Broad of shoulder, full beard, wide of chest - and stomach after competing at the annual hotwings competition in Aarhus at Memphis Roadhouse. The fearless chicken-eating viking, John Larsen, inched out the win after psyching everyone before the competition with a one-man battle hymn.
Unlike the competition last year, this year was very close - and nothing was decided among the top three until the last two minutes - and the top four contestants were all in the same territory:
- 26 wings: John Larsen
- 25 wings: Peter Emil Højlund
- 24 wings: Lasse Thomassen
- 23 wings: Andreas Bach Hougaard
It was great to see the overall performance although no one managed to break the 2013 record of 32 wings in 20 minutes. Important to remember though is that the competition was slightly changed this year, with the wings getting progressively hotter for each batch of 5 five wings served - an extra challenge, especially coming through in the final batches. Some contestants found the wings RATHER hot…
Every Wednesday Memphis Roadhouse has an all-you-can-eat hotwings frenzy and the current record-holder of 49 wings in an evening, Lasse Thomassen, was also running to see how many he could devour in 20 minutes and took home a very respectable third place with 24 wings.
Honorable mention goes to Lasse Riishøj who was the only competitor from the 2013 competition to run again and he upped his tally from 16 wings last year to 17 this year. At this rate he has a shot at winning once he retires…
Not many people can claim to have majored in law, have a pizza named after them, work as a bouncer, as well as being the newly crowned hotwings champ of Aarhus - congratulations to you, John!
Photo credits and copyrights to Anders Tvede - thanks, champ!