Woman Scarfs Whole Turkey in 12 Minutes
From Times Wire Reports —
A day before millions of Americans sit down to eat traditional Thanksgiving dinners, a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes.
Sonya Thomas, 37, who weighs 105 pounds, beat seven men in the annual Thanksgiving Invitational in New York: a race to eat a 10-pound turkey.
Thomas, who collected $2,500 in prize money, has also dominated her opponents in egg, cheesecake, baked bean, crab-cake, meatball, and fruit-cake eating contests.
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