Female Empowerment?

100-Pound Woman Downs Six-Pound Burger (ABC) is the story that shows that a women can be just as good at doing stupid stuff as a man. In fact, even better. I found it impossible to read this article without getting slightly nauseous as it tells of “Ye Old 96er”, which is a “six-pound hamburger − and five pounds of fixins’”. All to be eaten in under three hours and you get it for free. Plus a T-Shirt.

What’s amazing is that tiny Kate Stelnick, 19, all 100 pounds of her, managed what “420-pound … competitive eater Eric “Badlands’‘ Booker” could not. If you’re not nauseous yet, take a look at the ingredient list:

“one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 ¼ pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.”

Denny Leigey Jr., owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub (picture here at left with his creation), had “offered a two-pound burger for years”, but after hearing that another restaurant was offering a “four-pounder”, he went into a monastic retreat for months until he “conceived of the six-pounder”. Imagine the inspired genius it takes to come up with a six pound burger after having only heard of the two- and four-pound varieties. The amount of creative energy that must have taken is mind-boggling. Imagine if we could harness such congnitive power for the good of mankind. Just imagine.

After having polished off enough food to feed a family for a week (or a small Indonesian village for a day), Kate said that “I felt very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice”.

She didn’t notice? I, too, once tried to eat a measly three-pound burger at a restaurant where you got the damned thing for free. You had to eat the whole loaf of bread too. After almost finishing the Monster Burger, I dragged myself home, only to lay around, groaning and bloating further, until finally sweet sleep came to take away the pain.

She must be made of sterner stuff.