I can eat 65 eggs.
Takeru Kobayashi ("who once ate 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains to win $25,000") won his sixth straight hot dog eating title, but from my casual following of this event, it seems like the gap is closing. What really caught my eye though was this (emphasis added):
Other competitors included 100-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., who once ate 65 hard boiled eggs in a little more than 6 1/2 minutes, and local favorite Eric "Badlands" Booker, a 6-foot-4, 425-pound subway conductor from Long Island who holds speed-eating records for pies and matzo balls.
Damn it, now I'll never be able to enjoy that Cool Hand Luke scene in quite the same way.
Wed, Jul 5, 2006