Eating Contest
by David

 

Those truck drivers were yelling so loud everyone could hear them. "I'd bet 1000 dollars none could eat as much as I do". Two of his companions went on drinking beer and making noise, when another big man cried: "Deal! I bet you're making fun of us... I'm willing to gamble my 1000 bucks to prove that!" It seemed like a true eating contest was going to start, since one... two...three men repeated those words and the chef was asked to work on that competition. Behind a comic magazine Sardine was drinking her orange juice and - without showing it - she was listening to those men's speeches. "Will they do that? Oh, gee... it'd be amazing! How much I'd love viewing that" and giggled without being heard. When the last man said: deal! she ordered a third glass of juice and thanked for her roommate's late. "Julie...bless you!" she thought. She started drinking the juice. Meantime, in the next room a table was ready to hold the food for that weird competition. There was an all-you-can-eat buffet, right into that store and items couldn't miss them all... Sardine rubbed her hand. Arrangements were made for the eating contest to be held in minutes. Each one of those four men looked like he could eat a whole cow by himself... who would success among them? Some had pot-bellies which didn't fit into their sweater either and shaved round red cheeks. Sardine noticed a woman, sitting in a corner of the room. She had been staring at them all since the very beginning. She got up and said: "I wanna join you, men!". Three truckdrivers looked each other and laughed out loud. The last one whispered: "Why not?"and repeated loudly: "why not?"

"You want her to join our contest..."

"Why not?" he repeated again, unesitantly.

"In that case, I agree...it'll be funnier!"

In that moment another man got up. In one minute he joined the crew.

Sardine could hardly sit there... When Julie entered the room she should be pale.

"How do you do, girl?"

Sardine was about wordless, but found out breath enough to say:"Julie..."

"Hey...aren't you ok?! Are you?"

"Don't I?"

"Nah..."

"OK... Look at those people... They're ready to make an eating contest... Julie, did I tell you I wanted to give up dieting?"

Julie got even paler than Sardine and whispered: "Yeah..."

"Well, I 'm 18...Cannot I do my own will?"

Julie's voice could be barely heard: "You can..."

"I wanna try!"

Sardine didn't wait for Julie's answer and got up, while her friend was going to utter a sound.

"Please, me too!"

She said.

Two men stared at her, while two other ones laughed, after hearing her childish voice.

"You???"

"That girl...Nah... She must weigh half my weight!"

"Impossible...I'm 210 pounds!"

"I can eat your weight out!" Another man said, laughing loud.

The woman approached Sardine and said: "Are you really sure? How old are you?"

"She's chunky...but is a child!"

"I'm 19!" She yelled.

It took a few minutes... when they were still talking about, the chef entered and said: "It's all ready". Five men and a woman stood in the middle of the room mumbling. Suddenly Sardine exclaimed:

"Deal!" and followed the chef first.

Julie was breathless sitting at a table, with three empty glasses of juice.

"Do you have money enough?" a man asked.

She moved her head up and down and showed him a check carnet presented her by her grandmother. "Exactly 1100$!"

"Uh..."

The chef brought them to their respective seats, all around a huge table.The chocolate pudding is ready," said the chef, and took a huge pots right in front of each contestant. -- it was the pot he used to cook noodles. "It holds over a gallon!"

A couple of men - the lightest ones - moaned in displeasure.

A quarter of hour later, it was almost all over: there were seven people licking the spoons and 7,000 $ waiting for a new owner.

The woman smiled at Sardine and asked: "Can you hold something else, my friend? It seems that pot was as big as you!"

The girl smiled back: "It was very FILLING, but there's a lot of room left!" and patted her swollen belly, which was a bit rounder.

Second serving was lasagna: the chef gave a three-pound portion to each contestant and let them devour that until there was nothing left. Suddenly a truckdriver, which had been eating slower, moaned: "I give up! I've been ill and my stomach is not used to gorge any more!"

Each of them had eaten three pounds of fried chicken along with half a jar of ketchup and half a jar of mayonnaise, when there was the second abandoning. The man who entered before Sardine gave up too: "My belly feels ready to burst".

Five contestants and 7000$ left...

Julie helped her friend during a brief pause, when contestants could rest like they were boxers. "Look at yourself, Sardine... It seems you're seven-month pregnant... Either you give up or..."

"..or I win 7000$, kid!"

And rubbed her overstuffed belly.

"As you prefer... By the way, you're going to become HUGE! You're putting on a lot of pounds in so little time, since those serving are so calorie-rich!"

"Do you think so?"

"I do!"

"Who cares? Why should I care of being 230 pounds instead of 210?" she said, while trying to zip her round belly. She could feel her thighs were thicker too!

Ten minutes later they had emptied half an enormous bowl full of fettuccini alfredo...That sauce looked like pure fat and it was really filling! Sardine looked pale. "She cannot hold any more!" thought Julie and put her hands on her hips: "Hard headed gal!"

But Sardine held on, while two other men gave up... After a 20,000-calorie meal lasted four hours, the first truckdriver, the woman and Sardine could still win.

Being 150-pound lighter than her adversaries, Sandrine's piggout had terrible effects on her body-frame: her face seemed like swallom...her clothes couldn't fit any longer and her bare overstuffed belly laid on her lap.

"Do you really want to go on?" the chef asked.

"Sure!" they all answered.

And a couple of cheesecakes followed the rest of that huge meal.

Then it was the turn of coca cola: two gallons.

Sardine was helped by that to digest her incredible meal. Otherwise, he truckdriver couldn't hold any longer...He gave up right after tasting coke!

2 contestants and 7000$ left.

There was another pause.

Sandrine's belly covered her whole lap.

Julie looked at her helpless bloated friend, who could barely move and said: "I really hope you win now..."

"Me too...But it was a really winnen bet though, my friend..."

"Are you teasing?"

"At all! Did you ever think ....*burp* how you can feel being fat? You're so thin you cannot understand...*gulp* I've been treated like a sub-human for years... I've gone on more diets than you can think of..*belch*...Sorry! Now...*burp*... I feel free from those chains... This was just a joke, but it proved me dieting and weight-loss obsessions don't affect...*burp* my life any longer..."

"I see..."

Now the contest was down to Sardine and the other woman. Three cheesecakes more were served... Sandrine's chowing slowed down. She looked at Julie, who looked back at her and started to encourage her, but deep down she knew it was going to be a losing effort. The woman ate ate ate... Sardine stuffed with everything...every bite... but could hold no more.

"I'm going to BURST!" she said. And gave up.

"Oh my..." the other woman yelled too "I was going to pop too, poor girl... I swear I was ready to give up. Sardine shared her hand: "No matter...*burp* you deserved this success!"

They couldn't stand. Julie went close to Sardine and whispered to her: "Try recovering soon... I'll defeat you too, my friend!"