twitter.com/bigwillthechamp/: Will Millender's twitter reports he repeated as the winner of the stinky cheese contest held in Brooklyn today. update Metromix has a gallery
Archive for June, 2009
TVGuide.com: Joey Chestnut will compete in a new episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on July 3
A 2007 video with English subtitles of Tomoko Miyake competing against the Korean boy band Super Junior is available. Tomoko's segment starts around the 4 minute mark.
The Pueblo Native has a profile of Marco "Mongo" Marquez
Premier Events has a picture of the corn dog eating contest at Corndogorama. update A caption says Dale Boone won by eating 19.5 corn dogs in 8 minutes.
The blog for Pizza Party Restaurant reports that Hall "Hoover" Hunt won $100 after finishing the Pepperoni^4 Belly Buster pizza. update PurrDayWithKittys also has a blog entry about the challenge
Pete Davekos wins final Nathan’s qualifier
The contest was apparently moved to San Jose State according to ratlhead’s gallery.
It’s probably a safe assumption that the runner-up of today’s San Bruno qualifier will eat more than 11 HDB that last year’s second place finisher did.
University of Washington javelin thrower Brooke Tighin claims she eats 7-8000 calories a day, which has enabled her to gain 23 pounds of muscle since starting college.
Brendan Buhler wrote an article for the Las Vegas Sun on the 6 pound burrrito challenge offered by the Nascar Cafe which reports that only 4 out of 279 diners have successfully completed it.
The foodingblog has an interview with Christopher "Hong Kong Hero" Huang, who holds the Juan in a Million breakfast taco record. Adam Richman attempted to break Huang's record of seven tacos in the Austin episode of Man vs. Food.
A press release for the rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon announces that Erik Denmark and Cameron McKirdy are also expected to compete along with Joey Chestnut.
NY Press has an interview with Laura Leu, who will lead tomorrow's Bunnette Bootcamp.
The new poll asks who you think will be named IFOCE rookie of the year at the Nathan's finals ceremonies.
Lily "Miss Busy Lady" has emailed that she will be selling competitive eating T-shirts at the San Francisco area qualifier to raise money for breast cancer research for the American Cancer Society.
(From "Furious" Pete) Mandarin restaurants in Ontario will offer free buffets on July 1 to Canadian citizens.
Youtube has a video of Ian Hickman winning the Jake's Burgers qualifier in New Castle Delaware.
A hot dog eating contest in Prince George, British Columbia tomorrow will award $500 to the winner ($250 to the runner up)
The website for Los Gallos Mexican Grill in Baton Rouge, LA announces that it will hold a contest Saturday which will apparently award a $1,000 gift certificate to the first 10 finishers of a giant burrito.
IFOCE.com announces that Pete Davekos, Brian Subich and Kevin Ross are expected to compete in Saturday's San Francisco-area Nathan's qualifier.
A craigslist posting announces that a hot dog eating contest awarding $250 will be held in Miami on July 3.
IFOCE.com announces that the elephants' opponents in the July 3 bun eating contest will be Pat Bertoletti, Juliet Lee and Tim Brown.
OurSportsCentral reports that Adam Richman will attempt the Fifth Third Burger Challenge at the July 15 West Michigan Whitecaps game.
$100 will now be awarded to a diner who completes the Belly Buster pizza challenge at Pizza Party in Santa Clara if the pizza is topped with pepperoni, pepperoni Bagel Bites, pepperoni Pizza Rolls and pepperoni Hot Pockets.
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