Michel Lotito

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Michel Lotito (born June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat Everything).

Once in a restaurant in Paris he ate everything on the table (knives, plates, forks etc.)

His performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber, and so on, in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items that are disassembled, cut up, and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material as a child and has been performing publicly since 1966.

Lotito does not often suffer from ill effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He says, however, that bananas and hard-boiled eggs make him sick. It is estimated that between 1959–1997 Lotito has eaten around 9 tons of metal.

For his body to cope with the consumption of these non-foods his stomach has been said to have double the layer of a normal stomach