August 26, 2004

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    By Rachel Forrest
    news@seacoastonline.com

     

    This is the second year of the lobster-eating championship here, but the first year as a competitive event sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), the governing body of "stomach-centric" sports.

    The 409-pound ice cream and pasta eating champion Ed "Cookie" Jarvis proudly wore his championship coat listing dozens of world eating records - including matzo balls and chicken wings - alongside fellow competitors from Brooklyn and Long Island, N.Y., Eric "Badlands" Booker and "Hungry" Charles Hardy.


    Hometown favorite Kevin Cross ate his way to victory and The Claw Belt last year with 16 lobsters in eight minutes.


    Eaters had 12 minutes to eat as much tail, claw and knuckles as possible. Cheeks were full, jaws moved with rhythmic regularity.

    At last the feeding frenzy was over. As the chairman announced the winners, there was madness, heat, lightning and electric anticipation.

    In third place, with 6.83 pounds (approximately 28 lobsters), Ed "Cookie" Jarvis. In second, with 7.03 pounds, "Hungry" Charles Hardy.


    And in first, with 38 lobsters down, weighing 9.76 pounds, the new world lobster-eating champion Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, the smallest person in the entire competition at a mere 100 pounds.


     

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