Miki Sudo as soon as ate 69 1/2 tacos in eight minutes.
That feat, carried out six years in the past, earned Suko second place on the Pacific Park World Taco Consuming Championship behind Joey Chestnut, who consumed 82.
On Saturday, Sudo will dive right into a platter of bean and cheese tacos on the Taco Cabana World Taco Consuming Championship, hoping to win a $10,000 money prize. The ten-minute competitors begins at midday at Taco Cabana, 1253 Austin Freeway, and is open to the pubic for viewing.
Sudo, 40, is the top-ranked lady in Main League Consuming (MLE), knowledgeable circuit that holds roughly 70 competitions a yr, together with the Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest on the Fourth of July.
Her competitors on Saturday consists of Geoffrey Esper and James Webb, MLE’s No. 3 and No. 4 ranked eaters, respectively, and 7 different registered eaters. MLE’s No. 1-ranked eater, Chestnut, won’t be competing.
Sudo virtually all the time competes in opposition to males and infrequently in opposition to Chestnut. She is MLE’s No. 5 ranked eater, one spot forward of her husband, Nick Wehry, and holds a number of world data, together with kimchi (8 ½ kilos in six minutes), wild rice hotdish (14 kilos in eight minutes) and ice cream (16 ½ pints in six minutes).
“That is my job,” mentioned Sudo, who lives in Tampa. “I’ve been doing this professionally since April 2013. It’s been my solely earnings for the previous decade. I get to journey, meet a whole lot of cool folks, entertain them and pay my payments.”
Saturday’s occasion will deliver a Guinness World Data adjudicator to certify a possible file for many soft-shell tacos consumed in 10 minutes.
Taco Cabana President and COO Ulyses Camacho mentioned the Tex-Mex chain wished to do one thing daring to have a good time its forty seventh anniversary.
“With the joy of an official Guinness World Data try, it’s greater than a contest,” Camacho mentioned. “It’s a celebration of our historical past, our company and the colourful Texas spirit that has fueled us for practically 5 a long time.”
An adventurous spirit led Sudo into aggressive consuming. Fifteen years in the past, a Chinatown Las Vegas restaurant provided $1,500 to anybody who may end a 12-pound bowl of Vietnamese noodles. Sudo accepted the problem and received. She received extra challenges and money and her picture started showing on billboards.
“I assumed this was the best factor ever,” Sudo mentioned. “Folks mentioned, ‘You must do Nathan’s.’ I assumed I may get at the very least second however I ended up profitable my first yr out. It’s been a loopy, enjoyable journey.”
An 11-time ladies’s champion at Nathan’s, Sudo set the MLE ladies’s file in 2024, consuming 51 Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canines and Buns in 10 minutes.
“I can principally swallow scorching canines complete,” she mentioned. “Something that requires chewing or tearing, that’s after I fall brief to my rivals.”
Six years in the past, Sudo met her husband at a resort gymnasium, the place they have been staying for an consuming competitors. Three years later, Wehry, a former aggressive bodybuilder, consumed a world-record 50 laborious boiled eggs in three minutes and 4 seconds on the DraftKings Crimson Carpet Movie Feast in Las Vegas. To have a good time, he dropped to 1 knee and proposed.
Sudo elicits appears of surprise. She stands 5-foot-7, weighs 135 kilos and is usually requested: How do you eat file quantities of meals and keep so lean?
“My regular eating regimen is wholesome and boring,” she mentioned by cellphone on Wednesday. “I’m actually standing in ‘Sprouts’ proper now, choosing up spinach, broccoli, boneless rooster breast and peaches. We eat wholesome stuff frequently. The competition is when folks see you for 10 minutes. I solely compete in 15 exhibits a yr.”
This weekend’s competitors marks one among them. Sudo has by no means competed in a bean and cheese taco occasion however imagines will probably be just like a tamale-eating competitors. In 2015, she received the Western Days Pageant World Tamale Consuming Championship, consuming 61 in 12 minutes.
Can she beat the competitors on Saturday and set a world file?
“I might like to,” she mentioned.
