A wing every 5.3 seconds

Stuff reports:

Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi conquered Philadelphia’s annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX. …

Kobayashi claimed a US$20,000 (NZ$23,922) cash prize for his victory. It was the six-time Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest champ’s first time competing at Wing Bowl, though he consumed a cheesesteak in 24 seconds as part of an eating exhibition last year.

That is a truly incredible amount of wings in half an hour. Not even so much for the amount of chicken he would have eaten, which I estimate to be around 9.5 kgs, but also for the time it takes to get most of the chicken off the wing.