I think I'm in love.
Posted on 01/15/2005 2:45:53 PM PST by martin_fierro
100-Pound Woman Downs Six-Pound Burger
Fri Jan 14, 9:11 PM ET
CLEARFIELD, Pa. - A 100-pound female college student is the first to meet the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge: down the restaurant's six-pound hamburger — and five pounds of fixins' — within three hours.
Kate Stelnick, 19, of Princeton, N.J., made the five-hour drive with two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday, after they saw pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er, on the Internet and on TV's Food Network.
"I just saw it on TV and I really thought I could do it," Stelnick said, after downing the burger in two hours, 54 minutes.
Stelnick didn't eat for two days to prepare for the challenge. "I felt very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice," Stelnick said.
Denny Leigey Jr., the owner of the bar 35 miles northwest of State College, had offered a two-pound burger for years and conceived of the six-pounder after his daughter went to college and phoned him about a bar that sold a four-pounder.
But nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998 — not even competitive eater Eric "Badlands" Booker. The 420-pound Booker — who has eaten such things as 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes and two pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes — tried three times to eat the burger and finally did on his third effort. But it took Booker 7 1/2 hours.
The burger takes 45 minutes to cook, and those who try to meet the three-hour limit must use no utensils and eat all of these fixins: one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
Leigey said he was pretty sure somebody would meet his burger challenge, though he didn't have a petite woman in mind.
"I wouldn't have made it if I didn't think it was possible," Leigey said.
For her trouble, Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt and other prizes and — as advertised — Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab for the burger.
I think I'm in love.
how cute.........but I'm 200 lbs and have downed a 100 lb woman before.......does that count
Perhaps this might make your ping list?
Meanwhile, 105-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va., could relish two new records: She ate more hot dogs -- 32 -- than any other woman and any other American in the contest's history
Is that her? Is that the one that ate that burger!
Is that her? Is that the one that ate that burger!
I guess she should've consulted you in advance, Captain Sanctimony.
And then this cute midget eats the biggest commercial hamburger in history.
None of this computes.
Afterwards, she must have looked about eight months pregnant.
This is not surprising to me. My 103lb daughter can eat more than any person I know. The all-you-can-eat buffet's laugh when they see her enter, then cheer when she leaves.
My sister weighs about 105lbs and she can really pack away the food too. She eats very fast and I have no idea where she has the room to put it all.
Watch out for hungry, little-bitty, skinny women. Ye Old 96er. This was the nearest contender last June:
" Amazingly, the pub's all-time burger-chomping champ came in the slim form of 90-pound Lori Weiss. Lori came close to eating one tenth of her own bodyweight, but unfortunately the hard-eating lady couldn't find room for the bottom of the bun."
Wow! It seems like these little hundred pound girls are better at the eating contests than the 350 lb. men who used to win prizes for championship eating contests.
I can't explain it, but some of us tiny people have an appetite. I weigh about 107, and I can eat like there is no tomorrow. My excuse is that I have the metabolism of a hummingbird.
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