Since this is within shooting distance of my desk, here, perhaps I should mention it:
s When it comes to wolfing wings, Sonya Thomas is a wiz.
The 105-pound competitive eater who goes by “The Black Widow” bested a dozen beefy rivals Saturday night, scarfing 173 wings in 12 minutes to win the wing-eating contest at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.
“That’s 5.17 pounds of wings,” said Brian Kahle, spokesman for the annual Labor Day weekend event in the city where Buffalo wings were born.
Thomas, 40, of Alexandria, Va., also held the festival’s previous record of 161 wings in 12 minutes, set in 2004.
“She’s the crowd favorite,” Kahle said. “It was 12 huge guys and her.”
Thomas has set numerous records in competitive eating events, including 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes; 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes; 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes; 44 lobsters in 12 minutes; and 250 Tater Tots in 5 minutes.
I must admit I was curious… 105lb? That’s not exactly the situation that you expect. You gotta figure you’re going to be dealing with a woman who if you were planning to date her, you’d need a larger car.
So, I went looking for a snapshot, and found several .
Here’s one.
No, I don’t know what to make of it, either.
Tags: BitsBlog, news of the weird, Sports
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:19
I am begining to supsct that thare is little correlation between stomacah size and body size. This for from the first example of person of samll stature winning an eating contest.