(from Wing Tut) The Heart Attack Grill’s controversy with nursing advocates made CNN and can be viewed online at: http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/11/09/beyer.heart.attack.grill.knxv
The clip originally appeared on local news and can be downloaded (along with another local news clip) at http://nursingadvocacy.org/press/coverage/profiles.html#heart_attack

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thecitizen.com has an article profiling Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough and Larry “The Legend” McNeil

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In a recent blog entry, Wing Tut is skeptical about the claims that Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to finish Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound 96er burger in under three hours. Neither woman has participated in any public eating contests or challenges outside Denny’s. The new poll asks how many people you think have actually finished the 96er in under three hours.

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Happy Birthday to SupersizedMeals.com The website is celebrating with Meatcake Week from Nov 6-12.

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(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone takes a break from competing with Shirota in her weekly contest to take on the “Atrocious Alliance”, a group of four people dressed like wrestlers in a sushi restaurant with a conveyor belt. Only one member of the alliance can eat at a time.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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Newly ranked eaters:
20. Chris Abatsas
31. Paul Sakelarides
34. Juris Shibayama
37. Juliet Lee
40. Pete Davekos
46. Molly Zakarian
48. Donovan Busta (previously ranked)
50. Mike Nafziger (previously ranked)

Dropping out of previous ranking:
9. Eric “Badlands” Booker (officially retired)
22. Ron Koch (competed at Reno ribs)
23. Bryan Miller (competed in Jacksonville qualifier)
28. Don Lerman (officially retired)
32. Levi Oliver
46. Eddie Hardy
47. Eric Broe
48. Nathan Kunce

Ranked eaters with no contests in database from July 5 – present:
40. Pete Davekos
41. Kevin Lipsitz

Unranked moneywinners
“Mongo” Marquez – 3rd place green chile grilled cheese

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(From Castro Intestinal) New IFOCE rankings were released today. The top 10 are:
1. Takeru Kobayashi
2. Joey Chestnut
3. Patrick Bertoletti
4. Sonya Thomas
5. Bob Shoudt
6. ChipBurger Simpson
7. Timothy Janus
8. Richard LeFevre
9. Arturo Rios, Jr.
10. Seaver Miller

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(from iht.com) The web page for the mince pie eating contest to be held at Wookey Hole Caves can be found at http://www.wookey.co.uk/bigeat/ Sonya Thomas is definitely an expected entrant.

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EmeraldCoast.com has more on the Apalachicola Oyster Festival. The women’s & overall winner, Mel Tyler, has a married daughter.

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Matt “Foracious” Forss, who will compete in the posole contest on November 18, has forwarded me some of the expected entrants in that event:

Pat Bertoletti
Joey Chestnut
Tim Janus
Matt “Foracious” Forss

Rich LeFevre will probably participate as well since he has done almost all southwestern contests.

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The Guardian reports that a mince pie eating contest sanctioned by the IFOCE will be held at Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset on November 29. Sonya Thomas is expected to compete for the £1,000 ($1890) first prize.

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A gallery of Kobayashi at the lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Festival in Boston which I just discovered can be viewed at http://flickr.com/photos/travelingrhinos/sets/72157594301121345/

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The Chattanooga Pulse has an excellent writeup of Krystal Square Off III with a lot of interesting information.

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(This is not competitive eating related, but I thought it was too cool not to share)

(From Tuesday Morning Quarterback) Everyone reading this blog can be found on the small blue green dot between Saturn’s rings (as far as I know).


This picture was taken by the Cassini probe. Click on either picture to see the full sized photgraph.

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Dave “Megamunch” Shoffner has added an online comic about an office worker venturing into the world of competitive eating. This website is the topic of the current strip.

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UPI reports on the peperoncino eating contest in Albese in northern Italy. The winner, Franco Rotunno, managed 19.5 ounces of peppers in 30 minutes. Drinking water and wine and eating bread and potatos were allowed. The women’s division winner, Mariella Andreani, ate 8.8 ounces. Three Thais participated, making this contest perhaps the first with international representation in which the winner failed to eat more than an ounce per minute.

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A press release previewing the posole contest at the Sky City Casino in Acoma NM on November 18 is now available. The release does not list any eaters expected to attend.

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El Toro’s pictures of the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair can be viewed at Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookatthis/sets/72157594364360900/

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Slashfood has a list of the world’s most expensive steaks. Mosts of the items are normal sized, but the most expensive steak is 20 pounds and costs $2,800. It is not stated if the steak is free for a diner who can finish it in a specified period of time.

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In a recent blog entry, Wing Tut expresses skepticism about the claims that Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s 96er burger in under three hours. There is a good deal of evidence to support Denny’s claims that Lori Weiss did accomplish what the restaurant claims. Lori Weiss ate the three pound burger (5+ pounds with toppings) in 36 minutes at a contest recorded for the Food Network in 2002, setting a record (which I believe still stands based on megamunch’s picture of the recent finishers of that burger) The archived versions of Denny’s websites have two articles about that contest:

Lancaster New Era
Clearfield Progress

I am not sure if this contest was ever televised by the Food Network since I have not been able to find any information about the show it was on. If it was, Lori’s appearance might have been cut.

Lori’s conquest of the 96er last July was documented in a blog entry at
http://baxojayz.blogspot.com/2005/07/4th-of-july-weekend-dennys-beer-barrel.html (Surprisingly, the blogger claims that the record Lori was aiming to break was under 2 hours, when the official mark by Kate Stelnick is 2:54. I am not sure if there is a lower unpublicized record or if he just got confused.)

If Lori Weiss’ feats are hoaxes, they are extremely well constructed ones.

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Adweek reports that the “Mr. Hot Dog Eating Contest Contestant” ad won a prize at the London International Awards for copywriting in the radio ads category.

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There will be a wing eating contest between teams from Yale and Princeton before Saturday’s football game. The Broad Recognition blog has a response to the requirement that the teams must contain one female.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has a report from his “sympathy meal” with the United Eaters of Pennsylvania in which he became the first person at his local Cheeburger Cheeburger franchise to eat 2 one pound burgers.

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Newsday reports that 2nd quarter earnings for Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs declined to $1.8 million from $3.1 million in 2005. No explanation for the decrease is provided in the article. Nathan’s did say that earning from continuing operations increased 14.1 percent to $1.5 million. Buisnesswire has more details about Nathan’s results.

updated Bob Shoudt says that the drop in Nathan’s non-continuing earnings is due to the sale of a parcel of land in 2005 and 2006.

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Natsuko “Gal” Sone attempted to eat 9 kg (20 lb) of noodles on Japanese television this weekend. It is not clear from the pictures if she finished them, but she appears to have come reasonably close if she didn’t.

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