Don “Moses” Lerman attended the screening of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” where spectators ate jelly beans corresponding to the food Crazy Legs Conti was eating on the screen. Lerman has some pictures and a report on his blog.

WhatPushesMyButtons also has a report on the screening.

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JaNugget has a press release about the 2007 Rib Cookoff:

Returning to this year’s Cook-off, the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), the governing body of all stomach-centric sports, will host the second Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championships on Wednesday, August 29. The country’s best competitive eaters will vie for $5,000 and the title of World Champion. The IFOCE conducts more than 90 events annually, including the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY. It’s estimated the top competitors will consume eight to nine pounds of meat during the 12-minute competition. Last year’s winner, prolific gurgitator Joey Chestnut, is expected to attend, along with more than one dozen other top-flight athletes. The rib eating contest will take place in front of the main stage starting around 5 p.m.

IFOCE.com reports that the Lewisville, TX tamale contest will be held on September 1. Registration opens tomorrow at noon eastern.

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InsideBayArea.com describes the plot of “Deep Fried Cheese”, a new play to open in San Francisco next month:

Ingersoll-Thorp wrote the play, a comedy about relationships and competitive eating, and also directs it. Kalish stars as a guy whose penchant for entering eating contests doesn’t sit all that well with his girlfriend, who is going vegan.

“I think Tore wrote this play to torture me,” Kalish says. “I eat a bunch of hot dogs really fast, and spaghetti. I also catch Vienna sausages in my mouth and spray Cheez Whiz into my mouth. I wrap an Oreo in salami. It’s pretty intense. Eating hot dogs fast is disgusting.”

But Kalish is quick to point out that amid the spectacle of all this eating is a romantic comedy with a “strong emotional center.”

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The Japan Times has an article (in English) about Takeru Kobayashi’s plans following his defeat:

“I was surprised to find myself optimistic even after I lost the competition this year,” Kobayashi, 29, said in a recent telephone interview with The Japan Times. “And that is probably because my records have been improving and I am convinced that I can still develop myself.”

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HamptonRoads.com has an article about Uncle Al’s Hot Dogs which mentions the restaurant’s hot dog eating challenge: a diner who can break the record of 22 hot dogs in 90 minutes will receive his or her meal free.

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Register-Guard has a preview of Saturday’s handless pie contest which says that the top seed will be Pat Bertoletti, so Joey Chestnut is not expected to compete. One competitor inquired about using a wide straw.

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Kobayashi has a report from the P’Zone eating exhibition in New York which includes praise for one of his rivals (automatically translated)

[sonia] (the woman hood fighter the greatest in the world) with the goal of, when it keeps persevering from now on, the [tsu] [te] you thought.

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From crazylegsconti.com/plate.php

In conjunction with the DVD we have a couple great events that you may be interested in. On July 24th at the DVD release will will screen some scenes in Taste-O-Vision, where what you see me eat on screen, the audience gets to eat (color coded jelly beans for hot dog, oyster, butter, etc). It is also a feature on the DVD.

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Tuesday, July 24th DVD release screening in Taste-O-Vison, Millennium Theater 7:33 PM (66 East 4th street between 2nd ave Bowery). After-Party @ Coyote Ugly (1st ave and 9th street).

Conti also reports that he broke Sonya’s popcorn record from the 2005 MTV movie awards contest at the Las Vegas Home Media Expo and that Corey Feldman will be the head judge at Saturday’s pie eating contest.

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The Herald Dispatch announces that Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, West Virginia has introduced a 10 pound burger called Bubba’s Big Bad Doublewide. The burger costs $31.95 and requires one day’s notice. A video of the burger is also available and HuntingtonNews.com has an article with some pictures.

No time limit for getting the burger free is listed, but Hillbilly Hot dogs does have a one pound hot dog, the Homewrecker, which is free if it is eaten in under 12 minutes.

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Tomorrow’s release of the DVD of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” appears in The New York Daily News weekly entertainment calendar.

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Kobayashi has continued his New York travelog with blog entries about a visit to the Museum of Modern Art, the Peter Luger steakhouse and a performance by Eric “Badlands” Booker. He does not mention the size of the steak he ate.

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Charlotte.com has a preview of the first AICE event in the Carolinas:

The event — for amateurs only — is sponsored by the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters. Register at www.competitiveeaters.com, or on the day of the event from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Other activities will include face painting for kids, giveaways and a burger trivia contest.

Back Yard Burgers is at 13736 Conlan Circle off Johnston Road just south of I-485. Details: 704-752-3805.

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(from Brian Seiken) Brian Seiken has uploaded a clip of Joey Chestnut on the Opie & Anthony show in which Joey discusses the post-Nathan’s state of his digestive system. Joey also says he would like to compete in the egg nog contest.

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Gal Sone recently moved out of her parent’s house in Kyoto into a studio apartment in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. A program called “Imada Housing Moving” located Gal Sone a new residence and then performed some renovations on it, greatly upgrading the kitchenette and adding a built in aquarium and condiment dispenser. The apartment has 29.6 square meters (330 square feet) and has a monthly rent of 116000 Yen ($957). The apartment is too small for both a bed and sofa, so Gal Sone will sleep on a futon.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

R Suzuki has a summary of the program

Some more programs
Gluttonous Queen rookie qualifier round 1 – Hokkaido (Suguwara wins by eating 58 sausages in 45 minutes)
Tomoko Miyake completes several eating challenges on “Enjoy Garage” Part 1, Part 2
Gyaruru eats sushi, then dance with a man wearing only underwear

Some other videos can be seen at
www.youtube.com/user/iwasakinyama and youtube.com/user/eazy777

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(from AICE news) Pastrami Joes’ Reuben sandwich contest, 8 minutes

1 Gentleman Joe Menchetti 5 sandwiches
2. Jake “The Butcher” Casey (last year’s amateur winner) 4.6 sandwiches
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger with 4.5
4 Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum”
5 Chuck “The Chomper” Davidson

update The Battle Creek Enquirer has an article about the contest

East Boston Italian Festival sausage results from Derek “Wing Tut” Payne
1st – Tom “Goose” Gillbert – 4.84 New World Record!
2nd – Ian “The Invader” Hickman – 4.38
3rd – Nate “The Nibbler” Gayman – 2.78
4th – Jared Kaiser “Roll” – 2.39
5th – Tim “Chomps-A-Lot” Brien – 2.00
6th – Bruce “Captian RU” Sinclair – 1.83lbs
7th – Tim “Im Not Tom” Crews – 1.47lbs
8th – “princess” Diana Boro – 1.39lbs
9th – Mikey Canoli Saffie – 1.26lbs
10th – “big” David gore – 1.17lbs
11th – Jim “the Heater” Fallon – .87lbs
12th – Pat capagreco (pres I.U.) – .86lbs
13th – Jeff “big show” freeman – .83lbs

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Don Lerman believes he has found the location and day job of the maintainer of this website.

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The video of “Gal” Sone competing while disguised as an old German woman has been reuploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNuvm9CP8b0

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Bostonist has a blog entry about the Italian Festival in East Boston today:

The site for Italia Unita is taking great pride in the sausage-eating contest, and the site showcases several of the competitors who will be tackling the sausage on Saturday. Massachusetts local Tom “Goose” Gilbert is looking to defeat Menchetti today. We hope Gilbert brings a box of Tums with him.

The contest will be followed by a concert by Frank Stallone (“Far From Over”)

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(From Erik Denmark) A video clip of Erik Denmark’s appearance on Komo – TV’s Northwest Afternoon can be viewed at http://www.komotv.com/nwa/6410947.html?video=pop&t=a

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New on SonyaTheBlackWidow.com

Sonya, before you became a competitive eater, did you ever do an eating challenge?

- Response: I guess I sort of did. Way back in the summer of 1997, when I first came to the US from my home country of South Korea, my brand new American friends and I went to the Trail Dust Streak House in Dallas, Texas. Being only a little bigger than I am now (then about 108 lbs), my friends could not believe it when I took them up on their dare and ate the Trail Dust’s (then) featured 52-oz T-Bone Steak with a Baked Potato and a large Milk Shake. I was not close to being full when I finished, and I honestly didn’t understand the reason for my friends’ state of shock. I just thought that they had poor appetites.

A 50 ounce steak (called the “Bull Shipper”) is still on the Trail Dust’s menu, but there does not appear to be any online “Wall of Fame” on the restaurant website.

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Liz’s fantasy league receives another mention in the Worcester, MA Telegram:

Not only did I receive praise from Liz Kellermeyer, the creator of the fantasy eating league located at groups.google.com/group/fantasyeating, who called my column “a lot of fun,” but I even had my own brush with an actual athlete.

Yes, Super Paul Bonebreaker BigMouth Barlow, a man of many names and a giant appetite, who is ranked 40th in the world by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.

Barlow also wrote to express his enjoyment of the article and said that one of the highlights of his life was becoming a fantasy league subject.

See, we have to help these unheralded heroes fulfill their life dreams by making them fantasy stars.

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Crazy Legs Conti is interviewed on this week’s edition of Kevin Carr’s movie podcast to talk about the release of his DVD “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” next week.

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The website for the Big Texan steakhouse now has a webcam pointed at the table reserved for diners who attempt the restaurant’s 72 ounce steak.

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Kobayashi has a blog entry about his visit to Crazy Legs Conti’s apartment, where a poster of Conti in the style of an old-time circus poster hangs.

Kobayashi also writes about his trip to the NY Natural History Museum with several pictures of dinosaurs.

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(From Carey Poehlmann) Philly news reports on a fictional eating contest to determine the mayor of Philadelphia:

Thanks to D-Mac at Philly Will Do for covering Al Taubenberger and Michael Nutter’s latest idea to settle the choice for mayor: eating contest.

Taubenberger bested Nutter 3/4 hoagie to 1/2 hoagie. The contest got out of hand, however, when suprise mayoral challenger, El Wingador, jumped in and ate 11 hoagies. All hail, Mayor Wingador.

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