• Report on the Pittsburgh cupcake eating contest won by Pete Maurizio by his judge (from CupcakesTakeTheCake) An “IFCE” representative was present and announced the rules
• Video from 2005 Golden Palace turkey eating contest won by Sonya Thomas
• NC State and Wilkes University wing eating contests tonight
• “A Christmas Story” “Mommy’s Little Piggy” Eating Contest
  Hammond, Indiana Dec 6
• A blog about Competitive Eating Training
• Column about Brad Sciullo finishing the Belly Bruiser

More sad news from Asia. The Times of India reports that Saurav Sabbarwal, a solutions engineer with Nokia Siemens Networking, died after choking in a pastry eating contest held at an office cafeteria in Guragon, India. It is not clear if the contest was pre-planned or an informal competition.

Nokia produced a commercial featuring a competitive eating fan who uses her phone to get contest updates.

update The contest was apparently a company activity and there was no medical supervision present. Mr. Sabbarwal’s family is considering suing Nokia Siemens.
Links: NewKerala, ThaIndian, PTINews

According to a comment made this morning, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins was told that “professionals” would not be allowed to compete in Wing Bowl 17 when he called 610 WIP to inquire about qualifying for that contest. In February, Angelo Cataldi said that he would like to limit entry to the 2009 Wing Bowl to amateurs. WIP appears to have followed through with that restriction.

Cataldi apparently defines “professional eater” as someone who has been associated with a professional eating organization regardless of the level of success obtained in eating contests. If that definition is used to limit entry into Wing Bowl 17, “Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan will probably be the favorite if there is any legitimacy to his top five finishes the previous two Wing Bowls.

In other Wing Bowl news, a press release announces that mail-order chicken wings endorsed by Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will be available at RastelliAtHome.com

• Megamunch announces that he is retiring from blogging. Thanks for your efforts, MM.
• Article and gallery from 12 pound team pizza challenge attempt in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The article reports that a single competitive eater from Menahsa (probably Mike Fitzgerald) ate 3/4 of the pizza.
• Video from the Battle at the Big Apple pizza eating contest
• Wing Eating contest in Harrisburg, PA November 28. First prize is a Nintendo Wii
• Picture of Blondie’s (Winnipeg, Canada) burger menu which lists a 9 pound burger for $62.95
• Muscatine, Iowa taco eating contest Saturday. Entrants must receive at least $75 in pledges.

The Telegraph reports that Denzil Gunner, a 30 year old solicitor from London, won a prize of £1,000 at today’s mince pie eating contest at Wookey Hole Caves in England. Gunner’s mark of 41 pies in 10 minutes missed the record Sonya Thomas set in 2006 by five pies.

It is not mentioned in the article if the pies used this year were the same size as the pies used two years ago. The pictures above from the Telegraph’s gallery show that the pies used in 2006 might have been larger.

The BBC also has an article.

update Times Online article, ITN video

A video and galleries by angrysong and someguynamedcarlfrom Saturday’s Carninval O Pizza eating contest at the Home Slice Pizza. The picture captions indicate that Chris (no last name provided) won the contest for the third straight year. A Tic-Tac-Toe T-shirt was made to outfit Chris’ entourages, which is one of the larger fan groups competitive eating

A video of the noodle eating contest held on TV Tokyo’s TV Champion to determine who would win a berth in the 2001 Nathan’s finals is available on youtube. Takeru Kobayashi would win the contest and subsequently make history at Coney Island. Kaz Arai, winner of the 2000 Nathan’s finals, is present at the contest. Kobayashi’s latest blog entry is about Arai.

A live blog is currently being conducted for tonight’s screening of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride”. At least two (and possibly three) of the six protagonists of the film are in attendance.

MyHomeTownNews.com has a report on last Saturday’s pizza eating contest at the Battle at the Big Apple in Fort Pierce, Florida. The Bahamas cruise that was part of Pat Bertoletti’s prize package includes a 24 hour pizza buffet.

• Interview with director Josh Camerote about “Swallow Your Pride”
• Female bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has signed with the WLOCE according to WLOCE.com
• Kobayashi does a pudding eating contest to promote the “Angry Kid” DVD release (this might be the first contest in Japan Kobayashi has done since the last Food Battle Club in 2002)
• Central Michigan University wing eating contest report
• Wing Bowl 17 tickets are already for sale on Craigslist even though they have yet to become available to the general public
• Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest in Singapore December 6
• Austin, TX pizza eating contest Saturday
• Monique Griffin wins a pizza eating contest at Luke Air Force Base

(From NoLandGrab) A competitive eating hall of fame is one of three suggestions offered by the Atlantic Yards Report to the Imagine Coney initiative. The hall of fame would include a restaurant that would offer an eating challenge.

• English language tribute to Gal Sone
• Videos of Lynchburg, VA Dickey’s BBQ qualifier
• Forney, TX Christmas pie eating contest December 6 (open only to Forney residents) first prize is a large flat screen TV
• Kobayashi dyes his hair green
• Request for Atlanta area Tostino’s Pizza Roll eating contest competitor
• Picture of Juris Shibayama at the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• B. C. Pizza (MI, GA & KY) to offer Sarge pizza challenge

• The meat in Denny’s Beer Barrel’s big burgers gets a bad review
• Tim Rauscheder beer drinking video
• NYC wing eating contest tonight
• Gal Sone wins a poll of the Japanese celebrity people most want to see without makeup
• A large image of the Joey Chestnut baseball card
• Picture of victorious (and wet) Juliet Lee at Nashville qualifier
• Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara wins the Morioko wanko soba noodle eating contest with 383 bowls in 15 minutes

update #3MitchPix has a gallery of the contest

update #2 TCPalm has an article about the contest

update Battle of the Big Apple pizza results from a Pat Bertoletti comment:

1- Pat Bertoletti 47 slices, $1000
2- Hall Hunt 32, $750
3- Nate Biller 19.5 or 20, $500
4- John( Hall’s friend) 18, $250

Bertoletti beat Joey Chestnut’s total from last month’s Famous Famiglia contest by 2, which makes him eligible for a $500 bonus.

Previous pancake eating contests held at Pete’s Grille in Baltimore has taken place on a Friday morning in the middle of November (2007 - November 16, 2005 - November 18) If the contest is held at the same time this year, the probable dates are either November 14 or 21. Previous contests have awarded $500 to both the top male and female competitors.

Here is a new thread about tomorrow’s pizza eating contest at the Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce, Florida tomorrow since the previous thread about it has become swamped with political comments.

I have not been able to find any entrants information about the contest. Hall Hunt has posted the press release on his blog, but he does not say whether he will attend.

The Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” will be screened in Philadelphia during the First Person Arts Festival on November 14. El Wingador will attend and serve wings with his wing sauce.

The new poll asks who you think will be eligible for the upcoming Wing Bowl. When Angelo Cataldi last mentioned the Wing Bowl on his blog in March, he said he hoped to prohibit entry to competitors associated with professional eating organization.

A gallery and video of a qualifier held to determine a competitor in the Battle of the Big Apple pizza eating contest Saturday in Fort Pierce, Florida are available. The Van Duzer Foundation’s web page about the contest requests that spectators to the contest Saturday bring a canned food item to donate to local food pantries and distribution centers.

An auction will be held tonight at Rebel NYC to benefit Coney Island USA. George Shea will be honored for his efforts with Nathan’s hot dog eating contest and a judgeship for the 2009 Nathan’s finals is one of the items that will be auctioned off.

• Video of Pat Bertoletti drinking beer with the help of a steak knife
• Jill Stoler and Jo Gavonne attend the Village Halloween Parade as the Chapmans (bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman and his wife Beth, that is) More pictures are on Jill’s myspace
• Competitive eating themed “Beetle Bailey” comic strip (from Paul Barlow)
• Americus, GA hot dog eating contest report

Wookey Hole Caves in England will hold its annual mince pie eating contest on November 18. The winner will receive £1000 and the chance to compete an eating contest in the United States this winter. (It does not say if travel will be provided.)

A list of contests this upcoming weekend in the eatfeats database follows after the jump:
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Dick’s Last Resort will be holding a Freaky Food Eating Contest on Halloween. Wearing costumes is required to compete. The contest appears on the event calendars for the Boston, San Antonio, Dallas, Chicago, San Diego and Myrtle Beach, SC locations. (It is not listed on the Las Vegas calendar.) The winner will receive $500 cash, while 2nd and 3rd place will win $200 and $100 gift cards.

The food items to be consumed at the San Antonio contest will be 4 dog biscuits, a hunk of bleu cheese, a pickled pig’s foot, a pickled egg, 10 sardines and a large glass of buttermilk.

• Gallery from the Famous Famiglia pizza contest with 200 pictures
• Jason McCormack has videos of July’s BBQ eating contest in Tulsa and his recent pie eating contest victory
• Beautiful Brian to attend the Coney Island benefit honotring George Shea and might sing songs from “Stick to Blogging” at that event. He also has his thoughts on Kate Westfall’s departure
• Jesup, GA spaghetti eating contest report