Masako Hozumi, a member of the Japanese Olympic speed skating team, won an eating contest in high school by eating 23 cups of ramen noodles in 3 minutes (via R Suzuki)
Brittany Albrecht attempts Kookamonga challenge
Brittany Albrect has a blog entry about her attempt at the Kookamonga burger challenge at Kooky Canuck’s in Memphis in which she ate more of the 7.5 pound burger than any previous female challenger (and more than Adam Richman did in the Memphis episode of Man vs. Food as well).
update Feb 14 Brittany has competed in three bodybuilding contests (Perhaps she could become the female “Furious” Pete)
BostonAthleticSupporters.com reports that the Harvard's women's swimming team defeated the Boston Blazers indoor lacross team in a four person burrito eating relay contest. Gallery | Video
University of Washington javelin thrower Brooke Tighin claims she eats 7-8000 calories a day, which has enabled her to gain 23 pounds of muscle since starting college.
Kim Olech, who finished 11th in Mallie's calamari contest according to Bill Myers' records, was a third team NAIA All-American on the Madonna University basketball team and led the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference in rebounding (10.44 per game)
Jack n Grill 7 pound burrito Wall of Fame
John Wenzel has a picture of the 7 pound breakfast burrito Wall of Fame at Jack n Grill in Denver showing the three women who have finished the challenge and will reportedly receive free food from the restaurant for life. Rager and Beer Monster has a blog entry about the wall of fame which says that the woman pictured flexing (reportedly a female bodybuilder) also ate a basket of chips and dessert along with her burrito.
Mongo Marquez also recently completed the challenge and ate dessert.
Gallery of St. Louis eating challenges
Metromix has a captioned gallery of St Louis area eating challenges. The prize for the pizza challenge at Talayna’s is now $2000 (the challenge requires both members of a 2 person team to each drink a pitcher of soda in addition to eating a 30 inch pizza.)
In other St. Louis eating challenge news, bodybuilder Isabelle Turell announces that she intends to take on the Pointersaurus challenge with her fiance in May.
Charleston.net reports that a cheerleader defeated two large men in a cheeseburger eating contest held during half time of last night's U of Kentucky / U of South Carolina basketball game. (update GameCockCentral says the winner was actually a member of the dance team)
The University of Michigan women's tennis blog reports that Rika Tatsuno ate 12 chicken wings in 12.5 seconds.
Link Buffet: November 18, 2008
- Video of Kobayashi’s TV appearance after he defeated Joey Chestnut in Singapore
- The Man vs. Food message board on travelchannel.com has some eating challenges I was not aware of
- Presentation about competitive eating tonight at a benefit for the Brooklyn greenway
- Sheep’s butt eating challenge on The Amazing Race
- Video of Hatsuyo Sugawara’s victory in this spring’s okonomiyaki eating contest
- New Jersey pasta eating contest report
- Video of a high school cross country team’s pizza eating contest – results: #1 Caleb 27 slices, #2 Miranda 20 slices
Link Buffet: November 13, 2008
- Interview with director Josh Camerote about “Swallow Your Pride”
- Female bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has signed with the WLOCE according to WLOCE.com
- Kobayashi does a pudding eating contest to promote the “Angry Kid” DVD release (this might be the first contest in Japan Kobayashi has done since the last Food Battle Club in 2002)
- Central Michigan University wing eating contest report
- Wing Bowl 17 tickets are already for sale on Craigslist even though they have yet to become available to the general public
- Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster eating contest in Singapore December 6
- Austin, TX pizza eating contest Saturday
- Monique Griffin wins a pizza eating contest at Luke Air Force Base
SoCal BBQ buffet battle of the sexes tomorrow
A yelp post announces an untimed eating contest based on the number of plates consumed will be held at the Garden Buffet BBQ & Seafood in Artesia, California tomorrow night. Yuki M, who claims to have eaten 7,000 calories a day at her height of training as a powerlifter, will represent the XX chromosome in that event. An older post about the contest is also available.
Isabelle Turell applies to the IFOCE
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell reports in a forum thread that she has sent an application to the IFOCE, which has not yet responded. She also announces her intention to attempt the Pointersaurus Pizza challenge with her fiance, who says that Isabelle once ordered five multiple-patty burgers from McDonald’s
IFBB North American Lightweight Champ Lori Steele claims in the thread that she is the niece of Rich LeFevfre
Isabelle Turell’s myspace page lists her ethnicity as Hispanic. Orange County taco champion Karina Muniz and “Nurse” Caterina of the Heart Attack Grill would be Isabelle’s only rivals for the title of top Latina competitive eater that I am aware of.
Link Buffet: September 15, 2008
- Registration for the NYC Famous Famiglia pizza contest opens at noon today
- SE Missouri cross country runner Amy Guignon wins the SE Missouri fair hot dog eating contest (women took the top 3 places)
- Kevin Ross is robbed at gunpoint in his home according to BB’s Bits and Pieces
- Miss Busy Lady has a video of her competitive eating souvenirs
- Videos from the gyoza contest by the Trash Talkin Juicers
- Alex from Panama is traveling to New York and Boston between September 22 to 30 and would like to meet up with other eaters for eating challenges (from email)
Olympic perfect game pitcher is CE fan
Monica Abbott did not allow a baserunner when she pitched the USA’s softball team to an 8-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday, which is believed to be the first perfect game in Olympics history (The game was truncated to five innings due to the runs ahead rule)
Abbott lists herself as a competitive eating fan on her yardbarker page. She has three classes left to complete her degree at the University of Tennessee according to her NBC profile, so maybe she could compete in the Knoxville Krystal qualifier. (At 6′3″ and 193 lbs, Monica is approximately the same size as Michael Phelps.)
update Monica Abbott pitched a three hitter this morning to stave off a Japanese upset in extra innings and advance the United States team to the gold medal game. Image added from Yahoo Sports.
Michael Phelps & other Olympians calories per day
The New York Post has an article about the diet of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps which consists of 3 meals containing 4,000 calories each for a total of approximately 12,000 calories. Phelps’ typical breakfast:
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog and Bleacher Report have entries about Phelps’ food consumption. The eight gold medal hopeful is a regular patron of Pete’s Grill in Baltimore according to a MyFoxDC article, so perhaps he could enter that restaurant’s annual pancake eating contest.
The New York Times has a slideshow of Olympians which lists their daily calorie consumption:
- Christian Cantwell, shotput, 335 lbs., 5000 calories
- Deena Kastor, marathon, 103 lbs., 4000 calories
- Cheryl Haworth, weightlifting, 300 lbs., 3000 – 4000 calories
- Brett Newlin, rowing, 225 lbs., 6000 calories
- Sarah Hammer, cycling, 135 lbs., 4500 calories
Rower Jamie Schroeder estimates he consumes 8,000 – 10,000 calories a day.
Volleyball player Stacy Sykora has the highest daily calorie consumption I could find for a current female Olympian at 5,000, with a sizeable percentage of that coming from McDonald’s burgers.
Canadian rower Heather Clarke might have set the all time record for female Olympians when she consumed 10,000 calories a day in preparing for the 1980 games.
update
MSNBC has a video of all the food listed in the New York Post article
An article and video about Michael Phelps’ visits to Michigan restaurants are available.
Youtube has a NBC commercial about Phelps
RushLimbaugh.com has a commentary on Phelps’ diet and the British left-wing newspaper The Guardian calls Phelps a “right greedy pig”
ABC news has an article on Olympians diets
According to a Saturday Night Live transcript, Diana Nyad ate 12,000 – 12,500 calories a day while training for ultramarathon swimming, which is not an Olympic sport.
Link Buffet: August 1, 2008
- Myspace page for Billy “the Fridge”, winner of Saturday’s donut contest in Seattle
- Forest City, PA pierogi eating contest Saturday
- A more positive review of the MLE video game
- Long blog entry about the Singapore contest
- Bodybuilder / competitive eater Isabelle Turell wins a bodybuilding contest and gets engaged
Isabelle Turell: 20 burgers in 20 minutes?
After successfully completing a 48 ounce steak challenge bodybuilder Isabelle Turell is taking suggestions for her next eating challenge:
I even thought about doing a video clip on my cheat meal as I am due for another one. Maybe I could do a challenge with eating 20 McDonalds cheeseburgers in less than 20 mins. Any other suggestions. LOL.
Trust me I can eat
Isabelle Turell receives free 48 oz. steak
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has a picture and brief account of her eating a 48 ounce steak on her blog. She was rewarded with a free meal, a T shirt and a picture on the unnamed restaurant’s wall for finishing the steak in under 20 minutes.
update Isabelle has additional comments on her finishing the steak in a bodybuilding forum thread. She has been banned by the restaurant (which is probably Sam’s Steakhouse in Terre Haute, Indiana) from attempting the challenge again.
Talk about hungry sisters
In the comments to a video of a Pointersaurus attempt, “socca4u” announced that she and her sister became the first all female team to complete the 12+ pound pizza and win $500, but their feat had yet to be recorded on Pointer’s web site. The finishers list has now been updated to include Pam and Jennifer Cooney of Katy, Texas. Another comment says the two women finished in 20 minutes (I believe one of the two IFOCE teams took 14 minutes).
“socca4u” is most likely Pam Cooney because she was a member of University of Alamaba at Birmingham soccer team. She competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel and was named both all-American by the Jewish Sports Review and to the first team of the 2005 NSCAA/adidas College Women Scholar All-South Region after posting a 3.77 gpa.
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Micheal Springer interview in PC newspaper
The website for the newspaper of Providence College has an interview with Michael Springer. Springer was prohibited from competing in the finals for the “Eat The Meat” wing contest after winning a qualifier, but that ban was not mentioned in the interview.
In other news about big eating Friars, this Rhode Island Monthly article about former Providence basketball player, and current ESPN announcer, Doris Burke, reports she is the second biggest eater in women’s basketball:
She’s hungry, and as she parks in the darkness of a casino garage she hopes she isn’t too late for the crew lunch. She works out ninety minutes most days at a gym near her house, and she is as slender as she was twenty years ago when she played at PC. You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she can out-eat any woman on the basketball circuit but one, and she’s half Burke’s age.
Link Buffet: February 9, 2008
Juris Shibayama answers 10 questions on IFOCE.com
U of Penn student newspaper report about the Wing Bowl
Cornell Sun report from Wing Bowl 16
philadelphia.about.com Wing Bowl 16 gallery, has pictures of Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark, Wing Kong, Humble Bob, Wing Tut, US Male, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and others
Gallery of Hamtrack, MI paczki eating contest
Takuya Yamamoto thinks the root beer he drank in the USA is Coke with a “drug-ish kind of taste”
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell eats a 1 pound burger and then a half pound ostrich burger
Blimpy Burger Challenge video uploaded
The segment containing diners’ attempts to break their personal bests in Blimpy Burgers from last night’s episode of “Diners Drive Ins & Dives” on the Food Network has been uploaded (7MB about 3 minutes)
The record holder, James Rocker, appears but does not try to break his mark of 40 patties. Rocker has an account of his record attempt on his live journal.
UMich female hockey player eats 21 burgers on Food TV
Tonight’s episode of “Diners, Drive Ins and Dives” on the Food Network, titled “Burgers, Rings and Fries”, closes with Lauren Lobert of the University of Michigan’s women’s hockey team eating 21 burgers. She mentions her eating ability on her hockey team page where she says she has the female record for eating Blimpie Burgers. The episode will rerun at 1am (10pm Pacific) and I will try to record it and upload the clip. (For anyone keeping track, today is the third anniversary of Kate Stelnick’s appearances on Good Morning America and the Tony Danza show.)
update A video clip of the Blimpy Burger challenge segment has been uploaded.
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell goes grocery shopping
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has uploaded a video of her describing the contents of a full grocery cart to http://youtube.com/watch?v=ai_T8DjUyCY She estimates the food will last her 2 or 3 days. Ms. Turell comments on the video in this Muscular Development thread and says she has considered entering an eating contest In this musclemayhem thread:
Now one another note… If I to a resturant like for example I went to Cheesecake Factory. I order the big sampler appetizer. i eat the whole thing myself. THe waiter will be like thats alot of food, mentally i am thinking “yeah and your piont is??” I am a paying customer, don’t question me on what I order. I must have ate that thing up in 10 minutes. I then order the big filet mignon and of course cheesecake not 1 but maybe 3 cheesecake to nibble here and there. But that once in a while.
I have ben tempted to enter these food eating contest, but I can’t see myself stuffing face like some of those people. But i would be kinda of fun to try. I would probably pass out or something
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