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• Papa Bob’s Bar-B-Que challenge – “Ultimate Destroyer” 6 pound barbecue sandwich
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  Page and gallery about the “Ultimate Destroyer” on the restaurant web site
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• Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ
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• Stroud’s Oak Ridge Manor meal – homestyle pan fried chicken
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List of Kansas City area eating contests and challenges in the eatfeats database.

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• NY Time City Room blog has a picture of Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas and Bob Shoudt superimposed with faces from the Spook-A-Rama ride
• Epicurious’ list of food-based video games
• Topeka jalapeno contest report
• Nathan’s gallery by MissCharo
• George Hadary wins Dallas La Contena jalapeno eating contest
• Yelp reviews of Nathan’s finals

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• 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
  

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VeryStrangeNews.com made up an entry about Kobayashi appearing at a Nathan’s hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The first part is plagiarized from this article. The second part is original but lacks any factual basis:

Takeru Kobayashi, who on July 4, 2004, ate 53 1/2 hot dogs and buns in just 12 minutes was the winner and afterward when he went to rid himself of his full stomach he saw Pat Garety blocking his way to the bathroom. Garety held in his hand five one hundred dollar bills and requested Takeru deposit his vomit in a special “clean” bag. Takeru obliged and left $500 richer. It appears Garety is planning on selling his bag of hot dog chunks on Ebay and expects to net a quick two – three thousand dollars for the mess.

I am not sure if this is supposed to be a a parody, (it is tagged as a “Mostly True” story”) but about.com accepted it as an actual article.

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kansascity.com and hutchnews.com have reports from yesterday’s team hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The National Guard team won with a combined total of 46 hot dogs. Radio personality Lucky Kidd had the best individual mark with 13 or 14 HDB. (The contest is not a qualifier for the Nathan’s finals in Coney Island)

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The University of Kansas student newspaper has a good article about competitive eating focusing on Pat Bertoletti. A gastroenterologist is also interviewed who says he would like to study the stomachs of competitive eaters in the hope of finding a treatment for dyspepsia.

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(from supersizedmeals.com) No reason is provided why Chris wore a women’s one piece bathing suit when he attempted the Seabrook Tavern’s (in Topeka, KS) 3 pound Speck burger challenge, but if it was to give him Sonya Thomas’ or Kate Stelnick’s eating ability, his hopes were not realized.

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