[Sca-cooks] Fascinating article on yet another eating contest...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080413/K041302AU.html

Most people know about the Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating  
Competition every year, and I knew vaguely about oyster-eating  
competitions in New Orleans. Well, okay, to me, the actual winning of  
the contest wasn't so interesting as the revelation (I guess I already  
knew this on some level) that there are professional eaters --  
basically, professional athletes whose sport is eating competitions,  
not to mention the fact that many of the competitions in the US are  
organized by the same promoter's company. Then there are some really  
obscure products featured as the centerpiece of some competitions:  
deep-fried asparagus?

"So, Evil Spawn, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be a professional eater just like 'Deep Dish' Bertoletti!"

As the saying goes: Oy. I suppose it's no worse for you than  
professional football.

Adamantius



"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
			-- Rabbi Israel Salanter