Upcoming Pennsylvania eating contests
| 2 lb. burger | Pub Challenger | Denny's Beer Barrel Pub | Clearfield, PA | receive 1/2 off if finished in under an hour |
| 132 oz. ribeye | 132 Ounce Steak - defunct (closed - verified April 2, 2009) | Gregory's Seafood Factory | Quakertown, PA | |
| 24 in. hoagie | Super Drew Hoagie | AJ's Restaurant | Vandergrift, PA |
WJACTV.com has a video of Brian Subich training for the Pittsburgh Nathan's qualifier, where he hopes to eat 30 hot dogs.
Pat Bertoletti wins 2012 Dorney Park cheesesteak contest
update May 23 I Love Dorney 23 has some videos
update May 22 MCall.com has a gallery
update May 21 The rest of the results are available. Brian Seiken has uploaded some contest videos and “Badlands” Booker has a video of his performance.
Results (Part 1 | Part 2):
1) Pat Bertoletti, 20 sandwiches
2) Joey Chestnut, 17
3) Bob Shoudt 14.5
4T) Sean Gordon 12
4T) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 12
6T) Brian Dudzinski 10.5
6T) Brian Subich 10.5
update The Dorney Park twitter announces Pat Bertoletti won with 20 cheesesteaks
MCall has a blog entry about Stacey “Eatorama” McCarthy competing in the cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA. The contest will start at 1 pm.
Philly.com reports that the Travel Channel program Food Paradise will record attempts at the sandwich challenge at Jake's Sandwich Board in Philadelphia on Friday (via Danny Ozark)
Totally Driven TV has a report on Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at Harrah's Philadelphia today where he broke two record: he broke his previous cheesesteak record of 24 seconds by 0.4s and a new Harrah's Food Challenge record (1:52) consisting of a cannoli from Varallo, a 10” Margherita pizza from Caffe Napoli and macaroni & cheese from BarleyQue. (video) update May 13 DelCo Times has a report from the event and timed Kobayashi's cheesesteak attempt at 24.7 seconds.
Philebrity reports that Takeru Kobayashi will be at the renaming ceremony for Harrah's Philadelphia (formerly Harrah's Chester) on Friday and will attempt to break his cheesesteak record. Tony Luke will also create a 20 foot long cheesesteak for the occasion.
Mulligan's in Harrisburg, PA will hold a chile pepper eating contest on Saturday awarding $500.
LehighValleyLive.com has a roster for the May 19 cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA listing defending champion Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Bob Shoudt as expected competitors.
Hogan's Bar and Grill in Newberry TWP, PA (Harrisburg area) offers the 22 Under Par burger challenge consisting of a 17 pound burger and 5 pounds of fries. The $122 burger is free for teams of three that can finish it in under an hour.
Pocono Record reports that Justin Vernon won a 50 inch TV at a hot dog eating contest held at Beav's Long Boom Hot Dogs in East Stroudsburg, PA. Will Millender was the runner-up.
ESPNLV has a video about the finals of the Munch Madness series held at Big Woody's in Allentown, PA won by Dave Brunelli.
Beav’s Long Boom Hot Dogs in East Stroudsburg, PA will hold a hot dog eating contest on April 14 awarding a 50 inch television.
Point Park News Service has an article about western Pennsylvania competitive eating featuring Brad Sciullo and "Big" Brian Subich which lists 2013 as the expected release date of the "Hungry" documentary co-starring Sciullo.
Brad Sciullo ate 47 pierogies in 3 minutes to win contest at the Men's Culinary Classic at the Washington County (PA) Fairgrounds on March 10. Brian Subich was the MC.
Philly.com has an article about Bill "El Wingador" Simmons plans after retiring from competitive eating. He hopes to open a chain of El Wingador Challenge Grills. The restaurants would hold weekly eating challenges that would culminate in an annual chain-wide eat-off.
Mamma Jammer's will hold a cheesesteak sandwich eating contest in downtown Scranton on Saturday awarding $500 to the winner.
Rock Bottom in Homestead, PA will hold a "Wings of Fire" eating contest on March 11 awarding a 46 inch TV and a Blue Ray player.
Registration for the cheesesteak eating contest at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA on May 19 will open tomorrow on IFOCE.com at 11 am eastern.
Almanac.net reports that Brian Subich will MC a pierogi eating contest at the Men's Culinary Classic in Meadowlands, PA on March 10. Bob Kuhns and Brad Sciullo are expected to compete.
ESPNLV.com (Lehigh Valley) announces 2012 Munch Madness. The first qualifier will take place at Roosevelt's 21st in Allentown, PA. The finals on April 1 will award up to $500 in prizes. (via Nick email)
One copy of the philly.com article about the Wing Bowl by Faye Flam from January still lists Ed "Cookie" Jarvis as the subject of Dr. David Metz' study of competitive eating. Tim Janus was the actual subject (Another copy has been corrected) update Feb 18 Philly.com has a correction notice.
Wing Bowl 20 links Part 2
- SBNation report by a member of Kobayashi’s entourage
- SportsandFood.com contest report
- Kobayashi in People Magazine
- WIP videos
- Philly.com Behind the Scenes video
- Video of interview by Arthur Kade
- AroundPhilly.com video
- Patch.com interviews Martin “The Rooster” Russo
MyFoxPhilly has an article about Bill "El Wingador" Simmons retirement announcement on WIP earlier today. Simmons also said he thought Takeru Kobayashi would beat Joey Chestnut in a wing eating contest due to superior technique.
Moria Miller won the Vegan Wing Bowl at the Abbaye in Philadelphia Saturday. (gallery)
Wing Bowl 20 links
- updated Gawker has a report written by Maureen O’Connor, who served as Kobayashi’s Wingette.
- NBC’s Off the Bench has a report written by Josiah Schlatter, who was a member of Kobayashi’s entourage. He claims that Sonya Thomas’ final Wing Bowl was in 2004. (She also competed in the 2005 & 2007 Wing Bowls)
- In a Philly.com column former Philadelphia mayor / Pennsylvania governor describes his role in moving the Wing Bowl to the 76er / Flyers arena
- Philly.com oral history of the Wing Bowl with quotes from Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas, who says she will never do the Wing Bowl again
- The Wall Street Journal’s Japan blog calls Kobayashi the comeback kid
- Sports Illustrated’s calls Dave “US Male” Goldstein’s float the most offensive
- The Mainichi Daily News has an English article
- NJ.com report on the New Jersey competitors in which Bill “El Wingador” Simmons announces his retirement.
- PhillyChitChat.com has a blog entry with a lot of pictures
- 94WIP Video recap from WIP in which Angelo Cataldi says it might be the last Wing Bowl
- 94WIP video of Kobayashi, Squibb & Wingador eating
- 94WIP post-contest video of Kobayashi & El Wingador
- Crossing Broad’s video of Kobayashi backstage
- Videos of Wing Bowl 20 weigh-in
The new poll asks what you think is the most signficant factors in the increased totals for Wing Bowl 20.
The Duquesne student paper has an article about Amanda Corturillo winning a giant banana split eating contest held as the first Student vs. Food Challenge. It does not appear she finished the dessert according to a gallery of the contest.
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