Vegetarian Junks Diet to Win Sausage Contest

What’s a vegetarian doing in the sausage-eating contest at the World Kielbasa Festival? Winning it.

“Everybody goes off their diet once in a while,” 108-pound Ruth Young said Monday. She consumed 2.77 pounds of smoked Polish sausage in 45 minutes Sunday to top five rivals in the women’s division.

Young said she “loves kielbasa” and last slipped from her non-meat diet more than eight years ago when she consumed 2.5 pounds of the sausage at the 20-year-old festival of Polish food and music.