BIG MEALS.

Shannon News, 6 April 1923, Page 2

BIG MEALS.

MAN’S 53 HARD-BOILED EGGS IN AN HOUR. AVo can boast of sonic highly accomplished trenchermen in this country, says the P'all Mall Gazette, but to see wliat can be done in the way of table feats we must search the American newspapers. Some time ago “Beefsteak l’ete,” a Bowery character, consumed seventeen pounds of meat, from which lie takes his cognomen, at one sitting, and live days later raised the figure to twentyfour pounds, thus making a total of forty-one pounds of meat consumed in ttvo days. A little litter the champion pie-eater of Brooklyn, avlio also claims the pie championship of the world, consumed sixty-one pies in ninety-one minutes, a record Avhich'no one has yet disputed. Following this came in rapid order the feats of “Lamby” Smith, who consumed seventy-five lamb chops at one meal, and the achievement of the watermelon champion of consuming seventeen juicy specimens of his favourite fruit in one day. Another man has eaten fifty-three hard-boiled eggs in an hour, as a result ®f Avhicli lie subsequently died, while the ehamjjon green corn cater has raised his record by consuming at one sitting such a number of ears of corn that the lengths of the cobs laid end to end aggregated 21ft. 7in.

The latest feat in this line AA r as accomplished when “Liitlo Nock Silas,” of Staten Island, after eating 600 clams a day for three .successive days, choked on the Hitsth clam on the fourth day. just failing to establish the record of 2400 clams in four days, Avhicli he Avas seeking.