The Kitsch Factor: Have You Got It?

World of Kitsch presents our monthly list of facinating facts. This month, we present The top 12 Fascinating Food Records.

Who ate all the pies?

12. 3.5lb of cooked dog in 18 minutes, 10 seconds.
11. 12 slugs in 2 minutes.
10. 28 Cockroaches in 4 minutes.
9. 60 Eartworms in 3 minutes, 6 seconds.
8. 100 live maggots in 5 minutes, 29 seconds.
7. 2lb of eels in 32 seconds.
6. 144 snails in 11 minutes, 30 seconds.
5. 12 bananas including skins in 4 minutes, 14 seconds.
4. 13 raw eggs in 1.4 seconds.
3. 4lb, 13oz of baked beans in 10 minutes.
2. 24 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
	1. 15 bowls of noodle soup, 100 pieces of sushi, 5 plates of wheat noodles, 5 plates of beef with rice and 5 plates of curry and rice in 2 hours (Japanese National Eating Championships).

These records, lists and more are available from the Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists by Karl Shaw - available now at www.Amazon.co.uk

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Published 13 June 02