The new poll asks that if a competitive eating Hall of Fame was started and top eaters were alleged to have used performance enhancing drugs, should that affect their chances for Hall of Fame entrance.
BB.com: Brad Sciullo training Big Brian
BeautifulBrian.com’s Bits & Pieces reports that Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo has been training “Big” Brian Subich, who will compete in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Charlotte. Brad Sciullo reportedly ate 38 hot dogs in a training session and also completed Tiny’s burger challenge at the Niner Diner which includes 5 pounds of fries. When the UEPa visited the Niner Diner in 2007, the only challenge finisher was an unnamed sub 100 pound woman according to the restaurant’s owner.
The Augusta (GA) Chronicle has an article about Saturday's Mudbugabeaux-N-Brew Crawfish Boil and Craft Beer Festival with a guide to crawfish eating techniques for participants in the crawfish eating contest.
Good Food Toronto has a blog entry about attempts at the 72 once steak challenge at the Lone Star Cafe with four entries about the diners' training sessions.
The competitive eating training blog has a list of the top 5 reasons you fail at competitive eating.
MosesNews: Gustoff Zhychick will start a school to teach competitive eating techniques. Tuition will start at $10,000 for a six month course.
New poll: brine drinking as a crawfish tactic
The Press of Atlantic City reports that the top two finishers in the crawfish eating contest, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas both drank the brine water from the crawfish tray during the competition. The water weight was counted as crawfish mass in the once the post-contest weight was subtracted from the original value. The new poll asks if you think that this was a legitimate tactic.
Tim Brown offers advice in the Chicago Tribune
In today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune, Tim “Gravy” Brown offers some hot dog eating contest tips
Brain training. Competitive eaters override brain signals that tell them they’re full, and if you want to eat faster, you need to do the same before you slow down. “You have to trick yourself,” says Brown, who also packs an iPod with books on tape or punk rock to distract himself. “You just want to concentrate.” His brain and gut rewired, Brown finds, “I never get full. I don’t get hungry. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love to eat.”
Furious Pete training videos
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded two videos about training for competitive eating to youtube: Video 1 – breakfast for competive eaters, Video 2 – jaw strength / grinding
Link Buffet: November 20, 2008
- 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
Joey Chestnut interview in TheStreet.com
TheStreet.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut in which he describes his training regimen and says that he has eaten 114 burgers in a Krystal practice session.
Link Buffet: August 13, 2008
- Pat Bertoletti practices for Krystals: video 1, video 2. Pat says the contest in the Czech republic he will compete in will be an hour long.
- Birmingham, Michigan cupcake eating contest August 15
- Furious Pete seeks input on an eating contest to be held at the Mr. Olympia expo
- Suggestion on prize to be included with Joey Chestnut baseball card
- Aurora, OH burger challenge increases by a half a pound when somebody successfully completes it.
Atlanta eaters practice for KSO V
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article about Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough, Larry McNeil and “Super” Paul Barlow’s practice session for Krystal Square Off V in which they try to eat 15 Krystal burgers as fast as possible. Qualifier dates for this years Square Off have yet to be announced.
The men try to avoid “reversals” because they don’t want their bodies to regularly respond that way when they compete. But sometimes it can’t be helped.
“If you don’t puke every now and then, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough,” Yarbrough said. “That’s just a fact of life.”
Pat Bertoletti Waffle House documentary
Jynx productions has uploaded a video to youtube about Pat Bertoletti’s victory in the 2007 Waffle House waffle eating contest at the Texas State Fair. Bertoletti wears a Steakbellie t-shirt during his training session at a Waffle House the day before the contest.
Link Buffet #2: July 3, 2008
- Video of a Joey Chestnut training session for Time Magazine (link fixed)
- Video of a Pat Philbin training session with QVC qualifier footage for TVJersey
- Pictures from the weigh in.
- podcast of Crazy Legs Conti on WFAN this morning
- Interview with Joey Chestnut’s mother
- Pat Bertoletti profile in The Regional News
- Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein article wins a prize
- History of competitive eating by Time Magazine
- Sonya Thomas is one fan’s favorite
- Nathan’s odds by covers.com – article thinks contest will be 12 minutes
- Fox News video of Atlanta bacon contest (from Paul Barlow)
- Juris Shibayama comments on the Wall Street Journal blog
Link Buffet #2: July 2, 2008
- Video of bacon eating contest from Super Paul Barlow
- Video of a recent Pat Bertoletti practice session
- amNY article about Badlands Booker
- Video promoting upcoming “Hungry & Focused” apparel from Badlands Booker
- Synopsis of upcoming “Hurl” episodes on G4
- Crazy Legs and Eater X make the cover of the current Village Voice (from Liz K) – a gallery from their article
- MSNBC on extreme July 4 meals
- 2 for the price of 1 Nathan’s online coupon
- Slideshow of Henderson, MN sauerkraut competition
- Fox News article about Nathan’s
- Krystalist announces Krystal Square Off V
- Megamunch emails the following request for an upcoming Baltimore Examiner story:
Are there any long-term health effects of competitive eating? What about just short-term effects? Should people take certain precautions if they are competitively eating? Are there warning signs someone should look out for if they compete frequently? Contact: Sara Michael, smichael@baltimoreexaminer.com
Tim Brown’s techniques in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune has an article in which Tim “Gravy” Brown’s describes his techniques for hot dog eating. The article also appears on the Chicago Tribune’s blog.
Request for hot dog strategies
Steve Penhollow of The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has emailed the following request:
We have a hot dog eating contest coming up as part of our Three Rivers Fest. I think it’s the first competitive eating event we’ve had in the area.
What is the dominant strategy for eating the most hot dogs?
I’d love to quote someone in my article.
Thanks.
Link Buffet: May 9, 2008
- York (PA) Revolution to offer all you can eat seats where you can enjoy the company of former Baltimore Orioles
- Japanese commercial featuring a ramen eating contest
- Pat Bertoletti posts a picture of a hot dog training session (see above) to a yardbarker comment (The Waffle House belt is to remind Pat that Joey can be beat)
- Kansas State Games to have a hot dog eating contest July 18
- UK hot dog eating contest May 23
- Twins closer Joe Nathan to appear (but not compete) at tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier
- Today is Cookie Jarvis’ birthday according to a comment
- Furious Pete has posted an article about the Collegiate Nationals to bodybuilding.com
- China and the Philippines ban conversion of rice paddies to golf courses (via Freakonomics)
- Chicago Nathan’s qualifier next weekend to take place in Matteson
Joey practices for asparagus contest
Joey Chestnut has posted a video to his yardbarker blog of him preparing for Saturday’s asparagus eating contest by eating 3 pounds of asparagus in 3 minutes. The video is also available on youtube. Joey makes the following prediction for the contest:
Pat is a great eater and whenever I get lazy he pulls off an upset. The chances of Pat walking away with a win in this contest are slim to none. I will let you all know how the contest goes down.
Joey Chestnut on the Food Network
(from SkinnyBoy) Skinnyboy has uploaded a video clip of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped.” Joey estimates he consumed 5,000 hot dogs in preparing for the Nathan’s finals.
Bacon contest advice wanted
Russ from the Ace of Spades blog is registering his dissatisfaction with the state of the world by entering the bacon eating contest to be held March 1 at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa:
I’d like to think that by attending this event for all you morons, I’ll be doing my part to reunite the Republican Party under the banner of smaller government, sensible immigration laws, strong foreign policy, and mandatory consumption of bacon and other pork products on a daily basis. I could be the Barry Goldwater of the Pork Products Wing of the New Conservative Enlightenment, helping all my fellow Americans discover a world where wrapping bacon around hot dogs is not only legal, but mandatory.
(The quoted material refers to the banning of street vendors selling bacon wrapped hot dogs in Los Angeles.)
Today Russ asked his commenters for advice about preparing for an eating contest.
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