A video of Joey Chestnut's appearance on WDEF this afternoon is available. Joey predicts the winning total will be between 85 and 90. Kobayashi has also posted a blog entry from Chattanooga.
Archive for September, 2009
A taco eating contest awarding $1,000 to the winner will be held at El Borracho Taqueria Y Cantina in St. Louis on October 10. Qualify by eating 20 tacos (no time limit) by October 9.
A bacon eating contest consisting of five rounds will be held in Portland on October 3. The final round will be bacon ice cream sundaes.
Val Bromann has uploaded her pictures from the La Costena jalapeno contest. She also has several entries previewing the Krystal Square Finals on SillyAmerica.com
The Red Bluff Daily News reports that Patrick Vandam had the best performance in yesterday's corn dog eating qualifier at the Tehama District Fair.
Amazon.com is now taking orders for the DVDs of season 1 of Man vs. Food. The release date is October 6 and the price is $13.99.
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga student newspaper has an article about the Krystal Square Off.
A web page for this year's Gluttonous King contest has been set up on TV Tokyo's website.
The Faster Times has an article about Crazy Legs Conti.
TheDailySound: Joey Chestnut will do a bratwurst eating exhibition at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse on October 3. In 2006, Joey Chestnut ate 31 sausages at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse.
A wing eating contest will be held in Spokane that will award a trip to Seattle and a suite at the Eastern Washington vs. Portland State football game at Qwest field. Two qualifiers (Sept 26, Oct 3) will be held and the registration deadline is today.
The Krystal finals on Sunday will be webcast on KrystalSquareOff.com.
Crawfish has uploaded his pictures from the grits eating contest at Louisana downs to his flickr account.
CA / AZ / AR contests w $500+ purses
- Sept 26, Corn dog eating contest, Tehama District Fair (Redding, CA area), $1000 1st place prize, qualify Sept 24
- Oct 3, Wing Eating Contest, Jacksonville, Arkansas, $600 first place prize, $1000 purse
- Oct 17, Tamale Eating Contest, Tuscon, AZ, $500 prize
The new poll asks how many points the winner will have in Sunday's Krystal finals.
Full results for Saturday's finals of the Battle of the Bone wing eating contest have been posted. Tom Gilbert is not listed, but Chillin Peng (#2), Gus Beisel (#3) and David Cohn (#8) were allowed to compete even though they have competed in IFOCE contests.
AZStarNet has an article about Man vs. Food recording in Tuscon this weekend.
Gazette.net has a report on Saturday's Whiz Bowl in Bethesda, MD. Phillip "The Fury" Fiore won the contest with 8.5 cheesesteak sandwiches in 15 minutes. Ian Hickman was the runner up with 8.25.
Man vs. Food September 23 (Philadelphia) episode links
Travel Channel Episode Guide | Slideshow | Side of the City video (South Street)
Restaurants
- Tony Luke’s Challenge – Ultimate Cheesesteak
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Video clip about the Ultimate Cheesesteak’s construction
The Ultimate Cheesesteak was apparently created solely for the episode; it is not listed on the online menu. - Franklin Fountain meal – Mount Vesuvius sundae
Home page | Citysearch | Yelp - Dinic’s Roast Beef & Pork meal – Italian roast pork sandwich
Yelp | Holly Eats review
List of Philadelphia area eating challenges in the eatfeats database
It would be interesting to learn why a made for TV sandwich at Tony Luke’s was used as the episode’s challenge when Jim’s Steaks has maintained a cheesesteak record for over 30 years. Perhaps the current record of 13 cheesesteaks in an hour by “Humble” Bob Shoudt was too daunting. (The program guide says that Jim’s Steaks will appear in the episode.)
13 cheesesteaks might not be the overall Philadelphia record. In a 1978 article, Lynda Kuerth, Jim’s steaks record holder from 1977 to 2001 (11 sandwiches) said she ate 15 steak sandwiches during a visit to Philadelphia. (The location and duration of that feat was not mentioned.)
Rockford Corner Bar contest Sat, 1st prize LCD TV
The Rockford (Grand Rapids area) Corner Bar will hold a hold a hot dog eating contest at Comstock 09 on Saturday. The first prize is an LCD TV. The Corner Bar twitter reports that previous chili dog record holders Sharon Van Duinen and Balinda Gould will be present.
A wing eating contest will be held at the Buffalo Battle in Washington, DC on Sunday. Tickets include all you can eat wings.
Val Bromann has started a new website at http://sillyamerica.com/. Chicago jalapeno pictures have not been posted yet, but Eleanor LeMaistre has some pictures from that competition.
Eating Challenges by metro area – unified list
update June 2011 A newer list with more metro areas is available.
update May 2010 A new list with several new metro areas is available
A unified directory of all metropolitan areas with eating challenge lists is available after the jump. The following cities / regions have been added: Fresno, California Central Coast, Upstate California, Inland Empire, Reno / Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Boise, Amarillo, Louisville, Toledo, Madison, Green Bay, Terre Haute, Omaha, Des Moines, Birmingham, Little Rock, Central Illinois, North Michigan, Lansing, Flint, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Knoxville, Greensboro, Las Cruces, Hudson Valley, Wilmington, Fort Myers, Fort Wayne
Kobayashi's most recent blog entry shows him getting a "Bertoletti-esque" haircut.
Alyson Hannigan did an interview for AJC.com which mentions the hot dog eating contest scene she filmed while pregnant for an episode How I Met Your Mother: "Actually, they shot it, then re-shot it a couple of weeks later because the bigger the belly, the funnier the shot!"
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