Pat Bertoletti wins Chicago Ribfest

update June 13 Val Bromann has a blog entry and gallery

update #3 CNN IReport has a video

update #2 Center Square Journal has a gallery

update The eating contest twitter has the top 4:

1) Pat Bertoletti 4.26 lb. in 8 minutes
2) Ben “The Wolf” Taylor 3.9 lb.
3) Erik Denmark 2.74 lb.
4) Tim “Gravy” Brown 2.18 lb.

The rib eating contest at the Chicago Ribfest should start at 7 pm eastern.

Here is a video from March of Chicago Blackhawks competing in a popsicle eating contest.

Comments (14)

14 Comments »

  1. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

    The Wolf was nipping at his ass! Good job Ben.

  2. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2010 @ 11:34 pm

    Ribs are always a tricky food, Great Job Pat and especially Ben Taylor

  3. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

    a victory for the wolf is a victory for the children he sponsors in third world countries.

  4. KevinRoss said

    June 12, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    I met Ben Taylor at flautas and was impressed with his performance. . .apparently he’s getting even better!!

  5. Val said

    June 12, 2010 @ 3:00 am

    Gravy got robbed. The measurements were all kinds of crazy

  6. Eric the Blue said

    June 12, 2010 @ 3:05 am

    Denmark rules!

  7. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2010 @ 11:48 am

    Scale problems…what else is new?

  8. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2010 @ 1:15 pm

    My ribs didn’t even get weighed…shows you they only care about their top eaters

  9. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    Not the first time there was weighing issues. Ask pat about the contest over memorial day when no scale was used

  10. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2010 @ 2:32 pm

    Look, people are busy and have no time to fart around weighing totals of distant finishers.

  11. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    June 12, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    Well when you eat like seven ribs what do you expect.

  12. Craig Reed said (Registered February 21, 2009)

    June 13, 2010 @ 2:27 am

    Yeah, you can’t really expect them to weigh your exact total when you’re obviously out of the money. The audience wants to watch the contest, hear who the winners are, and get out. They don’t care how much Timmy Table-ender in 15th place ate or sit around so they can get his total.

  13. Anonymous said

    June 13, 2010 @ 5:17 am

    Maybe some other eaters should change their names to Ben.

  14. MLE Fan said

    June 14, 2010 @ 2:12 pm

    deep dish and gravy were tray for tray…deep dish did start moving faster but it still wasn’t that major..for gravy to slide all the way down to 4th..i think someone didn’t count the tray that gravy finished then threw back behind him since no one was paying attention to who needed ribs..i agree with val…but great job to everyone who ate, it was tough to watch and i’m sure more tough to eat.

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