Kobayashi announces that he set a Guinness record on the Wendy Williams Show this morning by eating 14 Twinkies in one minutes. (video | gallery)
Angie Romenesko has a picture of the page in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records listing Pat Bertoletti and Joey Chesnut's record of 3 Mars bars in a minute set last year in San Diego.
RecordSetter announces Takeru Kobayashi's total in today's turkey record attempt was 8.52 pounds in 10 minutes. update The official amount was 7.5 pounds (gallery) update Nov 24 Huffington Post has a video update Nov 24 #2 Huffington Post report |
GuinnessWorldRecords has video from a Japanese television program where Kobayashi attempted to break the Guinness record for burgers by eating 10 burgers in 3 minutes. (Audience video from the record attempt in New York City in August 2010)
The IFOCE records page has been updated with Bertoletti's winning amount in the boneless wing eating contest held in Boonville, MO, but the boned wing record remains the same even though Bertoletti exceeded it by over three pounds in a contest held in Dallas last month.
It has been over two weeks since Pat Bertoletti won the Wingstop wing eating contest in Dallas on April 13 and results have not been posted on the contest page on IFOCE.com. (Results have been added to more recent contest pages.) Bertoletti's winning total has not been listed on the IFOCE records page despite being more than three pounds greater than the previous record.
TMZ has pictures of Takeru Kobayashi with the world's smallest woman and the most pierced woman in the world taken at the recording of an Italian television program about Guinness record holders. Kobayashi has pictures of other record holders on his blog: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
The Mainichi Daily News reports that a 300 pound hamburger created in Miyazaki, Japan received recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest burger on sale. (Via BurgerDogBoy)
Kobayashi fails to break Guinness pizza record
update Nov 15 The Brooklyn Eagle has an article with quotes from George Shea.
Kobayashi has a blog entry about his record attempt.
CBS New York reports that Takeru Kobayashi failed to break the Guinness pizza record. His time of 2:03 to eat a 12 inch was 18 seconds off of the record of 1:45.
update In a New York Daily News article, Kobayashi says the pizza’s poor condition contributed to his failing to break the record.
Gothamist has some pictures.
Examiner has an interview with Kobayashi. According to the interview, Kobayashi’s return to the IFOCE in 2011 does not appear likely.
Japanes sports website Sponichi Annex has an article about Kobayashi’s record attempt.
Both the Cincinnati.com article and a video caption list the bratwurst record as 44 sausages. The actual IFOCE bratwurst record is 58 sausages by Takeru Kobayashi at the 2006 Sheboygan bratwurst contest.
Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo ate five pounds of spaghetti in 4:23 at the Italian Festival in Uniontown, PA, breaking a world record of 4:31. The official IFOCE pasta record is 6.67 pounds in 10 minutes by Cookie Jarvis even though Takeru Kobayashi ate 13 pounds in 14 minutes at the 2005 US Open of Competitive eating.
VolitionTube has a video of the Guinness Mars bars record eating attempt by Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski's facebook announces that he ate a 72 ounce steak (meat only, no sides) in 6:48, which will be recognized by Guinness as a world record. Pete also won a contest to guess the number of OMG burgers sold by The Catch restaurant in Anaheim.
Joey Chestnut will attempt to break the record for the most Mars bars consumed in one minute at the Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 22. Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus will also be present at the event.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski will attempt to set a record for eating a 72 ounce steak at the Hamilton, Ontario Tiger-Cats CFL game on Friday.
Kobayashi meatball record attempt
DumboNYC has a picture of Takeru Kobayashi at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn where he attempted to break the Guinness eating record of 26 meatballs in 1 minute.
update Gothamist has a blog entry with pictures.
update #2 DumboNYC has a blog entry and gallery. A video is also available.
Ben Monson eats 59 pancakes at IHOP AYCE
The International House of Pancakes recently restarted its all you can eat offer. An IHOP official told Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle that the all time AYCE pancake record is 46, which is contradicted by Ron Koch’s total of 50 pancakes in 2008.
Andrew “A Bomb” Lane has a blog entry about eating 23 pancakes at IHOP. His server told him that he no longer hold the record at that location; a woman ate 40 pancakes earlier in the week.
A bodybuilding.com member ate 26 pancakes in 45 minutes, which he claims is 2 less than what Pete Czerwinski ate.
update Jan 11 Ben Monson has posted pictures to bodybuilding.com from his trip to IHOP today where he ate 59 pancakes (via comment)
Pete "Broken Wing" Maurizio's drinking of a half a gallon of egg nog in 33 seconds has been listed on The Universal Record Database. (from Todd DeFazio email)
The BaconSalt twitter reports that Erik "The Red" Denmark ate 130 strips of bacon at his record attempt at the Bacathlon last night.
The Stranger has an interview with Erik "The Red" Denmark on the eve of his bacon eating record attempt at the Heaven nightclub in Seattle.
Seattle Weekly: Erik "The Red" Denmark will attempt to set the world record for bacon eating at the "Bacathalon" in Seattle on November 19.
The Concord Monitor has an article about the construction of a 222.5 pound meatball by Nonni's Italian Eatery in Concord, New Hampshire which broke a record previously set on a September episode of the Jimmy Kimmel show.
Kobayashi receives Guinness record after eating 7 HDB in 3 min
Youtube has a clip of Kobayashi receiving a Guinness record after eating 7 hot dogs in 3 minutes. The record Kobayashi attempted to break was 4 hot dogs in 3 minutes and not 23 bunless hot dogs in 3:10 by Lynda Kuerth that was listed by Guinness before it stopped printing eating records in its books in the late 1980s.
R Suzuki has more about the program which says that Kobayashi had to eat sitting down using only one hand and had to show a clean mouth before proceeding to the next hot dog.
Longest IFOCE winning streaks
Here all the IFOCE winning streaks of 5 contests or longer in the eatfeats database. “Humble” Bob Shoudt has an active 4 contest winning streak.
- 17 2001 Jul 4 – 2006 Oct 28 Takeru Kobayashi (does not include Glutton Bowl contests)
- 9 2006 Aug 12 – Sep 23 Joey Chestnut
- 7 1993 Jun 26- 1995 Jun 24 Mike DeVito
- 7 2004 Jul 8 – Oct 20 Sonya Thomas
- 6 2007 Sep 16 – Oct 10 Pat Bertoletti
- 6 2007 Oct 11 – 2008 Apr 26 Joey Chestnut
- 6 2007 Apr 28 – Jul 15 Joey Chestnut
- 6 2005 Feb 12 – Jun 18 Sonya Thomas
- 6 2004 Jan 30 – May 29 Sonya Thomas
- 5 2003 Jul 19 – Nov 2 Ed Jarvis
- 5 2007 Jan 20 – Feb 17 Joey Chestnut
The Freakonomics blog has an entry comparing Usain Bolt's track records with Takeru Kobayashi doubling the Nathan's record in 2001.
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