Watch Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas Eat An Entire Turkey (Almost)

Thomas at a wing competition (Flickr user clearrants)

Sonya Thomas, the 100-lb champion competitive eater who won last year's women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest , is back for a little pre-Thanksgiving turkey action. The petite eating machine was in town yesterday for a Wild Turkey (yes, the whiskey)-sponsored turkey eating contest in Times Square, which she dominated despite facing some significantly larger competition.

Thomas scarfed over five pounds of meat, neatly beating the runner-up by over a pound, despite claiming that she didn't even train for this event. “It’s a mind game,” she told the Daily News. “If you lose your focus and say you’re getting full and slow down, you lose.” Her simple strategy beat out Allen "Shredder" Goldstein, whose approach was "What would a zombie do if this was a human eating contest?" and Eric "Badlands" Booker, whose game plan was "just to pick it up and rip it apart."

Here she is in action—study up and see if you can cop her style tomorrow at dinner:

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By Jamie Feldmar in Food on November 23, 2011 11:19 AM

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Ragingsemi

"AMERICA...FUCK YEA!"

StarryGordon

This is diseased. But, hey! Tomorrow's Black Friday, and we can all rush down to the mall and fight for cheesy products at 5 a.m.!

Rocknrope

Somewhere, halfway around the world, a father watched his child die of starvation.

Darwin Trash

"Competitive" eating says something about our society. I'm not sure what it says, but I know it's not good...

smorrebrod

Thin people are naturally more adept at eating than fat people because they don't have all that fat constricting the growth of the stomach.

Samantha Nicholson

you go girl

jisnotused

If I'm the alien who's been monitoring our deplorable actions in order to destroy humanity, my finger would be very close to the button now.

dbmetzger

the cost of that Turkey is up this year
Thanksgiving Dinner Gobbles Up Extra Dollars show full description

The cost of the classic Thanksgiving dinner will increase by
13.4% year over year. The American Farm Bureau Federation's informal survey
attributes inflation for the price spike.

http://www.newslook.com/videos...

Rocknrope

If they wanted to make it really interesting, they should given them Wild Turkey to wash it down rather than water.

Also, who's the Suicide Girl competitor?

edgierthanyou

that could have fed a homeless family for a week.

eyekantspel

5lbs of turkey could feed a homeless family for a week? They should start raising turkeys then. It's a waste, yeah, but when we piss away $535 million on Solyndra, or $770+ billion on the stimulus package, or a few trillion on defense, it's hard for me to get worked up over a few turkeys wasted for entertainment value.

edgierthanyou

well then you're an idiot
go sleep in the park

whitecastlerock

Exactly. This is disgusting...

edgierthanyou

should have made them drink wild turkey instead of water.

Colonel_Ingus

She also holds the record for oysters. Something like 45..... DOZEN.

Just imagine what her toilet thinks of this.

Greg Froober

anyone else find these competitive eating things nothing but disgusting?

B

an article about Tofurkey gets everyone all up in arms with 100 comments but some lady downing a whole bird for sport, not so much I see

Bewtz McGuffern

shoot them for sport, eat them for sport, and crap them for sport. hey look at the huge sport i just took.

AaronRed99

There is nothing interesting or amusing about gluttony as a sport.

Bewtz McGuffern

Mr. Buddha monk over here. just kidding, but humans are never going to stop trying to do normal things really fast for fun and games while they are between being born and dying, it just makes sense that thats a natural thing some humans like to do. "how much and how fast!" it's just a thing the brain likes. I think this is less conscious gluttony and more can't help it.