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" By Don Lerman, 57, competitive eater, as told to Noah Rothbaum The butter was refrigerated, so it was like biting into a hard ice-cream cone. Except that when you eat something like ice cream, you get a sense of deliciousness that draws you to eat more. Not with butter. In fact, after the first stick, it didn&amp;#039;t even taste like butter. It didn&amp;#039;t taste like anything. It coats your mouth like axle grease, so it&amp;#039;s hard to swallow. You really have to push yourself. A lot of people get tired from the fat very quickly. It slows down your metabolism, your vigor. I took smaller bites, making sure I swallowed before going on to the next stick. That made it a little easier. Afterward, I felt bloated, like at Thanksgiving dinner. I&amp;#039;m dairy intolerant, so the butter really turned my stomach. It was like taking a couple bottles of mineral oil. Everything came out of my system, even that piece of undigested fruitcake from eight Christmases ago. Then I felt fine. I had a bagel with butter the next day. In a 2002 contest, Lerman ate seven and a half quarter-pound sticks in five minutes -- a record that still stands. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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