A few weeks ago, we asked for your suggestions about who is the greatest living Virginian. We lost the post in the Bastille Day fire drill, but a new possibility emerges from wire service reports today:
Hong Kong: The world’s top female speed-eating champion, sonya Thomas of Virginia, chmoped her way to a 28th eating recrod, consuming 17 Chinese-style lotus seed buns in 12 minutes at her debut competition in Asia. “I’d say she’s the Billie Jean King of eating.” said her publicist, Charles Hardy.
Not only is she world-renown, she has her own publicist.  Does anyone know where Ms Thomas is from in Virginia? Does anyone know what she looks like? Where does she train?
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Aug 14th by Too Conservative
Good grief, I hope that, in this great state, we can come up with someone other than an over-eater! With national obesity at epidemic levels, we certainly shouldn’t be celebrating this gross activity. If this is the young woman I’ve seen on TV, she is tiny and trim. How does she avoid weight gain?
Among her many world records:
June 24, 2006, Lynchburg, VA: 60 Virginia Ham Biscuits in 8 minutes, establishing a standard for that food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas
I have seen her, she lives in Alexandria, is about 40 years old and is indeed very petite.
I assume outside of competition she eats a normal diet.
My wife told me about an article she read about Sonya. She works in a Burger King, partly because she loves the food. She wants to earn enough money on the competitive eating circuit to buy her own Burger King. I think she has one meal a day, two whoppers with fries. For competitive eaters, it’s about the quick expansion of your belly, that’s why I assume she just doesn’t two meals of one whopper each.
She may have a lot of records. But the most famous competitive eater is this dude from Japan who wins the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest every year in Coney Island.He is thin as well. Apparently competitive eating is a big deal in Japan, where they are almost treating like athletes. For a few years in around the top three were all from Japan. This year, an American prodigy arose and came damn close to beating him. Once at a street fair in Brooklyn, I witness the Cheesecake Eating Contest it was insane. Before the event I guessed how many 4 ounce cheesecakes the winner would eat, but I was off by a factor of three.
http://www.nathansfamous.com/nathans/contest/hot_dog_contest_2006_results.php
This can’t be healthy. I think I disapprove of this activity.