A team of three Michigan police officers has accomplished what Kobayashi could not in the Man vs. Beast Fox TV Special. The Lenawee Connection reports that the policemen finished 15 chili dogs before a bear named Lakota did. A team of three firefighters also competed. The bear was apparently not very interested in the chili dogs.

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The new poll asks who you think should be ranked #3 and #4 in the next IFOCE ranking. If you think someone else should be ranked that’s not in the choices, please list him or her in the comments. (A maximum of 20 choices are allowed per poll).

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Megamunch has a trip report and gallery from yesterday’s meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. Ian “The Invader” Hickman, Pete “Broken Wing” Maurizio, Derek “Wing Tut” Payne joined Dave “Megamunch” Shoffner in attempting Denny’s giant burger. Megamunch attempted the 3 pound burger, while the others tried the 6 pound 96er. Ian Hickman ate the most, finishing over 2/3 of his megaburger, but the 96er finishers and 3 lb burger finsher plaques will not need to be updated following their visit. Congratulations to the UEPa for some great efforts.

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The site was down from about 2pm to 10pm eastern. My apologies for any inconvenience. Fortunately no comments or posts appear to have been lost as they were in the October crash.

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Cookie Jarvis’ appearance in a minor league basketball game last season makes the “Big 10” list in today’s Newsday.

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Tallahassee.com has a report on the Apalachicola (Florida) Oyster Festival with results for the oyster contests. Separate contests for men and women were held, and a woman Mel Tyler had the best overall performance with 196 oysters eaten in twelve minutes. Hyer Dement won the men’s contest with 190 oysters.

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A clip from a program about supersized entrees served by Japanese restaurants is available on youtube. Some meals are served in conventionally sized bowls with messy results. The construction of a Japanese megaburger weighing 2.7 kg (6 lb) and costing 3675 Yen ($31) is displayed. Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka make a cameo in which they attempt a large bowl of noodles.

Updated R Suzuki has a blog entry about the telecast, which was apparently part of a quiz show. The Monster Cafe is the restaurant where the BIG baga can be purchased.

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The Slashfood food blog has a post about the Clinton Station Diner’s 105 pound “Eigth Wonder” burger which debuted last week.

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Berenice (Brazen) Baker has sent me the following request:

I’m a UK-based journalist and I’m planning an article that I hope will
promote a very positive image of competitive eating and also appeal to
people who wouldn’t normally read about the sport. I’d be very grateful if
you could put the word out on EatFeats for people to email me their
experiences.

Scheduled for the early months of 2007 when people might be slipping away
from their New Year’s resolutions, I want to talk about how people can
recover from overeating and return to healthy habits without feeling that
they’ve irretrievably fallen off the wagon. Who better than competitive
eaters to give advice about recovering from overindulgence?

Read the rest of this entry »

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Super Paul Bonebreaker Barlow Jr. has a gallery from Krystal Square Off III and the post party.

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(Thanks Mike Wooldridge) There was a competitive eating records category on Thursday night’s episode of Jeopardy. The clues for that column can be seen at the Jeopardy archive for November 2. (If anyone recorded that show, a clip of its competitive eating questions would be appreciated) The 5 answers were about the feats of Rich LeFevre, Oleg Zhornitskiy, Cookie Jarvis, Sonya Thomas and Buffalo Jim Reeves.

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Wing Tut has a report from last night’s second Uncle Charley’s qualifier and says that Pete Maurizio was the victor. Wing Tut was fighting a cold and placed 4th, denying entry into the finals.

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The official IFOCE rankings have not been updated since sometime in July. It is obvious that Joey should retain #2 and reasonably clearcut that Pat should move to #3 if only results from the second half of 2006 are taken into account. Positions #4-#7 are more debatable. To assist in deterning these slots, I have listed the head to head results of eaters currently ranked #3-#8 for post-Nathan’s contests. Click on the results to see the breakdown.

Sonya 2 Pat 2
Sonya 0 Bob 2 Tie 1
Sonya 1 Tim 2
Sonya 1 Chip 2
Sonya 4 Rich 1
Pat 3 Bob 0
Pat 2 Tim 0
Pat 2 Chip 0
Pat 5 Rich 1
Bob 4 Tim 0
Bob 1 Chip 4
Bob 2 Rich 0
Tim 0 Chip 3 Tie 1
Tim 5 Rich 0
Chip 2 Rich 0

Combining all these results gives the following records:
Pat 14-3 .824
Chip 11-4-1 .733
Bob 9-7-1 .563
Sonya 8-9-1 .471
Tim 7-10-1 .412
Rich 2-18 .100

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The Connection has more information about the pizza eating contest to be held at Bugsy’s restaurant in Alexandria, VA on Saturday. The first place prize is tickets to the Redskins Giants game with transportation by limousine included.

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Film critic Richard Roeper digresses from writing about movies to offer congratulations to fellow Windy City resident Pat Bertoletti for his third place finish at the Krystal Square Off. Roeper also mentions Don “Moses” Lerman’s baked beans record.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.

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Ernie attended the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a blog entry and recorded the last 39 seconds of it from the audience.

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The Sonya Thomas tribute video produced by Brian Seiken is now available at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/engine.html

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The new poll asks how the best eater will perform at the United Eaters of Pennsylvania meeting at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA Saturday.

Megamunch that the gathering will be advertised in a local paper, so some unexpected eaters might show up.

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(Thanks Adam of AHamburgerToday.com) The Park Slope Gastronome attended a Halloween party as Sonya Thomas.

(If I made a Sonya Thomas costume, I would include the orange gym shorts she wore to a lot of contests this summer)

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Metacafe has a clip of a 20 foot sushi roll eating contest between Takako Akasaka and Misao Fujita that was held in a bowling alley. A brief segment of that contest appeared in Takako Akasaka’s career highlights video which was available for a short time on youtube. The contest has narration in English, but the narrator provides nothing but insults.

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See the contest calendar for more details:

2006 Nov 2/9/16/23 Jugo Sushi Eating Competition, Taro’s By Mikuni Sacramento, CA
2006 Nov 4 Bugsy’s Super Jaws Pizza Eating Contest Bugsy’s Pizza Alexandria, VA 1st prize is 2 tickets to the Redskins vs. Giants game with limo service
2006 Nov 11 4th Annual Oyster Eating Contest Broadway at the Beach Myrtle Beach, SC
2006 Nov 18 Sushi Eating Contest Japan Expo Los Angeles, CA must use chopsticks, 1st prize is $50 restaurant gift certificate
2006 Dec 4 Klondike Kate’s Wing Eating Contest Finals Klondike Kate’s Newark, DE, qualifiers held during Monday Night Football halftimes, 1st prize is trip to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl

updated
2006 Nov 4 Florida Seafood Festival Oyster Eating Contest, Apalachicola, FL
2006 Nov 6 Deviled Egg Eating Contest, The Borough, Raleigh
2006 Nov 11 Yale Princeton team chicken wing eating contest before football game

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I uploaded an early version of the CSI hot dog contest clip with a messed up soundtrack yesterday. I have replaced that with the correct version and it can be downloaded at CSIHotDogContest.wmv

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The best Halloween themed competitive eating blog is maintained by “Deresque” Matsumuto. Deresque finished second to Natsuko “Gal” Sone in a noodle eating contest this past weekend.

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Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota has a blog entry about the Krystal Square Off and is impressed with Kobayashi’s performance, calculating that it is less than 5 seconds per burger. He watched the youtube videos of the contest uploaded by Brian Seiken.

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