He ate what?

Apparently while Larry Bird was injured for a few weeks late in his career, he proverbially put Twinkies on his pizza and ate more than half a dozen wedding cakes.

"I was so bored, I'd set around the house, drive my wife crazy, and eat and eat. In two and a half weeks I was off I ate ten gallons of ice cream and seven weddin' cakes. Why them? I ate weddin' cakes 'cause you knew they was gonna be good. I mean, who would [eff] up a weddin' cake?"