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    How to win a competitive pie eating contest

    Michelle Lesco is 112 pounds and 5-feet, 4-inches tall. Despite her small frame, she is one of the top female competitive eaters in the world and has eaten ungodly amounts of all kinds of things in contests, including hot dogs, chicken wings, and you guessed it, pie.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Aug 9, 2016 • 1 min read

    Michelle Lesco is 112 pounds and 5-feet, 4-inches tall. Despite her small frame, she is one of the top female competitive eaters in the world and has eaten ungodly amounts of all kinds of things in contests, including hot dogs, chicken wings, and you guessed it, pie. Here's how to eat nine pounds of boysenberry pie in eight minutes, per Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco.

    Music: "Howling at Nothing" by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, and "Cherry Pie" by Warrant

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    PieCast 1: If pie were in the Olympics
    1. 0:00The great pie terminology debate
    2. 12:51How to win a competitive pie eating contestYou’re reading this
    3. 21:07Pie-making tips from a national pie contest champ
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      Evan Kleiman

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    PieCast 1: If pie were in the Olympics
    1. 0:00The great pie terminology debate
    2. 12:51How to win a competitive pie eating contestYou’re reading this
    3. 21:07Pie-making tips from a national pie contest champ
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