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Gal Sone, Japanese Eating Queen

In Japan, one of the hottest stars in competitive eating is Natsuko "Gal" Sone, a cute, bubbly young woman that is known almost as well for her unusual makeup (which includes white eyeliner) as she is for her eating skils. Her nickname comes from her style of dressing in the gyaru or "gal" fashion, with dyed blonde hair. She is one of the relatively few female competitive eaters and seems to be the highest ranked one at the moment, with victories in contests involving seafood, curry and hamburgers, among other things, and for participating in a number of regular eating contests on Japanese TV. Her eating quirk is that she actually seems to be a very picky eater and takes her own container of mayonnaise, her favorite condiment, along when she eats to put on just about everything.

In the clip after the jump, you can see a Japanese television show follow her throughout the day as she consumed 40,000 calories. If, like me, you don't speak Japanese, you'll find the popups on the show very helpful, as they show the measurements (weights, etc) of the foods that she eats and keep track of the calorie count.

[Thanks, Mark]

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Filed Under: Television/Film, Food Oddities
Tags: asia, competitive eating, eat, eater, eating, food, gal sone, glutton, gluttony, japan, natsuko sone, oddities

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Aooogah

10-28-2006 @7:12PM Aooogah said... I think I'm in love...
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kaitlin  Hess

10-28-2006 @9:48PM kaitlin Hess said... THis is unreal....she is SOOOOO tiny , she has to either have a massive tapeworm or that food is coming up somehow when the cameras are off! COnsider me jealous!!! I want to take her on!
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Adriane

10-28-2006 @10:18PM Adriane said... Holy mother of God...how does she not barf??!
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Jez

10-28-2006 @10:27PM Jez said... what's botherig me is that how she manages to eat it all without showing any sign of boredom. i mean, how many spoonfuls of ice cream can you eat until before the taste just becomes unappetizing?
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Crod

10-29-2006 @12:17AM Crod said... That umm "mayonnaise" is probably some chemical concoction of laxatives.
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Albany Jane

10-29-2006 @9:21PM Albany Jane said... Wow! I wish I had her capacity!
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ojrifkin

10-30-2006 @12:06AM ojrifkin said... Gal Sone was 3rd in the recent "Gluttonous King" (open to both men & women) contest. Kobayashi did not compete in that event.

See

http://eatfeats.com/category/women/natsuko-sone/

for more information & youtube videos.


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