{"id":44379,"date":"2011-09-21T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=44379"},"modified":"2011-09-21T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:42:12","slug":"man-wins-dumpling-eating-contest-then-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/international-news\/man-wins-dumpling-eating-contest-then-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556404\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556403\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556402\">KIEV (Reuters) &#8211; A 77-year-old  Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a  dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556411\">Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in  half a minute to win first place and a one-liter jar of sour cream in  the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya  region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556570\">Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556422\">Dumplings, called &#8220;vareniki&#8221; in the  former Soviet republic, are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often  stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_3_0_1_1316637137556575\">(Reporting By Olzhas Auyezov, editing by Paul Casciato)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KIEV (Reuters) &#8211; A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday. 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