HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) — When it comes to chowing down on kale, Gideon Oji is once again the top dog, beating back a challenge from hot-dog-eating champ Joey Chestnut.
Oji gulped down 22½ 16-ounce bowls of the leafy green vegetable in eight minutes during Sunday's Kale Yeah! Competition at the Erie County Fair in New York. The kale was served raw with oil and vinegar.
The contest is billed as the world's healthiest eating competition.
Chestnut, of San Jose, California, consumed 20 kale servings. He is the reigning hot dog-eating champion at the Nathan's Famous in New York City.
Oji is Nigerian and now lives in Marrow, Georgia. He took the inaugural kale-eating title last year, consuming 25½ servings.
- Posted August 15, 2017
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Going green: Georgia man repeats as kale-eating champion
headlines Macomb
- Nonprofit gets a boost
- Nessel joins multistate coalition to defend U.S. EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles
- Michigan 529 Awareness Day calls on families to save with MET and MESP for children’s educational future
- Department highlights importance of 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline during Mental Health Month
- No charges for officer in death of Michigan teen struck by police car during chase
headlines National
- This Los Angeles lawyer found her calling as a death doula
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Artificial intelligence tools for brief writing and analysis are a small firm litigator’s new best friend
- Baker McKenzie partner drops suit seeking IRS documents on partnership scrutiny
- Family members sue networks after learning of loved ones’ deaths by seeing bodies on TV
- Ex-BigLaw attorney once ‘consumed with remorse’ over $10M client theft sentenced in new scheme