'Power eater' downs record 46 pancakes

Source: Agencies  |   2008-12-23  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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THAT'S a lot of latkes. A 23-year-old mechanical engineering student from Canada downed 46 of the potato pancakes in eight minutes to win a contest held at a Long Island deli in New York on Sunday evening.

Pete Czerwinski said he had never eaten a latke before consuming about 3 kilos of them at Zan's deli in Lake Grove.

The Toronto bodybuilder says he's just "a power eater" whose brain never signals that he's full, according to the Long Island daily Newsday.

Association of Independent Competitive Eaters Chairman Arnie Chapman says Czerwinski demolished the contest's previous record of 31 latkes, set in 2006.

Brooklyn college student Will Millender took second place with 29 latkes.

The pancakes are a traditional treat for Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights.


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