THE SIX PERCENT SOLUTION

Somebody has finally conquered Ye Olde 96er, the six-pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA–and it’s not the sort of person you might think at first:

A 100-pound female college student is the first to meet the Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub challenge: down the restaurant’s six-pound hamburger — and five pounds of fixins’ — within three hours.

Kate Stelnick, 19, of Princeton, N.J., made the five-hour drive with two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday, after they saw pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er, on the Internet and on TV’s Food Network.

“I just saw it on TV and I really thought I could do it,” Stelnick said, after downing the burger in two hours, 54 minutes.

Being married to a woman of similar size to Ms. Stelnick, I don’t see what’s so shocking about this–there’s not a direct relationship between body weight and food capacity, as I have discovered many a time. Mostly when I was looking for a Popsicle, utterly convinced that I’d just bought a box yesterday . . .