Upcoming Pittsburgh eating contests
| 2012 Jun 13 | I | Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier | Market Square | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2012 Jul 15 | Ice Cream Eating Contest | Bruster's | Ingomar, PA |
| 12 psycho wings | Psycho Wing Challenge | Jigger's Bar | Export, PA | have two types of psycho sauce |
| 12 lb. pizza | Alexander the Great | Alexander's Pizza and Subs | Mount Pleasant, PA | for 2 person teams |
| 5 lb. Italian sub | The Italian Stallion | Pasta Lorenzo | Uniontown, PA |
PittsburghLive reports that Pittsburgh is a possible location in the 2011 Nathan's qualifier circuit.
The facebook for Kretchmar's Bakery reports that Pete Maurizio won Saturday's cake eating contest by eating 13 cupcakes in 3 minutes without using liquids.
The facebook for Kretchmar's Bakery in Beaver, PA lists "Gentleman Joe" and "The Lunatic" as expected competitors in Saturday's cake eating contest.
Kretchmar's Bakery will hold a cake eating contest on October 23 at the Beaver, PA (North Pittsburgh area) Fall Festival for pros at the Beaver, PA Fall Festival awarding $600 ($500 to the winner) and an amateur competition awarding $300 ($250 to the winner).
The twitter for Miss Pennsylvania announces she will compete in a spaghetti eating contest at Rizzo's Malabar Inn in Crabtree (Pittsburgh area) on Sunday.
Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo ate five pounds of spaghetti in 4:23 at the Italian Festival in Uniontown, PA, breaking a world record of 4:31. The official IFOCE pasta record is 6.67 pounds in 10 minutes by Cookie Jarvis even though Takeru Kobayashi ate 13 pounds in 14 minutes at the 2005 US Open of Competitive eating.
Boring Pittsburgh has a report on the Bacon Bash with some pictures of the bacon eating contest. AJ was the winner of that event.
Tim "Obi Wing" Cain is organizing a group trip to the All You Can Eat seats at PNC Park in Pittsburgh for the September 4 Pittsburgh Pirates game.
Pittsburgh Live has a report on the milk chugging contest at the Fayette County Fair where Brad Sciullo drank a gallon of milk in 52.35 seconds.
Brad Sciullo defeats Bob Kuhns in Sloppy Joe Showdown
Tim Cain has emailed the following results of the Sloppy Joe Showdown held at Downey’s House Saturday. The contest was 8 minutes with picnic style rules:
1st Brad Sciullo 29 sandwiches (7 1/4 lbs)
2nd Bob Kuhns 28 3/4 sandwiches ( 7 lbs.)
3rd Ryan DeCaro 16 sandwiches (4 lbs.)
The blog for Downey’s House has some pictures
update July 28 ObiWingKenobi has uploaded a video
The Carson City Saloon in Pittsburgh will hold a wing eating contest on July 26 awarding a pair of Jimmy Buffet tickets to the winner.
A wing contest at Wolfendale's in Indiana, PA May 7 will award Pittsburgh Penguin Eastern Conference Finals tickets before the Penguins have won their Eastern Conference Semifinal against Montreal.
Tim "Obi Wing Kenobi" Cain has uploaded a video of his second place finish in at a Rock the Tot contest at a Pittsburgh Bar Louie. Brad "The Lunatic" Sciullo won the contest with by eating 5 pounds and 13 ounces of tater tots, an amount greater than the national winner ate the previous two years.
The facebook for the Double Wide Grill reports that Brad "The Lunatic" won its eating contest last night by eating a 1.5 pounds of tofu and seitan wings in 40 seconds.
Brad Sciullo wins Men’s Culinary Classic pierogi contest
The Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo won the pierogi-eating contest at the Men’s Culinary Classic at the Washington County Fairgrounds by eating 58 pierogis in 3 minutes. Some more facts about Sciullo from the article:
- He says he almost died and had a temperature of 104 after eating the 15+ pound Denny’s Belly Buster burger
- He claims to have won the world milk drinking competition by drinking a gallon of milk in 22 seconds
- His next contest will take place Thursday at the finals of the tofu wing eating contest at the Double Wide Grill.
Post-Gazette reports that Brian Subich will serve as MC for the pierogi eating contest at the March 20 Men's Culinary Classic in Washington County, PA (Pittsburgh area).
Post-Gazette.com: Double Wide Grill in Pittsburgh will hold a tofu wing eating contest next month. (Qualifiers March 11 & 18, finals March 25 to award a $100 gift card to Whole Foods)
The Carson City Saloon in Pittsburgh will hold a wing eating contest tonight that will award an autographed Sidney Crosby jersey.
Club Zoo in Pittsburgh will hold a Hooters wing eating contest tonight.
Man vs. Food season 3 to start recording in Jan
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article about Adam Richman’s appearance at at the Giant Eagle Market District in Robinson, PA which reports that the third season of Man vs. Food will begin recording in January and that book project for the program is in the works.
Post-Gazette reports that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will be in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
(Via Tim Cain email) A wing eating contest involving 4 person teams from Pittsburgh and Cleveland will be held tomorrow at the Ice House Inn in Austintown, Ohio. CompetitiveEaters.com has more information.
TimesOnline reports that Pete Maurizio won yesterday's hot dog eating contest at the Bridgewater-Beaver County River Regatta by eating 19 hot dogs in 5 minutes.
The Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo will judge an Italian Stallion sandwich eating contest at the Fayette County (PA) Fairgrounds on Saturday.
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