In a Man vs. Food forum thread, Aubrey claims she is the first female finisher of the B3 Burrito at the NASCAR Cafe in Las Vegas.
Archive for December, 2009
A "Wing Bowl" awarding $2,500 to the winner will be held at the Hard Times Café Springfield, Virginia on February 5. Qualifiers will take place at Washington, DC area Hard Times Cafés in January.
ESPNLosAngeles on Lawry’s “Beef Bowl”
ESPNLosAngeles has a column about the “Beef Bowl” held at Lawry’s Prime Rib for members of the Rose Bowl teams.
The truth is no one really knows which team eats more in the Beef Bowl anymore. The pre-Rose Bowl gorgefest has been around for 54 years, longer than all but five actual bowl games, but organizers haven’t kept official tabs on the exact amount devoured by each team since the 1970s when they stopped advertising it as an eating contest. Richard R. Frank, president and chief executive officer of Lawry’s Restaurants Inc., now admits that when someone asks for an exact number eaten by both teams, “someone will pull a number out of the air.”
MiamiToday reports that the live episode of Man vs. Food received a filming permit for Domino Park, Domino Park Plaza and Miami Beach citywide.
2010 Krispy Kreme Challenge registration open, 6K entrants expected
Registration for the February 6, 2010 Krispy Kreme Challenge is now open at http://krispykremechallenge.com/. Race organizers are expecting a field of 6000, an increase of 500 from 2009. The contest entails running 2 miles from the NC State University campus to a Krispy Kreme, consuming a dozen doughnuts at that location, and then running 2 miles to return.
End of decade poll choices, part 1
The current set of choices for the first batch of end of decade polls is listed after the jump. Please make any suggestions you think should be added in the post comments.
Competitive eating called “male food porn”
Double XX has a column about Man vs. Food which describes the program as male food porn:
As cultural taboos against ungoverned appetites intensify, porn inevitably follows. And thus we have the phenomenon of expert gluttony. One manifestation of this phenomenon is the professional eating contests that take place under the banner of organizations like the International Federation of Competitive Eating and the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters. Another is that brand of television that showcases promiscuous mastication, with Man vs. Food being the current darling of that genre.
New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog has a response to the column which attributes the popularity of competitive eating to the “distaster factor”.
TravelChannel.com has a video of the "press conference" help by Adam Richman and Greg "The Great Moomsi" Maloomian after successfully completing the pizza challenge at Randy's Wooster St. Pizza.
Rona Conti noted that a Japanese competitive eating DVD will go on sale in March. The programs offered appear to be the two 2005 "Gluttonous King" contests and the 2006 "Gluttonous Queen" competition.
Michael has started a blog documenting his Milwaukee-area eating challenges at http://berggvsfood.blogspot.com/
ReadtheKoran used the rerun of a Cheap Seats episode about the 2004 Nathan's finals as a starting point for a blog entry praising Kobayashi and criticizing Joey Chestnut.
“Appetite of the Beast” at Iron Maiden’s drummer’s restaurant
(from Man vs. Food forum) The Broward Palm Beach New Times has an article about the opening of Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain’s new restaurant, Rock N Roll Ribs, in Coral Springs, Florida. One of the items on the menu is called “The Appetite of the Beast”, which consists of 1.5 racks of ribs, a pound of pulled pork and beef, half a chicken, and side items of fries, beans, Cole slaw, corn on the cob, and Texas toast and is free to a diner who completes it without assistance.
The 22 inch “Big Unit” hot dog at Alice Cooperstown in the Phoenix area hot dog is the only other eating challenge offered by a restaurant owned by a rock star I am aware of.
DD Solak has a picture of Mallie's Monster Burger Wall of Fame which has photos of 3 diners who finished the 10 pound burger in under 2 hours.
Second set of end of year polls started
The next set of end of year polls have been added to the sidebar. The previous end of year polls can be voted on after the jump
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The facebook for the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn announces that it is seeking a T-shirt design for its cupcake eating contest in April 2009.
A picture of the latke eating contest at Zan's Deli in Lake Grove, Long Island won by Don "Moses" Lerman appeared on the front page of The Times of Middle Country.
A web page has been set up to promote TV Tokyo's broadcast of a qualifier for the 2010 "Gluttonous Queen" contest on January 1.
105 pound woman finishes 72 oz Big Texan steak
Stephanie Torres is one of the most recent additions (December 18) to the list of 72 ounce steak finishers at the Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas. At 105 pounds, she is one of the all time lightest successful challengers. Aty Vargas was an eyewitness to Ms. Torres’ meal and reports that she defeated her father, the owner of the restaurant, in a steak eating contest.
The Travel Channel will televise its list of the "101 Tastiest Places to Chow Down" in January 2010. Some of the listed restaurants Katz's Deli in New York, San Francisco Creamery Co. in Walnut Creek, CA and The Salt Lick Barbecue in Driftwood, TX have already appeared on Man vs. Food. Program commercial
William Beutler reports that Kobayashi appeared in ESPN's highlights of the decade montage. (I have not been able to find the video online)
Preeth Walser has some videos of a hands free turkey eating contest sponsored by Chennai Live 104.8 (apparently Indian FM stations can end in even numbers)
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski is currently recording a television program in Germany and Austria. He has posted some pictures from his trip to bodybuilding.com.
New eatfeats state / metro region blog categories
For a “Festivus” present to eatfeats users, I have made available new state and metropolitan area categories which are listed after “More posts about:” in the post headers. A significant percentage of EatFeats search queries are for region specific eating challenges and contests and hopefully the new categories will help satisfy those requests.
A list of the categories is available after the jump:
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Wing Bowl 18 tickets remain on sale
Eight days after going on sale, tickets for Wing Bowl 18 remain available according to ComcastTix.com. This is the longest time tickets have remained available since tickets were required for Wing Bowl 14:
- Wing Bowl 17, 3 days to sell out
- Wing Bowl 16, 45 minutes to sell out
- Wing Bowl 15, 24 hours to sell out
- Wing Bowl 14, a little more than 24 hours
Christopher Elston has a blog entry about the premiere of Nacho Mountain.
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