Thursday, September 22, 2011

The dark side of success

Reuters reports from Kiev that a 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar of smetana (sour cream) for coming first in a vareniki (dumpling) eating contest and then promptly died.

On September 18th, Ivan Mendel ate ten dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-litre jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region of the Ukraine, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said.

Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites.

Vareniki are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries. The trick is not to stuff yourself with vareniki.

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