Sonya Thomas on WP Live available online

October 20, 2009 at 12:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:District of Columbia, Sonya Thomas, Videos

(via eatingcontest twitter) Sonya Thomas’ appearance on Washington Post Live can now be viewed online. Sonya says that she is considering the meatball eating contest in Las Vegas and that popcorn was her most difficult contest food.

update embedded video is available after the jump

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  1. Anonymous said

    October 20, 2009 @ 4:12 am

    Pretty funny stuff. He’s a fun host. She is fast.

  2. Anonymous said

    October 20, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

    The great Don Moses Lerman wood of eaten faster. Shes always ben afraid of him.

  3. Bellybuster said

    October 20, 2009 @ 2:41 pm

    How can she consider doing the meatball contest if regestration is closed and there is a waiting list?

  4. Anonymous said

    October 20, 2009 @ 6:13 pm

    So weve got Nortotious S.O.B. Chestbut Pat B. Sonya and Juliet all competing in meatballs for that big bodscious total prize bounty of three thousand smackers.

  5. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 12:45 am

    You left out Rich LeFevre,El Toro, The Optic and Big Bob

  6. anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 2:29 am

    shame she speaks with broken english because she is very intelligent and would come across much better in the interview if she was american and spoke fluent english

  7. Mr. Nice Guy said

    October 21, 2009 @ 6:06 am

    Sonya looks so happy after defeating one the world’s best in peppers. She dosen’t look like she’s ate at all. It’s nice to still see her winning contests every now and then. She will always be know as a formidable opponent.

  8. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 11:18 am

    Sonya is an American.

  9. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 11:48 am

    Shes allright I gess.

  10. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 11:55 am

    Pat is not one o the best. He is t-h-e best in the world at jalapena peppers. No one in the world can hold a candle to him. Somehow I gess he had an off day.

  11. Crazy Legs Mom said (Registered February 16, 2006)

    October 21, 2009 @ 12:57 pm

    C’mon you guys and gals. You know that I have always been a Sonya fan, but the anonymous comments are rather ridiculous. Sonya is proud to be an American, she speaks English fluently and without hesitation, smiles and laughs and gave a great interview and eating performance. She has an accent and doesn’t always speak absolutely grammatically correct English. That applies to a ton of English native speakers. Boring she is not, rather she is charming and talented. And, as she said, while she has never beat Takeru Kobayashi, whose name, by the way, she pronounced perfectly in Japanese, she has beaten “others” who may now be ranked higher. I will not even get into spelling here…….Please. Let’s get real.

  12. anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 1:08 pm

    From a personal standpoint i dont think sonya cares one way or another how she is percieved in the public eye with regard to her grammar skills. When it involves her eating that is when she takes it personal. Go figure!

  13. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

    Nor do you seem to care about your grammar skills. Do you have eating skills worth caring about? I suspect not.

  14. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

    Top-10 likely person or persons going around posting anonymously about the “Great” Don Lerman and how he can beat Sonya is:

    10. Don Lerman’s alumni Class of 1924 New York School for the Mentally Challenged.
    9. Crazy scientist who was transported here in a time machine from the year 1981.
    8. Drunk guy at the end of the bar wearing a Members Only jacket, Disco Duck T-Shirt, and Sasoon Jeans.
    7. Girl Scout Troop #764 (Don Lerman kicked their asses at the last eating contest he participated in).
    6. Guy so high on mushrooms he forgot how to spell “would.”
    5. Don Lerman’s mom — 140-year-old Edna “Grandma Moses” Lerman
    4. Don Lerman’s son — 63-year-old Junior “Baby Moses” Lerman
    3. Don Lerman’s brother — 90-year-old Biff “Holy Moses” Lerman
    2. Mrs. Don Lerman (Although this is unlikely, everyone knows she’s been sleeping with Pat Philben for years).

    And the number-one likely person or persons going around posting anonymously about the “Great” Don Lerman and how he can beat Sonya is:

    1. Don Lerman

  15. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 6:14 pm

    Dons a legend and has the fastest hands in competitive eating so no woman has a chants against him. Its good for them he didnt eat at Nathans this year cause it saved them much embarrasments.

  16. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 6:32 pm

    Why do people try to prtect the princess? She has always been given anything she wants. She can come late and the contest will be put on hold until she is ready,the length of a contest has been changed just to accomidate the princess,even had her bread buttered during a grilled cheese contest because her bread was stail.GIVE ME A BREAK

  17. Don '' Moses''Lerman said

    October 21, 2009 @ 6:59 pm

    Anon 4pm very funny stuff , I’m a good sport, but it wasn’t me doing the posting .maybe some of my friends at my assistance living quarters in Brighton beach…DonLerman

  18. Anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 8:02 pm

    Lots of crybabys here. Dial 1-800-waa-aaah.

  19. anonymous said

    October 21, 2009 @ 8:34 pm

    at the time of grilled cheese she was the biggest eater around they had to give her anything she wanter

  20. lotta hate said

    October 21, 2009 @ 11:23 pm

    she rocks….big Sonya fan, met her once in salty balls in wildwood, I think she hinted at only one reversal in her career (cheesecake). anon 2:29 am how is your Japanese?

  21. Ron Koch said

    October 22, 2009 @ 12:09 am

    I met Sonya many atime at contests, eating and photographing. She is a true superstar and a legend.. SO STOP BASHING HER

  22. anonymous said

    October 22, 2009 @ 1:57 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB9uV7toV5s The best sonya thomas interview when george shea asked if she dreams about him and dale boone

  23. Rhonda Evans said

    October 22, 2009 @ 8:50 am

    I don’t think she’s doing too bad. She’s fluent in Korean and English —- regardless of the accent or spoken sentence structure —- and speaks some Japanese. We native Americans often have a tough time mastering English, let alone learning other languages.

    I think she has brought quite a bit to the proverbial competitive eating table. Talent aside, perhaps what I enjoy most about her is her zest for the “sport” and her ultracompetitive nature.

    Had Sonya never forayed into eating competitively, I suspect the talent you see today would not be at the level it is.

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