(From Rhonda Evans) The episode of Animal Planet’s “Most Extreme” titled “Battle of the Sexes” featuring a cheesecake eating contest between Sonya Thomas and Eric “Badlands” Booker will be rerun tonight at 7pm and 2am this morning (Both times eastern)

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Wing Tut has posted his address on the state of competitive eating which focuses on the difference between the two organizations.

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MorePunkThanU has a video in which he describes his completion of the 4 pound “Ethyl Burger” from R Place in Morris, Illinois The sandwich is probably the only type of food named after a type of gasoline.

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A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing against eaters in a Kanom Krok (coconut rice cake) eating contest in Thailand can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6al0incPBw The female Thai champion leads Gal Sone through much of the contest.

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No clips from this year’s Gluttonous Queen contest have been uploaded to youtube, but some video captures can be seen at this livedoor blog entry

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USAToday.com reports that a planning subcommittee has recommended denying a permit to the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy, which hosts an IFOCE cannoli eating contest. The committee has a second hearing on the festival tonight.

But last month the Street Activities Permits Subcommittee of the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Community Board 2 — one of hundreds of such neighborhood panels that influence everything from new skyscrapers to street names — took the unprecedented step of recommending against a permit for the feast.

“People use our hallways as toilets,” complains John Casalinuovo, a longtime resident who spoke at the hearing.

When festival officials did not attend the hearing — they say they weren’t notified — the subcommittee voted to recommend the permit be denied.

nytimes.com also has an article

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A clip of an egg eating contest from MTV’s “Adventures in Hollyhood” can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=9IORDGSsIdY

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Brian Seiken has switched his videos to pay per view. The cost is $2.99. Don “Moses” Lerman is the guest and he will receive some of the revenue. A free preview clip is available.

The new poll asks how likely are you to purchase Brian Seiken’s videos.

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NNN’s news video page has a segment about a sundae that is 1.05 meters in height at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/070324028_300k.asx. A blonde haired “gal” (not “Gal” Sone or “Gal” Iteya) is brought in to attempt to finish the giant dessert.

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NetFlix and Spike TV have been added to the sponsors list on ifoce.com, so there will probably be a contest sponsored by NetFlix in the not too distant future. The presence of SpikeTv probably implies that the series of Spike TV MLE contests will continue despite the current lack of a working MLE page on spiketv.com

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http://www.shooflypiecontest.com/contest.asp reports that the third edition of the Shoo Fly Pie Eating Contest will take place on June 23 2007

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dennysbeerbarrelpub.com reports that more than 25 members of the Clearfield High football team attempted to eat the restaurant’s 123 pound burger on April 13. The attempt was filmed for CMT’s Country Fried Home Videos.

In a more successful group megaburger challenge, life’s a fight’s livejournal reports that the 50+ pound burger was completed by a group of unlisted size.

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(From AICE News) ADLAW reports that the Federal Communciations Commission has fined CBS, the owner of 610 WIP of Philadelphia, $4,000 for banning Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman from competing in Wing Bowl 13 for being a member of AICE when no explicit rule prohibiting eaters from that organization existed:

The station said it disqualified him from competing in Wing Bowl 13 because he belonged to a competitive eating association, the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE). CBS stated that AICE is a rival of the group historically associated with the Wing Bowl, the Independent Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE).

CBS argued that Mr. Chapman should have known that he could not compete in the contest because members of IFOCE-rival associations previously had been disqualified from participating in the Wing Bowl 12 for the same reason. CBS also pointed to contest rules that allowed the station to disqualify contestants for subjective criteria, and a rule requiring contestants be station listeners. Mr. Chapman did not reside within the station’s broadcast area, so he could not be a listener, CBS argued.

The FCC noted that according to its rules, broadcasters are required to “fully and accurately disclose the material terms” of a contest. Further, such contests must be conducted “substantially as announced or advertised.”

The FCC concluded that CBS willfully violated these rules and fined the station $4,000.

update More information can be found in the document detailing Chapman’s complaint at fcc.gov CBS claimed that Joe Menchetti’s disqualification from Wing Bowl 12 should have made Chapman aware that non-IFOCE members were not welcome:

[Chapman’s] participation was incompatible with the IFOCE’s participation. Chapman had at least constructive or presumptive knowledge of this from the facts surrounding Gentleman Joe’s disqualification from Wing Bowl 12 and from the realities of the competitive eating world . . . In Wing Bowl 12, WIP established that with IFOCE eaters included as Wing Bowl competitors, professional eaters allied with national organizations that are active IFOCE rivals would not be welcome as competitors.

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The Spike TV website has been revamped and the page which previously had videos from the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown, http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml is basically blank. (On the positive side, the commercial has been removed as well)

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Eric “Badlands” Booker is one of the people with an unconventional occupation appearing in “Odder Jobs” (Google Book Preview)

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Has anyone seen the Coors Light ad starring Takeru Kobayashi? I have seen the other ads in the series with sprinter Michael Johnson and strongman Magnus Ver Magnuson. I have not been able to find the ad on CoorsLight.com either.

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(From megamunch) A cafepress store selling merchandise with the United Eaters of Pennsylvania logo has opened at http://www.cafepress.com/uepa

In other Pennsylvania eating organization news, one of the founders of EATORF has challenged UEPa in the comments and eatorf.com has been reserved but has yet to officially open.

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Ron Koch has sent me the following email:

Just saw an eater at Ollies a\hamburger joint at UNLV.they called him bonsy.He is so thin thus the name .Well anyway he polished off 14.5 quarter pound hamburgers with buns in 10 minutes without even sweating.

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A clip of an eating contest from a Spike TV program which is not the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=qWW9OKmp5bA If you are not satisfied with how Spike portrayed competitive eating in the Chowdown, this clip featuring a “hurl cam” shows that it could have been worse.

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news.com.au/heraldsun has an article about the Bogan Burger served by the Napier Hotel in Fitzroy, Australia. Despite its name, the sandwich does not apparently contain any ground beef:

The $15.50 (Australian) burger’s big turkish bread roll is topped with a steak, a chicken schnitzel, a potato cake, bacon, egg, cheese, onion, pineapple and beetroot.

There’s no asking if you want fries with that. The burger comes with a mountain of fat potato wedges. Oh, and salad. …

The burger stands 13cm high, or 17cm if you count the classy paper umbrella. One reviewer likened it to chewing gum — “it stays in your system for seven years”.

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The clip from last year’s MTV “True Life” documentary about competitive eaters of Takeru Kobayashi eating over 20 pounds of food at a Japanese restaurant has been reposted to youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=e8zJg0mwt1k

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I want a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well

The Vapors, Turning Japanese

(From R Suzuki) Natsuko “Gal” Sone submitted to a medical examination at Kitasato University hospital for an article in the current issue of AERA magazine, published by the Asahi Tribune. The objective of the investigation was to determine how Gal Sone could eat as much as she does and not gain weight: (automatically translated)

The large quantity the stomach which can eat and, however much eating, it united the body which does not get fat “Muse gal 曽 root of appetite”. It probably is to be possible to know the secret of that body with metabolic coming from abroad?

As for doing the Kitasato University hospital. Physique inspection, blood inspection and inspection of breath and the inspection of the gene which which is related to CT scan and obesity relate to inquiry and energy exchange were done.

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HeartAttackGrill.com has been under construction for the past several weeks and none of the links on it are currently active. There is no apparent link location to an online “Wall of Fame”.

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AICE news reports the following information about an entrant in the Delaplane Strawberry Contest:

Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo who is recognized as the current World Record Holder for drinking a gallon of milk (32 seconds!) and has also had some impressive outings in a major Waffle and Hamburger Eating Contest has informed AICE that he plans mass destruction on the record books this spring and summer. This wacky (but respected) chef states that he will be the next Strawberry Eating Champion and plans to explode on the scene in 2007.

Joey Chestnut drank a gallon of milk in 41 seconds for his 2006 Wing Bowl qualifying stunt.

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(From Nathan Biller) A Double Quarter Pounder w/Cheese contest will be held at a College Station, TX McDonald’s on Saturday. The ad for the contest can be viewed after the jump.

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