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A hot dog-eating contest to benefit Castaway Critters of Central Pennsylvania will be held Saturday at That Fish Place/That Pet Place, just one of many special events for the upcoming week.

The eating contest, with a $500 prize to the winner, is part of the “Mr. Scoop-A-Thon” at the store at 237 Centerville Road.

Prizes from thatpetplace.com

First Prize – $500, Second Prize – $250, Third Prize – $100 gift certificate to That Fish Place/That Pet Place

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Takeru Kobayashi has a Boston trip report on his blog.

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TV Tokyo will televise the 2006 edition of “Gluttonous King” (more information) this Sunday. The contest is open to both male & female eaters. Yamamoto will attempt to defend his 2005 title and Gal Sone will look to better her 6th place finish from last year. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake will also compete.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has a blog entry about his breaking the IFOCE spot shrimp record which has a gallery & videos: introduction, last 10 seconds

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While many fast food restaurants are promoting the healthiness of some of their menu items, the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona has gone in the opposite direction and calls its main offering “bypass burgers”. Those sandwiches can have up to two pounds of meat. The restaurant’s main gimmick is having its waitresses wear nurse outfits. The Arizona Board of Nurses has threatened a lawsuit against the restaurant. The restaurant has an extensive Wikipedia entry which is under threat of deletion

The grill does not have an eat it quickly and get it for free challenge, but it does have an Alpha Male Monday, in which a member of a party of four or more can get a free meal. There is a “Hall of Fame” on the restaurant website.

The Heart Attack Grill has a proto-blog which records happenings at the restaurant. In the June 2006 archives, the grill laid down a challenge to the IFOCE:

In fact, I still issue an open challenge to Kobayashi, The Black Widow (An “Honorary Guy” in anyone’s book), Joey Chestnut and the rest of those hotdog eating wussies at the IFOCE. Simrin is our King and there’s no questioning his superiority for the simple reason that he’s the world’s only competitive eating artist who works with the MANLY MEDIUM of the Quadruple Bypass Burger. The rest of the other sissies eat little wimpy hot dogs.

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(from AICE news) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won the AICE bun & cheese eating contest by eating 8 bun & cheese sandwiches in 2:15 in Mount Vernon, NY. Ian “the Invader” Hickman was second and “King” George van Laar was 3rd.

Hoboken NJ, Italian Ice eating contest – won by Kristine Ducusin

Bethlehem, PA haggis eating contest – perhaps steakbellie can receive permission to compete in next year’s contest

Portland, OR team donut eating contest held in conjunction with Portland Carfree Days. (This is surprising since environmentalists are usually opposed to competitive eating)

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Erik “the Red” Denmark appears on Brian Seiken’s latest video podcast after breaking the IFOCE spot shrimp record on Friday. I hope that Crazy Legs Conti’s planned appearance has been postponed and not cancelled.

Updated 2:35 pm – the video has been taken down due to technical problems. BB hopes they can be resolved by tonight.

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A midwestern theme park has received a lot of publicity recently for having a cockroach eating contest. I am not going to name the park or provide a link to the article because I think that grotesque eating contests, which are a segment in the show “Fear Factor”, makes competitive eating look like a circus side show and I do not want to see a “race to the bottom” in which contests keep offering more and more repulsive items. The new poll asks if you share that opinion.

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4:39 The official count is Simpson 53, Janus 52.5 Chip lead throughout the contest, but Eater X had an impressive last minute rally. Tim Janus is almost certainly guaranteed a wildcard spot

9:53 Full results are available at krystalsquareoff.com Justin Mih continued a string of impressive performances with 33. I assume the “mystery eater” from the Waffle House contest did not show up.

(Thanks Brian Cooley) 11:01 Chip Simpson makes the front page of ajc.com, which has an article that requires registration or bugmenot.com

The liveblog is available after the jump

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The full Atlanta qualifier roster has been posted at krystalsquareoff.com. Justin Mih and Brian Subich will join the northern invaders.

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from IFOCE.com & skinnyboy

goldenpalace.net green chile grilled cheese New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, NM

1. Joey Chestnut 34.5
2. Rich LeFevre 28
3. “Mongo” Marquez 14
4T. Andrew “skinnyboy” Lane 13.5
4T. Allan Jones 13.5

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Marketwire reports that Kobayashi defeated a team of four Bostonian amateurs in a lobster roll eating contest by eating 41 lobster rolls in 10 minutes. Marketwire says the quartet combined for 25 rolls; IFOCE says their total was 28. None of the amateurs are named, but I think one of them was Molly Zalcarian, who competed in the St. Patrick’s Day corned beef contest.

A video of the contest can be viewed at: http://www.covermaxcomm.com/lobster/

9/24 8:19 am – The Boston Globe and Boston Herald have articles about the event.

6:15 Sanspo.com has a Japanese article about the event

Sep 26, 12:39 am ytv has a Japanese news video about the contest

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Megamunch has a post about the Beavis & Butthead bratwurst contest The creator of Beavis & Butthead, Mike Judge, also created King of the Hill, which had an IFOCE themed episode.

Other competitive eating cartoons on youtube:
Homer Simpson tackles a restaurant’s steak challenge
Samurai Champloo episode 6 (subtitles) : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Happy Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish readers of this site. This article from 2004 from the Jewish Week says that a quarter of the top 24 eaters were Jewish at that time, but I think a lot of those eaters have either retired or dropped down since then. Don “Moses” Lerman is the featured eater in that article.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark’s attempt at the spot shrimp record should be coming up on http://www.kjram.com/ in a few minutes. Ray “the Bison” Meduna is serving as judge.

7:56 Erik dedicates his performance to the Washington Huskies and puts on a purple bandana.

7:59 The contest starts. Erik is using hot sauce.

8:00 The house band starts and the station cuts to commercial.

8:10 the station returns from commercial and Erik has broken the record with 1:30 left

8:12 the contest ends with the record broken. The station has yet to announce the amount.

8:26 back from another long commercial break – Erik is credited with 4 lb 15 oz. Erik says he feels great. Ray “the Bison” Meduna says the record is certified. Erik says he thinks he might have used too much cocktail sauce. Erik will do the Texas State Fair jalapeno contest next.

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krystalsquareoff reports that Dale Boone appeared at the preliminary qualifier held at the Georgia Tech football stadium last night and said he would be reinstated soon.

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“Wing Tut” has started a blog at http://wingtut.blogspot.com/ His longest post is a ranking of IFOCE and AICE Pennsylvania eaters (Brian Subich should appear in the IFOCE ranking & Lori Weiss could headline a list of non IFOCE & AICE eaters)

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This page on the New Mexico State Fair website is the only information I have been able to find about Saturday’s green chile grilled cheese contest. The $100K rookie grilled cheese challenge will be held as well. No expected competitors are listed. There will be three New Mexico IFOCE contests in about a month and a half.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark announces that he will attempt to break the IFOCE record of 4 lb. 9 oz. of spot shrimp in 12 minutes tomorrow. The record is currently held by “Hungry” Charles Hardy. The attempt will be part of a charity event and broadcast on internet radio around 7:30 eastern / 4:30 pacific.

Crazy Legs Conti claims to have done 5 pounds in 10 minutes:

Q Do you have a favorite eating contest? Hot dogs? Ice cream?

A I turned pro on Acme Louisiana Oysters (20 dozen in ten minutes) and earned the moniker, “The Mollusk King”. I’ve done well in Alaskan Spot Shrimp (5 lbs in ten minutes). I am training for Delaware Crab Cakes, so seafood is my specialty. My father weaned me on seafood, calling it, “low tide food – nothing that grows above the ankle”. Favorite Eating Contest? Lobster, Lobstah, and Ayuh, Lobsta.

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amny.com has some pictures (#7 – #10) of last Friday’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.

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(from japanprobe) A clip from Japanese TV of a Jamaican and Nigerian attempting a restaurant’s 3kg curry challenge has been posted to youtube. It is claimed they both eat 6kg, but the clip jumps to an empty plate so this cannot be verified.

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No roadtrip reports have been posted at http://thebigburgerblog.blogspot.com/, which was set up to chronicle four Canadians’ trip to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA, but one of the travellers, Anthony Stuart, has uploaded a travelog to his personal blog.

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Micah “Wing Kong” Collins is travelling to Memphis for the Krystal qualifier with steakbellie. He has several entries about his preparation in his blog at http://conundrum54.blogspot.com/ Wing Kong is considering changing his nickname to Carnage and adopting a bad guy persona.

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(Thanks Brian Cooley) Metropulse has an article about Sunday’s Krystal Square Off qualifier in Knoxville

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Happy Birthday to Jason “Erbivore” Erb, who turns 27 today. I hope to add a birthday section to the sidebar in the home page. You can enter your birthday in the database.

Also happy birthday to sonyatheblackwidow.com, who turned 3 yesterday.

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