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Canadian wins Lake Grove latke-eating contest

In the world of competitive eating, "Furious" Pete Czerwinski is to latkes what the unstoppable 1998 Yankees were to baseball.

None of the other 10 contestants who came to Lake Grove for yesterday's National Potato Latke Eating Championship stood a chance.

Czerwinski -- a 6-foot-2, muscle-packed Canadian -- downed 46 latkes and was still licking applesauce from his stubble when the...

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