Just watched this last month here in L.A. along with "Fitzcarraldo". The director of the doc, Les Blank, giving a great Q&A afterward.

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If you want to eat your shoe because of a lost bet, bad idea, it has been done and even gracefully:)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Werner-Herzog-Eats-His-Shoe-1980-docu-by-Les-Blank

This bees gone...deadish

This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Les Blank because its content was used without permission

From wikipedia...

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 which depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven. Blank went on to direct Burden of Dreams (1982), a feature-length documentary about Werner Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo.