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The South China Morning Post has a brief (about one minute) video podcast of Sonya Thomas in the semifinals of the Whampoa Asia Eating Championship where she ate 176 vegetable dumplings in 12 minutes. The podcast can also be viewed on youtube.
Brian Seiken has a written a history of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti’s post-IFOCE career and speedeat.com.
dallasnews.com has a preview of Saturday’s World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX.
from IFOCE.com
Indiana State Fair Toyota Trucks Chowdown Championship
Indiana food products: pork sandwiches, beef ribeye, turkey legs, and grilled cheese sandwiches
1. “Humble” Bob Shoudt
2. Jim “the Hammer” Hamrick
3. Kevin Carr
updated 8/20 8:13 am – indystar.com has an article about the contest
updated 8/20 10:59 pm – wishtv.com has an article
from dukerustfield’s myspace blog
GoldenPalace.net World Gyoza Eating Championship Los Angeles, CA
1. Joey Chestnut 212 gyozas
2. Sonya Thomas 210
3. Rich LeFevre 162
4. Hall Hunt 107
5. Erik “the Red” Denmark ?
results updated 8/20 4:25 pm from ifoce.com
from that blog:
They held the world gyoza eating championship. Steamed dumplings. The winner got $2500. I guess there’s this whole league of professional eaters. They all knew each other and fly around…eating. The people who came in 2nd and 3rd ate 10 percent of their body weight in 10 minutes!!! f***ing incredible. The winner was a bit larger though. You might think that chick wouldn’t do so well, but she came in 2nd. They had all these strategies like covering their mouth so air wouldn’t get in and dipping them in water to help them slide down, and they’d hop around a bit to settle it and get out any burps. Some amatuers competed along with the pros, I mean some fat ass dudes. They amatuers ate like 40 or so (I’ve eaten maybe 24 and I’m stuffed). The record they set was 162 if I remember correctly.
Updated 8:20 pm mikeyhateseverything went to the contest and has a blog entry about it
(from humblebob.com) An article about “Humble” Bob Shoudt appears in the most recent issue of the Philadelphia City Paper.
The new poll asks what you think the top contest of 2005-6 was. Use whatever basis you want (most exciting, best field, best crowd, …) to make your choice.
In his most recent blog entry, Kobayashi has a report from his trip to the stylist where he changed his hair color from the mustard yellow he had at Nathan’s. No pictures of the new color are provided.
Several international papers have picked up a Reuters report from the Sheboygan bratwurst contest focusing on “El Toro” Jimenez.
Several new videos of Japanese competitive eating programs have been posted to youtube. The 2002 rookie contest, which is over an hour long, has been uploaded in its entirety. The top two finishers in that contest were women (the runner up is quite cute) who did not compete in this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest. There is also footage from the New Year’s Eve competitive eaters party of Kobayashi competing aganist an unknown woman in a restaurant where sushi is delivered on conveyor belts. Some brief clips of Tomoko Miyake eating sausage have also been posted.
Pictures from the Gallon Challenge held last weekend have been posted to the contest website. Two entrants were apparently able to finish their gallon of milk successfully, but most of the attempts produced the expected results.
The Travel Channel website has a list of the 10 best restaurants in the United States to pig out. (I think it is a pretty recent list, but I am not sure) There are some expected sites, like the Big Texan Steakhouse and Pointer’s Pizza and some unexpected ones. Not all of the restaurants have eating challenges.
The new poll asks what you believe the most impressive eating challenge performance of 2005-6 was.
(from speedeat.com) Joe Menchetti will appear on CBS’ Early Show to promote Frank’s Red Hot wing eating contest to be held at the AVP beach volleyball contest on Coney Island Saturday. The expected time of the appearance is 8:36 am eastern. franksredhot.com has more information about the contest. go-brooklyn.com says the contest will take place at 3pm and registration will occur from 10 am to 11:30 am.
(This is the post with id # 1000. There are actually fewer posts available on this blog due to deletions and cancelations, but I thought it still deserved a more significant entry than just a one sentence post linking to another article.)
If you have a Guinness Book of World Records from the late 1970s or 80s, there are several pages devoted to eating records in it, and in that section, there is probably a picture of Olivet, Michigan native Lynda Kuerth standing over a plate of hot dogs at a contest at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia in 1977. Ms. Kuerth won that event by eating 23 bunless hot dogs in 3 minutes and 10 seconds (at bottom of link). Her victory is mentioned in an article about Sharon Scholten, another female hot dog eating champion. This mark compares reasonably well with current eaters’ results. Humble Bob Shoudt ate 20 bunless hot dogs in 3 minutes and 40 seconds in his successful qualifying stunt for the the 2005 Wing Bowl. It is interesting that a female competitive eater surprised a Philadelphia stadium crowd over a quarter century before Sonya Thomas shocked Wing Bowl 12 spectators at Wachovia Center in 2004.
Lynda Kuerth showed that her talents extended to long duration events when she set the cheesesteak eating record at Jim’s Steaks in Philadelphia by eating 11 sandwiches in 90 minutes in 1978 or 1979. (I am not sure if this record still holds, but it lasted at least two decades if it has been broken. Her trips from Michigan to Philadelphia invalidate Don “Moses” Lerman’s claim that he is the first competitive eater to travel outside his or her home region for contests. Gregg Kirk wrote an article about Jerry Lehane III’s attempt to break Ms. Kuerth’s cheesesteak record (he finished with 7 sandwiches) around 2000 which is not available on the web. The last paragraph offers a description of Lynda and her feats:
In 1978, in an effort to generate publicity for his establishment, [Jim’s Steaks owner] Abner Silver decided to have an eating contest. One night on the news, he saw a human-interest story on Olivet, MI native Lynda Kuerth who had broken the Guiness Book of World Records title for banana split eating. After making a few phone calls to the television station, Abner got in touch with Lynda and agreed to fly her to Philly and give her a place to stay for the competition. That year, Lynda ate 10 1/2 steaks in an hour and a half, and later that year she appeared in Veteran’s Stadium and broke the Guiness Book of World Records in hot dog eating (without the bun). She ate 23 hot dogs in a minute and a half. The next year, she returned to Jim’s to break her own record by eating 11 steaks. No one has been able to come close since. Oh, and how big is Lynda, who now lives a quiet life in Michigan with a husband and two kids? “She was about five ft., eight and about 135 lbs.,” says Abner. “She had an amazing metabolism.”
(from bloomberg.com) Heinz announced that Nelson Peltz, who wants to pay $200,000 to cosponsor Nathan’s hot dog eating contest, may have won one or two seats on its board based on preliminary vote counts. Peltz had hoped to win up to five seats. Full voting results will not be announced until September 15.
The following results were forwarded to me by an eater who wishes to remain nameless and match up with the results on speedeat.com:
REGION 1 DMA – Lubbock, TX
BFL Winner: Bobby Cantu
Winning Time: 3 minutes 41 seconds
REGION 2 DMA – Chattanooga, TN
BFL Winner: Michael Parlaman
Winning Time: 2 minutes 55 seconds
REGION 3 DMA – Columbus, GA
BFL Winner: Aaron Cooper
Winning Time: 3 minutes 35 seconds
REGION 4 DMA – Brunswick, GA
BFL Winner: Mike Shelley
Winning Time: 3 minutes flat
REGION 5 DMA – Philadelphia, PA
BFL Winner: Anthony Rizzo
Winning Time: 3 minutes 5 seconds
Liz and Krista’s report from the Three Brothers Pizza eating contest has been uploaded to truefan. A flickr gallery of the contest is also available.
Some observations from that writeup:
Juliet Lee claims that she can eat more than Sonya Thomas. Like Sonya, she believes her forte is non bready foods which do not require much chewing.
Pat Bertoletti will appear (or might have appeared already) on “Attack of the Show” on G4/Tech TV sometime this week.
Andrew Lane also competed in the contest and has some reports and pictures on his blog.
Brian Seiken has created a video montage of the eaters who helped make the IFOCE what it is today and posted it on his site.
losanjealous has a blog entry about the Los Angeles Tofu Festival, which claims that “the word on the street” is that Jooshin Kim, the executive chef of Koi Restaurant, won the tofu eating contest and a trip to Asia by eating a 14 ounce block of tofu in 25 seconds.
(from Reuters) Heinz announced that it will not announce the results of its voting at its annual meeting today or tomorrow. Nelson Peltz, who wants Heinz to cosponsor Nathan’s hot dog eating contest, is attempting to install 5 new board members. Heinz provided no date when it expected to announce the results.
The London Telegraph has a long profile of Sonya Thomas that includes an account of her appearance at the Asparagus Festival in April. The article implies Sonya won that contest and does not mention that Joey Chestnut was victorious in overtime.
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