I am so glad I was able to find a video of this ridiculous competition, in which four women competed to see who could eat the most okonomiyaki. I saw this on TV and was completely mesmerized.

For those unfamiliar, okonomiyaki is a Kansai dish that is not unlike a pancake with…everything you can imagine on it. Usually cabbage, eggs, bacon, and other miscellaneous food items. What makes the okonomiyaki though, is the sauce. It is kind of like a tangy barbecue sauce without so much sugar. Needless to say, this fried phenomenon is terribly unhealthy for you, and here we see four average sized women packing them away.

Excerpt from the article in Mainichi:

Four finalists of the women-only contest, who survived the preliminary round in March, competed to see how many pancakes they can eat in an hour. Each okonomiyaki weighs one kilogram and measures 30 centimeters in diameter.

Hatsuyo Sugawara, a 44-year-old housewife from Iwate Prefecture, won the contest after eating 5.2 pancakes, and received 550,000 yen in prize money, a solid gold spatula, and the privilege of having the restaurant’s largest okonomiyaki named after her.

Source: Northern ‘Witch’ wins western eating contest - Mainichi Daily News

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