While this competition isn’t really recommended (I can’t imagine why not), participants are asked to eat entire sticks of butter. In 2001, Don Lerman ate seven quarter-pound sticks of salted butter in just over 5 minutes.

Kimchi is a Korean national dish. The Championship in held in Koreatown in Chicago. To set the record today, you’d have to eat more than 8.5 pounds in 6 minutes.

Held in Pompano Beach, Florida, the Isle Casino Pompano Park World Eating Picking Championship asks for contestants to eat as many pickles as they can in 8 minutes. A recent World Record was set by Pat Bertoletti, where he ate 5 pounds of sour pickles in 6 minutes.

In Biloxi, Mississippi Elvis fans can gather to commemorate The King by eating his favorite snack – peanut butter and banana sandwiches. In 2011, Pat Bertoletti won the Biloxi PB&B Sandwich Eating World Championship after devouring 28 PB&B sandwiches in 10 minutes.

Even healthy foods occasionally become a competition. Tom “Broccoli” Landers is the world record holder for broccoli eating, having gulped down a pound of raw broccoli in just 92 seconds.

So this exists. Fans of bull testicles are in luck! A competition is held in a few cities across the US, where competitors are supposed to eat as many…well…balls as they can muster in 10 minutes. Yummy.

The National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship is held annually and is located in Pennsylvania. If you can devour more than 9 pounds (4 kg) of breaded and fried mushrooms in 8 minutes, you have a good chance of setting the new world record.

Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, this competition actually requires people to go through a health screening and sign a legal disclaimer, as some of the contestants usually end up in need of medical attention. Therefore, the British Red Cross is always on standby during this “spicy” event.

The record for eating live cockroaches is held by Ken Edwards of Derbyshire, England. In 2001 he ate 36 hissing Madagascar roaches in one minute. In 2012, a man died after eating dozens of live roaches in a similar contest in Florida.

Held in the Czech Republic where plum dumplings are a popular dish, the plum dumplings eating contest is a competition in which the participants eat as many dumplings as they can in one hour. The current Czech record is 191 pieces of this delicious dessert.

The World Garlic Eating Competition is held in Chideock, Dorset County, Southwestern England. In 2014, David Greenman won the contest by chomping 33 raw cloves of Iberian garlic in 60 seconds. Just imagine how fresh his breath smelled.

Held in Atlantic City, New Jersey the holder of the world record for this feat is Chris Hendrix who ate 331 pieces of these crustaceans in 12 minutes.

Ice cream eating contests are held in many countries, but it was at the 2014 World Ice Cream Eating Championship in Florida where the new world record for this discipline was achieved. Joey Chestnut, a holder of several other eating records, gulped down 15 pints (7.1 liter) of ice cream in just 6 minutes.

The Jalapeño Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas is among the most famous chili eating competitions in the world. In 2006, a 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada swallowed 247 peppers in 8 minutes, setting the new world record in the process.

Just hearing that this event exists triggers my gag reflex. Arguably one of the more unhealthy competitiona, mayonnaise eating has its own two-hour competitive event. The winner of this feast, Oleg Zhornitskiy, ate 4 bowls of mayo, which is equivalent to 8 pounds (or 3.6 kg) of the condiment.

Located at the Pattaya Crocodile Farm in Thailand, the crocodile egg eating competition is an annual eating race that consists of eating 10 crocodile eggs in the shortest time possible.

Held annually in Stockton, California, the World Deep Fried Asparagus Eating Competition is one of the contests that Joey Chestnut has left a significant mark on. He managed to eat almost 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of fried asparagus in 10 minutes in 2011.

The ‘Slugburger’ is a unique burger based on a deep-fried beef and soy meal patty dressed with onions, pickles and mustard. In order to break the current world record, you’d have to travel to Corinth, Mississippi and eat at least 44 slugburgers in 10 minutes.

To attempt one of the more outrageous eating contests on the list you have to travel to Beijing, China. In this competition 3 buckets are provided for each contestant. One is crammed with roasted donkey penises (neat), the second is filled with a dipping sauce and the third is for gagging up chunks of half-digested penises to avoid choking. So at least they’re being thoughtful of the torture contestants are enduring, right?

Avid onion fan (we’re just guessing here) Brian Duffield from UK managed to down a large 212 g (0.47 pound) onion in just 1 minute and 32 seconds back in 2012.

Held in Dorset, the World Nettle Eating Championship is a competition where participants knaw their way through as many nettle leaves as they can. The winner is the contestant who has stripped and eaten the leaves from the greatest number of 2-feet stalks.

New Orleans is home to the Oyster Eating World Championship every June. It’s a speed eating contest in which participants compete for a cash prize of $1,000. Pat Bertoletti set the Louisiana state record by eating 468 oysters in 8 minutes back in 2011.

Tim ‘Eater X’ Janus, a professional eater, set the world sushi record by devouring an incredible 141 pieces of sushi in 6 minutes. How?

Yet another eating competition dominated by Joey Chestnut is the Shrimp Wonton Eating Contest held in Singapore. In May 2010, Chestnut set the world record for this crazy contest by devouring 380 shrimp wontons in only 8 minutes.