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.

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.

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.

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Two unaffiliated contests this Saturday will award $100 to the winner:

• Spaghetti Eating Contest, Arch Fest, Jesup Georgia, $200 total purse
• Hot Dog Eating Contest, New Martinsville, WV

• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

A list of contests in the eatfeats database this weekend follows after the jump.
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The Carolina Packers Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held at the Brickdirt National Super Street Championship tomorrow at Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, North Carolina. The first prize will be $350 and the entry fee is $10. Rules - Event Information

The Van Duzer Foundation’s website has the following announcement:

That’s right, the Van Duzer Foundation is teaming up with the one and only International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) to host THE BATTLE AT THE BIG APPLE! Featuring world-class competitive eaters, the likes of Joey Chestnut, who stunned the world twice at the famed Fourth of July Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Mark your calndar right now for Saturday, November 8th, 2008, and please keep watching this site for more information on preliminary contests (you might even eat your way into a chance to compete in this once-in-a-lifetime event).

The location is not listed on the foundation website. TCPalm says that it will take place in Fort Pierce, Florida.

A list of this weekend’s contests follows after the jump. Independent contests with notable prizes:

Oct 10 Jalapeno contest, Greenville, SC $600 total purse
Oct 11 Cranberry Pie Eating contest, Fort Langley, BC, Canada, first prize is Vancouver Canucks tickets
Oct 12 Wing Eating Contest Raleigh, NC, first prize is a trip to Las Vegas

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A new press release about Sunday’s Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest in Times Square is available. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are the listed expected entrants, who were also mentioned in the September 11 press release.

The following information about a wing eating contest at the Buckhead Saloon in Raleigh, NC has been sent by email:

The contest is on Sunday Oct. 12th, and will be starting at 4pm. Each contestant will have 10 minutes to eat as much wing meat as they can. We will weigh the amout of wings they started with, and weigh the scraps after they are done. The first prize is an all-inclusive trip for two to Las Vegas. Second place will get a month free memebership at Peak Fitness, and third will get a Miller Lite prize package (shirts, hats, etc). The entrance fee is $10, and signup starts this coming Sunday (Oct 5).

A listing of the contests in the eatfeats calendar this weekend follows after the jump:
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A jalapeno eating contest will be held at the St. Francis Fall for Greenville (South Carolina) on October 10. The prize breakdown:

1st Place = $300
2nd Place = $200
3rd Place = $100

• Texas State Fair corny dog results, competitor factoids, Patrick Michels gallery
• Press relase for Famous Famiglia pizza has the following competitors: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Crazy Legs Conti, Bob Shoudt, and Tim Eater X Janus
• Beautiful Brian has his personal IFOCE chronology
• British man dies after consuming homemade ultra hot sauce
• Video of Kevin Ross speed eating hot dogs
• Tomoko Miyake has a blog entry that Google translation titles “Wang Eating”
• Paul Newman dies at 83. This tribute says his hard boiled egg eating scene in Cool Hand Luke was responsible for starting a wave of eating contests involving college students and troops in Vietnam.

• Times Free Press article and video
• WDEF blog entry with video (from Fred Patech)
• Blog entry and gallery about today’s autograph session
• Hall Hunt blog entry
• Sponichi article in Japanese

Some competitors in the Krystal finals will sign autographs and pose for pictures at the Krystal in Hixson, TN tomorrow. Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Humble Bob Shoudt are expected to appear.

A list of the competitors in the Lewisville, TX tamale contest has been provided in a comment. It does not appear that anyone will compete in both the Krystal finals and the tamale contest. Expected entrants include: Nate Biller, Tim Brown, Erik Denmark, Nic Fry, Bill Myers, Brent Ricord, Kevin Ross, Damon Serignet, Patrick Vandam and Frank Wach.

A listing of all contests this weekend in the eatfeats calendar is available after the jump.

update A press release with competitor profiles is available on the city of Lewisville’s website. It is interesting that the press release mentions Frank Wach competing in Bartolini’s meatball contest.

update #2 Pete Davekos’ appearance on Fox 25 this morning can be viewed online.

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The Krystal Square Off blog has a preview of today’s qualifier in Memphis. Listed ranked entrants include Rich LeFevre, Crazy Legs Conti, Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark and Chris Abatsas, Damon Serignet. Juris Shibayama’s competing in a second qualifier will give him the tiebreaker over Badlands Booker regardless of how much he eats.

Sonya Thomas will get in unless the top four breaks 55. Booker will have to hope that the runner-up does not exceed his total of 51.

Erik Denmark has blog entries about last weekend’s jalapeno contest and Krystal qualifier in Memphis. He has the following account of the Krystal overtime in Memphis:

In the 10 burger overtime eat-off, Rich Shea announced clearly to keep the eating clean - Juliet did not, she continued to stuff multiple burgers in and around her mouth getting about half of them in and half of them on the table and ground. She raised her hands in the air when her 10 burgers were out of the boxes, the crowd booed and the judges told her to eat the mess she had made. She continued to sweep up the sloppy burgers from the table and with every sweep of burger mess in to her mouth she raised her hands again looking for victory and the crowd booed louder. This continued for about the next 60 seconds, the crowd was now hoping that either Badlands or Juris would get through their 10 burgers before Juliet was done cleaning her mess.

But it didn’t happen, Juliet finally ate enough of what she had spilled to get the decision. Not a popular decision at all.

Erik Denmark also says that Kobayashi’s bye slot in the Krystal finals will be filled by an amateur pulled from the crowd and not a fourth wild card entrant.

A loukoumades eating contest will be held on September 21 at the Holy Cross Greek Cultural Festival in Brooklyn. According to the contest flyer, more than $1,000 in prizes will be awarded.

(from anonymous comment) The fifth Garlicky Greens eating contest will be sanctioned by IFOCE. The competition will take place at b.good in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 27. Registration opens September 18 at noon eastern and the first prize is a year of meals and a belt. A posting on craigslist about the contest is available. Pete Davekos and 2007 winner Michael “Betsy’s Boy” Cobb are expected. Will 2006 winner Gretchen Salyer (pictured on right) make her sanctioned contest debut?

A contest preview has also been added for Saturday’s burrito eating contest in Maine. The expected entrants include Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Tim Brown, Badlands Booker and Pete Davekos.

MLB.com has announced that the Houston Astros baseball game tomorrow has been postponed due to hurricane Ike with the makeup date undetermined, so the kolache contest cannot be held in conjunction with that event.

The Shreveport Times has an article about the grits eating contest to be held at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, LA. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus are listed as expected entrants. The article does not mention the possibility of the contest being cancelled due to hurricane Ike.

The Nashville Krystal qualifier entrants have been posted on the Krystal Square Off blog:

Juliet Lee
Eric Booker
Erik Denmark
Juris Shibayama
Nathan Biller
Pete Davekos
Bill Myers
Dave Goldstein
Andrew Wong
Steve Larson

Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle has a preview of Friday’s kolache eating contest. The expected entrants are Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt, Crazy Legs Conti, Erik Denmark and Sean “The Cablinasian” Pendergast.

According to a database entry and email, Famous Famigila will sponsor an IFOCE pizza eating contest that will take place in New York City on October 12.