There is an Eater X page on myspace listing his home state as Alabama and his height as 6’1″, facts which are not found on myspace.com/eaterx There is also a myspace.com/joeychestnut, but this page does not appear to be impersonating the San Jose State student.

Philly.com reports that Wing Bowl creator Angelo Cataldi was also a victim of a myspace impersonator.

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Brian Seiken has a photo gallery of Saturday’s goldenpalace.net jalapeno popper eating contest held at the Tuscon Spring Fling. It is surprising that Rich LeFevre did not compete in a southwestern contest.

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Thanks Brian Seiken – Crazy Legs Conti has compiled a list of competitive eating websites written in the inimitable Crazy Legs style.

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While the official opening of futureofeating.com remains in the future, Joey Chestnut fans can make do with his myspace site.

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After narrowly defeating impressario Dick Zigun in a mini hot dog contest 92 to 87 at a Coney Island charity gala, the next public appearance for Crazy Legs Conti will be Wednesday at Love Ahoy, a synthesis of The Dating Game and The Love Boat. Conti will oversee (or should that be oversea) a hot dog eating contest. Love Ahoy will take place at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn and is free to the public. Love Ahoy is also accepting applications for contestants, so single NYC eaters might want to send those in.

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The AICE news page announces that Adam Leffler intends to compete in their upcoming contests, making official his breach with IFOCE. Adam, who announced his retirement after December’s Atlantic City meatball contest, did not leave IFOCE on the best of terms according to this page on Brian Seiken’s website. In addition to joining AICE as an eater, Leffler says that he also hopes to work in the management side of that organization.

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The Austin Stateman has an update about Levi Oliver’s training for the Capital of Texas Triathlon at the end of May. “The Prophet” will also attempt to defend his tamale title. A documentary is being filmed about Oliver’s efforts to transform himself.

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Supersizedmeals.com reports that Joe LaRue ate 3 burgers containing 20 ounces of precooked meat at Cheeburger Cheeburger. The total weight of all burgers was about five pounds and Joe finished them in about 40 minutes. Finishing one burger that size entitles the eater to put a picture of him/herself on the restaurant’s Wall of Fame. Joe LaRue will attempt to defend his home turf at the first Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise Florida on Saturday.

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In a recent blog entry, Don “Moses” Lerman displays a portrait he had commissioned of himself as Moses. According to “Eat This Book”, Don also has a picture of himself as the king of Prussia. The new poll question asks what historical figure should Don Lerman next commission a portrait of himself as?

Updated 4/10 1:00 pm The picture of Don Lerman as the king of Prussia can be seen in this post.

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thanks Brian Seiken

1 Joey Chestnut 118
2 Pat Bertoletti 105
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus 96
4 Jed Donahue 63

Updated 4/9 6:40 pm Alex has an eyewitness account of the contest in his blog

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Dave Shoffner of the megamunch blog has posted rather conclusive evidence that the famous picture of Eric “Badlands” Booker eating Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound burger in a helmet decorated with a cartoon dog was modified.

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On his events calendar, Ryan Nerz says he will emcee a Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston on June 4. Nerz says that IFOCE does not publicize this event and it does not appear on either the IFOCE or Nathan’s website.

The first qualifier for the 2007 finals, which will take place at Saratoga Springs on September 4, 2006, is another event Nerz is scheduled to emcee. The 2005 contest to be held at that location was cancelled.

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In this article about the events planned for the 2006 Illinois State Fair, it is stated that a horseshoe (something containing french fries and cheese sauce) eating contest will be held, apparently replacing last year’s goldenpalace grilled cheese qualifier. The article does not explicitly state that the grilled cheese contest is not scheduled, so it is possible that the fair could host two eating contests. If the contest does not take place at the Illinois State Fair, the 2006 goldenpalace grilled cheese circuit could either be held at other venues or be dropped completely.

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The surge in popularity for the winner of the Gluttonous Queen contest, nicknamed “The Gal”, can be tracked by searching for her name (ギャル曽根) in Japanese blogs using technorati. There were almost 200 mentions of “The Gal” in Japanese blogs the day after her victory was televised. She currently has 439 mentions in Japanese blogs which is quite impressive when you take into account that her competitive eating career only started last fall. In comparision, Kate Stelnick has 244 mentions in blogs, most coming in January 2005 (and there are more blogs in the US than in Japan).

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(From beautifulbrian.com) Ryan Nerz has set up a web site promoting his recently released book at eatthisbook.com The website has a gallery, a calendar of Nerz’s appearances, an interview with the grilled cheese sandwich slandered by Tim “Eater X” Janus and a blog where you can expound on your hypotheses about the entities producing this website. The release party for “Eat This Book” will be on April 20 at a currently undetermined time and place.

According to his calendar, Nerz will appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on April 18 at 11 pm eastern.

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The University of Kansas student newspaper has a good article about competitive eating focusing on Pat Bertoletti. A gastroenterologist is also interviewed who says he would like to study the stomachs of competitive eaters in the hope of finding a treatment for dyspepsia.

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Atlantic Magazine has an excerpt of “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone in its May issue about the goldenpalace grilled cheese contest from early 2005 in Venice Beach. Only the first two paragraphs can be viewed online by non-subscribers.

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The new poll asks how many Nathan’s qualifiers an eater should be allowed to enter a year. There are only about 200 qualifier slots for about 300 million North Americans. One alternative would be to drop qualifiers altogether and give invitations to the top ranked 15-20 eaters.

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Today is the official release date of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz, and Liz has already read it and posted a review.

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The Whaler has returned to shore after three weeks away and he has expressed his ethical philosphospy in poetic form:

If you were to steal my milk and
Use it in your cereal because you had none,
I would steal your cat and
Lock it in my refrigerator.

Go to eaterx.blogspot.com to read the remainder

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Aside from last fall’s “gluttonous monarch” contest, the only other events that “The Gal” has participated in documented on the internet is a series of television appearances from from February and March. Each Wednesday afternoon Nippon TV broadcasted an eating challenge from a different restaurant in which “The Gal” usually competed against Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota. Shirota won all of these contests except one, where “The Gal” outate him by 182 items to 173. “The Gal” was generally close in the challenges she lost. If “The Gal” can match the 80%-105% of Shirota’s amounts she obtained in the challenges in Nathan’s, she should be able to eat 30-40 hot dogs (Shirota ate 38 hot dogs in 2004)

The Gal’s TV challenges

Feb 1 13 ft. 11 lb. sushi roll: Shirota 42:50, The Gal 52:45
Feb 8 Yamada 13 bowls, The Gal 12 bowls in 30 minutes- ties Shirota’s previous record
Feb 15 Yamada 190 sushi pieces, The Gal 183 pieces in 30 minutes, both break Shirota’s previous record of 176
Feb 22 The Gal 182 items, Shirota 173 items – items look like hot dog buns but are not disclosed
Mar 1 Shirota 330 strawberries, The Gal 283 strawberries in 30 minutes
Mar 22 Shirota 13 beef bowls, The Gal 11 beef bowls in 30 minutes

(Google translates Shirota as white rice field)

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Krista of Urban Honking takes you on a tour of Crazy Legs Conti’s workplace at the Penthouse Executive Club. Conti works as a buyer at the club and his shift ends before the topless dancers arrive.

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“The Gal” has been crowned the new queen of Japanese competitive eating.

Here are the results of the final rounds of the “Gluttonous Queen of Japan” contest televised on TV Tokyo yesterday obtained from Everyday of the R sea bass gluttony Part 1 (Google Translation) Part 2 (Google Translation) and Much & Fast (Google Translation)

Round 6->5 Sausage 30 minutes

1 35 “The Gal” (曽根奈津子)
2 25 Iwata (岩田ミユキ)
3 24 “The Nurse” (嘉数千恵)
3 24 Tomoko Mikaye (三宅智子)
5 16 Saito (斉藤千恵)
6 15 Ro (若園真由香) eliminated

“The Gal’s” total of 35 sausages matches what Sonya Thomas did in the Sheboygan Bratwurst contest, but Sonya had only 1/3 of the time.

Round 5->4 Rice 30 minutes

1 27 cups “The Gal” (曽根奈津子)
2 26 Iwata (岩田ミユキ)
3 20 Tomoko Mikaye (三宅智子)
3 20 “The Nurse” (嘉数千恵)
5 13 Saito (斉藤千恵)

At the 20 minute mark, Iwata was ahead of “The Gal” by 2 cups, but “The Gal” comes from behind to win this round.

Round 4->3 Shrimp 45 minutes

1 116 shrimp “The Gal” (曽根奈津子)
2 104 “The Nurse” (嘉数千恵)
2t 104 Iwata (岩田ミユキ)
4 90 Tomoko Mikaye (三宅智子)

Iwata and Tomoko Mikaye were neck and neck for the third place spot with Iwata finally avoiding elimination. The Nurse’s strong performance is a considerable surprise of this tournament and marks her as another Japanese female competive eater to pay attention to.

Final Round Chinese noodles 1 hour

Surprisingly there is not a 3->2 round; the winner of the three-woman contest is the overall champion. The results of this round are:

1 22 cups “The Gal” (曽根奈津子)
2 18 Iwata (岩田ミユキ)
3 15 “The Nurse” (嘉数千恵)

“The Gal” wins this round easily and basically coasts from the 45 minute mark, when she had 20 bowls. She spends some of the final 15 minutes fixing her makeup, which Iwata apparently views as taunting. During the post contest handshake, Iwata attacks “The Gal” according to this blog entry (Google translation)

The popularity of “The Gal” has held spur a resurgence in Japanese competitive eating according to this blog entry (Google translation) but it probably has a considerable distance to go to reach the level of popularity it had around the turn of the century. Another “Gluttonous Monarch of Japan” contest open to both genders will apparently be held this fall.

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Hauler has the first report (Google translation) on today’s broadcast of the second elimination round of “The Gluttonous Queen of Japan” Hauler says “The Gal” won, but no other results are listed so it is impossible to tell who was eliminated.

Daybreakforce, a Tomoko Miyake fan, has a preview (Google translation) of today’s contest.

I will post full results here when they are available.

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Joe LaRue won the pancake eating contest at the Maple Festival in Marathon, NY, but failed to break his record from last year, falling short by three pancakes. Video from the contest is available (see link).

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