The British tabloid, The Sun, has a contest writeup of last month’s mince pie contest won by Sonya Thomas at Wookey Hole Caves. The author competed and finished with 9 pies.

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In his latest blog entry, Kobayashi says his recent trip to New York City included a filming session. He does not say if this will be another for another Saturday Night Live sketch or a different program. Sonya Thomas, who is praised by Kobayashi as the top female competitive eater and the one holding the most records also apparently attended the session, but it is not mentioned if she will appear in the program.

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In his latest blog entry, Kobayashi says his recent trip to New York City included a filming session. He does not say if this will be another for another Saturday Night Live sketch or a different program. Sonya Thomas, who is praised by Kobayashi as the top female competitive eater and the one holding the most records also apparently attended the session, but it is not mentioned if she will appear in the program.

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After he reaches his goal weight, Don “Moses” Lerman would like to compete in a baked beans showdown against Sonya Thomas, Dale Boone and Justin Mih.

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Sonya Thomas has apologized for her conduct following the meatball contest, restored her website and made a commitment to compete in Wing Bowl 15.

update Don “Moses” Lerman has a comment about Sonya’s apology on his blog.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has a post on his blog in which he comments on the Sonya Thomas controversy which is similar in tone to the comments he has left on this website. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins has a more positive blog entry about Sonya.

updated I am not going to approve any more comments from the Don Lerman, “Luther” & “Rufus” conversation as it has devolved into personal insults. If the commenters would like to continue that thread, they can do so on mosesnews, email or another website.

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The new poll asks what you think Sonya Thomas’ future in competitive eating will be following the controversial meatball contest in Atlantic City.

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Brian Seiken has a commentary about Sonya Thomas that raises the possibility that the meatball contest last weekend was her final IFOCE event.

updated Brian has a brief interview with Cookie Jarvis focusing on his rivalry with Sonya Thomas.

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from mosesnes.com – Sonya Thomas’ record setting performance in mince pies last month makes Newsday’s top 10 list for sports. Don “Moses” Lerman has a scan of the article which has a picture of Sonya.

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Harry Reichenbach attended the mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole caves last week and uploaded a longer video clip (almost 10 minutes) of that event to youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=DBuYlwGiWuM. Mr. Reichenbach had behind the scenes access and did a brief pre contest interview with Sonya Thomas. The Monday Night Football theme music was played before the contest, which I doubt any of the English audience had heard before.

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Reuters has a video of the mince pie contest in England last week.

Red Orbit has a first person account by a participant in the contest

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sonyatheblackwidow.com is currently down and brings up a “coming soon” webpage.

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Sonya Thomas is 16-1 in contests between New Jersey and North Carolina, with the only blemish on that record her controversial Wing Bowl 13 defeat. We will see if this home region advantage continues at the meatball contest at the Tropicana in Atlantic City on Saturday.

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A brief video clip of the mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole Caves won by Sonya Thomas is available on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=EIomf4Tjmno

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from Wookey Hole Caves Big Eat web page

Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 46 mince pies £1000
Shane Bridle – Sign Maker, Somerset 15 £500
Gary Harrison – Chef, Wells 13 £250
Simon Davies – Wells Town Mayor 10
Roberto Mendez – Brazil 10
Terry Harrison – Chef, Wells 9
Nick Francis – The Sun, London 9
“Fat Kenny” – Circus Director, Devon 8
Paris Troy – GWR Radio, Bristol 7.5
Jayne Fryer – The Daily Mail, London 7
Andy Bush – DJ, Bristol 7
Mattie Andrew – Chef, Wellls 6
A D Tree Pirate – Pirate, Somerset 6
Ellie West – Wildlife Worker, Somerset 5
Lisa Knights – South West Tonight 1

The IFOCE.com results apparently get 3rd place wrong

updated metro.co.uk has a picture and brief article

updated #2
Independent article
Daily Mail article

updated #3
BBC article

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Channel 4 has a video clip of an on site interview Sonya Thomas did to promote Wednesday’s mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole Caves.

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Adrian Liloni has written a blog entry in Italian about Sonya Thomas (there is also some content about other IFOCE members as well) The author has apparently requested an interview from Sonya.

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Video footage from the 2004 NC State Fair Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Contest can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3yyOq4DTE Sonya Thomas won the contest, but she only makes an extremely brief appearance in the film.

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(from iht.com) The web page for the mince pie eating contest to be held at Wookey Hole Caves can be found at http://www.wookey.co.uk/bigeat/ Sonya Thomas is definitely an expected entrant.

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The Guardian reports that a mince pie eating contest sanctioned by the IFOCE will be held at Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset on November 29. Sonya Thomas is expected to compete for the £1,000 ($1890) first prize.

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The Sonya Thomas tribute video produced by Brian Seiken is now available at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/engine.html

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(Thanks Adam of AHamburgerToday.com) The Park Slope Gastronome attended a Halloween party as Sonya Thomas.

(If I made a Sonya Thomas costume, I would include the orange gym shorts she wore to a lot of contests this summer)

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The Meathaus blog has an entry about Jenny Drumgoole’s video projects. I addition to her documentary about Sonya Thomas at the 2005 Wing Bowl, she has also done a more non-linear project called “Husky” (Part 1/2, Part 3):

In Husky, Jenny weaves together a dream/ reality hybrid that combines the real-life footage of herself drunkenly harassing the cops, riding a tow-truck, and taping her gynecology check-up from a secret camera hidden in her bag with the elements of her other-self, a leopard-print unitard wearing hoagie-loving “husky bitch” who wears her lipstick all over her neck and loves to fling thousand island dressing all over herself and the frat boys who mistakenly think that they are about to get a free-show.

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The Age of Australia has a tribute to Sonya Thomas.

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Happy Birthday to Jason “Erbivore” Erb, who turns 27 today. I hope to add a birthday section to the sidebar in the home page. You can enter your birthday in the database.

Also happy birthday to sonyatheblackwidow.com, who turned 3 yesterday.

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