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Sunday, June 01, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sal Carbone is a pizza-eating machine, any way he slices it.
Organizers say the Brooklyn man has wolfed down a tad more than 15 slices to beat his own record, 15, in a competitive chowdown Sunday.
Carbone also won last year's installment of the annual contest at Rocco's Pizzeria. The event raises money for the child-welfare organization MercyFirst.
Five pizza eaters faced off Sunday. Contest co-founder and Rocco's co-owner Joseph Loccisano says runner-up William Millender, powered through about 12 1/2 slices.
Loccisano says the contest brought in about $4,000 for MercyFirst. It runs group homes and other services for about 4,000 children, teenagers and families in New York City and on Long Island.
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