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Flapjack feat falls to friend
Hearing about an old friend who'd tied International House of Pancakes record, Stafford resident eats half-dozen more to capture title
Date published: 2/29/2004 By ROB HEDELT RECORDS ARE MADE to be broken. But it's nice when the one who breaks your national record is an old pal from high school. That's the case for Shahrouz Nouri, the Stafford County resident who tied the IHOP restaurant chain's national pancake-eating record by chewing through 39 in one sitting several weeks back. Michael Kessler, who played football with Nouri at Brooke Point, read about his pal's record-breaking meal. He also noticed that the IHOP restaurants in Fredericksburg and Garrisonville were having special pancake-eating contests on Tuesday of this week, with proceeds to go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Kessler, a 21-year-old who works for S.W. Rodgers, decided he'd give the pancake-eating contest a try. Because his mother was turning 45 this week, the Crystal Lake resident set that number as his goal: 45 pancakes in one sitting. Rudy Garcia, a waiter at the Garrisonville IHOP who's been challenging customers to beat or tie the chain's national record of 39, spurred Nouri on to tie the record last month. And when Kessler came in on Tuesday, shooting for 45 pancakes, Garcia was ready to help another young Stafford resident challenge for the record. "I didn't really think I'd make it," said Kessler. "After eating 18, I was feeling like I was finished. But I just kept going, even though it took five hours. Now I have the record all my own at 45." Like Nouri, Kessler said he ate the pancakes plain, without butter, syrup or anything else to make him feel over-filled. He started attacking pancakes in stacks six deep, but when he got past 20 it helped to take them two or three at a time. "But by the end, I was back to six and seven at a time," he said. "Then it was all about getting finished." Kessler said he's never done that much in the way of competitive eating before, other than friendly family challenges to see how many pounds of shrimp they could eat.
Date published: 2/29/2004
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