I was expecting only one eating contest at the end of tonight’s episode of Emeril Live, but there were five. Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs had a hot sauce eating contest, a po boy sandwich eating contest, a piri piri carne spart competition and a habanero sorbet eating contest. There was also a piri piri carne spart contest for audience members. The episode will reair at 3 am if you want to record it (it will also air at 8pm in the pacific time zone)

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from IFOCE.com & Brian Seiken

1. 34 ears “Jammin” Joe LaRue in 12 minutes (breaks Cookie Jarvis’ 2004 record by .5 ear)
2. 30 ears Jay Smith
3. 28 ears Larry McNeil

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The Philadelphia City Paper has a short column about “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone.

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The Baltimore Sun has a report on the Baltimore Waterfront Festival and its crabcake contest. Crazy Legs Conti’s choice of beverage is mentioned.

Megamunch also has a very good contest writeup.

A Japanese blog has a few pictures.

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According to IFOCE’s writeup of the Baltimore crabcake contest, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on “Emeril Live” on the Food Network Sunday at 8 pm ET/PT. The episode, “Red Hot Kitchen”, will be repeated at 3 am ET/PT.

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Crazy Legs Conti has posted his account of the controversial Nathan’s qualifier he won two weeks ago in Sunrise, Florida, along with recollections of other notable contests from his career, on his website.

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from http://urbanhonking.com/digest

1. Sonya Thomas 46
2. Chip Simpson 39
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 38
4. Tim “Eater X” Janus 37
5. Jim Reeves29 1/2
6. David “Brickhouse” Braunstein

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ifoce.com reports that a new series for InHD will be filmed starting on May 6 at a buffet in Islandia, NY. In the series, an individual eater will attempt to break an established mark. In the first episode, Don “Moses” Lerman will attempt to break Allan Goldstein’s bologna record of 2.41 pounds of bologna in 6 minutes.

beautifulbrian.com has more information about the series. Other eaters who will attempt to break records are Crazy Legs Conti, Charles Hardy, Joe LaRue, Sonya Thomas & Tim Janus. There will be profiles of non-competing eaters like the LeFevres and Joey Chestnut.

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The Rutgers University student paper reports that Christine Ma won a pizza eating contest by eating almost an entire pizza in an unspecified period of time.

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The website for the Baltimore Waterfront Festival has a full list of expected entrants for tomorrow’s crabcake eating contest. Bob Shoudt said on The Buffet that he will compete despite not being listed.

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I would like to commend The Whaler for writing the greatest post ever about the dangers of overcongratulation.

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The Princeton University student newspaper has a pro competitive eating column which promotes a hot dog eating contest to be held May 2. The column does not mention Kate Stelnick, the Princeton region’s most famous competitive eater, or the June 23 Nathan’s qualifier in greater Princeton (Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza) in which Charles Hardy Jr. will make his debut.

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The Sun Sentinel has a preview of Sunday’s sweet corn eating contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in Palm Beach, Florida.

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A party to celebrate the release of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz will be held on May 3 from 7pm-9pm at the Delancey Rooftop (168 Delancey Street) in the Lower East Side New York City. Admission is free and cupcakes will be served.

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The Orthodox Apprentice blog reports that one of the teams will organize a blooming onion eating contest in the May 8 episode of “The Apprentice”

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The new poll question asks how do you predict that Kobayashi’s Nathan’s streak will end.

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Liz has posted Claudine Ko’s article about her participation in the Krystal Square Off finals and Sonya Thomas at http://www.urbanhonking.com/digest/archives/2006/04/sonya_thomas_in.html A photo album of the pictures in the article is also available.

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Nobuyuki Shirota has some pictures of last Saturday’s hamburger contest in Tokyo on his blog. Shirota won the men’s contest and Natsuko “The Gal” Sone won the women’s contest. The hamburgers were from McDonald’s and “picnic style” rules were apparently in effect.

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Erik Denmark has a blog entry and Joey Chestnut has a photo gallery of Saturday’s asparagus contest.

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Liz (without Krista who is currently in China) will cover Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore for Urban Honking’s Digest. Liz also has a photo gallery of Ryan Nerz’s reading at Barnes & Noble.

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newtimesbpb.com has an article about the controversy at the end of the Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise, FL on April 15. Runner-up Joe LaRue’s still plans to compete in Sunday’s sweet corn contest despite being very upset about the judging.

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(Thanks Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough & Tube Sock Destroyer) The May issue of Jane Magazine (page 140) has an article (not available online) about Sonya Thomas which also includes an account of reporter Claudine Ko’s training for and participation in the Krystal Square Off finals (via a sponsor’s exemption). The article has a picture of “Sister X” wearing her brother’s trademark makeup.

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TCPalm has details about Sunday’s sweet corn eating competition in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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The Opie & Anthony (& Pat Philbin) radio show will be simulcast on free radio in seven (mainly northeastern) markets from 6am to 9am eastern starting Wednesday, April 26, replacing David Lee Roth’s talk show. The duo will air two uncensored hours solely on the XM satellite network from 9 to 11.

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The Baltimore Sun has a preview of Saturday’s crabcake eating contest containing interviews with Marylanders Ken “Mongo” Federighi and David “Brickhouse” Braunstein.

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