We all know that J. Wimpy Wellington (Popeye) and Jughead (Archie) are larger-that-life gluttons. I could only think of a few more:
Jethro Bodine, Beverly Hillbillies
Larry Mondello and Lumpy Rutherford, * Leave It to Beaver*
Please post here other larger-than-life eaters.
Sabrina’s boyfriend is eating in every scene, but I think that’s so they don’t smooch too much for the non-serious boyfriend role to work.
Beldar Conehead
Nero Wolfe
Orson Welles
Dom DeLuise
Marlon Brando
Love those chunky guys who don’t let anything stand in the way of their enjoyment of the finer things in life!
Scotti
Well, there’s the Great Eater of Kent, Nickolas Wood, who lived in the mid-seventeenth century. It is said that he could eat an entire sheep (minus skin, wool, and horns). He once ate a washing-bowl of porridge, nine loaves of bread, and three jugs of beer at a sitting. To accommodate his enormous meals, his belly had to be rubbed with grease to keep his skin from splitting.
Then there’s Jack Biggers, who took a bet that he could eat six pounds of bacon, a dish of greens, twelve suet dumplings, a loaf of bread, and a gallon of beer in an hour. He died with two ounces of bacon and half a dumpling to go.
Oh, you wanted fictional gluttons…um, Cookie Monster?
Well, how about the astronomer Tycho Brahe who over indulged in food and drink and died from a ruptured bladder.
Icerigger, with all due respect, that (Tycho Brahe)story is apocryphal.
IRL, I’ve read that King Farouk of Egypt had quite an appetite.
How could you forget Mr. Creosote?
MAÎTRE D: Ah, good afternoon, sir, and how are we today?
MR. CREOSOTE: Better.
MAÎTRE D: Better?
MR. CREOSOTE: Better get a bucket. I’m going to throw up.
Fictonal animals count?
Garfield. Eats a whole birthday cake or pan of lasagna in one gulp.
Okay! Dagwood and his sandwich.
And Homer Simpson
LIONEL HUTZ: Mrs. Simpson, what did you and your husband do after you were ejected from the restaurant?
MARGE: We pretty much went straight home.
LIONEL HUTZ: Mrs. Simpson, you’re under oath.
MARGE: We drove around until 3 a.m. looking for another “all you can eat” fish restaurant.
LIONEL HUTZ: And when you couldn’t find one?
MARGE: We went fishing.
Jughead, from the Archie comics.