Upcoming Sacramento eating contests
| 2012 May 25 | Corn Dog Eating Contest | Sacramento County Fair | Sacramento, CA | |
| 2012 Jun 3 | Hot Dog Eating Contest | Pioneer Day | Meadow Vista, CA |
| 44 oz. burger | Fab Five Burger | Center Court | Sacramento, CA | restaurant owned by former NBA player Chris Webber |
| 13 lb. burger | 13 pound burger | 49er Sports Grill | Sutter Creek, CA | includes 2 lb. fries |
| patties | Patty Record | The Squeeze Inn | Sacramento, CA | Wrestler Mauricio "The Executioner" Broadway holds the current record of 10 patties (They do not count this as a win because he did not eat the cheese . . . The record is sill 9) |
The Sacramento Press has a report on Hooters Wingfest. Brian Jensen was awarded a trip to Honolulu after winning a wing eating contest
Luigi's Slice in Sacramento will host a pizza eating contest on August 22 that will award $500 to the winner.
Sacramento area Hooters will host a wing eating contest over the next month. The finals will take place on September 5 and will award a trip to Hawaii for two and the first qualifier will take place tomorrow at Hooters of Natomas.
The Colusa Sun Herald has a report on Sunday's World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge at the Colusa Casino Resort.
(from Crawfish twitter) The Colusa (California) Casino Resort World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge will take place on June 28. The purse is $1,377 and registration opens tomorrow.
A video of Joey Chestnut can be found on the home page of GoodDaySacramento.com Another video of Joey doing a hot dog contest at Hooters vs. Heidi is also available.
(From the Mayor of Wingville) Joey Chestnut has made a commercial to promote Wednesday all you can eat wings at Hooters which is being televised in the Sacramento and Fresno metropolitan areas.
Free “Fab Five” burger from C-Webb
KCRA has an interview with former Sacramento King Chris Webber in the kitchen of his restaurant, Center Court. The chef is preparing a 44 ounce “Fab Five” burger which Webber says is free to a customer who can finish it.
It is not mentioned if the burger challenge has a time limit and if time outs are allowed if there is a maximum duration.
Halftime show dedicated to Joey Chestnut
The University of California at Davis dedicated their halftime show to SJSU student Joey Chestnut when they played at San Jose State University in September.
Woman dies in bladder endurance contest
(Thanks Brian Subich) MSNBC.com reports that a woman died after competing in a contest in Sacramento where the objective was to avoid going to the bathroom while drinking a 8 ounce bottle of water every 15 minutes. The winner would receive a Nintendo Wii.
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