Upcoming San Jose eating contests
| 2012 May 28 | I | Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship Qualifier | San Jose, CA | |
| 2012 Jun 2 | Donut Pizza Eating Competition | Psycho Donuts | Campbell, CA |
| 20 inch pizza | Belly Buster Pizza | Pizza Party | Santa Clara, CA | |
| 4 lb. sausage sandwich | The Boss Hog | Neto's Market & Grill | Santa Clara, CA | includes 1 lb. fries |
| 12 ultrahot chicken wings | Hellfire Challenge | Smoke Eaters | 3 locations, CA | no drinking or napkins allowed, finger licking required - formerly 911 Challenge at University Chicken |
A press release announces Joey Chestnut will serve as judge at a hot dog eating contest between firefighters and police officers at the San Jose Earthquakes game on May 2.
Patch.com has a report on Bear Silber attempting to eat two "Pounder Challenge" sandwiches in under 48 minutes at Togo's in Cupertino, CA.
The San Jose Mercury has a short article about Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie completing the Coliseum pizza challenge at Tony & Alba's. The other two members of the team, Doug Blacksill and Christian Hill, are San Jose State football players. (via Tony & Alba's facebook) update Jan 18 A video of the challenge has bee uploaded.
The facebook page for Tony & Alba's Pizza and Pasta announces that Joey Chestnut and three others will attempt the Coliseum team pizza challenge tonight. update The team consisting of Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Doug Blacksill and Christian Hill completed the challenge.
Paesano Ristorante announces that Joey Chestnut will serve as the celebrity judge at a pasta eating contest held at tonight's San Jose Earthquakes MLS game.
Michael Mendez, owner of Mmoon in San Jose, says he is talking with Major League Eating about hold an empanada eating contest at his restaurant.
Patch has a report on Saturday's donut pizza eating contest held at Psycho Donuts in Campbell, CA won by Dax "The Ginger" Swanson.
Don Sturdy reports that Matt Stonie ate 66 pancakes at the Santa Clara IHOP to set the house record. update A video of the challenge is available.
SanFrancisco.CBSLocal.com has a list of 7 Bay Area eating challenges.
Jessica "Queen of Cuisine" has uploaded a video of her finishing the Burritozilla and 3 other videos: Tornado Sundae | Knucklehead chili dog | Matt Stonie finishes Grand Slam pancake
Bryan Beard @ SJSU qualifier: “I’m going to Coney Island”
4:51 George Shea has the top 3:
1) Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard 18 HDB
2) Ryan McKillop 17.75 HDB
3) Crazy Legs Conti 16.5
4:40 Bryan Beard’s twitter has the following update: “IM GOING TO CONEY ISLAND!!!!”
The only information I have obtained about the San Jose State qualifier is that Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard will be competing in it. I don’t know what time it will be held or where on the San Jose State campus it will take place.
C C Kung wrote a blog entry about a trip to Pho Garden in Mountain View, CA where he encountered Joey Chestnut setting the record for the pho noodle challenge (4 lbs. in 21 minutes). Pat Bertoletti posted to his facebook that he set the pho challenge record at Saigon in St. Paul, MN.
Cameron McKirdy produced a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker completing the five pound "Burritozilla" at Iguana's in San Jose in 5:15 before last year's Asparagus Festival contest. update Booker also produced a commercial for his new CD, Surf & Stillwell that will be released July 4.
The website for the Stanford student newspaper has a picture of Joey Chestnut competing in a hot dog eating contest with Robbie Zimbroff, who wants to be the Stanford tree mascot.
Victor Torres reports that Joey Chestnut might do a wing eating contest at the Dublin, California Hooters tonight.
Ben Monson has posted some pictures from his recent trip to Northern California where he set records for the Kitchen Sink sundae (7:45) for Pizza Party Belly Buster (6:05, halving Erik Denmark's previous record) and for an 8 pound burrito.
(From Paul Barlow) San Jose Citysearch has a list of "Practice Spots for Competitive Eaters" in the San Francisco Bay Area.
MercuryNews reports that Joey Chestnut will participate in the Tour de French Fry on August 2, in which cyclists will travel to San Jose fast food restaurants and sample their fries. Four slots are available to the highest bidder. Proceeds will go to buy bike helmets for children.
mrak75 has uploaded a gallery of Joey Chestnut's final pre-Nathan's practice at the Campbell, CA Hooter's last night.
The blog for Pizza Party Restaurant reports that Hall "Hoover" Hunt won $100 after finishing the Pepperoni^4 Belly Buster pizza. update PurrDayWithKittys also has a blog entry about the challenge
Pete Davekos wins final Nathan’s qualifier
The contest was apparently moved to San Jose State according to ratlhead’s gallery.
It’s probably a safe assumption that the runner-up of today’s San Bruno qualifier will eat more than 11 HDB that last year’s second place finisher did.
$100 will now be awarded to a diner who completes the Belly Buster pizza challenge at Pizza Party in Santa Clara if the pizza is topped with pepperoni, pepperoni Bagel Bites, pepperoni Pizza Rolls and pepperoni Hot Pockets.
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded his second video from his trip to Northern California with footage of Badlands Booker attempting the Burritozilla and the challenge pizza at Pizza Party.
The blog for Pizza Party reports that Erik Denmark broke Joey Chestnut's record of 17 minutes for the Belly Buster Pizza challenge with a time of 12:30. A picture
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