Alaska pel’meni eating contest Sept 7
The Juneau Empire reports that a pel’meni eating contest will be held in Juneau, Alaska on September 7. Dale Boone set the IFOCE pel’meni record by eating 274 of the Russian dumplings in 6 minutes.
Archive for August, 2007
Dallas Waffle House contest Oct 7
(From The Sicilian) This year’s Waffle House waffle eating contest will be held at the Texas State Fair in Dallas on October 7. Registration opens September 4.
New poll: Opinion on dunking
The new poll asks your opinion on what contests, if any, should immersing food in water be allowed.
In other dunking/eating news, the Deseret News has an article about Stanford basketball player Michelle Harrison, whose big appetite has not impeded her reported ability to dunk:
At the games Harrison is known as “Snacks,” or “that girl from Utah,” by most of the other players and staff. Her nickname was given to her by Abi Olajuwon — daughter of NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon — after a group of players ate at Applebee’s and Michelle ate twice as much as anyone else.
“She ate it all,” said Olajuwon, who is headed to college at Oklahoma. “She didn’t have a take-out container or anything.”
Sept 1 expected entrants
From a Rhonda Evans comment
At 1:00 P.M (C.S.T). on Saturday will be the World Tamale Eating Championship. The total purse is $3,000. “Eater X” will defend his title. Other entrants will include Rich LeFevre (may the tooth be in him), Marco Marquez, Pat Bruss, and Wild Bill Myers.
At 2:00 P.M. on Saturday will be the BBQ Sandwich Eating Championship. The total purse is $5,000. Expected to participate are Joey Chestnutt, Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Juliet Lee and Arturo Rios.
At 6:00 P.M. on Saturday will be the annual Buffalo Wing Championship from Dunn Tire Park, Buffalo, NY. I’m certain that Chip Simpson, the defending champ from last year will be there, and I would imagine that Sonya Thomas will be there also, since she has been present every year. I would also expect “Humble” Bob to attend if he doesn’t do BBQ Sandwiches. That should be a really good matchup between Chip and Sonya. Both have two or more wins apiece in chicken wings. (Sonya won the event in 2004.) The total purse is $2,550.
The assumption that Chip and Sonya will be in Buffalo is correct according to this press release
Jacksonville.com profiles Hall Hunt
Jacksonville.com has an article about Hall Hunt, who will compete in the Jacksonville Krystal Square Off qualifier on Labor Day.
Kobayashi’s 5 favorite foods in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal has an article about Takeru Kobayashi in which he lists his five favorite foods.
Gazette.net article with more about Lee family
The gazette.net article about the Three Brothers pizza contest has been revised with more information about Juliet Lee and a picture of husband Joey competing in the amateur pizza eating contest.
Goo Goo Dolls meet Bertoletti & Kobayashi
(From Pat Bertoletti) The current blog entry on googoodolls.com (flash only 🙁 no direct link) has a report about the band’s meeting with “Deep Dish”. The entry says that the group has now met the top three ranked eaters. Kobayashi met the group at the Summer Sonic Festival earlier this month.
update Kobayashi has a new blog entry about meeting the Offspring.
Canady/Menchetti ticket wins Rhode Island
The Kent County Times has an article about the pumpkin contest in Rhode Island between mixed gender pairs from the United States and Japan which describes the origin of the event:
Emi Umeda, who works with the production crew, said the name of the show translates to “Anything is possible,” and she said the point of the show is to take a topic, find who’s best in the world at it and challenge them to a contest against Japan.
One of the topics is a pumpkin-eating contest, she said, which will pit two professional American eaters against two professional Japanese eaters, making their way through five different pumpkin dishes.
In order to get started, the show wanted to find who held the record for growing the largest pumpkin in the world, which happened to be Coventry resident Ron Wallace, who owns a farm at 860 Plainfield Pike.
The American female made her competitive debut according to the article:
The Japanese contestants are Tomoko Miyake and Nobuyuki Shirota and the American contestants are “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti of Wallingford, Conn., and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Kennedy from Florida.
“This is my first time doing this,” Kennedy said. “I made some inquiries on the Internet just out of curiosity and interest and they gave me a call.”
The article verifies reports of a US victory:
Since it may be difficult for American viewers to tune into the show to see the results, St. Jean said the American team ended up easily outpacing the team from Japan.
update BigPumpkins.com has some pictures of the contest (bottom of page) One of the pictures is captioned:
At the Wallaces on August 21, 2007, Gentleman Joe, urges his teamate to down more Pumpkin Lobster and Pumpkin pizza. She ate an entire Large Pumpkin Pizza and 2 lb Pumpkin Lobster in 3 minutes. But that was just the appetizer.
update #2 The BigPumpkins.com message board has some threads about the contest: Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3
update #3 Dec 26, 2007 The quoted article spelled Elizabeth’s last name incorrectly. The correct spelling is Canady.
Kobayashi’s jaw status report
Kobayashi has posted a blog entry on the current condition of his jaw. He says that while his right jaw has recovered, he still has issues with his left jaw. He does not make any statements on competing in the Krystal Square Off or US Open II.
Joey Chestnut profile in SJSU student newpaper
The Spartan, the newspaper of San Jose State University, has a long article about Joey Chestnut, who will be in Myrtle Beach this weekend:
Even when he’s not participating in an eating contest, Chestnut’s plate is always full.
For 38-to-40 hours a week, Chestnut works as a project engineer for Gonsalves & Stronck Construction, a San Carlos-based company.
His class load, though only six units this semester, includes a construction law and a fluid dynamics course.
Yesterday, he competed in a barbecue ribs competition in Reno, and Saturday he will fly to Myrtle Beach, S.C. to see how many pulled pork sandwiches he can fit down his gullet.
“It’s tough,” Chestnut says. “School’s taken a little bit of a hit – more than I’ve wanted it to. I’m a part-time student almost since the start. I pay for everything myself.”
Nugget rib results from Laura Flynn
From a Laura Flynn comment
1. Joey Chestnut (about 7 lb.)
2. Pat Bertoletti (about 6 lb.)
3. Rich LeFevre (lost tooth during contest)
4. Jason Erb
5. Erik Denmark
update rgj.com has an article about the contest.
update #2 full results are now posted on IFOCE.com
Gal Sone fractures bone
(From R Suzuki) Nikkan Sports reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone has suffered a bone fracture in the right gluteal area. She does not expect that any events will be canceled.
Nugget rib expected entrants
(From Rhonda Evans) The press release for the 2nd Annual World Rib Eating Competition says that Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Chip Simpson, Rich LeFevre and Erik Denmark. Results will be posted on the Nugget Rib Cookoff’s web page.
“Refrigerator” Perry loses hot wing eating contest
Muskogee Phoenix reports that Oklahoman Mike Yoss won a hot wing eating contest in Baltimore yesterday, defeating former NFL defensive lineman William “Refrigerator” Perry and three other qualifiers.
Leon Feingold completes IBL season
Former IFOCE member Leon Feingold has completed his season pitching for the Netanya Tigers of the Israel Baseball League with a 3-2 record and a 3.63 ERA. Leon has a blog about his experiences in Israel at http://leonfeingold.blogspot.com/
2006 Jacksonville qualifier galleries
From The Hangman – Gallerys of last year’s Jacksonville Krystal Square Off qualifer can be viewed at http://photos.jacksonville.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=168132 The Hangman says that he and Hall Hunt will compete in this years qualifier.
Bronx black & white cookie eating contest
A black & white cookie eating contest will be held at the Jerome Avenue & Gun-Hill Festival in the Bronx on September 29. This craigslist posting has more information.
Gazette.net Three Brothers Pizza writeup
Gazette.net has a writeup of the August 18 Three Brothers Pizza contest held in Greenbelt, MD. Jeff Blachly, of Gambrills, MD won the amateur contest with nine slices.
Nathan’s crowd photograph
New York led has a good photograph of the audience at this year’s Nathan’s finals at http://www.flickr.com/photos/new-yorkled/719179402/ You can see some people wearing hot dog hats (probably Don Lerman & friends)
20 dessert challenge on Japanese TV
A video of women attempting a dessert eating challenge from Japanese TV can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=K1R0d8fg7-0 20 desserts were on a conveyor belt and a competitor would win $10,000 if she ate all the items before they reached the end. The winning challenger (who I am not familiar with) claims she can also drink a gallon of beer.
Atlanta La Costena jalapeno peppers results
From a Bubba Yarbrough email:
Here are the results of the La Costena pepper eating
contest held in Atlanta 8-26-07 3:00 pm.
The contest was supposed to be 1 minute but in reality
it was the first to 20 large jalepeno Peppers.The Prize was $500.00 dollars.
1st Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough
2nd Super Paul Barlow
3rd Larry “The Legend” McNeil
Dale Boone DQ for disorderly conduct after loss
beautifulbrian.com has a report about the contest which says Boone attempted to recruit the IFOCE members into AICE after the contest.
JulietLee.com adds “WriteNow” section
Juliet Lee has added a WriteNow section to her website where contest notes and other news will be posted. The page currently has information about the Ash Creek Saloon ribs contest.
Jim Donahue wins LA Tofu contest
Metromix has a gallery of the August 18 tofu eating contest in Los Angeles. One of the pictures is captioned:
Danny Meza ultimately came in third behind the winner Jim Donahue who Hoover-sucked his tofu in 16 seconds. Still, he won a half-day fishing trip (2nd place received a 3/4-day trip) which is not bad at all.
Kid Cary in “Diets from Hell”
“Kid” Cary DeGrosa has uploaded a segment of him eating 6 hot dogs in two minutes from a program that aired on the TLC cable channel called “Diets from Hell” to youtube. There is some footage of pre-Kobayashi Nathan’s contests.
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