Don “Moses” Lerman maintains his guarantee that he will win tomorrow’s jalapeno contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma, NM even after reports that the contest field might be stronger than expected.

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The new poll asks what your opinion on the best competitive eating television program originally televised between July 5, 2005 and July 4, 2006.

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The Krystal lovers blog reports that Sonya will appear in Sunday’s Krystal qualifier in Chattanooga. She won that event in 2004 and 2005, winning last year’s contest by a single burger.

The preliminary qualifiers started today with Josh Neal having the best performance with 12 Krystals in 2 minutes. The calendar for the Chattanooga prequalifiers and qualifier lists the times the contests will be webcast.

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competitiveeatingnews.com has an announcement that Eric “Badlands” Booker has retired from competitive eating. Neither badlandsbooker.com or Booker’s myspace page have any mention of Booker retiring and Booker’s myspace calendar says he intends to defend his Buffalo Wing Festival title Labor Day weekend.

If Booker has competed in his last eating contest, the competitive eating scene will defenitely miss one of its greatest champions who had a career spanning almost a decade during which he helped raise the profile of competitive eating as much as any other American gurgitator. Hopefully Booker will continue his pre-contest rapping.

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There is an article about Joey Chestnut in his college paper, the San Jose State Spartan Daily.

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A Krystal press release announces that first Krystal Square Off preliminary round will be webcast today along with the opening ceremonies. Contests can be viewed at seen at krystalsquareoff.com

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The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, TX, famous for its 72 ounce steak challenge, has updated its website hosted at bigtexan.com. Unfortunately, the online database of steak finishers is no longer available at that URL (It had not been updated since early 2005). The database can still be viewed at http://www.houseofapps.com/bigtexan/view.php

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A clip of a hamburger eating contest between Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota has been posted to youtube. The burgers are bunless and covered in foil.

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Footage from the “Glutton Bowl”, which originally aired on Fox in 2002, has been uploaded to youtube. The contents include Kobayashi setting the record for eating cow brains in his first US prime time appearance. There is also a brief clip of Don “Moses” Lerman setting his butter eating record and Eric “Badlands” Booker setting the pre-Sonya record for hard boiled eggs.

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The Hong Kong standard has an article about Sonya Thomas’ victory at the Whampoa Asia eating contest. In that article, Sonya is quoted as saying she eats almost 10 kg (22 lb.) of food each day. If that is accurate, then Sonya eats her bodyweight every five days. Sonya’s big Burger King meal weighs a good deal less than 22 pounds, so it would be interesting to learn what else she eats to reach that amount.

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The new poll asks who the (non-eater) writer of 2005-6 is.

(If there is a non-eater award in 2007 for writers, Dave Shoffner will not be eligible since he has started to compete in events, but he did not compete in the July 5, 2005 – July 4, 2006 period in which these awards are based.)

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(from ahamburgertoday.com) At The Counter in Palo Alto, CA, there are 54 possible toppings for a burger. imeem.com has an account of an attempt to eat a burger with every available topping in under 30 minutes. The extra ingredients brought the weight of the sandwich from one pound to about 5 pounds.

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Larry “the Legend” McNeil updated his rankings of the top 20 eaters on Saturday in his myspace blog. His top 5:

1. Joey Chestnut
2. Sonya Thomas
3. Pat Bertoletti
4. Bob Shoudt
5. Chip Simpson

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The South China Morning Post has a brief (about one minute) video podcast of Sonya Thomas in the semifinals of the Whampoa Asia Eating Championship where she ate 176 vegetable dumplings in 12 minutes. The podcast can also be viewed on youtube.

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Brian Seiken has a written a history of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti’s post-IFOCE career and speedeat.com.

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Dave “Megamunch” Shoffner reports that he won his first eating contest at Kokomo’s sports bar in Harrisville, PA, beating Pete “Philly Guy” Miernicky.

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dallasnews.com has a preview of Saturday’s World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX.

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from IFOCE.com

Indiana State Fair Toyota Trucks Chowdown Championship
Indiana food products: pork sandwiches, beef ribeye, turkey legs, and grilled cheese sandwiches

1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt
2. Jim “the Hammer” Hamrick
3. Kevin Carr

updated 8/20 8:13 am – indystar.com has an article about the contest

updated 8/20 10:59 pm – wishtv.com has an article

from dukerustfield’s myspace blog
GoldenPalace.net World Gyoza Eating Championship Los Angeles, CA
1. Joey Chestnut 212 gyozas
2. Sonya Thomas 210
3. Rich LeFevre 162
4. Hall Hunt 107
5. Erik “the Red” Denmark ?

results updated 8/20 4:25 pm from ifoce.com

from that blog:

They held the world gyoza eating championship. Steamed dumplings. The winner got $2500. I guess there’s this whole league of professional eaters. They all knew each other and fly around…eating. The people who came in 2nd and 3rd ate 10 percent of their body weight in 10 minutes!!! f***ing incredible. The winner was a bit larger though. You might think that chick wouldn’t do so well, but she came in 2nd. They had all these strategies like covering their mouth so air wouldn’t get in and dipping them in water to help them slide down, and they’d hop around a bit to settle it and get out any burps. Some amatuers competed along with the pros, I mean some fat ass dudes. They amatuers ate like 40 or so (I’ve eaten maybe 24 and I’m stuffed). The record they set was 162 if I remember correctly.

Updated 8:20 pm mikeyhateseverything went to the contest and has a blog entry about it

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(from humblebob.com) An article about “Humble” Bob Shoudt appears in the most recent issue of the Philadelphia City Paper.

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Cheese-burger.net has a good recap of the competition to create the world’ largest cheeseburger.

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The new poll asks what you think the top contest of 2005-6 was. Use whatever basis you want (most exciting, best field, best crowd, …) to make your choice.

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In his most recent blog entry, Kobayashi has a report from his trip to the stylist where he changed his hair color from the mustard yellow he had at Nathan’s. No pictures of the new color are provided.

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Several international papers have picked up a Reuters report from the Sheboygan bratwurst contest focusing on “El Toro” Jimenez.

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Several new videos of Japanese competitive eating programs have been posted to youtube. The 2002 rookie contest, which is over an hour long, has been uploaded in its entirety. The top two finishers in that contest were women (the runner up is quite cute) who did not compete in this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest. There is also footage from the New Year’s Eve competitive eaters party of Kobayashi competing aganist an unknown woman in a restaurant where sushi is delivered on conveyor belts. Some brief clips of Tomoko Miyake eating sausage have also been posted.

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Pictures from the Gallon Challenge held last weekend have been posted to the contest website. Two entrants were apparently able to finish their gallon of milk successfully, but most of the attempts produced the expected results.

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