Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi (of Nathan’s Famous fame) won his third straight Krystal hamburger-eating contest, setting a new world record in the process. Kobayashi ate 97 of the small, square hamburgers in eight minutes on Saturday in Chattanooga, Tennessee.<br />
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That beat the previous record of 69 burgers, which he set at the first Krystal contest in 2004.<br />
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Krystal are southern imitators of White Castle, and Kobayashi managed to keep down almost a hundred of the little burgers, known as "gutbombs."<br />
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Read more about it at <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15497231/"><strong>MSNBC.com</strong></a>
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