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Several months back, we presented a listicle of some fairly gross eating contests that evoked the kind of over-eating that we’d just taken part in over Thanksgiving weekend. Now, to expand upon the copious and rushed meals enjoyed by those competitive eaters, we suggest you tuck into mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Unappetizing Eating Competitions, which [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]