Six-foot-four C’s fan eats his height in hotdogs
While the Vancouver Canadians were thrashing the Everett AquaSox 7-1 on the diamond at Nat Bailey Stadium on Tuesday, Juan Ramos was destroying 76 inches of hotdog in the grandstand.
The ravenous baseball fan was not only filling his belly, he was also fulfilling a promise to himself.
“Last year the Canadians launched their three-foot hotdog and I managed to eat one. The funny thing is I had gone to dinner right before the game, so I was like ‘maybe next year I should (eat) my height.’ So on the home opener, I decided to try that and I did it,” said Ramos.
The Canadians introduced the Yard Dog, a three-foot meat beast that sells for $22, last season. To prepare himself and make sure his appetite was where it needed to be, Ramos starved himself for 24 hours before Tuesday’s game. At six foot four, Ramos needed to down two Yard Dogs and a regular hotdog to match his height.
He polished them off in 40 minutes. “I’m not really sure what inning it was because I wasn’t paying too much attention to the game,” he said.
GOOD INTENTIONS
While Ramos was inhaling hotdogs, his good friend and Hootsuite colleague Andrea Johb was competing in the Grouse Grind Challenge. Johb conquered the Grind 14 times on Tuesday to claim the women’s championship in the annual stamina event for the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Ramos streamed his ballpark gluttony on Facebook Live and encouraged viewers to donate to his friend’s Grouse Grind fundraising page.
“It was a tribute to her and to raise awareness for her campaign. While she was burning 6,000 calories, I was eating them,” he said.
Obviously blessed with a forgiving metabolism, Ramos wasn’t too worried about the calories, but the sodium content was a concern.
“My mouth felt like a salt bomb after the last hotdog,” he said.
He may be a gifted eater (he once ate “for free” by downing a five-pound burrito in 18 minutes at a local taco shop on Cinco de Mayo), but Ramos has no intention of joining the ranks of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi in the world of competitive eating.
“I don’t think the speed game is my thing. I’m more of an endurance guy,” he said.