CONGRATS, SONYA!

Posted by Adam Kuban, June 19, 2004 at 10:11 PM

You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen: Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas won this year's Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship!

Slice just got off the phone with a very nice young woman at Bacci Pizza (so nice, in fact, that we almost felt a little bad about how we diss Windy City pie so much). Through a spotty cell-phone connection on my end (crappy T-Mobile), I was able to confirm word of the Black Widow's victory. How much she ate is still a matter of uncertainty, but I think I heard the nice Bacci employee say "six and three-quarters."

Now we're pretty sure it wasn't six and three-quarters slices. Heck, any member of the Slice staff could handle that. We're guessing that the 105 lb. Ms. Thomas ate six point seven five pizzas. My word, and be still our beating hearts!

UPDATE: Even though the Trib was scooped by Slice (you heard it here first, kids!), that paper's story has confirmed Ms. Thomas's winning amount. The 100 lb. wonder ate 6.5 slices, according to Tribune. According to the Bacci employee, that number was closer to 6.75. While that may not sound like much, a recent commenter to this post tells us that one Bacci slice might as well be an entire pie.

Regular Slice readers already will have read about Ms. Thomas, the International Federation of Competitive Eaters, and the pizza-eating contest in which there was some NYC-CHI smack-talk goin' on. We're sad that New York's own Ed "Cookie" Jarvis didn't win it for the Empire State, but we're happy for Ms. Thomas, our favorite U.S. competitive eater (and the No. 1 ranked one at that).

Congratulations, Sonya. We look forward to seeing you in top form at the upcoming International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney on the Fourth.

Chicagoist on the Bacci World Pizza Eating Contest.

PS: Eating contests always remind us of Lardass and the devious and disgusting revenge he took on fellow townsfolk in Stand By Me.

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