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Gal's gargantuan appetite eggs on gluttony
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“Thanks to her surging popularity, food-stuffing is now the rage. Women have always made keeping slender a major proposition, but at the same time, they want to eat tasty foods,” critic Maruo Shioda tells Shukan Shincho (Nov 11). “Gal Sone somehow manages to walk a fine line between these two mutually contradictory urges.”
“Gal,” whose real name is Natsuko Sone, is a 21-year-old native of Maizuru City, Kyoto. She has lived up to her claim as Japan’s reigning “Oogui Kuiin” (queen of gluttony) by winning numerous “food fights” — as eating competitions are called — which led to her inking a contract last year with Watanabe Entertainment, a major talent agency.
For a female who stands 162 cm in height and weighs a mere 45 kilograms, “Gal’s” near-inconceivable capability to cram herself with copious quantities of comestibles is astounding.
“This past July on a Nihon TV network program, she emerged victorious, working her way through 100 pieces of sushi, 10 plates of spaghetti and 50 gyoza,” raves a variety program director. “Then in September she was on TBS, where she polished off 100 pieces of sushi, 10 portions of barbequed beef and 10 servings of curry.”
In open defiance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s efforts to discourage the spread of disorders related to the so-called metabolic syndrome — a prime cause of which is overindulgence in unhealthy foods — a number of restaurant chains and retailers have been boosting their portions. McDonald’s Japan may have initiated the trend back in January with its 380 yen Mega Mac, whose 754-kilocalorie count was roughly three times that of a regular hamburger.
By August, McDonald’s posted its all-time monthly sales record, and a food industry analyst credits the Mega Mac for having returned operations to profitability.
This message was not lost on McDonald’s rivals. On Oct 16, the Sukiya chain followed suit, introducing its Mega Beef Bowl — boasting a triple-sized portion of beef — for 650 yen. Its 1,286 kilocalories constitutes about half an adult male’s daily nutritional requirements. Demand for the new dish is said to be steady.
The same day Sukiya’s Mega Beef Bowl went on sale, the Family Mart convenience store chain launched its Mega Hamburger Bento boxed meal for 540 yen, and followed up a week later with the Mega Chicken Cutlet Bento for 590 yen.
“We believe that Ms Sone’s TV appearances have been a factor contributing to the ‘supersize’ boom,” a reporter covering the food industry tells Shukan Shincho.
With food and beverage businesses unwilling to be caught sitting on their hands, so to speak, in the face of this gluttonous demand, Japanese might be pigging out for some time to come.
October 26, 2007
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WhatJapanThinks   (Oct 26 2007 - 14:30) | Rate | Report |
Oh, and I wouldn't blame Gal Sone for the supersize me culture; almost every other program on travel or celebs introducing their hometown, etc, results in the presenters spending well over half their time in various restaurants, eating huge platefuls (or at least having a mouthful and leaving the rest for the camera crew) of food, with the chef hovering in the background, guaranteeing that everything will be oishiiiii and/or umaiiiii.
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| love (Oct 26 2007 - 14:49) | Rate | Report |
In the end, she will pay dearly for overeating. Everything in small pieces pleases, the excess upsets.
It all started with Mr. Esophagus, (Kobayashi), and now copy cats are coming out.
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| nimbus (Oct 27 2007 - 09:14) | Rate | Report |
I read an article that says she uses the toilet a lot. She should do commercials for toilet papers.
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| blvtzpk (Oct 28 2007 - 21:22) | Rate | Report |
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| paprika (Oct 28 2007 - 22:55) | Rate | Report |
She looks like an alien from outer space though.
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| nitro (Oct 30 2007 - 13:52) | Rate | Report |
but of course it is!
| I'm sure she has a freaky metabolism | |
| erlik (Oct 31 2007 - 17:45) | Rate | Report |
| Sinister | |
| rjd_jr (Nov 1 2007 - 08:34) | Rate | Report |
| Irresponsible | |
| northlondon (Nov 1 2007 - 18:33) | Rate | Report |
Have they ever seen footage of children dying of malnutrition in Africa ? Or the garbage dump children in the Philipinnes ?
Not that the Japanese are responsible for the economic woes in Africa or the Philipinnes, but it just shows-off gluttony and greed.
Sad.
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| DenshaDeGO (Nov 2 2007 - 14:58) | Rate | Report |
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| frontandcentre (Nov 6 2007 - 12:49) | Rate | Report |
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| urko (Nov 6 2007 - 13:05) | Rate | Report |
not sure how this would help the underfed around the world, but would open up the airwaves to better programming perhaps.
I do believe they have seen footage of children in Africa, and the garbage dump in the Phillipines, because I saw it on J-TV, I assume "they" (you are referring to Japanese in general) or a proportion of "them" have seen it also. I would also suggest a proportion of "them" feel the same way about food wastage. At least the locals I know do.
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| HonenShonin (Nov 6 2007 - 16:04) | Rate | Report |
Whether you absorb the food or not, you're still carrying it in your gut! It's impossible to poop out six pounds of lasagna (lovely image!) without losing six pounds.
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| urko (Nov 6 2007 - 16:09) | Rate | Report |
| Slack distendable alimentary canal | |
| suebe36d (Nov 20 2007 - 17:34) | Rate | Report |
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