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TCBY Avon Marketplace Summer Fun Day to feature eating competitor Jamie "The Bear" McDonald

Granby resident Jamie “The Bear” McDonald, who has won more than 50 eating competitions across the country, will attempt to break a world record closer to home Sunday, July 28 at the TCBY Avon Marketplace Summer Fun Day, a fundraiser for the MDA that runs from noon to 5 p.m.

At 3 p.m. that day, McDonald will strive for the Most Frozen Yogurt Eaten World Record. His research shows the current record to be 1 gallon eaten in 4 minutes, 16 seconds, achieved last August at Red Cup Yogurt in California.

“What I figure we can do is break the one gallon record and then go for the most eaten in 6 or 8 minutes,” he said.

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McDonald is a competitive eater and competitive bodybuilder. All Pro Eating recently named him as the “#1 Independent Competitive Eater 2012” and “Competitive Eating Rookie of the Year 2012.”

This year he has won contests such as Bartolini’s 2013 Meatball Championship in Illinois, consuming 61 meatballs (7.63 pounds) and breaking their world record; and Wing Bowl 21 in Philadelphia Super Bowl weekend by eating 287 wings. He has also broken the IHOP Pancake Eating Record and set a new Pulled Pork World Record, eating 9 lbs., 7.6 oz. in 10 minutes.

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Born and raised in "The BBQ capital of the world," Kansas City, Missouri, McDonald in June opened his own restaurant, Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in Windsor, which features wood-smoked barbeque. The eatery shares space with Bart’s Drive-In Restaurant at 55 Palisado Ave.

A Navy veteran, McDonald and his wife, Cheryl, have two children.

More than 30 vendors and non-profits will have booths at TCBY’s Summer Fun Day. For more information, go to http://farmington.patch.com/groups/announcements/p/tcby-to-host-2nd-annual-summer-fun-day-for-mda_5af50d72






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