Last summer, when I returned to the US from Ecuador for a visit, several of my friends gave me an incredible homecoming gift: an apron signed by some of the best competitive eaters in the world, guys like Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Eric “Badlands” Booker, and John “Crazy Legs” Conti.
Now Miles B. (via Susie) sends along this exciting news regarding one of the formidable men whose signatures I now hold close to my heart:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – To mark the premiere on Tuesday of a film about his life as a competitive eater, Crazy Legs Conti is trying to eat his way out of a telephone booth-size structure filled with popcorn.
Conti, 33, donned a diving mask and snorkel on Tuesday inside the lobby of the Manhattan movie theater that will show the film and lowered himself into a “popcorn sarcophagus,” a wooden, windowed structure, to begin munching.
A “popcorn sarcophagus.” I love it.