The past weekend, competitive eater Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas defeated San Jose local, 2010 hot dog eating champion and highly favored Joey Chestnut (hot dog eater Takeru Kobayashi’s nemesis) by eating 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes (that’s 4.86 pounds of chicken) to win the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship, setting a new world record (breaking her own set in 2005)! This is Sonya’s fourth time winning the competition.
Joey only ate 169 chicken wings (4.55 pounds). Apparently, for a competitive eating sport, eating chicken wings takes some special skills and techniques to eat them so quickly. Maybe Sonya is resistant to hot, spicy food! Sonya gets her nickname, the Black Widow, because she often defeats bigger male competitors. She’s only5 feet tall and weighs 105 pounds.
You know, I never knew for the longest time why Buffalo wings were called Buffalo wings. To be honest, I just thought that maybe Buffalo wings were some sort of breed of chicken or something, until I read the history of how Buffalo wings were invented in Buffalo, New York. To be honest, I can’t even imagine devouring a plate of wings in12 minutes, let alone 181.
