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These Donut Pizza Eaters Take the Cake

Campbell's Psycho Donuts hosts its second annual Donut Pizza eating contest in celebration of National Donut Day.

All kinds of foods have made it into various eating contests throughout the globe—hot dogs, asparagus, burgers. But, donuts?

You heard right! Donuts, as in the psycho variety, have entered into the realm of eating contests, and in Campbell,  had its second-annual donut pizza eating contest on Saturday.

What's a donut pizza, you ask? We went to the source to find out.

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"A donut pizza is a 'ginormous' donut, the size of a 14-inch deep-dish pizza," , owner of Psycho Donuts, said via email.

The donut pizzas can be custom ordered and can have up to four toppings, Zweigoron says.

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So now that we know what the heck a pizza donut is, why hold a pizza donut eating competition?

"We always wanted to have an eating competition," Zweigoron says. "Around the time we invented the donut pizza, it occurred to us that it would be challenging for one person to finish it. In our first year of business, 2009, we didn’t even know about National Donut Day. The day arrived, and customers showed up—we were very surprised!

"So we decided that the following year we need to make National Donut Day a special day for Psycho Donuts," he says. "It just made sense to have the Donut Pizza Eating Competition on National Donut Day weekend."

The contest began in 2010, and a handful of people showed up to watch. This year, there were lots more, Zweigoron says, and next year, well, he says, "we think next year will be crazy!"

This year's event had five contestants vying for the title, and many supporters came out to cheer them on, some even waving handmade signs. The Saturday rain didn't deter these folks.

"The response from the public was incredible," Zweigoron says. "It’s a truly entertaining spectacle to watch five people eat the biggest donut you’ve ever seen. There was screaming and hysterical laughing. We’re excited to take this event to a much larger audience. Who knows, maybe it’ll be on Man vs. Food one day soon!"

Dax Swanson took the cake when he polished off the last bite of his donut pizza before anyone else could yell, "medic!" He takes home the title: "King of the Demented Donuts 2011." Others who attempted the feat include Raymond King, Linda Wang and Peter Shepherd.


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