The entire appearance of Olivia Wilde on Ellen can be viewed on youtube. A transcript of the section in which Olivia discusses her competitive eating history and techniques is available after the jump. The transcript ends with a reference to Ellen’s partner, Portia di Rossi, which was cut from the official clip.

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(From “I”/dogsarefunyes) A picture of Joey Chestnut, apparently eating a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria, is on the home page of Man vs. Food. Next week’s episode will feature restaurants from San Jose.

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Joey Chestnut has updated his YardBarker blog with a report on his macaroni and cheese record he set at halftime of the San Jose Stealth game. He announces that he will run in Pat’s Run, a 4.2 mile race held in Tempe, Arizona on April 18 and hopes to finish in 35 minutes or less. The race will honor the memory of Pat Tillman, former Arizona Cardinal and Army Ranger.

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Knoxville.com has an article about How’s Your News?, an MTV program starring seven disabled reporters produced by South Park co-creator Matt Stone. Each episode documents a stop made during a cross-country trip. In New Orleans, the reporters visited a pirate convention, a prison rodeo and an oyster eating contest, which was probably the Acme Oyster competition since the other two events took place in April.

TV Guide reports the New Orleans episode will be televised at 10:30 pm on Sunday, March 1.

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Juliet Lee’s writenow page announces that she will appear on Guy Fieri’s Big Night on the Food Network at 10 pm eastern tonight. The program will be rerun the following times over the next 2 weeks:
Wed 2/25 10:00 PM
Thu 2/26 1:00 AM
Sat 2/28 8:00 PM
Sun 3/1 3:00 AM
Sun 3/8 6:00 PM

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Kobayashi’s blog reports that he will be making an appearance at the MetroSquare McDonald’s on March 2 to promote the addition of the McHotDog Classic to the menu of Japanese McDonald’s.

The MelonSunshine blog has a picture of the new menu item, which will cost 220 yen.

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6ABC.com has an article and video from today’s crawfish eating contest at the Showboat Mardi Gras Casino in Atlantic City which reports that Dave “US Male” Goldstein was the unexpected winner of the contest with a total of 4.99 lbs. in 12 minutes. Sonya “The Black Widow” was second.

JustATasteByKellyAnn has a slide show of a training session Eric “Badlands” Booker did for the contest and will have an upcoming article.

update PressOfAtlanticCity has the top five:
1. Dave “US Male Goldstein”, 4.99 lbs.
2. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, 4.14 lbs.
3. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.88 lbs.
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 2.83 lbs.
5. Crazy Legs Conti 2.44 lbs.

update #2 a picture of the official scoresheet has been provided (see above) and Wild Bill Myers has entered the original results into the database.

Juliet Lee has updated her writenow page with a crawfish contest report which mentions that the post contest weight of her crawfish pans were higher than the original pre contest weight

update #3 NBC40 has a video clip (from US Male)

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The segment from Holiday Foods about the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest held at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island can be viewed on the History Channel’s website. The clip contains a short contest between Eric “Badlands” Booker and Famous Fat Dave which Ryan Nerz provides commentary for.

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(From shpwrckd twitter) Olivia Wilde of the Fox Network show House MD appeared on today’s episode of Ellen and a video clip from her segment can be viewed online. The portion of the clip in which Olivia discusses her gastronomic prowess begins around the midpoint of the clip. She says she has a huge appetite and has never lost an eating contest, and that her competitions have been pretty official (but not IFOCE level contests) and include a victory in an Australian event where she ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes. The clip ends with Olivia proposing a vegan eating contest with Ellen.

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• Crown Candy Kitchen – challenge: 5 malt milkshakes in 30 minutes
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  The restaurant’s website says the milkshake challenge has been offered since its opening in 1913, which might make it the oldest eating contest or challenge
  A book about the Crown Candy Kitchen, which includes the malt milkshake Wall of Fame is available on amazon
  When the book was published, Rich LeFevre held the record of six milkshakes, Pat Bertoletti has since broken that mark by one.

• Pappy’s Smokehouse
  Home Page Review: Yelp
  STLMags blog entry about the recording says that Adam Richman’s meal was the Big Ben which consists of a full slab of ribs, 2 sandwiches, a 1/4 a chicken, and 4 side dishes

• Iron Barley
  Home Page Reviews: Citysearch | Yelp
  Iron Barley was in an episode of Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives last March

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A video of Joey Chestnut’s apparance at the San Jose Stealth game on Saturday in which he set the IFOCE macaroni & cheese record is available, along with a podcast of an interview on KNBR he did the day before to promote the event. TheIFound5Dollars blog says that Saturday’s game had the seventh largest crowd in Stealth history.

A video of another Joey Chestnut appearance from January where he ate 5 burritos at a scout troop meeting can also be viewed on youtube.

update A flickr gallery of the contest with a picture of the bobble-head (see above) is available

Skinnyboy was impressed with the burrito video

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Dan Gross’ column on philly.com mentions George Shea’s appearance on 610 WIP last week and says that the proposed contest in which 4 IFOCE members would face off against 4 Philly-area eaters would take place in Wing Bowl 18 next year if it occurs.

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