“Furious” Pete Czerwinski reports he ate a four pound burrito in 40 seconds in a bodybuilding.com forum thread. The feat was recorded for a documentary about his life.

Another poster in the thread says he saw Joey Chestnut and three friends (probably funnel cake competitors) eat Burritozillas at Iguana’s last night. The fastest time was 1:39.

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update #3 The San Jose Mercury has an article and Bear Silber has a blog entry containing several videos.

update #2 Full results have been posted on IFOCE.com

update Funnel cake results according to http://twitter.com/erikdenmark/status/1499175294:
1. Joey Chestnut 5.4 lb
2. Pat Bertoletti 4.7
3. Bob Shoudt 4.12
4. Erik Denmark 3.56
5. Nate Biller 2.7
6. Kevin Ross 2.5
? Sean Kirby
? Lily Pham

Erik Denmark will be posting updates from today’s funnel cake eating contest at http://twitter.com/erikdenmark He expects Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Nate Biller and Nic Fry to also compete.

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A twitter update reports Joey Chestnut finished a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria in 3 minutes and 10 seconds on tonight’s episode of Man vs. Food

updateFrom “I” comment – Skinnyboy has uploaded Joey Chestnut’s segment to youtube. Here are some captures from it:

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Episode slideshow | picture of Joey Chestnut on TravelChannel.com

• Smoke Eaters (formerly University Chicken) 911 hot wing challenge
  Home Page | Reviews: CitySearch | Yelp
  Cooking for Engineers blog entry about a 911 Challenge attempt
  SJSU student newspaper article about restaurant

• Iguana’s Tacqueria meal: 5 pound Burritozilla
  Home Page Reviews: CitySearch | Yelp
  SJSU student paper article about a 2004 Burritozilla contest
  SJSU student paper profile of Joey Chestnut mentioning his victory in the 2004 contest
  Pat Bertoletti’s records page reports he has the best Burritozilla time

• Henry’s Hi Life
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(From “I”/dogsarefunyes) A picture of Joey Chestnut, apparently eating a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria, is on the home page of Man vs. Food. Next week’s episode will feature restaurants from San Jose.

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Youtube has an interview Joey Chestnut did on 107.7 FM “The Bone” Thursday to promote the macaroni & cheese contest at the San Jose Stealth game today: Part 1 | Part 2. Joey said he ate 47 slices of pizza in the Famous Famiglia contest (it was actually 45), that Pat Bertoletti beats him 2 times a year and that matzo balls were his least favourite contest food.

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A blog entry on the Calgary Herald’s website says that the San Jose Stealth of the National Lacrosse League will have Joey Chestnut compete in a macaroni & cheese eating contest. The Stealth’s schedule page has details about that event which will take place on February 21:

Major League Eating Contest. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut to compete against fans to see who eats the most Mac & Cheese.

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, the top competitive eater in the world, and local hero to compete against fans to see who eats the most Mac & Cheese.

The first 3000 fans will receive a Joey Chestnut bobblehead. No registration information is listed.

The Stealth’s opponent on February 21 will be the Colorado Mammoth, which hosted the KBPI Wing Bowl yesterday. If anyone has results from that contest, please list them in the comments.

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The San Jose Mercury reports that Bear Silber purchased Pizza Party (formerly Pizza and Pipes) restaurant. Silber finished the restaurant’s Belly Buster Pizza challenge in December 2006 with a time of 38 minutes. (Joey Chestnut completed the pizza four days later with a time of 15 minutes.

In other San Jose news, one of the Man vs. Food sites was SmokeEaters (former University Chicken) and Adam Richman tried the Hellfire Challenge there.

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Pat Bertoletti commented that he ate the 5 pound Burritozilla at Iguana’s Taqueria in San Jose in 1 minute and 41 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s record. (Joey Chestnut may have since regained the record). Pat’s Burritozilla mark is included on the list of eating challenge results on deepdisheats.com which includes feats such as the 40 inch pizza (with a partner) at the Pizza Machine and the Tex-ass doughnut from Voodoo doughnuts in Portland, OR in 23 seconds which have not received much media attention.

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• BeautifulBrian.com has a commentary about Brad Sciullo
• Video of Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest
• Joey Chestnut mentioned during San Jose city council meeting
• Picture of Badlands Booker and Erik Denmark at the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Boston area hot dog contest Oct 25 says it will offer $200 in cash prizes
• Report on Antioch, IL hot dog contest

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• Hall Hunt article in U of Florida student paper. Hall had a bad knee while he ran a marathon last Saturday. An article about Erin Andrews appears in the same issue.
• Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appear in music video by Low Water (myspace)
• Wing Tut previews the contests he will MC this weekend. Samatha Brown of the Travel Channel might compete in the Italian sausage contest.
• MissBusyLady contemplates a Burritozilla attempt
• News items after May 8 removed from IFOCE home page
• Article about Randy Harrison, participant in the US Open of Competitive Eating
• WLOCE registration is open (from Crawfish comment)
• MTV’s video game blog has footage of the first two minutes of the MLE game
• Blog entry about Pauliesaurus challenge. The current prize is $250.

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In 2004, Iguana’s Taqueria in San Jose held a contest in which $500 was awarded to the fastest finisher of a 5.25 pound “Burritozilla” burrito. Joey Chestnut would win that contest with a time of 4 minutes and 26 seconds, which would launch his competitive eating career. A yelp thread about the restaurant reports that Joey continues to train on Burritozillas. A picture of the burrito with a ruler shows it is about a foot and a half long.

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The San Jose Mercury blog reports that Joey Chestnut judged a hot dog eating contest at half time of the basketball game between San Jose State and Santa Clara. The blog entry is about the author getting an autograph from Joey.

I told him a friend of mine was a fan (again: not totally sure about this now), and I asked for his autograph.

I also told him I work at the Merc (at least until my editors read this) and was covering the game (full disclosure is always best).

For good measure, I asked if he is currently enrolled at SJSU.

“Yeah, but I’m only taking two classes,” he said. Then he paused and kinda half-grinned. “I do other things.”

66 dogs in 12 minutes — I’d say that qualifies as “other things.”

J.C. was really, really nice, and very polite, and he happily signed the autograph (FYI: he’s lefthanded).

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