Not to belabor the topic of her abject gluttony, but while we wait for her next milestone in her journey, here is one of my favorite micro-moments from the past:
The sequence that begins at 13:00 is priceless.
To fully appreciate it, you need to consider that she has been shoving a meal of pizza and poutine (gravy smothered french fries, for non-Canucks) in her mouth double-fisted style in almost a cartoon caricature of an out-of-control fatso. Psychotic gobbling of food is going on through this whole video; she cleans her plate of a mountain of food in 6 minutes flat.
At 13:00, her plate is nearly empty and she starts looking antsy about it, picking up stray crumbs from the table with her fat paws and eating them, while chowing down on that last half of her thick slice of pizza.
Check out her move at 13:50... She starts cramming the pizza into her mouth without swallowing, getting something like 3 bites in one, down to the crust. At 13:57, her eyes start darting around and she looks stricken at the realization her plate is empty.
Then she gets slick. Apropos of absolutely
nothing at all, she randomly asks in an innocent, off-hand way, "Good thing we got the Large poutine too, eh? Hah hah" Her eyes dart up and down like those of a grifter...
"Is it finished?", she asks nonchalantly and casually, just making random small talk as she finishes off the pizza crust in her mitt.
Her eyes dart towards her mother sneakily, a big grin hidden by the pizza...
Mom replies that there's a lot left, if she would like to have a little more... "You want a little more?"
"Mmmm..." Chantal says like she's really not sure, licking her gooey fingers. There is a pregnant pause as she licks each individual finger, like she doesn't want to sound too eager. This girl is a pro.
"Maybe a
little..." she mutters softly. No sense in letting it all go to waste, right? Just a little...
Then watch as she takes the plate from her mother. About
half of the entire Large poutine is left. She delicately starts scooping like she's only going to have half a serving spoonful. But then she greedily dumps all of it onto her plate. She mutters something incomprehensible about "the rest of it", and then lets out a shrill "AHHH HAAAA!!!" as if she just won in Monopoly or something. GAME OVER, BITCHES!
Winning!!
"There's still a little one, a small one left", she taunts her vanquished opponents.
"
Ohhhh", she sighs, as if she had just walked up four flights of stairs, drinking thirstily from her water bottle.
This is one of my absolute favorite moments of Chantal gluttony. She is such a strange mix of awkward and cunning. And you can cut the weird family dynamics in the air with a knife, it is so thick with discomfort... 97 seconds of Chantal at her least guarded.
