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Black Widow Conquers Turkey

2005_11_turkeyeat.jpgHmm, perhaps Gothamist should stop complaining about how much we ate yesterday: Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas won the Thanksgiving Invitational at Artie's Deli by eating 4 pounds, 3.1 ounces of turkey in 12 minutes. And she's only 100 pounds! The prize was $2,500 and the satisfaction of beating beating a lot of beefy men. It's unclear whether or not gravy or cranberry sauce was allowed to make the turkey go down faster, or whether Starbucks sponsored the post-chowdown coffee as 4 pounds of turkey means a lot of tryptophan.

And the International Federation of Competitive Eaters donated twenty meals for families of four.

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  • dunna

    I volunteered to eat food for sport before having Thanksgiving with my family. I do the same thing on X-mas day, too.

    But whatever I do, I don't go hungry while others eat food for sport.

  • s

    Yes. Volunteered during the day before having Thanksgiving with my family. We do the same thing on X-mas day, too. Dunna, what did you do?

    But whatever I do, I don't eat food for sport while other people go hungry.

  • dunna

    Did you donate anything, S?

  • s

    this is sick. competetive eating on a day when so many are hungry and go without. twenty meals donated? big deal.

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