If you think you ate a lot over the holidays, imagine eating for a living! WTMJ’s Libby Collins sits down with professional eater Katina DeJarnett, who has built an impressive online fanbase under the name Katina Eats Kilos, to discuss how she began her career, garnering millions of views online, and the most memorable challenges she’s faced. It’s all ahead on this delicious edition of WTMJ Conversations! Listen in the player above.
A partial transcript is provided below, courtesy of eCourt Reporters.
LIBBY COLLINS: What’s the most unusual food challenge you’ve ever been involved in?
KATINA DEJARNETT: There’s one that I always go back to because it was one of my favorites and it had the most variety. It was at a restaurant called The Ugly Grouper in Florida, and it was this mixture of the craziest food types that you would never think go together but so did. I had to eat about 7.5 pounds of food, roughly, give or take, and it’s outside, there was live music. And I’m there eating like a Polynesian-style rice out of like a pineapple that was hollowed out, fried green tomatoes, mozzarella logs, these giant seafood tacos that had a cheese skirt coming out of them, a beautiful like turtle-style cheesecake, a cocktail. It was amazing. One of my favorite meals of all time. I don’t really recall feeling full after that because everything was so new and so enjoyable. I was just like getting it down. The hardest part was the heat. Eating in the heat is pretty rough, but that was so good.
