On behalf of everyone at JOE, we’d just like to say ‘well done’. Wahey!
We here at JOE like a steak as much as the next person, but usually, we like to douse a bit of pepper sauce on it, pour ourselves a nice glass of red wine, throw on some Kenny G and savour each and every bite.
Molly Schuyler, a waiter and mother of four from Montevideo, Minnesota, prefers a different approach, or at least she does when she’s eating competitively. And there are few better at her in the world at that.
Not so long ago, Molly set a new world record by consuming a 72oz steak (that’s 4.5 lbs in case you were wondering) in two minutes and 44 seconds; since then she’s gulped down a 16-inch pizza in less than a minute and gobbled down 363 chicken wings when winning the wing bowl in Philadelphia earlier this year. Offer this girl a Tayto crisp and she’d have the whole bag devoured faster than you can say ‘Cheese and Onion’. She doesn’t hang around.
Perhaps her most impressive feat yet – if impressive is the right word – came earlier this week when she strode into the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Texas and ate not just one but two 72oz steaks in less than 15 minutes; four minutes, 58 seconds for the first and eight minutes, 52 seconds for the second. That’s 9lbs worth of steaks in total; the vast majority of babies are born lighter than that.
We can’t exactly say that it’s enjoyable to watch Molly do her thing in the video above, but it will certainly impact you in some way, possibly by putting you off the thought of ever eating a steak again.
Probably the most surprising thing about Molly’s achievements, however, is that she stands at 5’7” and weighs just under nine stone. No offence Molly, but we wouldn’t fancy using a bathroom after you’ve been in there, we wouldn’t fancy it at all.
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