An anonymous comment claims that the kolache eating contest at the Houston Astros game Friday night and the grits eating contest in Louisiana on Saturday will be cancelled due to hurricane Ike. No official decision appears to have been announced, but the Houston Astros website does report that the Astros game on Friday will be played at 1:05 pm if it appears that Ike will threaten Houston.

Megamunch has a blog entry and gallery about the hamburger eating contest held at A Taste of Hambuger-ger on Saturday. The top 4:
1 Ian Hickman 15 burgers
2 Carey Poehlmann 9.5 burgers
3. Joel Podelsky 9 burgers
4. Dave Shoffner 7 burgers

The Nathan’s finals will be rerun tonight on ESPN at 3am eastern. This is the only rerun that currently appears in the online TV schedules.

• Furious Pete wins Coney Island burgers by eating 9.75 burgers in 6 minutes. He will attempt Clinton Station Diner’s Zeus burger today.
• Rock Hill, SC hot dog contest
• Pensacoloa, FL hot dog contest
• Round Rock, TX jalapeno eating contest
• St. George, UT hot dog contest
• St. Petersburg, FL hot dog contest

Wicked Local has an article about the pumpkin pie eating contest between Joe Menchetti and Tom “Goose” Gilbert on the Chris Tabb show. Gilbert’s victory resulted in his being named the top eater in the new independent rankings.

The Houston Chronicle has a preview of the matzo ball eating contest that will be held March 2 at Kenny & Ziggy’s Deli. The restaurant’s web site also has a page about the contest.

The blog for former NFL offensive lineman Tony Mandarich announced in July that he has completed his autobiography and is shopping it to publishers (No followup entries about its publication status have been made) In 1988, the New York Times wrote an article about Mandarich’s diet and training:

Mandarich knows that some opponents attribute his muscular development to steroids. But he insists he has built his physique slowly with a rigid weight training program and a menu that provides 15,000 calories a day. ”I’m not a big eater at any one meal,” he said, ”but I have seven meals every day.”

Three are 3,000-calorie milk shakes, two are thin steak sizzlers, one a 3-ounce beef patty and the seventh a whole 3-pound chicken.

The sixth eatcast podcast is now available and the guests are Pat Bertoletti and Brian Seiken. Topics include the Krystal finals and “Wedges and Wings”.

Erik Denmark’s blog has a link to a podcast of a radio interview he did after his victory in the Shea Stadium qualifier

Please continue discussions not related to the Wing Bowl that were in the Wing Bowl Poll thread in comments to this post. Wing Bowl related comments can stay in the original thread. Thank you.

EmeraldCoast.com has more on the Apalachicola Oyster Festival. The women’s & overall winner, Mel Tyler, has a married daughter.

Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.

From KrystalSquareOff.com

Mississippi State Fair Krystal qualifier results, Jackson, MS

1) Crazy Legs Conti, 38 burgers
2) “The Natural” Arturo Rios, 35 burgers
3) Erik “the Red” Denmark, 32

DQ) Justin Mih, had 37 burgers at end of regulation, but was disqualified after Erik Denmark claimed that Mih had a reversal and video replay confirmed this claim

Final wildcard results
1) Rich LeFevre 51
2) Seaver Miller 41
3) Justin Mih, 36
4) Arturo Rios, 36 (extremely consistent in other 2 qualifiers where he did 35)

Wing Tut reports that the first meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania will take place at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA on November 4 at 3pm.

Geva has an account of an eating contest at the Hometown Buffet in his myspace blog which ended with the entire party being banned from that restaurant for life for transgressions other than eating too much food. (The entry has adult language and content, so be warned)

Brian Seiken sent me the following trivia question:

Which person encouraged or pressured the following eaters to enter competitive eating?

• Ed Jarvis
• Charles Hardy
• Brian Seiken
• Don Lerman

I will post the answers in a few days.

While many fast food restaurants are promoting the healthiness of some of their menu items, the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona has gone in the opposite direction and calls its main offering “bypass burgers”. Those sandwiches can have up to two pounds of meat. The restaurant’s main gimmick is having its waitresses wear nurse outfits. The Arizona Board of Nurses has threatened a lawsuit against the restaurant. The restaurant has an extensive Wikipedia entry which is under threat of deletion

The grill does not have an eat it quickly and get it for free challenge, but it does have an Alpha Male Monday, in which a member of a party of four or more can get a free meal. There is a “Hall of Fame” on the restaurant website.

The Heart Attack Grill has a proto-blog which records happenings at the restaurant. In the June 2006 archives, the grill laid down a challenge to the IFOCE:

In fact, I still issue an open challenge to Kobayashi, The Black Widow (An “Honorary Guy” in anyone’s book), Joey Chestnut and the rest of those hotdog eating wussies at the IFOCE. Simrin is our King and there’s no questioning his superiority for the simple reason that he’s the world’s only competitive eating artist who works with the MANLY MEDIUM of the Quadruple Bypass Burger. The rest of the other sissies eat little wimpy hot dogs.

The Onion’s horoscope for Pisces

You will rock the competitive-eating world this week after deciding to return to the sport just four hours after announcing your retirement.

I wonder if any eaters who have announced retirement and then returned are Pisces.

Domenico Alesi has galleries of the bratwurst qualifier and last winter’s chocolate contest.

(From Liz) Cabel has a report from the Chinook Winds rib contest

In the process of moving this blog to eatfeats.com, I have changed the database URL to http://eatfeats.com/query.php.

Thanks Wyatt Earp. A video clip of Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Tim “Eater X” Janus in a one minute Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on Good Morning America this morning can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2142642 Joey Chestnut was declared the winner with 7.5 hot dogs in one minute, but Kobayashi’s and Tim’s totals were not announced (and apparently not counted). George Shea stated that Kobayashi would attend the Johnsonville bratwurst contest in Wisconsin.

If that video clip does not satisfy your competitive eating on Good Morning America fix, video clips of Kate Stelnick from January are available: Segment 1, Segment 2

Super Paul Barlow has compiled a list of the 15 best dressed eaters on his myspace blog.

Congratulations to Levi Oliver for finishing the Capital of Texas Triathlon on Memorial Day (400m swim, 10K bike, 5K run) in steamy conditions. The Austin Statesman has an article on how he did it.

Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota has a blog entry with a ten part questionaire to help a reader determine if he or she is suited for competitive eating.

Two competitive eaters have been members of their national ultimate frisbee team. Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota, was the tallest member of the Japanese team before he quit in 2004 to focus on competitive eating, which would pay off in a second place finish at Nathan’s. “Loppi” Joe Kershner, winner of last Friday’s amateur jalapeno popper contest, played on the US Juniors team in 2004, which went undefeated at the World Championship in Finland.