Werner Herzog ate his shoe:

"In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually made one of his films he was forever talking about. Stung to action, Morris directed Gates of Heaven and Herzog, true to his word, returned to Berkeley to consume one of his desert boots at the UC Theater. Blank's film documents Herzog's strongly expressed belief that people must have the gutts to attempt what they dream of."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcWTIWYDMQ (just the lead-up..)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kii4jQ7XHuY (shoe-eating..)

I doubt he ate a whole hat. He probably just put a bit of a hat into his mouth without eating it.

He showed it. I take the video to be accurate (he really did eat a small part, but not the whole thing), and not misleading. I’ve eaten much worse. Now if only more people would be as willing to correct course when their previous opinion was proven incorrect. This alone is one reason I really like Peter Beck.

I mean, there's a dude who ate an airplane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

Scott Alexander at least chomped on his hat in response to this 2017 incident involving Maciej Ceglowski:

> 12. (4/9/17) G.K Chesterton On AI Risk was an April Fools’ joke and not meant seriously. But it did criticize Maciej Ceglowski’s piece where he accused singularitarians of not caring enough about the poor. The fake Chesterton of the piece said that if Ceglowski himself gave to charity at the same level as the people he was criticizing, he would “eat his hat”. Ceglowski pointed out that he does indeed give a lot of money to charity, including a $15,000 donation last year. Under the circumstances, I felt honor-bound to eat my hat and post a video of it on Twitter.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-r... https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/848396684862275584