In the comments to a video of a Pointersaurus attempt, “socca4u” announced that she and her sister became the first all female team to complete the 12+ pound pizza and win $500, but their feat had yet to be recorded on Pointer’s web site. The finishers list has now been updated to include Pam and Jennifer Cooney of Katy, Texas. Another comment says the two women finished in 20 minutes (I believe one of the two IFOCE teams took 14 minutes).

“socca4u” is most likely Pam Cooney because she was a member of University of Alamaba at Birmingham soccer team. She competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel and was named both all-American by the Jewish Sports Review and to the first team of the 2005 NSCAA/adidas College Women Scholar All-South Region after posting a 3.77 gpa.
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Don “Moses” Lerman reports that he will have his thyroid gland tested on Thursday. He believes his thyroid might be responsible for his weight gain and says his sister was recently diagnosed with an underactive thyroid.

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The Never a Dull Moment blog has a report and slideshow from a Chicken McNugget eating contest. The top two finishers were women who both exceeded 40 nuggets in 12 minutes and beat two males who have aspirations of becoming competitive eaters.

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Battle to the Bone, Phoenix, first prize will be a Honda Element, date TBA
Wing Eating Contest at Sheffield Ohio Quaker Steak & Lube March 17, first prize $500, qualifiers Feb 27 and March 5
Andy’s Cheeseburger eating contest in eastern North Carolina, first prize $1000 qualifiers in March, finals in April, dates TBA
Stuffed Hurricane Pizza eating contest for 2 people in Dekalb County, IL, win $400 if eaten in under 24 minutes, offer only available on Tuesday, calling ahead required

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Observer-Reporter announces that Crazy Legs Conti will emcee and judge a pierogi eating contest in Washington County, Pennsylvania at the Men’s Culinary Classic on March 8. The contest will be 6 minutes long and it is not stated if the competition will be IFOCE sanctioned.

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San Diego corned beef musubi article and video
James Madison University grilled cheese eating contest, winner eats 12 sandwiches in 8 minutes
Shoo Fly Pie contest to be held June 21, $10,000 purse
“Eating Levi” does not make the South by Southwest festival, but will appear on DVD and the Yes Network
Rio Wraps (Michigan) Burrito Bowl finals report and qualifiers gallery
Princeton Oyster Bowl video
Queen Mary chili cheese fries mini documentary
Rice and Bean Pot competitors eat burritos on Fox 25 news
Brooklyn Dodger forum thread about Nathan’s redevelopment plans

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On her News & Notes page, Sonya Thomas announces that she will compete in Saturday’s Jalapeno eating contets in Laredo, TX.

It appears that Pat Bertoletti and Erik Denmark will also compete in that event based on a comment in Pat’s myspace blog.

Joey Chestnut will probably not attend, since he has been saying that his next contest is the Houston matzo ball contest.

This will be the first matchup of between members of the IFOCE top 10 since the Krystal Square Off.

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Kobayashi’s latest blog entry reports that his father completed the Tokyo Marathon yesterday.

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The next segment of Food Battle Club (The Speed), called “Triangle Records”, has been posted to youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdQmtAMOf0k. Kobayashi and Nobuyuki Shirota both participate in this segment, which involves eating 40 small food items.

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Beautiful Brian’s Bits & Pieces contains a report about last night’s performance of songs from his upcoming CD:

Badlands then took the mic and started rapping along with the band in what went down as one of Badlands greatest jam sessions .. Last but not least. i took the stage for the final number attempting to perform a track from my CD that hasnt even been released yet.Its a parody of the 1973 song hi hi hi with lyrics revolving around some of the bad calls that went against Sonya Thomas in past IFOCE contests. To make matters worse the volume on the mic was low and i forgot nearly all the words not to mention that the band could barely play two chords of the song. This is not the fault of the band because they are a great band . The fact of the matter is they never heard of or got a chance to practice playing the song hi hi hi which was released before the band members were born. There was a request by several people in the audience for “came in as an eater” I am embarassed to report that i forgot the words to that one as well even though i just recorded it less than a month ago. I hope its not alzheimers. Anyhow i was just happy to hang with some competitive eating pals.

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Evansville, IN pancake contest article and video
Elizabeth Canady makes the AICE spotlight page
Gal Sone’s Belguim trip report
Newport, RI IHOP pancake contest February 24
Steerburger eating contest in Albany, NY February 29
The Yankee Doodle is looking for a new location
Tribute to “Stand by Me” vomiting scene on VH1′s “Free Radio” sitcom (from Kevin Ross)
Like eating records, chess records have also been purged from the Guinness Book of World Records
Phillies prank trade for Kobayashi (not Takeru)

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AICE News reports that Ian Hickman set the AICE chili record today by eating 10 pounds and 2 ounces of chili in five minutes at the Chili Open in Canton, Ohio. The top 3:

1. Ian “the Invader” Hickman – 10 lbs, 2 oz (1.27 Gal)
2. Mark Lyle-The Human Vacuum- 8 lbs, 10 oz
3. Bob “Killer” Kuhns- 8 lbs, 9 oz

Hickman’s 5 minute mark is .23 gallons off Rich Lefevre’s IFOCE chili record of 1.5 gallons in 10 minutes.

update CantonRep.com has an article and gallery about the contest

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(From Andrea Fasano) PressPass.tv has a video recorded at the Pig Skin Eating Championship focusing on Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos at http://presspass.tv/videos/?vid=7009

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Megamunch has a backstage video of Wing Bowl 16 he recorded in the corridors of the Wachovia Center.

There are over 60 youtube videos labeled with “Wing Bowl 16″ This link will bring them up.

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Beautiful Brian emails me that he might perform two songs from the upcoming “Stick to Blogging” CD at Otto’s Shrunken Head in the East Village Saturday night as part of the Anti-Valentine’s Prom. Brian’s performance will probably take place after midnight.

See also Bits & Pieces

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A press release announces that the Norwich (Connecticut) Defenders will sell tickets to Thursday games that will include all you can eat hamburgers/cheeseburgers, hot dogs, pretzels, and popcorn along with sodas and hot beverages. Tickets will cost $15 for adults and $12 for children. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will appear at the opening game on April 3 to promote the tickets:

To help introduce this great money saving package, Professional Speed Eater, Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will be adding to the Opening Day festivities, showcasing his incredible eating abilities. Jarvis captured 30 eating titles from 2001-06 including Nathan’s Famous French Fry Eating Contest in 2005 where “Cookie” tackled 4.46 pounds of the famous krinkle cut fries in six minutes. One lucky fan will get to compete against Cookie in a one minute eating contest. Jarvis will be signing autographs and posing for photos throughout the game courtesy of Courant ValuMail.

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A website about the Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” has been set up at http://www.swallowyourpridefilm.com/ The site has a trailer and a page with “eater cards” about the six competitors featured in the film.

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The website for TV Tokyo has a page about the July 19, 2001 edition of TV Champion which culminated in footage from the 2001 Nathan’s finals where Takeru Kobayashi doubled the record from the previous mark of 25. The program also included qualifiers to determine who would compete alongside defending champion Kaz Arai. In one of the qualifiers, eaters competed against a sushi making robot.

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In 2004, Iguana’s Taqueria in San Jose held a contest in which $500 was awarded to the fastest finisher of a 5.25 pound “Burritozilla” burrito. Joey Chestnut would win that contest with a time of 4 minutes and 26 seconds, which would launch his competitive eating career. A yelp thread about the restaurant reports that Joey continues to train on Burritozillas. A picture of the burrito with a ruler shows it is about a foot and a half long.

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Coney Island slideshow (from Liz K)
Help a Hungry Sister win a scholarship by voting for her picture of Pat Bertoletti
Pat Bertoletti eats watermelon on the Mancow radio show
Delaware charity gnocchi contest report

Some upcoming independent contests
February 16, Corned Beef Musubi eating contest, San Diego
February 23, Pickled egg eating contest, Boise, ID
March 15, pancake eating contest, Harley Davidson of Anaheim-Fullerton
March 25/26, Denver/Boulder oyster eating contest

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With 4 events on its calendar, the Denver eating contest meetup group has as many scheduled events as the IFOCE upcoming contest list. Contests will generally be held on Friday night:

Fri Feb 15, 7:00 PM Chili Dawg Challenge
Fri Feb 29, 7:00 PM Slyder Slugfest
Fri Mar 7, 7:00 PM Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Chow
Mon Mar 17, 7:00 PM St Patty’s Corned Beef & Cabbage Carnage

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The No Me Without You blog announces that a series of portraits of competitive eaters has started. A picture of Tim “Eater X” Janus eating ramen noodles in Chinatown accompanies the announcement. A picture of Crazy Legs Conti is forthcoming.

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The Sponichi Annex reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone went to the Chiba Lotte Marines training camp and ate pancakes with Marines manager Bobby Valentine, who formerly managed the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. Valentine won a pancake eating contest by eating 120 pancakes when he was in college.

See also Sanspo.com, The Mainichi Shimbun

Gal Sone also observed Valentine’s Day by going to the Godiva chocolate factory in Belgium.

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Russ from the Ace of Spades blog is registering his dissatisfaction with the state of the world by entering the bacon eating contest to be held March 1 at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa:

I’d like to think that by attending this event for all you morons, I’ll be doing my part to reunite the Republican Party under the banner of smaller government, sensible immigration laws, strong foreign policy, and mandatory consumption of bacon and other pork products on a daily basis. I could be the Barry Goldwater of the Pork Products Wing of the New Conservative Enlightenment, helping all my fellow Americans discover a world where wrapping bacon around hot dogs is not only legal, but mandatory.

(The quoted material refers to the banning of street vendors selling bacon wrapped hot dogs in Los Angeles.)

Today Russ asked his commenters for advice about preparing for an eating contest.

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Iwanichi Online reports that Takashi Aoki won the 50th annual installment of the Hanamaki wanko soba noodle eating contest by eating 223 cups of noodles in 5 minutes. According to Kahoku, Aoki works as a hospital psychiatrist.

The contest’s 50 year duration probably makes it the world’s longest running annual eating competition. (The official Nathan’s history / apocrypha states that the 1971 Nathan’s hot dog contest was canceled as a “protest to civil unrest and the reign of free love”.)

JapanProbe and TVI both have videos of the contest. The blog for Foreign Policy magazine also mentions the contest.

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