Word: chanko
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Your readers might be interested in the sumo wrestlers' recipe for gaining weight. After eating a huge meal of chanko, the wrestlers go to bed immediately and sleep for twelve hours. It is the sleep on a very full stomach that builds their admirable bellies...
...article on Taiho and sumo wrestling [Feb. 8] was very well done and most interesting. However, I suspect that the author has never actually sampled that fine fare and builder of men called chanko. To my knowledge, it is not beaten into a glutinous mass. If it were, it might be more palatable...
Love That Chanko. The victory earned Taiho the Emperor's Cup, a ticker-tape parade through Tokyo, countless gifts. and a new flood of marriage proposals from female admirers. Such blandishments still dazzle the bulky ex-lumberjack, son of a Russian father and a Japanese mother, who was recruited by a sumo scout when he was 16 and weighed a mere 155 lbs. Apprenticed to a sumo stable in Tokyo, Taiho built up his weight by devouring large quantities of chanko-chicken, cabbage, potatoes, potato peels, radishes, carrots, flour and soy sauce, all beaten into a glutinous mass...
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