Apparently a lot happened at the Glendale Chop Stop parking lot yesterday.
It says something about you when you’re the first person who comes to mind to cover a salad-eating contest between a human and a 20-pound rabbit on a Tuesday morning — and it’s not complimentary. Maybe my feelings aren’t hurt because I’m the sort of person who would have come here by myself.
In one corner is Huang, who has built a living by gainingmillions of followers across social media . She’s a one-woman operation, posting to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram multiple times a day with content ranging from eating challenges to clothes to sampling restaurants across the country. In the flesh, she’s a charismatic self-professed loner, one who prefers to take cross-country road trips solo and lives with her family.
“When I did my first road trip, it was very scary. You know, single female traveler, right?” She gets homesick and restless, stopping every once and a while to compete against the odd large mammal.Huang is introduced by the referee as if she is going to suplex a salad instead of eat four shredded lettuce bowls in 10 minutes. The stakes are deceptively high — this is the first Major League Eating-recognized salad-eating record entry, so either Huang or Mega Bunny will be crowned a champion.
Mega Bunny is a sight to behold, but Huang kicked her ass in competition, plowing through more than two pounds of salad in under five minutes as Kloss hovered behind them and continued to rattle off the many varieties of Chop Stop salad. Moses tried to entice her with more shredded lettuce, but she turned her back to the plate entirely in the seventh minute as the audience cheered.