This is going to be epic. At 5pm during The Depot's Grand Opening this Sunday we'll be holding the first ever Diamond Dog Eating Contest. After a very strenuous selection process we have chosen 8 lucky contestants. Meet the brave people that are ready to eat as many Diamond Dogs as possible in 10 minutes.

 

Age: 27

Height: 6’3”

Weight: 225 lbs

Hello. My name is Brendan Holloway. I am 27. I have never won anything in my life. So... I guess I just need to do this. Please let me enter.

 

Age: 29

Height: 6’

Weight: 175 lbs

I think there is no better way to celebrate our nation's independence than by shoving twenty bastardized wieners down my throat. I'm here to eat the world under my pseudonym Le Tenia (The Tapeworm).  Along with the Qdoba Burrito relay and the disgusting Motzhoh ball challenge at Mort's Deli, this will be my third eating competition and my first victory.

 

Age: 26

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 180 lbs

Coming up through the international eating ranks, this world-renowned youngster took on Coney Island Kingpin Kobayashi in a Rocky Mountain Oyster eating competition and left the champ choking, coming out on top in contests nationwide, from the Georgia Peach Pie Plow to the Seattle Espresso Slurp-Off. Seriously, he's a local writer, actor and arts guy and this is probably a bad idea.

 

Age: 36

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 165 lbs

At 6'1" and 165 lbs., the words "hot dog annihilator" may not come to mind upon first glance at this son of an Iranian immigrant father and Midwestern farmer's daughter mother. Normally as cool as the cucumber that became the pickle relish on a Chicago-style dog, Khazai becomes downright volatile in front of a plate of hot dogs. This uncanny ability to down hot dogs at an alarming rate, thanks in part to a well-honed Japanese-ing technique borrowed from former World Champ Hirofumi Nakajima, is PURE ENTERTAINMENT for all to behold.

 

Height: 5’7”

I am the infamous "Femme Eat All".  I have been in my first 3 eating contests in the past 2 months and have received 2nd place in each one.  Always a bridesmaid, never a bride--until now.  I am prepared to attack those diamond dogs the way Courtney Love attacks a pile of blow.  I live in S Minneapolis with my dog George and a fridge that is always full of Grainbelt.

 

Height: 6’

Weight: 203 lbs

The tsunami from the East. I'm really good at giving advice when people don't ask for it. My motivation comes from J.C. high above (Josh Collins). I eat my feelings. Time to get swollen.

 

 

Height: 6’4”

Weight: 220 lbs

My name is Neil Olstad and I am one-half of the third best kids dance/party duo in MPLS, Koo Koo Kanga Roo (http://www.KooKooKangaRoo.com). If you allow me to be a contestant in your 1st annual contest, I will not let you down. My belly is ready.

 

 

Age: 32

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 200 lbs

This ain’t rocknroll. This is genocide! I want to eat my weight in diamond(dog)s. I will gorge myself silly so I have to watch The Hold Steady show wrapped in a blanket due to meat sweats. Keep cool, Diamond dogs rule, ok. I have already eaten three of them, so I feel I can handle the competition. Beware of the diamond dogs.

 

 

Seriously, what a group. Come cheer them on at 5pm at The Depot. Leave a comment with who you think is going to take the title.