Upcoming Newark eating contests
| 2 big pancakes | Pancake Challenge | Country Pancake House | Ridgewood, NJ | also have a Bradenton, FL location |
| 7 pound burger | Zeus Burger | Clinton Station Diner | Clinton, NJ | about 12 pounds total after bun & condiments added, offer also available for 2 people in 1.5 hrs or 3 people in 1 hur |
| hot dogs | Devil Dog Challenge | Hell's Kitchen Lounge | Newark, NJ | hot dogs are fully loaded |
Maria "The Incredible Sulk" has a blog entry about setting the house record of 21 hot dogs at Big Daddy's Hot Dogs in Pompton Lakes, NJ. She also has a report on eating 8.5 hot dogs at a Spike's Junkyard Dogs in Boston to win a T-shirt. (Greg "The Great Moomsi" Maloomian and an unnamed woman have set house records of 17 at Boston Spike's).
Burger Conquest has a report on recording Outrageous Foods for the Food Network at the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, NJ. For the upcoming episode, a team assembled by Burger Conquest attempted to eat all of the diner's specialty burgers from the "Nano Bite" mini-burger to the 50 pound Mount Olympus.
La Bonbonniere cupcake contest blog entry & video
Maria “The Incredible Sulk” has posted a blog entry about being the top amateur at the cupcake eating contest held at La Bonbonniere Bake Shoppe in Edison, NJ on Saturday. Overall winner Joel Podelsky has uploaded a video of the contest.
Maria recently started a blog documenting her eating challenges and contests at http://stuffyourprettyface.wordpress.com/. Her first entry is about becoming the first woman to complete the Tsunami Burrito at the Surf Taco in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ.
Mike Longo reports that he, Jon Squibb, and Joel "the Cannon" Podelsky ate the 12+ pound Zeus burger at the Clinton Station Diner in 41 minutes, breaking the record previously held by Greg "the Great Moomsi" Maloomian's 3 person team. update A video has been posted.
A New York Times blog reports that Joel Podelsky won a sloppy joe eating contest at the Town Hall Deli in South Orange, NJ. update South Orange Patch has a video
Will Millender will attempt the three person Zeus burger challenge today at the Clinton Station Diner with Joel "the Cannon" Podelsky and "Munchin" Mike Longo.
TedWilliamsHead has a blog entry about Pat "from Moonachie" Philbin's successful completion of the "Fat Sandwich" challenge on the campus of Rutgers University.
A "Gavone" has returned to the world of competitive eating. Gabby's on the Boulevard in Wood Ridge, NJ has started a two person challenge with that name containing four pounds of pasta, six meatballs, six sausages, garlic bread and salad. (via NorthJersey.com)
Hell's Kitchen Lounge in Newark, NJ has started a hot dog challenge: a customer who can eat 5 fully loaded hot dogs in under 5 minutes will receive the frankfurters and a T-shirt for free.
Pat from Moonachie vs. 5 “grease truck” sandwiches
HearUsTalk produced a video of Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin attempting to eat five sandwiches from the “grease trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University in under 45 minutes.
update Adam Richman had the following response to Pat’s feat: “Yeah but does he have the dopest TV show on the planet? I’m gonna go with…no.” (via DJnewstyle, who was blocked by Adam Richman)
update #2 Apr 6 11:34 am Craig noted that Adam Richman deleted his response, but it is still in the Google Cache
Will Millender was the first to finish the 18 inch pancake challenge at the Windsor Diner in Clark, New Jersey.
The Great Moomsi & partners finish Zeus burger
TheGreatMoomsi.com has a video of Greg Maloomian and two teammates completing the Zeus Burger at the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey. The listed weight of the burger is 12.5 pounds but the actual burger weight was over 14 pounds. A picture of the list of the diner’s challenges shows an award of $500 for a three person team finishing the Zeus in less than an hour.
The restaurant staff claimed that no team had previously completed the Zeus challenge, but a three person team in a 2005 AICE contest did finish the burger.
Man vs. Food December 9 (New Brunswick, NJ) episode links
Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow
- RU Hungry Grease Trucks challenge – 5 fat sandwiches
Yelp | Facebook
Extreme Pigouts segment about grease trucks
Rutgers student newspaper article about recording (contains spoilers) - Harold’s New York Deli meal – triple decker sandwich
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp | flickr gallery
Episode clip about triple decker sandwich
2008 New York Times article - Stuff Yer Face meal – giant stromboli
Homepage | Citysearch | Yelp
List of north New Jersey eating challenges in the eatfeats database.
Man vs. Food in Tristate area this week
Adam Richman is currently at the “Grease Trucks” on the campus of Rutgers University and will be attempting the 5 Fat Sandwich challenge at 5 PM today.
update The Rutgers student paper has a report on the filming (contains spoilers)
The twitter for Doogie’s Hot Dogs reports that Adam Richman will be recording there on Friday. Doogie’s is located in Newington, CT and no Connecticut episode is listed on season 2 episodes.
Audience members wanted for Conti & Janus on Cake Boss
An associate producer for the TLC program Cake Boss sent the following email:
Next Wednesday, September 2nd, Timothy Janus (Eater X, ranked #4 in the world) and Crazy Legs Conti (ranked #14) will be meeting up at a downtown restaurant in Hoboken, New Jersey for some cake-eating craziness.
Currently, we have limited openings for seating at the event but I’d love to get people passionate about competitive eating in the audience! We need NY/NJ-based individuals interested in attending to RSVP to hobokenproject@gmail.com with their full name, age, contact info (including phone number for confirmation) as soon as possible. Guests will need to arrive at the site at 3pm on Wednesday, and with confirmation of their email we’ll send them an address to the location.
A wing eating contest will be held at tonight's Newark Bears game. Comedian Artie Lange will also appear (the web site does not say if he will compete in the wing contest)
The Hudson Reporter reports that 71 year old Joseph Wigdor ate 14 hot dogs in Saturday's hot dog eating contest in Bayonne, NJ, which placed him third at the end of reguation time.
NJ.com has an article about the hot dog eating contest at Petridis Hot Dogs in Bayonne, NJ won by Giovanni Costa with 19 hot dogs. The top 3 won health club memberships of varying length.
Sweet Avenue in Rutherford, NJ will have a cupcake eating contest at CupcakeFest tomorrow.
NJ.com has a report on Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky's victory at a pasta eating contest at Trattoria Bel Paese on Sunday. The first prize was a 26 inch flat screen television.
The Newark Food Examiner has an article about the Clinton Station Diner's giant burgers, which mentions the contest last year in which a Japanese team participated.
$5,000 “8th Wonder” challenge at Clinton Station Diner
A picture of a list of burger challenges offered by the Clinton Station Diner can be viewed on flickr. $5,000 will be awarded to a team of 10 diners that can finish the “8th Wonder” burger (listed at 105 pounds) in an hour or less.
ABC News on eating challenges
(From the Consumerist) The website for ABC News has an article about restaurants’ eating challenges. The reporter, Scott Mayerowitz, attempted the 50 pound Mount Olympus burger from the Clinton Station Diner in New Jersey with “King” George Van Laar. According the the article, $1000 will be awarded to a five person team that can finish the Mount Olympus in under three hours.
Other eating challenges mentioned:
- The Pancake Challenge from the Seiad Valley Café in California
- Dare to be Great Sundae from The Parlour in Jackson, Michigan
- 76 Ounce Steak, J & R Steakhouse in Long Island, NY
Newark Bears “Boardwalk Binge” tomorrow
NJ.com reports that the Newark Bears minor league baseball team will have a pre-game eating contest tomorrow in which competitors will eat a hot dog, cotton candy and funnel cake.
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