Three random Greensboro eating challenges
| 12 lb. sandwich | 12 Pound BBQ sandwich | Whitley's BBQ Restaurant | Lexington, NC | contest currently being held to name the sandwich |
| 1 lb. burger | Brewhouse Burger | Natty Greene's Pub & Brewing Co. | Greensboro, NC | |
| 28 in pizza | 28 Inch Pizza | Athens Pizzeria | Greensboro, NC |
WXII12.com has a video reporting the results of Jennie's attempt to eat 100 wings during a newscast to promote the wing eating contest to be held at tomorrow's Wingfest at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax, NC.
MyFox8 has a video and gallery of a 12 pound pork barbecue sandwich offered by Whitley's Barbecue in Lexington, NC. The name of the sandwich will by determined by a drawing of submitted entries.
YesWeekly reports on an Asheboro, NC Liquid Stoopid Hot Sauce (1 million Scoville) drinking contest. An infared camera was used to observer the amount of internal heat generated by the competitors.
Link Buffet: March 17, 2008
- “Badlands” Booker is Sonya Thomas’ featured eater for the second quarter of 2008
- Page on the eating contest at CollegiateNationals.com – only the winner of the qualifier will appear in the finals
- A press release for Phoenix Battle of the Bone says it is restricted to amateurs. The rules appear to make no such restriction
- Lufkin, TX tamale festival runs out of tamales, but still manages to put on a tamale contest.
- Joey Chestnut’s matzoh ball contest victory mentioned in the Vallejo Times Herald
- Nashua, NH hot dog contest report
- “Stretch” eating contest at Missouri University
- Group burger challenge attempt at Mount Airy, NC
Burritos for Life second round contest – Greensboro, NC
The Greensboro (NC) News-Record blog has a writeup of the second round Moe’s Burrito for Life contest. One of the contestants was police reporter Eric Townsend