Pat Bertoletti has written a blog entry about his trip to Houston for the matzoh ball eating contest at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. He believes he was leading Joey Chestnut until about the five or six minute mark. The report closes with Pat’s thoughts on his current status in the IFOCE:

3 years on the circuit have driven me to reflection. Throught this reflection I have realized that eating is tier based. You start on a natural talent tier and as time, contest experience, and training sets in you have a break through. You then plateau and level off as your body gets used to its new capacity. I have gone through these and am on a plateau. I am trying to get over the hump as we speak. It’s one giant hurtle to overcome. To beat joey and kobey in nathans or krystal is no walk in the park. I don’t know if it’s possible for my body to hold 70 nathans but I am going to damn well try to hit that number on the 4th. One can only play 2nd fiddle for so long before he gets the itch and wants to be the lead. But, there is something to be said when you’re number 2. Motivation comes easier when you know that ever contest you need to up your game and compete on the top level.

The Jewish Daily Forward also has an article about the contest.

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The blog for Mother Jones magazine has an article titled “What Americans Will Do for Money” that begins with a section about Rich LeFevre based on information from the eatfeats database. Another section is about the water drinking contest sponsored by a Sacramento radio station which resulted in the death of one of the competitors.

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A spaghetti eating contest will be held at the Italian Festival of Mississippi on Saturday in Cleveland, MS. The first prize is $1000 and the entrance fee is $50. Applications are accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

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The Philadelphia City Paper is running a tournament of Philadelphia related items called “Philly Madness”. The Wing Bowl is currently losing (game 30) to The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship 53% – 47%

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Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg of ESPN radio and ESPN2 are finalizing the details of their 2008 NCAA tournament wager. A poll on ESPN.com is currently available to determine Golic’s fate if he loses the wager. The five choices in that poll are:

• Dress in drag for an entire show
• Get a full body waxing on the show
• Receive a botox shot in the forehead during the show
• Participate in a competitive eating contest vs. the pros on the show
• Follow a vegan diet for an entire week

The winning choice will be revealed during tomorrow’s show.

updated corrected Mr. Golic’s first name (thanks Wing Tut)

Update March 13 Mike-Greenberg.com reports that the eating contest was the winning choice.

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• Kobayashi praises Juris Shibayama’s bench pressing
• Cartoons added to the Heart Attack Grill’s online wall of fame (see above) (from Dr. Jon)
• Ryan Urban, Don Lerman’s nephew, attends NY Pizza show and says his uncle can eat three pizzas in less than 5 minutes.
• Eating contest from “Meatballs” on youtube
• Iron Chef video cooking game coming for Wii

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(From Domenico Alesi comment) An oyster eating contest at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans has been added to the IFOCE schedule on April 12. Registration opens Thursday and prizes have yet to be determined.

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Russ from the Ace of Spades blog, who sought tips on competitive bacon eating, has a report on the contest and his subsequent trip to the hospital where he was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic. He does not blame his diabetes on the eating contest since bacon has no carbs and believes his high level of cholesterol is temporary.

I get multiple visits from the hospital’s chronic disease coordinator (diabetes is her biggest bag), the nutritionist, and even a doctor. Not the doctor who I saw on Tuesday (she left for a vacation in ….Belize…. on Tuesday night), but another doctor who I’ve seen in the past for a small ganglia cyst. He sits down to talk with me about my health, and proceeds to tell me that not only do I have high blood sugar, but my LDL reading are way high. I told him about the 2008 First Annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest, and he damn near falls out of his chair laughing. To quote him: “You know, I get a lot of stories from patients like “Doc, my readings are just high because I had a big breakfast”, but you’re probably the first patient who’s actually given me a plausible reason for high readings. He decided to re-check my blood in a month to see what it looks like out from under the shadow of bacon.

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The new poll asks what member of the current IFOCE top 25 would you most like to see a song about on “Stick to Blogging”, Beautiful Brian’s new CD. The desired song could contain either praise or criticism.

A fragment of a song called “Let Me Tell Ya” has been added to the CD website. The song makes accusations of steroid use, but the clip does not provide enough details to determine the identity of the alleged steroid user.

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Liz K wrote a report for Westword about the cookie eating contest held by the Denver Eating Contest meetup group on Friday. She brought along a friend Micah who would finish third, but did not compete herself despite cookie cravings probably caused by her pregnancy.

Andrew Lane was the runner up and produced a blog entry and gallery about the contest. “Mongo” Marquez was the victor.

Krista also report a report about the event for urbanhonking.com/truefan

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The contest schedule at IFOCE.com announces that this year’s edition of the eating contest held at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, SC will take place on April 19. The purse is $500 and registration starts “Wednesday, March 10” (which probably means March 12, registration is not currently available). The announcement says there is a possibility that the five traditional rounds could be fused into a single round with five different types of food.

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• SyKoBOZO emails that he won the men’s contest at the Fulton Oysterfest by 181 oysters in 5 minutes
• Boston.com report on the March 1 bacon eating contest at the Atwood Tavern – apparent runner up was female
• The Houston Chronicle reports the matzoh ball eating contest will be made an annual event
• SignOnSanDiego.com has a profile of Jason Tagle, who received a trip to Hawaii after winning a corned beef musubi contest. Tagle competed in the Knott’s Berry Farm PB & J sandwich eating contest and ate 11 sandwiches.
• BeautifulBrian.com has reruns of the Crazy Legs Conti and Kevin Lipsitz shows
• Domenico Alesi calls for more local competitive eating groups
• Kobayashi has a tribute to Kaz Arai, the 2000 Nathan’s champion
• Sonya Thomas praises Juliet Lee and mentions “Stick to Blogging”

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I considered compiling a list of Major League Baseball teams offering all you can eat tickets, but since USA Today has already done that, here is a list of some (but probably not all) minor league teams with AYCE tickets. Please let me know if there are any I have missed.

Lancaster, CA – AYCE Monday tickets are $10
Colorado Springs, CO – AYCE Picnic terrace is $22 ($20 on Tuesdays)
Norwich, CT – AYCE Thursdays
Port St. Lucie, FL – Monday AYCE tickets are $11.99
Rome, GA – $25 AYCE tickets available for all dates
Florence, KY – AYCE Mondays
Springfield, MO – AYCE “Redbird Roost” tickets for $23.50
Hickory, NC – AYCE picnics for groups of 20 or more
Manchester, NH – package tickets for 8 games including AYCE food $16 per game
Lakewood, NJ – package of AYCE tickets to 9 Thursday home games available for $126
Buffalo, NY – packet of AYCE tickets to six games can be purchased for $126
Akron, OH – AYCE picnics available for groups of 25 or more
Mahonig Valley, OH – $17 AYCE Mondays
Oklahoma City, OK – $20 AYCE tickets, $65 for 4
Salem-Keizer, OR – AYCE buffet available for $9.50 additional
Reading, PA – AYCE food can be added to any ticket
Reading, PA – 6 AYCE Ribfests in April and May
Kodak (Knoxville), TN – pregame AYCE buffet available for $9
Corpus Christi, TX – Wednesday AYCE tickets – $19
Midland, TX – AYCE birthday parties available
Ogden, UT – $20 AYCE tickets – also includes a T shirt
Beloit, WI – AYCE tickets any day are available for $25

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Observer-Reporter has an article about last night’s pierogie eating contest held at the Men’s Culinary Classic in Washington County, PA that was MCed by Crazy Legs Conti. Zach O’Brien won with 18 pierogies in 6 minutes.

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2 audio clips have been added to the beautifulbrian reverbnation page. Badland Booker makes a guest appearance to pay homage to “Super” Paul “Bonebreaker” Barlow. BeautifulBrian.com has a page about the collaboration. The “Stink for Yourself” clip has also been uploaded.

Jill Stoler says the song “Black and White” is inaccurate regarding her now defunct relationship with Dale Boone.

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Video from the Travel Channel’s “Battle of the Buffets”, in which Badlands Booker, Cookie Jarvis and the LeFevres competed can be viewed on the Travel Channel’s website

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The following request was made by a documentary filmmaker:

Dear Eaters,

A New York based production company is seeking someone from the NY City region who wants to be the star of their own show. We are currently exploring the idea of creating an independent film tracking the journey of an unheralded eater whose goal is to reach the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest on July 4th. The all-access filming would stretch from pre-qualifiers, to the qualifying round, which could be at Shea Stadium, and through to the final in Coney Island. The key is that the subject must be funny, fat and interesting to watch. Interested? Sell us on why it should be you that we follow. Please send your e-mail and a photo and contact details to kannerr@aol.com

Spread the word, and good luck!

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(Via AOL FanHouse) USA Today has an article about and list of Major League Baseball teams that are offering tickets including all you can eat food. At least 13 of the 30 MLB teams are offering some AYCE tickets.

So how much food do fans in these seats consume?

Ron Ranieri, general manager of concessionaire Aramark at Atlanta’s Turner Field, calculates that a typical all-you-can-eat customer downed: 3.35 hot dogs; one 20-ounce soda; one 7.9-ounce bag of peanuts; one 3-ounce order of nachos and 32 ounces of popcorn.

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The Jewish Herald Voice has a report on Sunday’s matzoh ball eating contest held at Kenny’s & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in Houston. Hopefully the event did not produce a loss for the Marvin Zindler Fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research; only four non-professionals (who contributed at least $250) competed. The contest had a representative from a CPA firm counting each competitor’s total.

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• Another video of Kenny & Ziggy’s Matzoh Ball Eating contest
• Video from the 2003 matzoh ball eating contest held at Ben’s Deli
• Acme Oyster contest returning in 2008?
• Commenter reports that winner of Des Moines bacon eating contest, Manni, is a gym owner
• Benefit Saturday to preserve Coney Island as an amusement district
• Hall Hunt has a report on his appearance at the Rays Fan Festival
• Collegiate Nationals eating contest mentioned in USA Today

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The winning amounts from last year’s Nathan’s qualifiers are listed below. The winners with the two lowest totals will not be competing in the upcoming qualifiers. Crazy Legs Conti has already qualified and Dale Boone has left the IFOCE. Joey Chestnut will not need to qualify either as he is the defending champion.

The five best non-winning performances are listed below:

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InsideBayArea.com reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt to block Joey Chestnut’s quest to “four-peat” the deep fried asparagus eating contest held at the Stockton Asparagus Festival. This will be their third meeting this year. Joey currently has a 4 contest winning streak against Pat, who had a 4 contest streak prior to Joey’s streak.

Pat Bertoletti has a jalapeno contest and Escoffier Dinner report in his myspace blog. A gallery of that contest is also available (from a Pat Bertoletti comment)

A full list of Chestnut vs. Bertoletti matchups since the start of 2007 is available after the jump:
Read the rest of this entry »

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The “Science of Speed Eating” will be rerun on the National Geographic Channel tomorrow (March 7) at 3pm eastern.

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Hall Hunt has computed the rankings for his latest IFOCE top 25 poll. The top 10:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (197)
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (187)
3. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (175)
4. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (155)
5. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (150)
6. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (149)
7. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (142)
8.(tie) Takeru Kobayashi (128)
8.(tie) Erik “The Red” Denmark (128)
10. Juliet Lee (122)

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The Hawaii Waikiki livespace has some pictures from the recording of this year’s edition of “Gluttonous Queen”. Like last year, the final contest took place in a Waikiki shopping mall. The contest will be televised on March 30. Results were not disclosed in the blog entry.

AsianInfatuation has 4 pictures with the caption:

Thanks to my viewers, I now know who this woman is! And I’ve done research to know that it is her for sure. She was at the Waikiki Shopping Plaza today, 3/2 and was mobbed by the Japanese tourists who happened to be in the area.

Her bodyguards and security could barely keep up- but the good thing is the Japanese are very gracious and were very respectful of her.

Having done research, it is noted that has earned her fame through eating contests of all things… and that makes sense, as there was an eating contest today at the Waikiki Shopping plaza.

See also Princess Nao,Travel Donkey

StarBulletin.com has a captioned picture which reveals the identity of two of the finalists.

Gal Sone’s blog has no entries between February 27 and March 5. Tomoko Miyake did not make the finals because she was at an event in Nagoya with Nobuyuki Shirota.

A weekly eating contest with a first prize of $100 is held on Saturday evening at the Waikiki Shopping Plaza.

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