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BRAIN FREEZE: Wayne Algenio, right, out ate his competitors to claim victory in Sky Ice’s third-annual
ice-cream-eating contest on Nov. 17. in Park Slope. Photo by Trey Pentecost
Ice work!
Man wins third-straight Slope eating contest
with victory at an ice-cream-inhaling event
BY COLIN MIXSON
He’s the Seabiscuit of Park
Slope!
A man with an insatiable
appetite ate his way to victory
during a local creamery’s
annual ice-creameating
contest on Nov. 17,
becoming the fi rst person
to win the Slope’s “triple
crown” in competitive eating
following his triumphs
in two other timed chow
downs earlier this year, according
to the neighborhood’s
biggest small-business
booster.
“He shattered all records,”
said Mark Caserta,
executive director of the
Park Slope Fifth Avenue
Business Improvement District.
“He has the Fifth Avenue
Triple Crown!”
Veteran eater Wayne
Algenio’s ability to inhale
without abandon earned
him the top prize at the
contest hosted by Fifth Avenue’s
Sky Ice, whose proprietor
purposely waits for
cold weather to settle in
before staging the event,
where brave competitors
are each fed a pint frozen at
a rock-solid negative-12 degrees
Farenheit.
The ice cream’s temperature
is so cold that Sky
Ice’s owner Jonathan Bayer
bought special spoons for
his third-annual contest, after
last year’s winner bent
his utensil during the competition
and used the deformed
silverware to his advantage,
Bayer said.
“He was able to use the
leverage from the bend to
eject ice cream from the
pint,” he said.
Algenio — a Queens resident
whose superhuman
stomach earned him fi rst
place at such past Kings
County competitions as
Golden Krust’s 2015 Jamaican
Patty Eating Contest
— swallowed his pint
of ice cream in a stunning
one minute and 13 seconds,
28 seconds faster than last
year’s champion fi nished
the dessert. And he wasn’t
the only winner at this
year’s ice-cream-eating
contest — 10-year-old Naavah
Kanto took fi rst place
in a separate, new bracket
for youngsters who wanted
to try their luck at fi lling
their guts.
Algenio’s recent victory
concluded his unprecedented
sweep of similar
swallowing contests in the
neighborhood, including
the July empanada-eating
competition hosted by Fifth
Avenue’s Empanada Loca,
and the August pizza-inhaling
spectacle staged by Artichoke
Pizza just down the
block — all three of which
Algenio won by simply powering
through the pain, he
said.
“Don’t stop, because
once you do, you slow down
and give someone the opportunity
to catch up,” the
eater said. “I just keep going,
even if my teeth hurt,
or my mouth hurts, just
keep going, and deal with
the pain once you’re done.”
Now that he’s won the
crown in the neighborhood’s
three biggest eating
competitions, however,
Algenio said his stomach
is full of something else —
nerves.
“I have a little
pressure to defend
every title,” he said.
The hungry man who
fi rst tried competitive eating
in 2012 said he now enters
roughly 20 contests
annually, which this year
included a dumpling-devouring
event at September’s
Atlantic Antic street
fair, where he netted second
place and a cool $1,000, his
largest cash prize yet.
But Alegnio — who took
home a $100 gift certifi cate
to Sky Ice among other
treats for his recent win —
said monetary awards take
a back seat to any trophy his
eternal hunger may earn.
“It’s not really not about
the money aspect these
days,” he said. “It’s more
about having a good time,
and, also, I like trophies.”
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