Archive for 2006
Nashville Krystal field set
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)
Nelson Peltz wins seat on Heinz board, hopes to increase marketing
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.
Humble Bob ties Joey’s Krystal 2 minute record
“Humble” Bob Shoudt will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record for Krystal burgers eaten in 2 minutes on the webcam at krystalsquareoff.com today at 11 am eastern.
Updated 5:39 pm – Humble Bob tied Joey Chestnut’s record of 28 Krystal burgers in 2 minutes. krystalsquareoff.com has a report.
youtube clip of Kate Stelnick on Tony Danza show
A clip of Kate Stelnick on the Tony Danza show has been uploaded to youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgSirXON1g Her waistline offers absolutely no evidence that it contained 10+ pounds of cheeseburger the previous week.
Nugget Rib pictures
Domenico Alesi has uploaded a gallery of pictures from the Nugget Rib contest in Reno last month.
Truefan late summer recap
Liz & Krista have written a summary of competitive eating highlights of August & early September. I am extremely flattered that they would make an actual “Trenchy” award.
Don “Moses” Lerman retires
Don “Moses” Lerman announces that he has retired from competitive eating on his blog. Brian Seiken has posted his memories of Lerman’s career. Lerman was the first eater to travel extensively throughout the country to compete in eating contests (there is no evidence that Lynda Kuerth competed anywhere outside Philadelphia) and probably also the first to actively promote and market himself. Lerman’s enthusiasm and passion for competitive eating will definitely be missed on the circuit. Perhaps Lerman could do precontest standup or karaoke (See Brian Seiken’s show for a sample)
With Lerman’s retirement, 7 of the top 15 in the Spring 2005 IFOCE rankings are currently inactive
1. Takeru Kobayashi, currently #1
2. Sonya Thomas, #3
3. Richard LeFevre, #8
4. Eric Booker, retired
5. Charles Hardy, retired
6. Cookie Jarvis, retired
7. Carlene LeFevre, retired
8. Dale Boone, suspended
9. Joe LaRue, #16
10. Timothy Janus. #6
11. Jim Reeves, #19
12. Allen Goldstein, #13
13. Crazy Legs Conti, #11
14. Donald Lerman, retired
15. Oleg Zhornitskiy, inactive since US Open
beautifulbrian.com turns 3
Happy third birthday to beautifulbrian.com
Pat Bertolleti to appear on Regis & Kelly 9/7
Pat Bertoletti should appear on Regis & Kelly in a few minutes (eastern time zone)
Update 10:41 am – Pat broke the record for ice cream eaten in 30 seconds by eating 13.5 ounces. The previous record was 9.5. Brian Seiken will host the video on his site and Pat’s appearance has yet to be broadcast in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
Update 9/8 12:07 am – Brian Seiken has uploaded a video clip to http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/lerm.html
Krystal qualifier webcast reruns
Krystalsquareoff.com announces that the Chattanooga and Jacksonville Krystal finals will be rerun tomorrow at noon eastern.
Food Battle Club video clips on youtube
Several clips from Food Battle Club have been uploaded to youtube. The clips include a final round contest between Kobayashi and Nobuyuki Shirota which offers indisputable video evidence that Kobayashi has lost to organisms besides black bears – Part 1 Part 2 The contest involves eating 10kg (22 lb) of curry.
There is also a clip of Iteya, who Yuko became obsessed with in “Horsemen of the Esophagus” and was driven into depression by his retirement.
This article from Asahi Weekly (and copied by a spam blog) provides a history of Japanese competitive eating before 2005 and focuses on the rise and fall of Food Battle Club Part 1 Part 2.
Pat Bertolleti to appear on Regis & Kelly tomorrow
Jon Bertolletti emailed me that his brother Pat will appear on the Regis & Kelly show tomorrow and will probably try to break his ice cream record. The show usually comes on at 9am on ABC, but I am not sure if it is on at that time in all cities.
Liz is moving to Denver
In her latest blog entry, Liz of urbanhonking says she is moving to Denver at the end of the month. Hopefully her move will not mean the end of her competitive eating writing career. There are currently more upcoming southwestern contests than northeastern ones.
El Wingador to open restaurant
While several competitive eaters hope to eventually run their own restaurants, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will apparently be the first to do so. Philly.com reports that Simmons signed a lease on the former KFC restaurant at Fourth Street and Girard Avenue where he intends to open El Wingador’s To Go, which will serve chicken wings, cheesesteaks, hoagies and Latin food. One of Simmon’s partners is his uncle Pete Rodriguez, who was the original cook at Jim’s Steaks in the 1970s and might have prepared the sandwiches Lynda Kuerth ate to set the record. The restaurant is expected to open in October.
U of Buffalo student competes in Buffet Bowl
The University of Buffalo student newspaper has an article by Alex Nye, who was called out of the Buffalo Wing Festival crowd to fill a vacant spot in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl. The items eaten in that event were three full beef on wecks (roast beef sandwiches on kummelweck rolls) smothered in gravy, about eight hot chicken fingers, a half dozen pierogies and around 25 chicken wings. No information is given about the other competitors other than Bob Shoudt won in a little over five minutes.
Lewisville tamale report
courier-gazette.com has a writeup of Saturday’s tamale contest with quotes from winner Tim “Eater X” Janus.
Army Times profile of Burritos for Life finalist
The Army Times has a profile of Burritos for Life finalist Sargeant Aaron Cooper, a combatives instructor at Fort Benning. Cooper was leading for the first two thirds of the contest, but fell behind late and suffered a reversal near the end of the contest. Cooper ate almost five burritos before his disqualification; the winner (whose name is not given in the article or anywhere else on the internet I have been able to find) ate more than six burritos in eight minutes.
Denny’s Beer Barrel roadtrip blog
(from megamunch) Two residents of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada have set up a blog devoted to their upcoming road trip to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA at http://thebigburgerblog.blogspot.com/. They hope to leave on September 14 and reach Clearfield on the 16th where they will attempt Ye Olde 96er. Two other voyagers have been added to the travel party, but they might be looking for additional passengers so you might want to send them an email if you want to join the expedition and live in New Brunswick or New England.
New poll: most missed retired eater
The new poll asks which eater who retired between July 5, 2005 and July 4, 2006 will be most missed by the competitive eating community.
Asterisk for waffle record?
The waffle record set yesterday is somewhat analagous to Roger Maris’ home run record which required 162 games to break a record set by Babe Ruth in 154 games. The 2005 contest was 10 minutes and the 2006 contest was 12 minutes, and it took longer than 10 minutes (10:23) to break the previous record. Unlike Roger Maris, Joey Chestnut should not have to worry about receiving death threats from fans of the previous record holder.
Updated 9/5 3:57 pm – This myspace blog entry by a contest spectator, which came out before the IFOCE results, says the contest was ten minutes, so that is almost certainly the contest duration. I am curious where the 10:23 value came from.
Updated 9:34 pm – The UPI article about the contest also says the duration wat ten minutes
Joey breaks Kobayashi’s JAX qualifier record w/52 burgers
Joey Chestnut won the the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier with 52 burgers, 10 behind Sonya’s result last week. This does break Kobayashi’s Jacksonville qualifier record of 50 from 2004. The webcam has hung up on me before any other results were announced.
2nd Crazy Legs Conti 36
3rd Seaver Miller 35
4th-Adrian Estevez 28
4th-Joe LaRue 28
6th-Hall Hunt 27
7th-Bryan Miller 26
Updated 11:26 – full results are available at the krystalsquareoff.com
Updated 9/5 7:40 am – firstcoastnews.com has an article, pictures and a video clip
2:14 pm – jacksonville.com has an article about the contest – Thanks Brian Cooley
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