Competative eaters, do your 'wurst: Octoberfest at Jimmy the Greeks

Sure. You spot a heavily seasoned rotissere chicken doing a slow, delicious tumble in the deli oven at the local grocer and near starvation prompts you to make elaborate claims.

Exaggerations pour out of your mouth, things like, "I'm so hungry I could eat eight rotissere chickens" or "I'm so hungry my stomach has begun cannablising its interal organ neigbors, starting with slow-moving gall bladder."

Hunger makes us overstate our eating capacity.

In truth, most of us would falter midway through chicken one.

But if it really came down to it - if it were a life and death situation or, say, a free trip to Miami - could you eat a seemingly inhuman amount of meat product?

Some folks sure tried last weekened, during a bratwurst-eating contest during Octoberfest at Jimmy the Greeks.

Eight brats each lie in wait before the salivating chins of the contest's eight participants. Five minutes went on the clock. And buckets were placed on the table...just in case.

Winner Joe (far right in gray shirt) didn't even need five minutes. He swallowed eight brats - bun and all - in 2:56. Not yet satiated, he took another off the platter of a no-show neighbor and kept eating.

We spectators stood humbled. And no longer all that hungry.

Congrats, Joe. We know to never scoff at your eating claims, or to leave our lunches unattended in your presence.