100-Pound Woman Wins Turkey-Eating Contest - Yahoo! News

100-Pound Woman Wins Turkey-Eating Contest - Yahoo! News Here's a quote: "Thomas says she took the "Black Widow" nickname because she likes to "eliminate the males" in eating contests. Her other records include eating 65 hard-boiled eggs in 6 minutes and 40 seconds." Oh yes, nothing say 'feminist' like horking down 4 pounds of turkey in 12 minutes...that's classy... On a different note, I've never understood these food eating contests, male or female. Something just seems so wasteful about it. There are people on the other side of the world starving - hell, there are people on this side of the world starving - and at these events a small group of people gorge themselves not because they're hungry, but because they want to set a time record. If 10 people ate 4 pounds of turkey in 12 minutes, that's 40 pounds of meat gone that had nothing to do with being hungry or needing food. That 65 hard boiled egg record - imagine how many people could have had a decent meal with those eggs. Man, this world is just so screwed up...