B
.... by the Jeannie Longo of competitive eating. Between
this girl and the skinny Japanese guy who always wins the
Nathan's hot dog eating contest, I'm beginning to think
that despite their training load, Masters Fatties are
at a disadvantage in high-level competitive eating events.
This has serious implications - growing obesity in this
country may hinder our domination in international
competitive eating (http://www.ifoce.org).
Anyway, Henry, if a 100-lb college student can eat a
six pound hamburger (and a full cup of mayo, for God's sake),
what's your excuse with the donuts?
-Ben
100 - Pound Woman Downs Six - Pound Burger
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:47 p.m. ET
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A 100-pound female college student is the first
to meet the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge: down the restaurant's
six-pound hamburger -- and five pounds of fixins' -- within three
hours.
Kate Stelnick, 19, of Princeton, N.J., made the five-hour drive with
two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday, after they saw
pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er, on the Internet
and on TV's Food Network.
``I just saw it on TV and I really thought I could do it,'' Stelnick
said, after downing the burger in two hours, 54 minutes.
Stelnick didn't eat for two days to prepare for the challenge. ``I felt
very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice,''
Stelnick said.
Denny Leigey Jr., the owner of the bar 35 miles northwest of State
College, had offered a two-pound burger for years and conceived of the
six-pounder after his daughter went to college and phoned him about a
bar that sold a four-pounder.
But nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit
since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998 -- not even
competitive eater Eric ``Badlands'' Booker. The 420-pound Booker -- who
has eaten such things as 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes and two
pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes -- tried three times to eat the
burger and finally did on his third effort. But it took Booker 7 1/2
hours.
The burger takes 45 minutes to cook, and those who try to meet the
three-hour limit must use no utensils and eat all of these fixins: one
large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds
of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup,
mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
Leigey said he was pretty sure somebody would meet his burger
challenge, though he didn't have a petite woman in mind.
``I wouldn't have made it if I didn't think it was possible,'' Leigey
said.
For her trouble, Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt and
other prizes and -- as advertised -- Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab
for the burger.
this girl and the skinny Japanese guy who always wins the
Nathan's hot dog eating contest, I'm beginning to think
that despite their training load, Masters Fatties are
at a disadvantage in high-level competitive eating events.
This has serious implications - growing obesity in this
country may hinder our domination in international
competitive eating (http://www.ifoce.org).
Anyway, Henry, if a 100-lb college student can eat a
six pound hamburger (and a full cup of mayo, for God's sake),
what's your excuse with the donuts?
-Ben
100 - Pound Woman Downs Six - Pound Burger
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:47 p.m. ET
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A 100-pound female college student is the first
to meet the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge: down the restaurant's
six-pound hamburger -- and five pounds of fixins' -- within three
hours.
Kate Stelnick, 19, of Princeton, N.J., made the five-hour drive with
two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday, after they saw
pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er, on the Internet
and on TV's Food Network.
``I just saw it on TV and I really thought I could do it,'' Stelnick
said, after downing the burger in two hours, 54 minutes.
Stelnick didn't eat for two days to prepare for the challenge. ``I felt
very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice,''
Stelnick said.
Denny Leigey Jr., the owner of the bar 35 miles northwest of State
College, had offered a two-pound burger for years and conceived of the
six-pounder after his daughter went to college and phoned him about a
bar that sold a four-pounder.
But nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit
since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998 -- not even
competitive eater Eric ``Badlands'' Booker. The 420-pound Booker -- who
has eaten such things as 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes and two
pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes -- tried three times to eat the
burger and finally did on his third effort. But it took Booker 7 1/2
hours.
The burger takes 45 minutes to cook, and those who try to meet the
three-hour limit must use no utensils and eat all of these fixins: one
large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds
of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup,
mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
Leigey said he was pretty sure somebody would meet his burger
challenge, though he didn't have a petite woman in mind.
``I wouldn't have made it if I didn't think it was possible,'' Leigey
said.
For her trouble, Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt and
other prizes and -- as advertised -- Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab
for the burger.