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Milk & Cookies, 5 minutes, top 3 spots separated by 2 cookies
1. “King” George Van Laar, 59 cookies & milk
2. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 58
3. Chris “The American” Schlesinger 57
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 49.25
DQ Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 80 but did not finish all the milk

Canadian Back Bacon & Bun
1. Tom “Goose” Gilbert, 7.5 6oz sandwiches
2. Lew “The Chew” Porchiazzo, 6.5
3. Mark “The Human Vacuum” Lyle, 5.67
4. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne 5

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If Yao Wing intends to compete in Wing Bowl 15, he should probably update yaowing.com, or at least remove the cartoon on the home page, before he attempts his stunt.

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I attempted to make some video captures of Kobayashi’s TV Funhouse appearance but did not post them since the youtube video quality was too low. abcdane has succeeded in making a blog entry with some captures. I wonder if the eater to the left of animated Kobayashi at Nathan’s is based on an actual eater. He probably looks the most like Bob Shoudt among Nathan’s finals participants.

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Adrian Liloni has written a blog entry in Italian about Sonya Thomas (there is also some content about other IFOCE members as well) The author has apparently requested an interview from Sonya.

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Justin Mih might have a female competitive eating counterpart in the Harvard community. The Harvard Crimson reports that Gretchen Salyer, a 2005 graduate, won the garlicky greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge by eating 2.73 pounds of vegetables in 5 minutes, defeating last year’s champion John Pepper. Ms. Salyer is a former member of the Harvard/Radcliffe crew team.

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(from kmikeym) A set of the magnets of the 2006 Nathan’s finalists made by Liz & Krista and praised by Kobayashi are for sale on ebay. The funds will go towards Liz’s travel expenses to cover contests, so the more you bid, the more contest writeups will appear on urbanhonking.com

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The Heart Attack Grill reports that it will be the subject of John Stossel’s “Give Me a Break” segment on 20/20 tonight. 20/20 will start at 9pm instead of the usual 10pm airtime.

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A brief clip of the competitive eating category in Jeopardy with an answer about Cookie Jarvis can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_Ny7qc7V0

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With the biggest Canadian eating contest this weekend, I reposted the start of a blog entry that was originally on the Montreal Expos website in 2002. The blog entry describes a public access cable show on Ottawa cable that starred a woman named Celeste who would eat a large meal during the broadcast. The entry is in all probability a joke, but in the minor chance it was an actual program, I thought I would see if anyone had any additional information about it.

The start of the blog entry is after the jump
Read the rest of this entry »

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As of 12:20 am, there are more than twice as many comments in the Wing Bowl Poll thread (71) as there are votes in the poll itself (28)

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Don “Moses” Lerman has several pictures of himself at various stages in his life going almost four decades back.

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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.

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The Gallup Independent has a preview of Saturday’s posole eating contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma, NM. Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Erik “the Red” Denmark are listed as expected entrants. The article says the contest might be recorded for Japanese television.

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Chili Eating & Chili Pepper Eating contest, Chili Bowl Cook Off, Sand Gnats stadium, Savannah, GA

Hot Dog Eating contest, Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor 50th anniversary celebration, Dania Beach (Ft. Lauderdale), FL 1st prize is Carribean cruise

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(from urbanhonking.com/liz comment) YesButNoButYes has a page with at least 10 eating contest youtube videos embedded in it. Both IFOCE and independent contests are represented. There is a clip of Ian Hickman at the Whoopie Pie Eating Contest that I had not seen before.

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The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.

In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?

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As far as I can tell, these are the most viewed competitive eating videos on youtube as of November 15

Gal Sone 40,000 calories, 319K views
Kobayashi – SNL TV Funhouse 122K views
Kobayashi vs. Bear, 99K views
Gal Sone vs. Shirota 6Kg curry, 85K views
End of 2004 Nathan’s finals 56K views
Kobayashi vs. Takako Akasaka Food Battle Club, 37K views
Kobayashi – Coffee Milk, Food Battle Club, 36K
Kobayashi at US Open, 28K views
Entirety of 2006 Nathan’s finals, 26K views
Gal Sone vs Shirota – 5kg udon, 23K views

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(From IFOCE.com) The Thanksgiving Invitational will take place on November 22 at Artie’s Delicatessen in New York City. Heartburn medication Axia 3 takes over sponsorship from goldenpalace.net. As in 2005, the food will remain whole turkeys, but larger birds will be used this year. Spectators from the general public will not be allowed at the contest.

Eaters invited (not a complete list)
Sonya Thomas (defending champion)
Tim Janus
Crazy Legs Conti
Justin Mih
Arturos Rios Jr.
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
“Big” Brian Subich

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Video footage from the 2004 NC State Fair Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Contest can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3yyOq4DTE Sonya Thomas won the contest, but she only makes an extremely brief appearance in the film.

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(from slashfood) The BBC reports that The Institute of Food Research have built a stomach simulator to enable better understanding of the human digestion process. There is no word on whether the artificial stomach will participate in the mince pie eating competition later this month.

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The slashfood food blog has an article about the efforts of the House of LeFevre to retain the posole title. The author has a different opinion on posole than his subjects do.

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There will be a bologna burger eating contest at the “Mason-Dixon Meltdown” at South Boston Speedway in Virginia (near NC border) on November. First prize is $250. The competitors goals will be to break driver Elliot Sadler’s record of 14 bologna burgers.

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Angelo Cataldi says that the format for the upcoming Wing Bowl will be changed, and this alteration will benefit local eaters at the expense of out of towners. The new poll asks what change do you think is most likely.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry & gallery about his meal at Big Ed’s BBQ where he got the all you can eat special with Kevin & Lorraine Lipsitz and some other family members. The “clash of generations” originally envisioned could apparently not be scheduled, but Kevin’s nephew Kyle made a strong showing for younger eaters by eating 21 ribs.

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competitiveeatingnews.com says that it is “very likely” that heartburn remedy Axia 3 will sponsor the 2006 Thanksgiving Invitational. Previous Thanksgiving invitationals have been held in New York City, but the food changed from year to year.

Crazy Legs Conti will appear at an amateur wing eating contest at the Wingery in Covington, LA, on Thursday, the first Lousiana IFOCE event since Katrina.

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