Englishman in Noo Yoik on the US Open of CE

The Englishman in Noo Yoik has a blog entry about competitive eating mainly about the 2005 US Open in Las Vegas:

The quarter-finals consisted of seven minutes of crunching “chopped mixed salads lightly tossed in a sun-dried tomato and basil vinaigrette” (pronounced “bayzle”, I now know). The surprise of the round was vet Rich Lefevre (that’s vet for veteran by the way, I don’t think a vetinary could do this) succumbing to rookie Tim Janus, who is being groomed as the Beckham of the meatball. Picture a handsome young man, dressed fashionably for his age, I presume, with a reversed baseball cap (hence Janus, I assume, but no one mentioned this) and face paint – honest. Cookie in his Stars-and-stripes bandana beat Badlands. Sonya whupped her increasingly red-faced opponent. As did Koby, using spoons like chopsticks to shovel in the salad. An interesting comment by a commentator on Sonya’s ability here was on “her large mouth – that’s in the evolutionary sense”, whatever that meant, quickly adding the rider “ – not to debate the Creationists”. Sports channels can’t afford to be controversial and lose viewers even if the viewers believe that God created competitive eaters as a separate species.

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  1. frankie said (Registered February 9, 2007)

    March 29, 2007 @ 12:10 am

    Who is this moron and when did he start this article? 2003? When did Sonya Thomas become hispanic?

  2. Kocama Kendimi Sevdirme Büyüsü said (Comment pending approval)

    January 30, 2022 @ 4:00 pm

    You are in a very difficult process.

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