Wing bowl
Wing Bowl is an American eating contest that has been held annually by a radio station in Philadelphia since 1993 . The first event, held in a hotel, in which only two competitors competed against each other, only 150 people attended. Now, the event, which requires competitors to eat as many chicken wings as possible in a given time , attracts 20,000 visitors and is held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. It traditionally takes place on the Friday evening before the Super Bowl , one of the most important sporting events in the USA. Women and men take part in the competition. In 2003 Sonya Thomas , who weighs less than fifty kilograms, won the competition.
Wing Bowl was the brainchild of WIP radio announcer Al Morganti in the face of a long streak of defeats by the Philadelphia Eagles , the Philadelphia football team, which gave little hope that the football team would be in the Super Bowl finals for the foreseeable future. Since then, Wing Bowls has grown into a widely reported event in the US media and attended by several local Philadelphian celebrities. The radio station WIP will be reporting on this upcoming event for several weeks in advance. Entrants for the finals at the Wells Fargo Center qualify by betting during a radio show at one of the radio station's studios to eat a certain amount of a food in a given time. For example, participants qualified by consuming 20 cups (4.8 liters) of porridge. The second possibility to qualify as a participant in the wing bowl is to win a so-called wing off , a competition in the run-up to the wing bowl in which the participants also eat chicken wings.
literature
- Jason Fagone: Insatiable - Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream . London 2006, ISBN 0-224-07680-9
Single receipts
- ↑ Fagone, p. 194