LINCOLN SQUARE — Pat Bertoletti has eaten 47 slices of pizza in 10 minutes, 275 pickled jalapeno peppers in eight minutes and set a record for most milk consumed in an hour by drinking two and a half gallons.
Is that a talent?
Pat Bertoletti downed 15 pounds of raw eggs on Tuesday's episode of "America's Got Talent." [YouTube/America's Got Talent]
The judges of "America's Got Talent" thought so, voting to send Bertoletti through to the contest's next round after the competitive eater and co-owner of Lincoln Square's Taco In A Bag chugged 120 raw eggs on Tuesday's episode of the variety show.
No one said chugging 120 raw eggs was pretty. [YouTube/America's Got Talent]
"Do you have a cholesterol problem?" judge Howie Mandel asked Bertoletti.
"Not yet," Bertoletti answered.
"You're gonna," Mandel zinged back.
AGT host Nick Cannon and judges Howie Mandel and Mel B react to Bertoletti's performance. [YouTube/America's Got Talent]
As host Nick Cannon waited in the wings with an industrial strength wastebasket ... just in case ... the judges reacted like moviegoers at a horror flick, fingers over eyes, peering through the gaps.
"That is disgusting," said Heidi Klum. "That is so disgusting."
Professional shock jock Howard Stern, himself no stranger to gross-out stunts, buried his head in his hands and declared, "I'm going to throw up."
But Bertoletti was unflappable, clinically dispatching pitcher after pitcher of eggs in less than a minute.
"How does somebody wake up and go, 'I'm going to be an extreme eater?'" judge Mel B wondered.
"When God was giving out talents he ran out and he gave me that," Bertoletti said. "It's my one talent in life."
"America's Got Talent" airs at 7 p.m. Tuesdays on NBC. Auditions wrapped up with last night's episodes. Judges' cuts start next week to determine the 36 acts that will move on to the show's live rounds, which kick off Aug. 11.
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