Naples News reports that the Florida State Chicken Wing Eating Contest will take place at Buffalo Chips in Bonita Springs, Florida on Saturday, but the restaurant's web site reports the contest was on December 12. Chip Simpson won last year's contest, the article says he has not decided if he will defend his title.
Archive for December, 2009
Culture Mob has a blog entry about Wing Bowl 18.
VH1.com has a clip from the reality show For the Love of Ray J 2 of a chili dog eating eating contest held at Pink's Hot Dogs in Los Angeles. (I wonder if the restaurant would have granted filming permission if they knew several of the competitors would vomit.)
"Adrian Against" has uploaded a gallery of his attempt to eat three "Illegal" Buritos weighing more than three pounds to his facebook page.
Will Millender's twitter reports that he appears (around the 19 second mark) in the trailer for the upcoming season of MTV's Silent Library
Barry Rigby wins Wigan (UK) pie contest
SkyNews reports that Barry Rigby ate a meat pie in 43 seconds to win the annual pie eating contest at Harry’s Bar in Wigan, England today.
The Wigan pie contest is probably the best publicized English contest. This year’s gimmick of checking for performance enhancing substances was noted by the BBC. (Gravy is listed as a performance enhancing substance). Pitch Weekly also had a blog entry about the contest (from Liz K)
update The Guardian, Daily Express and Manchester Evening Post have articles.
Wing Bowl 18 tickets are now available for purchase on ComcastTix.com
Man vs. Food December 16 (Hartford) episode links
Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow | facebook gallery
Restaurants
- Randy’s Wooster Street Pizza challenge – Stuffed Pizza Challenge for 2 person team
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Videos: episode commercial | segment about pizza
Adam Richman’s challenge partner is Greg “The Great Moomsi” Maloomian – home page
Picture of team wearing “Hartford Inhalers” shirt
Video of Greg’s previous successful Wooster Street challenge
Youtube channel with more of Greg’s New England eating challenge videos - Doogie’s meal – 2 foot long “Works Dog”
Home Page | Facebook | Citysearch | Yelp
Hartford Courant gallery of recording
NBCConnecticut article about filming - Woody’s meal – Deputy (Hot) Dog
Home Page | Yelp - Ted’s Restaurant meal – steamed burgers
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
List of Hartford area eating challenges in the eatfeats database
List of Bridgeport / New Haven eating challenges in the eatfeats database
Another Connecticut pizza challenge is available at Bang Bang Pizza in Norwalk. According to the restaurant’s facebook page, no one has finished the 22 inch pizza in the 30 minute limit and the only person to complete the pizza after the time expired is the woman pictured below:
Public competitive eater facebook pages
Here is a list of the public facebook pages about competitive eaters I am aware of. Please list others you think should be added in the comments.
- “Adrian Against”
- Paul Barlow
- Eric “Badlands” Booker
- Joey Chestnut
- “Furious” Pete Czerwinski
- Chris Floyd (Austin, TX)
- Sef “Burger Beast” Gonzales
- Russ Keeler family
- Takeru Kobayashi
- Mike Koulchar (finisher of Steak & Main’s and Tony Luke’s challenges)
- Grace Lee (Atlanta Gspots)
- Greg “The Floss” Moss
- Adam Richman Fan Club
The Ithaca Courier has an article about the "Fat Chick" sandwich and other Ithaca, New York area eating challenges.
Wing Bowl 18 tickets on sale 9am Tuesday
PhillyBurbs reports that tickets for Wing Bowl 18 can be purchased at ComcastTix.com starting Tuesday at 9 am.
In other Wing Bowl news, Adam “The Hungry Hungry Hebrew” qualified for Wing Bowl 18 by eating 30 latkes in 10 minutes.
update A page about Wing Bowl 18 tickets is available on 610WIP.com. Tickets can be purchased by phone or at the Wachovia Center box office in addition to ComcastTix.com
Ivy Bakery cupcake contest videos
Videos from last April’s cupcake eating contest at the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn are now available on youtube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. A radio station interview with winner Nancy Cummings has also been uploaded. (Jo “Gavonne” Rose was another competitor in that contest).
The Ivy Bakery’s youtube page reports that its 2010 cupcake eating contest will take place on April 24.
Don Lerman wins Zan’s latkes
CompetitiveEaters.com reports that Don “Moses” Lerman won the latke eating contest at Zan’s Deli today. Paul “Pork Slap” Arcaria was second. According to the eatfeats database, this is Lerman’s first win in a sanctioned contest since the August 2004 Nathan’s qualifier in Saratoga Springs, NY.
update Don Lerman has posted a video announcing his retirement from competitive eating to his blog.
update Dec 15 Recent comments for this post not pertaining to the latke contest have been moved to the “Abuse Room” thread
The prize package consisting of a 46 inch TV, a Sony home theater surround sound system and a Sony Playstation 3 that will be awarded to a finisher of a 10 pound burger at Big Al's in Vancouver, Washington is still available as of a Monday comment to a KATU article.
Randy's Pizza in Oakdale, Minnesota has put out a press release about the attempts of two 5 person teams to complete a 48 inch pizza challenge.
The December 2009 IFOCE top 25 poll is now accepting votes and can be accessed at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php
A video about Sef "The Burger Beast" Gonzales attempting the four pound burger at Quickie's in Hollywood, Florida is available on the Generation ñ web site.
The Daily Republic has an article about eating challenge attempts at four Mitchell, South Dakota restaurants with videos of each attempt.
Will Millender on MTV’s “Silent Library”
Will Millender’s latest blog entry describes filming an upcoming episode of MTV’s Silent Library (facebook)
The blog for Wiener and Still Champion reports that Qumar Zaman will attempt to set a 3 pound burger record today in Evanston, Illinois after halving the 2 lb record. Update The restaurant twitter reports Zaman finished the burger in a record 28 minutes.
Shoudt, Janus, Conti in PB & Banana sandwiches
A press release (pdf format) announces that Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are expected to compete in the Peanut Butter & Banana sandwich contest at Isle Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi on January 9. The press release also says that additional IFOCE contests will take place at Isle of Capri casinos in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Boonville, Missouri., and Black
Hawk, Colorado.
update Dec 16 The IFOCE facebook has more entrants: “Badlands, Erik the Red, Buffalo Reeves, Nasty Nate Biller (on his b-day too), Beautiful Brian”
The Los Angeles International Tamale festival scheduled for December 13 has been cancelled due to the economy. A tamale eating contest was planned at that event.
IFOCE December 2009 top 25 poll choices
Greg Moss has been added to the list of choices for the upcoming December 2009 IFOCE top 25 poll which can be viewed after the jump. Others names can be added if requested.
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"Adrian Against" (3 1.5 pound burgers) and Mike Koulchar (The Great Steak Challenge, Tony Luke's Ultimate Cheesesteak) have set up facebook pages documenting their eating challenges.
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