The website for the Delaplane Strawberry Festival has a list of the expected and possible entrants in the strawberry eating contest:

Expected
# Tom “Goose” Gilbert, Hadley, MA
# Christian “Muscox” McCarthy, Lagrange KY (last year’s champion)
# “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, Wallingford CT
# Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Sterling VA (our local competitor)
# Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo , PA

Possible
# Bob “Killer” Kuhns, Freeport PA
# James “The Food Prowler” Fowler, Pittsburgh PA
# Chris “The Amnerican Schlesinger, Bohemia NY (competed last year)
# Eliot “The Savage” Cowley, Audubon NJ (competed last year, placed 2nd with 5.10 lbs)

The Washington Post has a paragraph about the festival and its eating contest

The MC for the contest, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, has posted his contest predictions on his blog

update TimesCommunity.com has an article about the festival with some quotes from Ian Hickman.

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The announcement for the new AICE Backyard Burgers contest refers to another burger contest held in Tennessee:

Some folks may find it cute to eat a 2 oz hamburger. Those same people might also try and justify dropping their mini-burger in water and then actually it eat! (Pretty scary, huh?) Other folks, such as competitive eaters, Backyard Burger Inc., and the league of Real Food Eaters of America, believe that the words ” 2 oz”. And “hamburger” should never occupy the same sentence. It is this belief and conviction that Back Yard Burger and All PRO EATING PROMOTIONS announce their 2007 summer campaign against the epidemic of “Miniburgitis.” Unfortunately, a few misguided souls have been mislead into believing that a hamburger should fit in the palm of their hand. The southern United States has a reputation for eating their hamburgers with both hands because the big, juicy, delicious hamburger they are eating requires it!

There will be four qualifiers with the finals occurring on September 8 in Memphis, TN. Entrants are limited to one previous eating contest. Hopefully the mystery Memphis burger girl will compete.

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(From AICE news) The predictions for the AICE ribs contest in Kansas City Sunday expect half the top 4 to be filled by AICE novices:

1. Veto “The Machine” Porter 4.22 lb.
2. Gentleman Joe Menchetti 4.11 lb.
3. Mark Lyle “the Human Vacuum” 3.77 lb.
4. Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady 3.66 lb.

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(from AICE news)

Pro Division 5 minutes

Amateur Division 5 minutes

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From AICE News:
(5 minutes, 1/4 Windmill hot dogs)

1st 6.875 Lew “The Chew” Porchazzio Colonia, NJ
2nd ? Chris “The American” Schlesinger Bohemia, NY
3rd 6.67 Carey “Powerhouse” Poehlmann Willow Grove, PA
4th 5.5 Steve “The Real Savage” Oddo Hazlett, NJ
? ? Richard “Food Tray” Brockway
? ? Kevin “The Hurls” Hurley
? ? Jess “The Best” Sheft-Ason

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Chris “The American” Schlesinger has galleries of a lot of AICE contests from 2005 and 2006 on his bebo.com site at http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbums.jsp?MemberId=1302010420

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From AICE News:

1. Tom Goose Gilbert, 38.00 Meatballs
2. Bob “Killer” Kuhns 31.75
3. Pat “Dr. Delicious” Bruss 31.50
4. Ian “The Invader” Hickman 25.75
5. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle 23.50
6. Johnny “The Human Garbage Disposal” Castillo 22.0

The northeastern snowstorm must have interfered with Joe Menchetti’s travel plans 😉

From the commentary about these results:

“The Goose” has established himself as America’s #1 Competitive Eater and should be given strong consideration as the World’s Best Food Warrior. AICE Chairman, Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman who emceed the event stated that, ” Gilbert is the best competitive Eater in the World……….why else would Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chesnut refuse to compete against the “Green Beret of Grub” . Also, states Chapman, “AICE has now established itself as the best group of Food Warriors on the planet Earth, and you can hear the grumbling of fear in the stomachs of our competitors…”

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AICE news reports that Tom “Goose” Gilbert ate 38 meatballs at a contest in Midlothian, IL. No other information is provided.

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A press release for the New Jersey Festival of Balooning says the 3rd Quick Check toasted sub eating contest will be held at that event.

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From AICE news:

1. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle 8.3 lb
2. Bob “Killer” Kuhns 8.2 lb
3. “Dr. Delicious” (rookie) 7.9 lb

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cantonrep.com has a brief preview of the AICE chili contest to be held February 17. One of the eaters expected to attend is “Pete Broken.”

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AICE news reports that a yule log eating contest will be held tomorrow at 9:30am at Le Monde on Broadway in Manhattan. Contact AICE for registration information.

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AICE news has full results for the latke contest at Zan’s Deli in Lake Grove, NY. The top three finishers are:

Tom “Goose” Gilbert 31 latkes; 5.80 pounds – improvement of 10 over last year’s winning total
Ian “The Invader” Hickman 29.5 latkes; 5.53 pounds
Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 27.5 latkes; 5.16 pounds

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The Toronto Star has an excellent writeup of the Eat Your Face Off contests:

With the salesmanship of Ron Popeil and the bombast of Ed McMahon, the heavily-sideburned Chapman is emceeing this competition, frantically barking the play-by-play throughout — “You’ve got to finish your milk! Your momma always told you, you’ve gotta finish your milk!” — including the two amateur meets, the first of which kicked off the entire show, right in the middle of the casino.

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The Niagara Falls review has an article about Saturday’s Eat Your Face Off contests focusing on Tom “Goose” Gilbert and his disqualification from the milk & cookies contest.

Amateur results for that event have also been added to AICE news

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from AICE news

Milk & Cookies, 5 minutes, top 3 spots separated by 2 cookies
1. “King” George Van Laar, 59 cookies & milk
2. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 58
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger 57
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 49.25
DQ Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 80 but did not finish all the milk

Canadian Back Bacon & Bun
1. Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 7.5 6oz sandwiches
2. Lew “The Chew” Porchiazzo, 6.5
3. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 5.67
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 5

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(from AICE News) The Clinton Station Diner unveiled, its latest creation, a megaburger with the working title of “The 8th Wonder of the World” which weighs 105 pounds, the same weight as Sonya Thomas.

In the three person team nano bite burger eating contest the results were:

1st Place: “Champion Stomachs” (Ian “The invader” Hickman, King Van Laar and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman) $1,000 and “Eighth Wonder ”

2nd Place: “Nano-Ninjas” (Elliot “The Savage” Cowley, Chris “The American” Schlesinger and Sean “Flash”Gordon) $300 and “Mt. Olympus”

3rd Place: “Meat Manglers” ( Joel “The Cannon”Podelesky, John ‘Chowin’ McGowan, Brian ‘ Food-University’ Stanford) “Zeus Burger”

4th Place: “The Hamburglars” (Debbie ‘The Package’ Sisco, Joe ‘Killer’ Krongold and Demetris ‘Meatis’ Zambus)

updated Pictures are available, including a gallery of the 8th wonder burger

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Zwire has a preview of tomorrow’s Nanobite burger eating contest at the Clinton Station Diner. The recipe for the 70+ lb. megaburger to be unveiled has apparently not been finalized and there is a $300 prize for naming it. Contest spectators are encouraged to bring at least $15 worth of groceries which will be used in care packages sent to overseas troops by Operation Shoebox.

The wayawesome blog has a picture of the Nanobite burger on top of a Mt. Olympus burger claiming that the burger patty weighs .4 oz, and the total weight is 1.4 oz, only .6 oz less than a Krystal / White Castle burger.

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From AICE news:

Mark Lyle “The Human Vacuum” 3.84
Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 3.80
Chris “The American” Schlesinger 2.97

This is Mark Lyle’s fourth AICE victory in 2006. The other three are meatballs, fair food and reuben sandwiches.

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(from AICE news) The AICE contest at the Clinton Station Diner on October 28 will use “Nano” burgers, claimed to be the world’s smallest hamburger instead of the restaurant’s giant Zeus or Mt. Olympus burgers. The contest will be a team event. The goal will be to eat 1,000 miniburgers to celebrate the diner’s 1000 days of operations.

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AICE News announces that they will hold a contest at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey in honor of that restaurant’s 1000th day on October 28. The size of the burger in that contest has not been determined yet. A team contest for the 50 pound Mount Olympus burger is a possibility.

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(from AICE news) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won the AICE bun & cheese eating contest by eating 8 bun & cheese sandwiches in 2:15 in Mount Vernon, NY. Ian “the Invader” Hickman was second and “King” George van Laar was 3rd.

Hoboken NJ, Italian Ice eating contest – won by Kristine Ducusin

Bethlehem, PA haggis eating contest – perhaps steakbellie can receive permission to compete in next year’s contest

Portland, OR team donut eating contest held in conjunction with Portland Carfree Days. (This is surprising since environmentalists are usually opposed to competitive eating)

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From AICE news:

1. Tom ‘the Goose’ Gilbert 5.6 pounds
2. Ian Hickman 4.0 lb
2. Mark Lyle 4.0 lb
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 3.75 lb (.5 lb chipmunking penalty)
5. Christian Musk Ox McCarthy. 3.5 pounds

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(From AICE news)

“King” George Van Laar upset Joe Menchetti & Ian Hickman in Windmill hot dogs on Saturday after originally intending to skip the contest due to health reasons:

1. “King” George van Laar, 12.75 hot dogs
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 12.66 hot dogs
3. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, 11.75 hot dogs

Menchetti rebounded to win the Chinese dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens Sunday:

1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 49 dumplings in 2 minutes a new record
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 42 dumplings
3. Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman 39 dumplings, retired from eating after contest

Tang Ta Way, a Queens postal worker, upset Floria Lee in the women’s division of the contest, becoming the second surprise female winner of the weekend.

1. Tang Ta Way, 31 dumplings
2. Floria Lee, 29 dumplings, 4 off last year’s female record

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AICE QuickChek Italian sub contest, NJ Balloon Festival
1) Joe Menchetti 6.75 6 inch subs in 10 minutes
2) Ian Hickman 6.33 subs
3) Mark Lyle 6.0 subs

Articles:
Hartford Courant
Courier News (NJ)

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