Sometimes you’ve just got to forget about all the drama going on in the world and eat roast chicken. That is the philosophy of a Philidelphia man who ate one rotisserie chicken a day for 40 days.
“I would like to Invite you all on a journey that I am on,” Alexander Tominsky wrote on Twitter. “I am eating a rotisserie chicken every day for 30 days. Today is day 11. I will keep you all updated as I get closer to my goal.”
People began following the 31-year-old on the social media platform, eager to watch him devour chicken after chicken. The challenge which Tominsky had laid himself developed from 30 days into 40, with the public invited to see him lay into his final bird.
“Come watch me eat an entire rotisserie chicken,” read flyers posted around the city. “The chicken will be consumed on the abandoned pier near Walmart. This is not a party.”
And yet, people turned up. And cheered as Tominsky consumed bite after bite. He revealed that while he was able to eat an entire chicken within 20 minutes at the start of his journey, by the end of the 40 days it would take him around two hours.
The viral celebrity claim that much of the world is in pain, so he must do something that brings him pain to make others smile. “This is just a little bit of an inconvenience and a sacrifice for the joy that it seems to be bringing people,” he said.
Tominsky now plans to find ways to get contributions for Philabundance, an organization in Philadelphia, that helps to feed the hungry.
