A Chicagoan has set a new eating record by scarfing down 44 kolaches in eight minutes.
Patrick Bertoletti won $1,500 in the International Federation of Competitive Eating event held in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Kolaches are fruit-filled pastries that are beloved in Czech culture.
The 21-year-old Bertoletti has a winning strategy. He dunks the kolaches in water and swallows them whole.
He's a culinary arts student, and is regarded as an up-and-comer in the competitive eating world. He's ranked Number Four by the federation.
Among his accomplishments are ingesting 5 3/4 pounds of corned beef and cabbage in 10 minutes, 1 3/4 gallons of vanilla ice cream in eight minutes, and 10.8 pounds of key lime pie in eight minutes.
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