Woman eats 26 grilled cheese sandwiches

Associated PressNEW YORK -

A 100-pound woman ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes Wednesday at a New York restaurant, winning the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship.
Sonya Thomas won $8,000 for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square but said she was disappointed in her performance.
"I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.
Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., said she had to catch a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she is a manager.
She said she has a naturally big stomach capacity and heavily soaked her sandwiches in water to make them easier to swallow. She said to train she drinks large amounts of water to expand her stomach capacity and practices relaxing her throat.
Thomas, whose normal weight is about 100 pounds, estimated she gained 10 pounds during Wednesday's contest.
It was a close win. Her nearest competitor, Joey Chestnut, ate 25 1/2 sandwiches.
On the eating contest circuit, Thomas is known as the "Black Widow," apparently because she has defeated so many larger men.
She holds numerous world eating records, including 46 dozen oysters in 10 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, 48 chicken tacos in 11 minutes, 37 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and 56 hamburgers in 8 minutes.
The event was organized by GoldenPalace.com, an Internet casino and poker room

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26?! And only 100 lbs?
Wow. Impressive.

Grilled Cheese World Championship? God bless America.

Her parents must be damned proud.

Sounds like a mental condition, I know because my bro has it, its really weird that it would effect eating but it does, he (when he worked at mcdonalds) spent his whole pay check (roughly 170$) on food, and he'd eat it. But he never gained wait...

um, ew...I like grilled cheese sandwhiches...but not that much

Wow, I think that many would make me sick!

I heard about this on the news. I think they said it was an eating contest for the super bowl or something. I could not do that!

Ugh.... I could NEVER eat that many grilled cheese sandwhiches. Well, I might be able to, but it'd make me pretty sick, considering i'm lactose intolerent

Not only 26 grilled cheesies, but soaked in water no less. That is what makes it really sick.

Metabolism slows when you get older - she better stop this marathon eating before she gets too old.

No, it's called "metabolism". Some people can just eat like that and not gain any weight. My friend sometimes eats breakfast, lunch, and 3 dinners (one after another) and he's still really skinny.

--Jon

Wow . . . 26 sandwiches in 10 minutes . . . that's incredible!

Now I'm hungry . . .