January 1, 2009 at 9:47 am by
ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, International contests
- January, Eddie “Bozo” Miller – listed as the “world’s greatest trencherman” in the Guinness Book of World Records, lived to be 89 despite a daily calorie consumption that reportedly reached 25,000
- February, Adam Deely of Birmingham, UK. This was one of the BBC’s top 10 Welsh stories.
- August – unnamed Ukrainian varenik dumpling contest participant
- September – Paul Newman – his egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke is probably the most famous eating challenge in cinematic history
- October – unnamed graduate student at Dayeh University in Taiwan
- November – Saurav Sabbarwal – solutions engineer at Nokia Siemens in Guragon, India
- December – Carson “Collard Green” Hughes – the top eater from southern Virginia in IFOCE history. The author of the 2003 New York Times article about Hughes has a blog entry from 2006 about it
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