krystal has a slightly larger budget to work with that I do. The other neat thing is, last year, several of the eaters hadn't ever actually had a Krystal, so an impromptu road trip was set up, they apparently convinced the hotel to get out the courtesy shuttle, and they went to the local Krystal. Unannounced. As you might expect, a few challenges were tossed around, and quite a few Krystals were eaten. Including the (at the time) unofficial 2 minute record. It was unofficial because it wasn't sanctioned by the IFOCE. "Humble" Bob Shoudt put down the most that night, which I believe was 22. Bob has since had that record broken by Joey Chestnut, and then Bob recently tied Joey's record of 28 in 2 minutes. You can see him tie the record here on the Square Off web site. For those that have been paying close attention, you may have noticed I got a comment from Bob in this post a couple of weeks back. As a side note, I also got spammed in the comments on that post. So now I have been Googles, Wiki'd, Spammed, and visited by Humble Bob. I'm trying to figure out how to get "Burgatory" added into www.wiktionary.org as well. I'm honored for sure! Anyway, Brad said this year, Krystal would be assisting the eaters on a road trip to the nearest restaurant. I am sure all the Krystals in the Chattanooga area are thankful. I can't imagine the shock and awe that resulted from a late night crowd of people who can easily eat 20+ Krystals. And what about other customers that night? Anyway, if I can find a way to work out this trip to Chattanooga tomorrow, I might be able to tag along. Of course I'd be a nervous wreck. In the same room with the Super Heros of eating? Of course I'll have my camera in tow. Coordinating this trip will require meto burn up the phone lines this afternoon, and also do some fancy talking at work to see about getting out a little early. (We're wrapping up a 2 week class this week and I am going to see if I can dump the last hour or three of class on my co-instructor. But don't tell him!) ![]() |