Travis Malouf passed away after trying to consume a 250g frosted doughnut despite onlookers’ attempts to rescue him. Share Article Share Article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy Link Link copied Bookmark Comments
There isn’t a good method to die, but suffocating on a huge doughnut certainly isn’t how the majority of individuals would prefer to. Within the realm of competitive food consumption, choking is a real hazard for participants, so serious that it brought about the demise of two separate competitive eaters in the same week.
Travis Malouf died in Denver while endeavoring to down a 250g glazed doughnut in under 80 seconds at an American bakehouse chain named Voodoo.
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Travis was participating in a challenge to ingest the supersized doughnut as rapidly as possible, but the baked treat got stuck in his windpipe, eventually causing his death due to lack of oxygen.
Julia Edelstein witnessed the event and told journalists at the time that the doughnut Malouff was given was “the size of a small cake,” and part of a long-standing in-store competition where successful individuals received the pastry without charge and a badge declaring their achievement.
Voodoo Doughnuts then put a stop to the competition. According to Edelstein, Malouff tore the enormous doughnut in half and began to eat with intense resolve.
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It was only when it was too late that anyone realised that something had gone drastically wrong.
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“Watching somebody take part in a food-eating contest, it appears that they are in distress,” Edelstein expressed. “The whole scene looks like a sign of distress. Nobody understood what was occurring until it was too late.”
He fell shortly after. Two patrons tried to grab him as he toppled and immediately began life-saving procedures, while others rang emergency services. Despite the prompt arrival of medics, Malouff was pronounced dead on site.
His unfortunate passing happened at the same time as that of 20-year-old Caitlin Nelson, a university student who sadly lost her life after choking during a pancake-eating event at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.
“We were not racing in front of vehicles or playing with firearms,” Edelstein stated. “We were simply out enjoying ourselves. No one anticipated anything of this nature.”
Unfortunately, these two are not the only competitive eaters to have reached their demise whilst trying to break an existing record. Back in 2016, a Japanese man died of asphyxiation while attempting to consume five pieces of sushi within a time frame of three minutes.
The 28-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed, became unconscious at the function held in Hikone and sadly died three days later.