How can this be physically possible?!

[Guest]

And she also is the fruit cake eating champ???!!!!! This woman must have a kevlar-lined esophagus !!!

Turkey gobbled up in 12 minutes

Woman crowned gobbling champion

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A day before millions of Americans sit down to eat traditional Thanksgiving dinners, a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title on Wednesday by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes.

Sonya Thomas, 37, who weighs just 105 pounds (47.5 kg), beat seven men in the annual Thanksgiving Invitational: a race to eat a 10-pound (4.5-kg) turkey.

The smallest in the field, Thomas put her victory down to "swallowing fast."

"It was very dry and the skin was very dry," said Thomas, holding her trophy, a roasting pan, over her head. "I just tried to eat fast."

Venerated in competitive eating circles as "The Black Widow", the Alexandria, Virginia woman said she trained for the event, held at a delicatessen in New York, by chewing gum to get her jaw in top form.

She said she plans to eat turkey again on Thursday, but much more slowly so that she can taste every bite.

Her victory was no surprise. She is ranked as the No. 2 competitive eater in the world, behind Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, according to the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sponsored the turkey-eating event.

Thomas, who collected $2,500 in prize money, has also dominated her opponents in egg, cheesecake, baked bean, crab-cake, meatball, and fruit-cake eating contests.

[Guest]

She's at it again!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woman Eats 26 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

2 hours, 19 minutes ago

AP

A 100-pound woman ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes Wednesday at a New York restaurant, winning the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship.

Sonya Thomas won $8,000 for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square but said she was disappointed in her performance.

"I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.

Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., said she had to catch a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she is a manager.

She said she has a naturally big stomach capacity and heavily soaked her sandwiches in water to make them easier to swallow. She said to train she drinks large amounts of water to expand her stomach capacity and practices relaxing her throat.

Thomas, whose normal weight is about 100 pounds, estimated she gained 10 pounds during Wednesday's contest.

It was a close win. Her nearest competitor, Joey Chestnut, ate 25 1/2 sandwiches.

On the eating contest circuit, Thomas is known as the "Black Widow," apparently because she has defeated so many larger men.

She holds numerous world eating records, including 46 dozen oysters in 10 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, 48 chicken tacos in 11 minutes, 37 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and 56 hamburgers in 8 minutes.  

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She's my hero!!!!

[IzzyEng4 427]

Don't want to be near that bathroom!!!!!

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i kept expecting to see my mother in law's name in both stories

[mstrang1 213]

Sonya "the Black Widow" Thomas is my hero!

[Remember585 815]

A couple of things come to mind...

1. I get tired after eating turkey. How did she stay awake to consume 10 pounds of it?

2. As she said, turkey is dry as hell. How did she swallow all of that - by washing it down with gravy? Did it also include the fixins' commonly assosciated with turkey day?

3. That's a lot of grilled cheese. I am going out on a limb here and guessing that she isn't lactose intolerant.

4. Rumor has it that she once ate a live baby and commented, "tastes like chicken."

5. Following all of her comments she darts off into el crapperio to set the world record for speed vomiting.

Be well....

[rfdu39 89]

That is just crazy. She must have been sick for a week after that.

Edited February 6, 2006 by pcfdrfd700

[Guest]

Well, maybe she just has a fast metabolism..... LOL, and yes, a personal dedicated sewer line....

[Guest]

Credit: IFOCE

Credit: Keystone

WORLD RECORDS:

- January 21, 2006, Las Vegas, NV: Consumed one 9 lbs+ (total weight) "Big Daddy" Barrick Burger w/ Cheese (without condiments) in 27 minutes, breaking my record of 48 minutes, 10 seconds, set last year.

- December 30, 2005, Orlando, FL, Tater Tots: 250 (+) in 5 minutes.

- December 3, 2005, AC, NJ: 10 pounds, 3 Ounces of Carmine's Meatballs in 12 minutes.

- November 23, 2005, NYC, NY: 4 pounds, 3 ounces of GoldenPalace.com Roast Turkey in 12 minutes.

- October 29, 2005, Bethesda, MD: 5.75 lbs of Buffalo Wing meat eaten off the bone in 10 minutes.

- September 5, 2005, Knoxville, TN: 57 Krystal Burgers in 8 minutes: an American Record.

- August 21, 2005, Harrington, DE: 40 Crab Cakes in 12 minutes.

- August 13, 2005, Kennebunkport, Maine: 11.4 pounds of Lobster meat (44 soft shell lobsters) in 12 minutes.

- August 6, 2005, Sheboygan, WI: 35 Johnsonville Brats in 10 minutes.

- July 4, 2005, Coney Island, NY: New Women's World Record (and American Record!) of 37 Nathan's Hot Dogs and Buns in 12 minutes, breaking the previous women's world record of 32 that I set last year.

- June 18, 2005, Wildwood, NJ: 6 lbs of Salty Ball Potatoes in 8 minutes, 40 seconds.

- June 8, 2005, LA, CA (co-owned with Rich "The Locust" LeFevre): 9 1/2 large boxes of (MTV Movie Awards) Popcorn in 10 minutes.

- May 28, 2005, Charlotte, NC, Armour Vienna Sausages: 8.31 pounds in 10 minutes. (I thought it was actually 9 pounds.)

- March 20, 2005, Metairie, LA, Acme Oysters: 46 Dozen (552) in 10 minutes, breaking my previous mark of 36 dozen set last year; a few minutes later also set an endurance record of eating 624 Oysters.

- February 12, 2005, Venice Beach, CA: Goldenpalace.com Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: 25 in 10 minutes.

- January 22, 2005, Las Vegas, NV: Consumed one 9.5-lbs (total weight) Barrick Burger w/ Cheese (without condiments) in 48 minutes, 10 seconds.

- December 4, 2004, Atlantic City, NJ, "Carmine's" Meatballs: 5.95 lbs in 12 minutes.

- November 27, 2004, Orlando, FL, Hard-boiled Eggs: 52 in 5 minutes to establish a record for that time.

- November 20, 2004, St Louis, MO, Toasted Ravioli: 4 pounds in 12 minutes.

- October 20, 2004, Raleigh, NC, Ultra Rich Sweet Potato Casserole (w/Pecans): 8.62 pounds in 11 minutes.

- September 29, 2004, NY, NY, Tacos (Soft-Shell Chicken): 48 in 11 minutes. (Replacing my previous record of 43 1/2 in 11 minutes set September 16, 2003, also in NYC.)

- September 5, 2004, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Wings: 5.09 pounds (162 wings) in 12 minutes (Breaking my 2003 record of 4.2 pounds / 134 wings).

- August 21, 2004, Kennebunkport, Maine: 9.76 pounds of Lobster meat (38 soft shell lobsters) in 12 minutes.

- August 7, 2004, Centerville, Indiana: 84 Lumber World Baked Bean Championship: 8.4 lbs. of Baked Beans in 2 minutes, 47 seconds. (Please note that Don "Moses" Lerman has the World Record for consuming 6 pounds of beans in the shortest amount of time: a mere 1'48!)

- July 8, 2004, Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY, Chicken Nuggets: 80 in 5 minutes.

- July 4, 2004, Coney Island, NY: New Women's World Record (and American Record!) of 32 Nathan's Hot Dogs and Buns in 12 minutes, breaking the previous women's world record of 25 that I set last year at Coney Island.

- June 19, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, Bacci World Pizza-Eating Championship: 6 1/2 extra large "slices" of 24" Cheese Pizza in 15 minutes.

- April 24, 2004, Stockton, CA, Deep-Fried Asparagus: 5.75 pounds in 10 minutes.

- April 17, 2004, New Orleans, LA, Acme Oysters: 36 Dozen in 10 minutes.

- April 2, 2004, Orlando, FL, Cheese Quesadillas: 31 1/2 four-inch quesadillas in 5 minutes.

- February 24, 2004, Washington DC, Crawfish Jambalaya: 9 pounds in 10 minutes.

- February 21, 2004, Brooklyn, NY, NY, Cheesecake: 11 pounds in 9 minutes.

- January 30, 2004, Philadelphia, PA: Radio WIP Wing Bowl Record of 167 BBQ Chicken Wings in 32 minutes.

- December 30, 2003, Buffalo, NY, Fruitcake: 4 Pounds, 14 1/4 Ounces in 10 minutes.

- November 26, 2003, Manhattan, NY, NY, Thanksgiving Meal Invitational: 7 and 3/4 pounds of Turducken (chicken, wrapped in duck, wrapped in turkey) in 12 minutes.

- October 3, 2003, Corinth MS, Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwiches: 23 in 10 minutes.

- September 16, 2003, NY, NY, Tacos: 43 1/2 in 11 minutes.

- September 13, 2003, Indianapolis Indiana, Hard-boiled Eggs: 65 in 6 minutes, 40 seconds.

- August 30, 2003, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Wings: 134 in 12 minutes (qualifying round).

- August 9, 2003, Seymour, Wisconsin, Hardees Thickburgers: SEVEN 3/4-pound fully dressed burgers in 10 minutes.

- July 4, 2003, Coney Island, NYC, Women's World Record of 25 Hot Dogs and Buns: 12 minutes.

From: sonyatheblackwidow.com