Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Weird.... She ate a 10lb turkey in 12 mins.

This is odd. How could anyone eat a 10lb turkey in 12 minutes without feeling ILL? According to CNN Sonya can do it...........

A day before millions of Americans sit down to eat traditional Thanksgiving dinners, a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title on Wednesday by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes. Unbelievable

Sonya Thomas, 37, who weighs just 105 pounds (47.5 kg), beat seven men in the annual Thanksgiving Invitational: a race to eat a 10-pound (4.5-kg) turkey. She must have fasted for a week....

The smallest in the field, Thomas put her victory down to "swallowing fast."

"It was very dry and the skin was very dry," said Thomas, holding her trophy, a roasting pan, over her head. "I just tried to eat fast."

Venerated in competitive eating circles as "The Black Widow", the Alexandria, Virginia woman said she trained for the event, held at a delicatessen in New York, by chewing gum to get her jaw in top form.

She said she plans to eat turkey again on Thursday, but much more slowly so that she can taste every bite. Maybe she should get fish and chips instead.

Her victory was no surprise. She is ranked as the No. 2 competitive eater in the world, behind Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, according to the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sponsored the turkey-eating event.

Thomas, who collected $2,500 in prize money, has also dominated her opponents in egg, cheesecake, baked bean, crab-cake, meatball, and fruit-cake eating contests.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING........

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thomas put her victory down to "swallowing fast."

That woman will have no shortage of future suitors :-)

andrewfalloon said...

"I just tried to eat fast."

Hilarious.

That japanese guy is incredible though. saw him on TV awhile back eating hotdogs or something.

Stephanie said...

We got our thanksgiving thing on Saturday. Can't wait. Pumpkin pie and stuffing mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Rob Good said...

Well I dont know how she does it.... I am having pumpkin pie today....NICE.