Latest results in database (All results)
| 2012 May 20 | 1st | 18 | 10 min | World Gyro Eating Championship | Houston, TX |
| 2012 May 19 | 1st | 20 | 10 min | World CheeseSteak Eating Championship | Allentown, PA |
| 2012 May 12 | 1st | 107 | 10 min | Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship Qualifier | Roseville, MI |
update Sept 25 #3 Meredith Boxberger has started a youtube page with videos of the poutine contest and her appearance on B101 to promote the contest.
update Sept 25 #2 BlogTO has a blog entry with pictures.
update Sept 25 The Toronto Star as a gallery.
Results from Smoke's Poutinerie contest in Toronto:
1) Pat Bertoletti 9.75 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Bob Shoudt 7 pounds
3) Ben Do 4.75 pounds
4) Meredith Boxberger 4.1
5T) "Buffalo" Jim Reeves 4
5T) Mat Dwyer
7) "Wild" Bill Myers
8) Andrew "The Bear" Kogutkiewicz
update 7:50 The MLE facebook has more results
update 7:30 Pat Bertoletti ate 9.75 pounds and Meredith Boxberger was 4th
update 7:05 "Furious" Pete Czerwinski has posted the top 3: 1) Pat Bertoletti 2) Bob Shoudt 3) Ben Do
The amateur contest has taken place. A 24 year old student from York University won the amateur contest with a total of 2.5 pounds in 6 minutes.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of him drinking 50 blended raw eggs in about 10 seconds in homage to Cool Hand Luke.
Pat Bertoletti sets San Gennaro cannoli record, Marcos Owens 3rd
update Sept 17 The NY Daily News has an article.
update Sept 16 The Daily Mail has an article with pictures and Larell Marie has a gallery. Lagalagny has a contest video.
update 4:50 i-Italy has a gallery
1) Pat Bertoletti 32 cannolis in 6 minutes, new record
2) Eric “Badlands” Booker 16
3) Marcos Owens 15
4) Crazy Legs Conti 14.5
5) Allen “Shredder” Goldstein 14
6T) Yasir Salem 13
6T) Larell Marie Mele 13
8 Maria “Edible” 11
update Pat Bertoletti has set a new record with 32 cannolis.
Pat Bertoletti, Eric “Badlands” Booker, Allen “Shredder” Goldstein, Maria “Edible”, Larell Marie Mele and Yasir Salem are expected to compete in this afternoon’s cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy, NYC.
Richard Shea called the winner of last year’s cannoli contest “US Fail”.
Regis Philbin refereed 1963 eating contest featuring Ernie Ladd
The MLE facebook announces that Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will attempt to break the record for banana eating on tomorrow’s episode of Live with Regis & Kelly.
Regis Philbin had previous involvement with competitive eating before the debut of Live with Regis & Kelly. In 1963, he served as a referee for an eating contest between San Diego Charger defensive lineman / pro wrestler Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd and Nick Cordileone. Flickr has a picture of the program for the contest.
Pat Bertoletti will stay in New York City and compete in Thursday’s cannoli contest in an attempt to obtain his 36th record. Eric “Badlands” Booker and Maria “Edible” have also been announced as entrants.
Food Republic has a post about Pat Bertoletti's trip to Ireland in July. Bertoletti will be making a pizza tour in New York City.
Pat Bertoletti & Tim Brown food truck web page
A web page for Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown’s food truck has been set up at http://www.gluttonforcefive.com/ (Sir Snugglesworth, Partybot and Pink Unicorn are the other team members.) The truck is offering a sandwich eating challenge awarding $500 to a customer that can beat Pat or Tim’s time. A facebook with a picture of the back of the truck and twitter have also been started. (via RJOPhoto)
Pat Bertoletti sets Nisei Week gyoza record, Matt Stonie 2nd
update Aug 23 The Rafu Shimpo has a contest writeup reporting that Sonya Thomas believed that one of her plates was not counted.
update Aug 22 LA Weekly, Drink Eat Travel and Damon Wells have contest reports
update Aug 21 #2 Matt Stonie has a gallery.
update Aug 21 The contest facebook page has full results and a gallery.
ToraChibi, Two Hungry Pandas, Guzzle & Nosh and FJTeng have flickr galleries
9:13 Jaron has a twitpic gallery
5:44 Naader Reda has posted the top 5: update 7:08 The rest of the top 10
1) Pat Bertoletti 264
2) Matt Stonie 213
3) Sonya Thomas 209
4) Bob Shoudt 202
5) Stephanie Torres 172
6) Tim Gravy Brown 170
7) Damon Wells 169
Eric Denmark 129
9) Michelle Lesco 117
10) Yasir Salem 100
?) Naoyuki Namiya 62
5:43 Eat More Gyoza reports Pat Bertoletti set a new record with 264 gyoza.
5:32 the contest is under way. Lynn in LA has a picture of the field
Pat Bertoletti appeared on Windy City Live this morning for a cooking demonstration. (via Kooky Canuck)
You and Me This Morning has a video about Pat Bertoletti set in his trophy room and Dawali restaurant, his training site.
Pat Bertoletti appears on the Sklar brothers (hosts of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats) recent podcast (Pat's appearance starts around the 5 minute mark) to talk about his runner-up finish in the men's Nathan's finals. (Pat's "Henderson" headband was a tribute to the Sklars.) Pat announces that he and Tim Brown have purchased a food truck and calls Joey Chestnut "washed up" and "burned out" despite losing to Chestnut 9 of the last 11 times he has faced him (see comments).
The Chicago Tribune has an interview with Pat Bertoletti, who says he went into previous Nathan's finals with "a Cubs' fan — a loser's — mentality".
Pat Bertoletti has a list for HallofVeryGood of five baseball players he thinks would make good competitive eaters.
Food Republic has a post by Crazy Legs Conti (via comment) about the Concord Mills qualifier in which he compares his career to Shaquille O'Neal's and an interview with Pat Bertoletti. (Conti claims that the second best remunerated IFOCE member received $40,000 which would make the total earnings for the rest of the IFOCE besides Joey Chestnut ($218,000) $332,000 if George Shea's claim of $600K in total compensation is accurate.)
Pat Bertoletti has set up a page at firstgiving.com to raise money for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Pat will match all donations received up to $500 and will award a T-shirt signed by all 2011 Nathan's finalists to the biggest giver.
2011 New Orleans Oysters
11:53 Ryan Shams has emailed additional results
1) Pat Bertoletti 39 dozen
2) Aaron Osthoff 38 dozen
3) Adrian Morgan 32 dozen
4) Crazy Legs Conti 29 dozen
5) Gary Klucken 38 dozen
Ryan Shams 11 dozen
10 Mia “Meatballz” Davekos 7 dozen
3:30 Crawfish has the top 3, via Adrian Morgan’s facebook: 1st Pat Bertoletti 39 dozen 2nd Aaron Osthoff 38 3rd Adrian Morgan 32 dozen
3:16 “Patrick Bernaletti” was the winner.
3:06 The unnamed winner ate 39 dozen in 8 minutes, a new record.
update 3 pm eastern The contest has started.
The contest should start at 1 pm central, 2 pm eastern
Louisiana Seafood News reports that Pat Bertoletti and Adrian Morgan will compete in the World Oyster Eating Championship in New Orleans Sunday.
2011 Nathan’s Cleveland qualifer
1) Pat Bertoletti 38
2) Scott Bickel 18
3T) Jake “The Great Lake” Larry 17
3T) Jeremy Park 17
Craig Reed 10
Jamie Park 7 – women’s winner
update June 3 The Tower City Facebook has a gallery
update 8:10 Cleveland.com has a blog entry reporting that Jamie Park will compete in Coney Island despite not reaching the 10 hot dog minimum
WKYC has an article and video
Metromix has a gallery
update 2:15 Cleveland Scene has a slideshow
update 1:10 The MLE twitter has the rest of the top 4:
update 1:01 Brian Subich has the Top 2:
update 12:56 The contest is over. Craig Reed estimates Bickel’s total at 17.
update 12:53 The contest is underway
Bob Shoudt announces that he will not compete in today’s qualifier and will attempt to qualify for the finals Saturday in Queens.
The headline of a NewsNet5 article claims the contest has already taken place.
The Cleveland Leader has an article about the June 2 Cleveland Nathan's qualifier confirming that Pat Bertoletti is expected to compete against Scott Bickel in that contest. The contest will take place at 12:30 pm at the Grand Staircase of Tower City Center.
Yahoo News has a gallery of the Armour Pepperoni with Cheese Eating Competition held in Austin, Texas. Pate Bertoletti ate 262 slices in 6 minutes competing against a team of Thomas Harrison, Randy Harrison, Chris Mastasio and Chris Floyd.
Pat Bertoletti, Tim "Gravy" Brown and Ben Taylor appeared in a video to promote the eating contest at the Chicago Ribfest on June 10. Erik Denmark is also expected to compete.
Pat Bertoletti announces that he will compete against Scott Bickel in the Nathan's Cleveland qualifier on June 2.
A press release announces that Pat Bertoletti will compete in an Armour Pepperoni with Cheese eating contest in Austin, Texas on May 19 against four randomly selected entrants. via arhakim
Bertoletti breaks Boonville Boneless benchmark
update May 8 The Columbia Missourian has an article about Shari “Missouri Mouth” Child competing in the contets
The Eating contest twitter has full results part 1 | part 2 for today’s boneless wing eating contest at the Isle of Capri in Boonville, MO
1) Pat Bertoletti 9 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Tim Janus 8.25
3) Adrian Morgan 6.5
4) Aaron Osthoff 5
5) Ben Taylor 3.9
6) Dave Solomon 3.75
7) Matt Raible 3
8T) Gary Klucken 2
8T) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 2
10) Greg Degeneffe 1.95
11) Shari Childs .25
3:37 The casino twitter reports Pat Bertoletti set a record with a total of 9 pounds.
3:32 The contest is over.
3:23 The contest has started.
3:12 Entrances have started. The Isle of Capri Boonville yfrog is posting pictures
The contest should start at 2 pm central, 3 eastern
Pat Bertoletti wins 2011 La Costena jalapeno Feel the Heat
update May 2 #2 AKA Media has produced a video.
update May 2 MySanAntonio.com has a gallery
The top 4 according the the eatingcontest twitter, a KENS 5 slideshow and KXTN
1) Pat Bertoletti, 275 $3000, new record
2) Sonya Thomas 224 $2000
3) Erik Denmark 121 $750
4) Alex Ramirez 110 $500 from San Antonio
update 3:56 The MLE twitter reports that Pat Bertoletti won with a record 275 peppers. Sonya Thomas was the runner up with 224.
The contest is expected to start at 1:30 pm central time.
The MLE facebook has a link to a video of Sonya Thomas' and Pat Bertoletti's appearance on Fox and Friends this morning to promote next week's La Costena Jalapeno Eating Championship. A picture of the appearance.
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