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Man completes challenge to eat 400 Skyline coneys in a year because...why not?

Welcome to the 400 Club, Mac.

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Man completes challenge to eat 400 Skyline coneys in a year because...why not?

Welcome to the 400 Club, Mac.

365 days, 400 coneys.They said it couldn't be done, but he did it.Ben Cohn, 32, of Harrison, Ohio, loves Skyline Chili. He loves it so much that he accepted the insane challenge of consuming hundreds of cheese coneys before the end of the year.And he succeeded nearly two months early, eating his 400th chili dog Thursday.Twitter user @MillironWhitty broke it down, and that's 1.37 coneys a day.So let's start with the basics: Why?Cohn's answer was simple. Why not?It started when Cohn lost a food challenge on New Years Day. His friends wanted him to eat an entire party sub, but it couldn't be done. So on the topic of food challenges, it was decided he would consume an ambitious 400 coneys in 2018.And how?Cohn said he would always eat at least four coneys at a time. Sometimes more. He said the most he ever consumed in one day was 10."I’m sure the folks at the Harrison Skyline that work the drive thru would be able to pick my voice out of a lineup if they made everyone say '4 cheese coneys, no onion, no mustard,'" he laughed.Harrison is where he said he ate a majority of his hundreds, but some were eaten at Great American Ball Park and other places.And Skyline has been very supportive. Cohn says to congratulate him on his big victory and thank him for his obvious loyalty, they sent him a gift basket.You'd think eating so much of something would wear on you after awhile, but Cohn says that's just not the case."I think I could be on my 1,000th coney and it would be just as delicious as the first. I can’t think of an instance during this whole process where I was just reluctantly eating coneys to reach my goal. I doubt I would have made as many Skyline trips without the goal of 400 coneys, but anytime I have an excuse to eat there more frequently, I’m all for it," he said.To his knowledge, he is the only person to join the "400 Club." So of course, he had to have a custom T-shirt made. Cohn said he had his mom embroidered a Skyline shirt from Homage to eat his final dog in style.But a club isn't much of a club if you're alone, so Cohn, who helps run a sports blog and podcast, said he hopes to invite others into the challenge next year.His wife says she hope's his next challenge involves salad.

365 days, 400 coneys.

They said it couldn't be done, but he did it.

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Ben Cohn, 32, of Harrison, Ohio, loves Skyline Chili. He loves it so much that he accepted the insane challenge of consuming hundreds of cheese coneys before the end of the year.

And he succeeded nearly two months early, eating his 400th chili dog Thursday.

Twitter user @MillironWhitty broke it down, and that's 1.37 coneys a day.

So let's start with the basics: Why?

Cohn's answer was simple. Why not?

It started when Cohn lost a food challenge on New Years Day. His friends wanted him to eat an entire party sub, but it couldn't be done. So on the topic of food challenges, it was decided he would consume an ambitious 400 coneys in 2018.

And how?

Cohn said he would always eat at least four coneys at a time. Sometimes more. He said the most he ever consumed in one day was 10.

"I’m sure the folks at the Harrison Skyline that work the drive thru would be able to pick my voice out of a lineup if they made everyone say '4 cheese coneys, no onion, no mustard,'" he laughed.

Harrison is where he said he ate a majority of his hundreds, but some were eaten at Great American Ball Park and other places.

And Skyline has been very supportive. Cohn says to congratulate him on his big victory and thank him for his obvious loyalty, they sent him a gift basket.

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You'd think eating so much of something would wear on you after awhile, but Cohn says that's just not the case.

"I think I could be on my 1,000th coney and it would be just as delicious as the first. I can’t think of an instance during this whole process where I was just reluctantly eating coneys to reach my goal. I doubt I would have made as many Skyline trips without the goal of 400 coneys, but anytime I have an excuse to eat there more frequently, I’m all for it," he said.

To his knowledge, he is the only person to join the "400 Club." So of course, he had to have a custom T-shirt made.

Cohn said he had his mom embroidered a Skyline shirt from Homage to eat his final dog in style.

But a club isn't much of a club if you're alone, so Cohn, who helps run a sports blog and podcast, said he hopes to invite others into the challenge next year.

His wife says she hope's his next challenge involves salad.