GameDesignerBen has posted a picture of a board game titled Guts of Glory, described as a "post-apocalyptic competitive eating card game."
Time Out Chicago has an article about Glutton Force Five, the food truck owned by Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown. To promote the truck, Bertoletti and Brown are planning a "Gluttony Tour" in which they will attempt every Chicago eating challenge in less than 48 hours.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a new video promoting Eight O'Clock Coffee where he drank 42 cups. Comedian Jim Breuer, formerly of Saturday Night Live, served as co-host.
DVDs for Man v. Food: Nation are available for purchase on amazon.com and will be released on April 10. A press release says the set will include the 25 episodes previously televised so the two final episodes that will air on April 11 will not be included.
Joey Chestnut endorses Biker Jim's Gourmet Dogs of Denver in a commercial.
Spreadshirt is selling new Will "The Champ" Millender T-shirts (fixed) with Will's new logo on them. (black shirts)
Spreadshirt has a line of Kobayashi T-shirts with a Philadelphia theme.
Joe Menchetti sets NYC Dumpling Festival record
update 11:15 Ekavet has a flckr gallery. Will Millender has videos of the women’s contest and first heat of the male contest. Feeding the Dragon has a video of the second heat won by Joe Menchetti.
update 2:41 Miss Korea BBQ reports that Joe Menchetti won the men’s contest with a total of 69 dumplings, breaking his record of 66. Will Millender reports that he took 3rd w/ 45 and that Dave Brunelli was runner up with 60. Marcos Owens was 4th with 44.
update 2:30 Floria Lee has repeated as the women’s winner with a total of 37 dumplings.
update 2:20 Will Millender reports that Dave Brunelli is the current leader of the men’s contest with 60 and that Joe Menchetti broke the stairs to the stage, which others confirm.
Today’s eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival should start at 2pm. Will Millender reports he is at the contest site along with Joe Menchetti, Mike Longo and Marcos Owens. Floria Lee and Olia Zaitseva will attempt to fill the top two spots in the women’s contest for the third straight year.
The shirt Will Millender is wearing at the contest displaying Mike Longo’s severed head can be purchased online.
"Furious" Pete T-shirts with the Peta (People Eating Tasty Animals) logo are available for purchase.
DonSturdy.com has started a merchandise page at http://donsturdy.storenvy.com/. One of the available items is a "Food Fighter" shirt for women.
Boston.com reports that Shaquille O'Neal has joined the Oreo Double Stuf Racing League and competed in a contest at the Prudential Center last night. A mystery competitor nicknamed "The Hooded Menace" will be revealed this weekend.
DVDs of the second season of Man vs. Food is available for purchase today.
The planet Bismoll in the DC Comics universe
Joey Chestnut will compete in the final contest of this summer’s Pepto-Bismoll Challenge series at the Buffalo Wing Festival today against two teams of five amateurs, but he is not the biggest eater associated with the pink liquid. In the DC Comics Legion of Super Heroes series, all natives of the planet Bismoll can consume any amount of any organic or inorganic material. The name Bismoll is reportedly a pun on Pepto-Bismol.
The two most famous Bismollians are Matter-Eater Lad (first appearance 1963) and Calorie Queen (first appearance 1975), who has been modified so her strength increases in proportion with the amount of matter she consumes. Some panels from the comics:
Matter-Eater Lad / Calorie Queen links
- Major Spoilers Matter-Eater Lad history
- Cosmic Teams Matter-Eater Lad profile
- Comics Alliance ranks Calorie Queen as its favorite Legion of Super-Heroes member.
- Adam P Knave blog entry about Calorie Queen
Youtube has a commercial for Cool Beer starring "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and his girlfriend filmed at an expensive restaurant.
A Pepto Bismol press release announces that Joey Chestnut will compete against a team of amateurs at the San Francisco Street Food Festival and Buffalo Wing Festival. The SF Street Food Festival takes place on August 21, same as the gyoza contest in Los Angeles, so Joey Chestnut might not be able to win his fourth straight gyoza contest.
A Takeru Kobayashi facebook fan page has a link to purchase "Free Kobi" T-shirts.
JoeyJawsChestnut.com has been launched. Joey Chestnut T-shirts will be available for sale soon.
Pepto Bismol and Old Navy have been announced as co-sponsors of the Nathan's finals. Nathan's T-shirts will be available for sale at Old Navy locations. We will see if the new sponsors result in an increase of the contest purse size.
Sanspo.com reports that Tomoko Miyake has released another gravure DVD (may not be safe for all workplaces)
Bill "El Wingador" Simmons has started an online store selling his original wing sauce and the Swallow Your Pride DVD. He has also set up gallery of his Wing Bowl appearances on his facebook page.
DVDs of the 2005 Gluttonous King and 2006 Gluttonous Queen contests are now on sale.
Gal Sone does commercial for MiniDog pizza
Pizza Hut of Japan’s website has a commericial for the Mini Dog pizza starring Natsuko “Gal” Sone. The Mini Dog pizza has miniature hot dogs in its crust. Its list price is 2150 yen ($23.81) for a medium and 3250 yen ($35.99) for a large.
Gal Sone’s blog has an entry about recording the commercial and gigazine has an entry in English about the pizza.
Short commercial (commercial on youtube)
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.
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.
Steakbellie's twitter reports that T-shirts bearing the Manitoba Meatsweat logo from his 2007 fantasy competitive eating team is available for sale on IFOCE.com
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