CLEARFIELD, Pa. -- A 100-pound female college student is the first to meet the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge: down the restaurant's 6-pound hamburger - and 5 pounds of fixins' - within three hours.

Kate Stelnick, 19, of Princeton, N.J., made the five-hour drive with two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday after they saw pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er, on the Internet and on TV's Food Network.

"I just saw it on TV and I really thought I could do it," Stelnick said after downing the burger in two hours, 54 minutes...

...nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998 - not even competitive eater Eric "Badlands" Booker. The 420-pound Booker - who has eaten such things as 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes and two pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes - tried three times to eat the burger and finally did on his third effort. But it took Booker 7 1/2 hours...

I know someone who's going to be very upset: Sonya Thomas is: "THE BLACK WIDOW" of Pro Eating.

This Fark thread includes a picture of someone I take to be Booker.

Previous coverage of this giant burger - yes, there has been previous coverage here - starts here.

Speculation about what Kate Stelnick did after downing the burger is left to your imagination, but I would imagine they do produce industrial toilets.

UPDATE: The picture that was here seems to have disappeared. There are more pictures here and here.