Did I see you ugly pervs there?.
Guess which one is me :intello:.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/07/chicken-wing-battle-at-beer-festival
Nothing goes better with beer than wings — especially if it’s a panfull of wings in 12 minutes.
The unforgiving sun at the Festival of Beer on Sunday at Exhibition Place wasn’t enough to stop seven contestants from chowing down on chicken wings.
At stake was a top prize of $1,500 for whoever could finish the most wings in 12 minutes.
“Chicken and beer are two great flavours that go together,” said emcee Sam Barclay from Major League Eating, which professes to be the world body that oversees all professional eating contests.
“Whoever wins will write history. Chicken wings have always been known as the great world equalizer and requires ruthless execution of technique and hand-to-mouth dexterity.”
Participants came from as far as New York City, Buffalo and Iowa for a shot at the title. But the crowd was also cheering for local heroes Ben Do, from Kitchener, and Mike Somsanith, from Toronto.
The 12 minutes probably seemed like 12 hours to the seven guys shovelling chicken wings into their bodies. Some spun each piece of chicken around as if it were corn on the cob while others devoured big bites, immediately washing them down with water.
It was a messy affair — no one escaped with a clean shirt as chicken juice and skin dribbled down chins. And to keep focus, some people even listened to their own music or inspirational chants on earbuds to drown out the distraction of the audience.
In the end, Iowa’s Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff, 37 — who stuffed himself with nearly 1.6 kilograms of wings — took home first place. This is his 10th month in the competitive eating circuit.
“I love the competition, I love the crowd and we really feed off the crowd’s energy,” he said.
Somsanith, 31, landed last place with eating 0.7 kilograms of wings and said it was difficult to focus with the humid summer weather.
“This is my first competition and I went to a lot of all-you-can-eat buffets,” he said. “I went to about six buffets in the past few days. The hardest thing was trying to chew it. Your jaw gets really tired and trying to swallow down the meat at the same time is hard. There’s room for improvement and I’ll definitely study the game tape now.”
Do, 23, won $500 for coming in third place after eating 1.3 kilograms of wings. Do said he decided to give chicken a shot after he came in sixth place last year at an amateur poutine-eating contest.
Guess which one is me :intello:.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/07/chicken-wing-battle-at-beer-festival
Nothing goes better with beer than wings — especially if it’s a panfull of wings in 12 minutes.
The unforgiving sun at the Festival of Beer on Sunday at Exhibition Place wasn’t enough to stop seven contestants from chowing down on chicken wings.
At stake was a top prize of $1,500 for whoever could finish the most wings in 12 minutes.
“Chicken and beer are two great flavours that go together,” said emcee Sam Barclay from Major League Eating, which professes to be the world body that oversees all professional eating contests.
“Whoever wins will write history. Chicken wings have always been known as the great world equalizer and requires ruthless execution of technique and hand-to-mouth dexterity.”
Participants came from as far as New York City, Buffalo and Iowa for a shot at the title. But the crowd was also cheering for local heroes Ben Do, from Kitchener, and Mike Somsanith, from Toronto.
The 12 minutes probably seemed like 12 hours to the seven guys shovelling chicken wings into their bodies. Some spun each piece of chicken around as if it were corn on the cob while others devoured big bites, immediately washing them down with water.
It was a messy affair — no one escaped with a clean shirt as chicken juice and skin dribbled down chins. And to keep focus, some people even listened to their own music or inspirational chants on earbuds to drown out the distraction of the audience.
In the end, Iowa’s Aaron “A-Train” Osthoff, 37 — who stuffed himself with nearly 1.6 kilograms of wings — took home first place. This is his 10th month in the competitive eating circuit.
“I love the competition, I love the crowd and we really feed off the crowd’s energy,” he said.
Somsanith, 31, landed last place with eating 0.7 kilograms of wings and said it was difficult to focus with the humid summer weather.
“This is my first competition and I went to a lot of all-you-can-eat buffets,” he said. “I went to about six buffets in the past few days. The hardest thing was trying to chew it. Your jaw gets really tired and trying to swallow down the meat at the same time is hard. There’s room for improvement and I’ll definitely study the game tape now.”
Do, 23, won $500 for coming in third place after eating 1.3 kilograms of wings. Do said he decided to give chicken a shot after he came in sixth place last year at an amateur poutine-eating contest.