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Article: Eating champ breaks her own oyster record: Louisiana bivalves ...
Seafood Business;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Competitive eater Sonya Thomas ate 46-dozen Louisiana oysters in 10 minutes to win the 2005 Acme World Oyster-Eating Championship in late March, smashing the world record she set in last year's contest by downing 36-dozen oysters ...

Article: World oyster eating contest returns to the French ...
New Orleans CityBusiness;  April 12, 2008 ;     397 words ...Bivalve speed-eaters from across the globe will descend on the French Market at today for the 2008 Acme World Oyster Eating Championship. This marks the first time the event, which typically takes place during the annual French Quarter Festival ...

Article: New champion crowned at World Oyster Eating contest
AP Worldstream;  April 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... victory. For Crazy Legs Conti, the bitter flavor of defeat could only be drowned with several swigs of beer. The Acme World Oyster Eating championship belt _ a massive leather affair featuring a silver dish with a single oyster on the half-shell ...

Article: 2003 Acme Oyster House World Oyster Eating ...
National Fisherman;  August 1, 2003 ;     335 words ...BOYD BULOT, of Hammond, La., has been crowned champion at the 2003 ACME OYSTER HOUSE WORLD OYSTER EATING COMPETITION. Bulot set a new world record by downing 18 dozen Louisiana oysters in 10 minutes to win the Belt of Oyster ...

Article: Virginia woman sets world record in annual oyster-eating ...
Seafood Business;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Sonya Thomas ate 36-dozen Louisiana oysters in 10 minutes to capture the 2004 Acme Oyster House World Oyster Eating Championship. The contest was held in mid-April at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. Thomas, of Alexandria ...

Article: AROUND THE WORLD: Oyster eaters death probe.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  September 8, 2006 ;     289 words ...FRENCH authorities are probing the death of two people who had eaten oysters. The pair, aged 66 and 77, died in separate incidents dhis week in the town of Arcachon. So far no link has been proven between the deaths and eating the shellfish.

Article: Oyster Creek among top three plants in world. ...
PR Newswire;  May 27, 1988 ;     700+ words ...OYSTER CREEK AMONG TOP THREE PLANTS IN WORLD FORKED RIVER, N.J., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station was one of the most productive plants of its kind in the world during the first four months of this year, according to General Electric Co. (GE), manufacturer of nuclear