(From Domenico Alesi comment) An IFOCE pigs feet eating contest will be held at the New Jersey State Fair on June 23. Registration opens today at 2pm eastern.

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VeggieDogContest.com has information about a vegetarian hot dog eating contest to be held in Austin, TX tomorrow. There will be both individual and doubles categories and additional prizes will be awarded for style and good sportsmanship.

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Yahoo Sports has a one minute video report about the TripRewards hot wing eating contest produced by the Associated Press.

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beautifulbrian.com announces that Brian Seiken has started a new myspace page at myspace.com/picklechamp

Brian also has a new commentary about El Toro and an announcement that Badlands Booker’s 4th CD will move away from rap and towards classic 70s/80s soul.

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CityPaper.net has a paragraph about Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Philadelphia with some of the expected entrants:

The winner of this qualifier will earn a spot at the big table — the Nathan’s Famous championship, held at Coney Island every Fourth of July. Come cheer on last year’s winner, Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, as well as Yellowcake, Wing Kong, Steakbellie and Philly’s own “Humble” Bob Shoudt, who put away 28 in 2006. “It’s the same thing as any contest — you need to find a rhythm,” says Shoudt. “You can’t listen to your body telling you to slow down.”

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A video of Tomoko Miyake attempting to eat 4.9 kg (10.8 lb.) of ramen can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYIzeL22JeY

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The website for the Delaplane Strawberry Festival has a list of the expected and possible entrants in the strawberry eating contest:

Expected
# Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Hadley, MA
# Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, Lagrange KY (last year’s champion)
# “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Wallingford CT
# Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Sterling VA (our local competitor)
# Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo , PA

Possible
# Bob “Killer” Kuhns, Freeport PA
# James “The Food Prowler” Fowler, Pittsburgh PA
# Chris “The Amnerican Schlesinger, Bohemia NY (competed last year)
# Eliot “The Savage” Cowley, Audubon NJ (competed last year, placed 2nd with 5.10 lbs)

The Washington Post has a paragraph about the festival and its eating contest

The MC for the contest, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, has posted his contest predictions on his blog

update TimesCommunity.com has an article about the festival with some quotes from Ian Hickman.

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The Some Boys blog reports that the single from “Gal” Sone’s group, Gyaruru can now be pre-ordered (the release date is June 20) and that scans from Gyaruru’s magazine spread containing a dance guide are available (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3)

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NorthKitsapHerald.com has an article about a lutefisk eating contest in Poulsbo, Washington.

Local lutefisk eating legend Eric Perkins almost regretted encouraging Jake Watrous to enter Sunday’s Viking Fest lutefisk eating contest at the Kvelstad Pavilion.

Before bowing out at the three-and-a-half-pound mark, Watrous put a scare into both Perkins and reigning champion, Puyallup’s Charles Jensen. Even so, Jensen retained his title by consuming more than four pounds. Perkins literally lost his ‘fisk as he finished second for the second straight year.

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The announcement for the new AICE Backyard Burgers contest refers to another burger contest held in Tennessee:

Some folks may find it cute to eat a 2 oz hamburger. Those same people might also try and justify dropping their mini-burger in water and then actually it eat! (Pretty scary, huh?) Other folks, such as competitive eaters, Backyard Burger Inc., and the league of Real Food Eaters of America, believe that the words ” 2 oz”. And “hamburger” should never occupy the same sentence. It is this belief and conviction that Back Yard Burger and All PRO EATING PROMOTIONS announce their 2007 summer campaign against the epidemic of “Miniburgitis.” Unfortunately, a few misguided souls have been mislead into believing that a hamburger should fit in the palm of their hand. The southern United States has a reputation for eating their hamburgers with both hands because the big, juicy, delicious hamburger they are eating requires it!

There will be four qualifiers with the finals occurring on September 8 in Memphis, TN. Entrants are limited to one previous eating contest. Hopefully the mystery Memphis burger girl will compete.

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Liz has a brief interview with Tim “Eater X” Janus about his two recent contests on urbanhonking.com/truefan

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The Sun reports that spaces are still available in the breakfast eating championship which will be held in London, England on Tuesday. The contest will last 12 minutes and 35 seconds, which is claimed to be the average breakfast time. Sun employee, Lup Fun Yau, recognized by Guinness as the record holder for jam doughnuts, will participate.

The winner is the person who devours the most breakfast trays in the time allowed, each of which contains a mammoth 1,300 calories.

It contains 1 sausage; 1 fried egg; 1 rasher bacon; 1 tomato; 1 tbsp baked beans; 1 slice white toast with butter; 1 bowl Cornflakes with 200ml milk; 1 pot organic strawberry yoghurt; 1 croissant; 1 blueberry muffin.

And if you’re out in front, you’ll walk away (or maybe waddle away) with a £500 prize and the title of Britain’s Best Biggest Breakfast Eater.

To take part, call 08701 977346 and leave your details.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has an interesting post about the villains of sports and analyzes which eaters qualify as villains:

The first name that comes to mind is obviously Dale Boone. Dale fit’s most of the criteria – controversial, unpredictable, arrogant, boastful, antagonistic and he has been suspended multiple times for misbehavior as well. The one thing lacking in Boone’s resume as a villain is legitimacy as a top eater. He may have been in the top ten in talent at one time but now his shouts of self confidence and guarantees of victory seem more like mere antics than real threats.

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The Boston Phoenix has a report on a screening of “JO” by Cameron Jamie. Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino provided a live soundtrack.

The show began in darkness. Haino chanted a series of ghostly moans; those and the votive candles lining the aisles made it feel like a séance. JO is a rumination on patriotism, with footage of a Joan of Arc pageant in Orléans, French right-wingers laying flowers at the foot of a Joan statue in Paris, and a Fourth of July hotdog-eating contest in New York.

Haino proceeded through mysterious plucking, ominous vibrations, chimes, turbulent strumming, Godzilla thuds, and rumbles. It sounded a bit like a slasher-flick score. He deployed 13 pedals to loop and layer the noise, building jet-engine blasts. He went silent while Jamie’s camera panned down a stout fellow’s jacket embroidered with a list of dozens of eating-contest victories. The seated crowd chuckled.

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(From AICE news) The predictions for the AICE ribs contest in Kansas City Sunday expect half the top 4 to be filled by AICE novices:

1. Veto “The Machine” Porter 4.22 lb.
2. Gentleman Joe Menchetti 4.11 lb.
3. Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum” 3.77 lb.
4. Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady 3.66 lb.

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The new poll asks how you would describe the combined rate of growth for all levels (IFOCE, AICE, independent, eating challenges) of competitive eating over the past six months.

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(From Megamunch and Brian Subich) Joey Chestnut’s victory at the TripRewards wing contest yesterday was the #2 play of the day on ESPN Sportcenter.

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The Sportscaster Chronicles blog has a podcast of an interview with Nathan’s announcer Paul Page Part 1, Part 2. The interview is mainly about Page’s coverage of the Indianapolis 500, but there is a brief amount about Nathan’s at the start.

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The paperback edition of Horsemen of the Esophagus will be released today. I am not sure if there will be any new material that was not in the hardback.

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TripRewards hot wings results Update MLE has full results

1. Joey Chestnut 7.05 lb in 12 minutes
2. Sonya Thomas 6.01 lb
3. Tim Janus 5.381 lb.
4. Micah “Wing Kong” Collins 3.913 lb
5. Crazy Legs Conti 3.263 lb
6. Steakbellie 2.475 lb
7. Pete Miernicki 2.2 lb

update NYMag.com has a short blog entry about the contest

update #2 A press release about the contest is available. Video from the contest can be seen at http://www.triprewardshotwingchampionship.com/.

update #3 wygwto.blogspot.com has a spectator’s report from the contest which says that Horatio Sanz was the first choice for the celebrity host.

The liveblog follows the jump

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This afternoon, TripRewards will sponsor a chicken wing eating contest. The previous TripRewards contest was a birthday cake eating contest in 2005. AnchoragePress.com has an article about Shishaldin, who participated in that event.

Readers might remember Shishaldin as the Brooklyn, New York-based performance artist so starved for attention that she ran the New York Marathon draped in cold cuts, auctioned her DNA on eBay and willed her remains to the Guggenheim Museum to be freeze-dried and displayed after her death. She also once attempted a diet solely of her own breast milk by using imported lactation-inducing drugs and a breast pump. (She described the results on her website: “Weeks of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea ensued… project abandoned. Some people are just not the nurturing kind.”)

Now Shishaldin is training to become a competitive eater. Last month she beat out ex-NFL celebrity William “The Refrigerator” Perry in a cake-eating contest that she entered dressed as Marie Antoinette, complete with a corset that she unzipped once she got onstage. Perry, a “guest eater” who was paid for his appearance, placed 10th out of 10. Winner Rich Lefevre ate a five-pound cake in 11 minutes, 20 seconds. Other results were not reported on the International Federation of Competitive Eating website. Shishaldin said there were problems weighing cake after the contest and some controversy over the rules, which didn’t allow eaters to dip cake in water. “Some of the eaters were really upset,” she said.

Shishaldin has apparently shifted from competitive eating to running. Her old blog announces a goal of running a marathon in every state before she reached the age of 30. Her current blog has an entry about participating in a six day race.

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A trailer of Joe Menchetti’s appearance on Beautiful Brian’s TV show has been uploaded to youtube. Joe appears in Brian’s studio and takes a call from Don “Moses” Lerman. The full video will be available for purchase on May 27.

Brian’s Mother’s Day episode is also available, which includes an interview with El Toro, footage of the entire Las Vegas qualifier along with interviews of some of the participants in that event.

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Erik Denmark reports that a podcast of his interview on Seattle sports radio is available.

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(from AICE news)

Pro Division 5 minutes

Amateur Division 5 minutes

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Mike “The Real Skinny” Hoffman has posted his rejection letter from IFOCE on his blog. As in the Moe’s Burritos for Life contest, being ranked is given as sufficient justification for blocking entrance.

The Nathan’s Famous hot dog contest is an IFOCE/MLE event. It has just recently come to my attention that you are ranked by a rival eating league and are therefore not eligible to participate in the Nathan’s Famous contest, or any IFOCE or Major League Eating events.

If this restriction is upheld for everyone listed in the AICE rankings, it will prevent Kobayashi from competing in Nathan’s.

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