A clip of Moe’s Burritos for Life finals held at Georgia Tech Labor Day weekend has been posted to youtube. The clip supports speedeat’s report that Mike (Shelley) won the contest by eating 5.5 (or 6) burritos in 8 minutes (and disproves Dale Boone’s comment that Tony Rizzo was the victor)

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MetaFilter has a thread listing restaurant’s eating challenges. Challenges that I had not seen before include the “Squealer” BBQ challenge at the Muddy River Smokehouse in New Hampshire and the Big Ass Brat or Burger Challenge at State Street Brats in Madison Wisconsin.

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The OK Gazette reports that Patrick Bertoletti, Tim Janus and Larry McNeil are expected at the goldenpalace.net Fried Okra Eating Championship at the Oklahoma State Fair.

The Reader reports that Joey Chestnut, Chip Simpson and defending champion Rich LeFevre are expected at the World Pulled Pork-Eating Contest at Harrah’s Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

zerobxu will also compete in the pulled pork contest. zerobxu competed in the kolache eating contest and has a blog entry and gallery about that contest.

KrystalSquareOff lists Pat Bertoletti, Juris Shibayama, Arturo Rios, Larry McNeil as expected competitors in the Knoxville qualifier.

Updated 9/15 4:28 pm (Thanks Brian Cooley) The U of Tenn student paper has an article about the Knoxville qualifier. Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to break 60.

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The London (Ontario, Canada) Free Press reports that a woman who was in critical condition after choking on a marshmallow at the Western fair died. The woman was participating in a contest in which the objective was to stuff as many marshmallows as possible into one’s mouth and then say the words “Chubby bunny” The woman’s family did not release her name.

Updated 1:56 am The Globe and Mail has a long article about the death which includes the woman’s name. The “Chubby Bunny” game killed a 12 year old schoolgirl in Illinois in 1999.

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IFOCE.com has a retirement announcement for Don “Moses” Lerman and says that he will help judge tomorrows’s cannoli contest. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will receive a lifetime achievement award before the contest.

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(From unaccepted comment by “Mr. Wright”) AICE News reports that Christina Gumola, who won Pittsburgh Steeler tickets by winning a Roethlisburger eating contest in 2004, won tickets to the Steeler’s opener last week by winning a hot dog eating contest held at KISS FM 96.1. Christina tied with 97 pound Andrea by eating 8.5 hot dogs in 5 minutes, but was awared the victory by the DJs because they claimed she finished eating first. A men’s contest was also held, the winner, Joe, ate 6.5 hot dogs.

Youtube has videos of the contests: women’s, men’s

kissfm961.com has pictures from the contest: Gallery 1, Gallery 2

Kiss FM also hosted an unsuccessful attempt at eating 40 HDB in 40 minutes which is available on youtube

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded videos of the Kolache contest won by Pat Bertoletti, the precontest introductions and the $100K rookie grilled cheese challenge to youtube. Skinnyboy nas a trip report with pictures on his blog.

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The 4th annual Corny Dog contest will be held at the Texas State Fair on October 1. The first place prize is $500 with 2 Southwest Airlines tickets. The registration deadline is September 18.

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Gwyneth Doland has written an article about last month’s jalapeno contest won by Pat Bertoletti for the Santa Fe Reporter.

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Krista has emailed me that she has written a tribute to Eric “Badlands” Booker containing quotes from several eaters.

Krista has also informed me that a recent episode of “Miami Ink” featured the discoverer of the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich bought by GoldenPalace getting a tattoo of that object, so you might want to check out a rerun of that if you are interested in competitive eating themed tatoos.

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The London (Ontario, CA) Free Press reports that an unnamed woman is in critical condition after choking at a mouth stuffing contest at the Western Fair. The objective of the contest was to stuff as many marshmellows as possible at one time into one’s mouth. Paramedics were apparently not present during the contest and had to be called in. This is the second tragic incident at a Canadian contest; a man died in a wing eating contest in Regina in 2004.

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The leaders for the four Krystal Square Off wildcard slots are listed below. The current cutoff is 33 burgers.

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pensacolanewsjournal.com has a report on a pizza eating contest for first responders held yesterday to honor the victims of 9/11/2001. Adam McCoy of the Pensacola police won $2000 and additional prizes for eating 1.5 pizzas in 10 minutes. McCoy gave his winnings to Cory Jackson, who recently suffered three broken vertebrae.

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kansascity.com and hutchnews.com have reports from yesterday’s team hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair. The National Guard team won with a combined total of 46 hot dogs. Radio personality Lucky Kidd had the best individual mark with 13 or 14 HDB. (The contest is not a qualifier for the Nathan’s finals in Coney Island)

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from hallhooverhunt.blogspot.com: Jacksonville.com has three galleries of the Krystal qualifier held in Jacksonville on Labor Day weekend.

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The Reflector reports that Donald Whichard and Darlene Pollard each won $100 by eating six pounds of collard greens in the men’s and women’s division of the collard-eating contest at the Collard Festival in Ayden, North Carolina on Saturday. Ms. Pollard claims that her collard victory was “a mission for God.”

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Youtube has a clip of Kobayashi’s first loss to an American at http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgqbCq_sxmo

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Domenico Alesi has started a blog at http://domenicothesicilian.blogspot.com/

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from IFOCE.com

GoldenPalace.net World Sausage Eating Championship, Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City
1. Joey Chestnut 29 sausages
2. Pat Bertoletti 25.5 sausages
3. Rich LeFevre 21.5 sausages
4. Levi Nelson – corrected 9:32 am – thanks “Yo Mama”

Updated 9/11 8:11 am KSL has an article w/video and the Salt Lake Tribune has an article about the contest

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4:27 pm eastern – the contest has started and I am like getting one frame per second on the webcam

4:29 Humble Bob has eaten 30 burgers 3 minutes into the contest

4:35 contest results
1st “Humble” Bob Shoudt 52 – ties w/Joey
2nd Erik “the Red” Denmark 34
3rd Juris Shibayama 33

Updated 8:47 pm – Krystal has full results posted

Juris Shibayama is an orthopedic surgeon

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A clip of a reality show in which Natsuko “Gal” Sone goes to live with a family is available on youtube Part 1 Part 2. There is not much eating in the clips.

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The new poll asks who you think was the top eater who did not compete in any IFOCE contests from July 5, 2005 to July 4, 2006.

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Happy third birthday to the top non-IFOCE eater website on the internet.

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krystalsquareoff.com has the roster for tomorrow’s qualifier in Nashville. Ranked eaters expected are:

Humble Bob Shoudt (IFOCE #5)
Erik “The Red” Denmark (IFOCE #12)
Jim Hamrick (IFOCE #27)
Kevin Carr (IFOCE #31)

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Bloomberg.com reports that billionaire dissident investor Nelson Peltz was elected to the Heinz board of directors. Peltz wants Heinz to market more actively and said the company should spend $200,000 to cosponsor Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. One other Peltz ally was elected to the board. Peltz had hoped to gain five seats on the twelve person board.

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