ASTOUNDING GASTRONMIC FEATS.
Some time ag-o Melloy, the ''world's champion eater," ate eighty-five pounds of, beef at one meal for a bet, and after pocketing- the stakes he retired to an eating-house and there consumed three large tins of salmon and four apple tarts.., Another great eater rose to fame by swallowing, at one sitting, three gallons ■""of marrowfat peas. This was good, but not up to the beefeater's feat. A scientific eater in Ireland succeeded in storing seven-ty-two eggs in ten minutes, then had room to put away a quart of milk to settle- them. Drinking feats are more common than eating ones; but the American brewer who won .£250 on a drinking wager may well stand as a champion drinker. Perhaps as an advertisement for his own beer, he disposed of four and a half gallons of ale before leaving the table.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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