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sonic every now and then:

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all my kids are gay furries

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girls (and they're all kissing)

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Hmm. I tried to cook am I a MasterChef or did I burn down the house

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Sonic redesigns with more realistic height differences so Sonic just randomly adopts a pre-teen two times the size of him and everyone else

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Lego set of Maria getting fucking shot in the chest please

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To find out how many chilli hot dogs Sonic needs to maintain his speed we first need to figure out the nutritional value of his main food source. With some very rudimentary math we can come up with this. I’m going to assume that since all animals are people on Mobius that the hot dogs are made of soy and the chilli is vegetarian. Here are the basic nutritional facts of Sonic’s chilli hot dogs:

Calories: 445 kcal

Total Fats: 11.1g

Carbohydrates: 70g

Sugar: 9.4g

Protein: 20.5g

Sodium: 1606mg

I’m doing the calculations for two different speeds, for his ‘canon’ speed and for an estimated actual speed. The speed of sound is 1,235 km/h, and for the other speed we’ll be looking at I’ll examine the Escape from the City scene in Sonic Adventure 2. There’s no way Sonic is moving that fast here because of the fact that a gigantic two-lane wide three story tall truck can keep up with him, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he’s running at 500 km/h here.

The base calorie per hour rate of a 16 year old child, which I’m assuming Sonic has a metabolism and digestive tract similar to because of his appearance, is 362 calories per hour, as calculated below.

Now we multiply the base rate by Sonic’s speed divided by the child’s speed, which is 10 km/h, to get the amount of calories burned per hour by Sonic at both speeds, calculated below.

Now we divide this number by the amount of calories per serving in one chilli hot dog, which is 445.

And there we have our final numbers! 41 chilli hot dogs per hour to maintain a speed of 500 kilometres per hour, and 101 chilli hot dogs per hour for a speed of 1235 km/h, or the speed of sound.

Something to note here is we rarely see Sonic run for extended amounts of time, usually just a few seconds to a few minutes. I don’t think he’s ever run for an hour straight at least on screen, so that means he probably wouldn’t need to eat 101 hot dogs in one sitting, but he still would need quite a lot, perhaps even that many or more, over the course of a day.

Some pros and cons of his diet is the protein would help slowly repair the muscle tearing that would occur from constant running, and the high carbohydrate content would be useful for quickly usable energy, all of which results in a balanced macronutrient profile. Some cons are that first of all, the sodium content is absolutely insane when scaled up to that amount. Sonic would have to drink lots of water to inhibit the dehydration that much sodium would create. Also, eating that much food would take a while to digest, but as we see Sonic down tens of them in seconds I can only assume his metabolism is just as fast as he is.

Also I'm not a biologist or a food scientist or anything like that so it's very likely the way I went about calculating this is completely wrong. I looked all these formulas up lol.