[At] Sunday's contest at Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, wasn't even close. Molly Schuyler scarfed down three 72-ounce steaks, three baked potatoes, three side salads, three rolls and three shrimp cocktails -- far outpacing her heftier rivals.She finished the first meal in four minutes and 13 seconds.
That's more than 13 pounds of steak, not counting the sides. And she did it all in 20 minutes, setting a record in the process.
I find it hard to wrap my mind around the concept that a person can be a professional competitive-eater, let alone that gorging one's self with about fifteen pounds of food in 20 minutes is considered to be a "sport".
What the hell is next, a "train-pulling"* competition?
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* That has nothing to do with railroads. Go look it up.
Concur. To take something as basic and pleasurable as food and make it a disgusting chore is just foul.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, it's always so much fun to see Survivorman go three or four days and then kill a mouse with a deadfall trap or find a birds nest with eggs in it or get his hands on a couple of crayfish - the pleasure of that tiny, unseasoned meal is so genuine, and so utterly human that you can't help but smile...
I wouldn't worry. Mother Nature will probably give this lady precisely what she has coming...
ReplyDeleteTrain pulling, I used to work for a railroad as an engineer that would be interesting, oh fudge you don't mean that kind of train do you.
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