PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A professional competitive eater from Chicago downed 444 chicken wings in 3...

1. Winging it: Chicago man smashes Philadelphia eating
record
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A professional competitive eater from Chicago downed 444 chicken
wings in 30 minutes at the 23rd annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, narrowly edging out his nearest
rival and shattering the record of 363 wings set a year earlier.
"I have the sweats but I feel a lot better because I know I don't have to eat any more chicken wings,"
the winner, Patrick Bertoletti, said after narrowly beating prior record-holder Molly Schuyler, who
gobbled 440 wings in front of a crowd of thousands at the area where the city's National Basketball
Association franchise, the 76ers, plays.
Bertoletti ate 50 wings in the last two minutes of the contest, ripping the meat from the bone and
stuffing it in his mouth, a technique that left him chewing for more than two minutes after the final
buzzer rang.
The new record shocked Angelo Cataldi, the sports talk radio broadcaster who conceived of the
contest as a consolation to Philadelphia sports fans, who have seen their Eagles football team make
it only twice to the Super Bowl, which they have never won.
"I didn't think it was possible," Cataldi said.
The contest, hosted by Philadelphia sports talk radio station 94 WIP, features entrants with colorful
nicknames who are ushered in with immense entourages featuring scantily lad women called
"wingettes."
"It's my first year, and it's really fun, but I'm cold," said wingette Amanda Dennis, who wore a bikini
top made from electrical tape as she entered the arena riding in a refrigerator with its top cut off,
along with another contestant who went by the name, Meat Fridge.
(Reporting by Daniel Kelley; Editing by Scott Malone and Sandra Maler)

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