New poll: Most surprising contest performance
The new poll asks what you thought was the most unexpected contest performance of 2005-6.
Archive for 2006
Burritos for Life second round contest – Greensboro, NC
The Greensboro (NC) News-Record blog has a writeup of the second round Moe’s Burrito for Life contest. One of the contestants was police reporter Eric Townsend
World’s largest hamburger available in Thailand
(from supersizedmeals.com) While the Pattaya, Thailand Nathan’s qualifier was canceled due do bad weather, that city has other claims to competitive eating significance. Bob’s BBQ, owned by an expatriate Texan, has created a 78.6 pound burger, which costs about $400. Jil in Pattaya has a blog entry about the unveiling of the giant sandwich. A contest involving eating 1.5 kg chunks of the burger was held.
speedeat.com returns
Speedeat.com has returned after about a month’s hiatus. Joe Menchetti attended the ribs contest in Fairfield, CT and has a brief report.
Windmill hot dogs & Queens Chinese dumpling results
(From AICE news)
“King” George Van Laar upset Joe Menchetti & Ian Hickman in Windmill hot dogs on Saturday after originally intending to skip the contest due to health reasons:
1. “King” George van Laar, 12.75 hot dogs
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 12.66 hot dogs
3. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti, 11.75 hot dogs
Menchetti rebounded to win the Chinese dumpling eating contest at the Dragon Boat Festival in Queens Sunday:
1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 49 dumplings in 2 minutes a new record
2. Ian “the Invader” Hickman, 42 dumplings
3. Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman 39 dumplings, retired from eating after contest
Tang Ta Way, a Queens postal worker, upset Floria Lee in the women’s division of the contest, becoming the second surprise female winner of the weekend.
1. Tang Ta Way, 31 dumplings
2. Floria Lee, 29 dumplings, 4 off last year’s female record
Joey wins CT ribs
from IFOCE.com
Ash Creek Baby Back Rib contest, Fairfield CT
1. Joey Chestnut 6.15 lb in 12 minutes
2. Chip Simpson 5.8 lb
3. Bob Shoudt 5.05
This is probably Joey’s smallest margin of victory over an American since he defeated Sonya in OT at the Asparagus Festival.
Sonya Thomas wins Hong Kong contest
From reuters via Crazy Legs’ Mom & Brian Seiken: Sonya Thomas won the Whampoa Asia Eating Championship by eating 17 Chinese style Lotus seed buns in 12 minutes. Johnny Wu, who finished second in last year’s contest to Takeru Kobayashi, was second with 9 buns. Charles Hardy attended and was listed as Sonya’s publicist.
Updated 4:34 pm – Hong Blog has an eyewitness account of the semifinals
Updated 8/14 12:47 am – pictures of the contest can be seen at Yahoo news
Domenico Alesi’s Illinois horseshoe sandwich results
From a comment by Domenico Alesi
Joey chestnut 1st place 6.5lbs
Tim Eater X Janus 2nd place ??
Tim Brown 3rd place 3.9lbs
Frank Wach 4th place ???lbs5th place 3 way tie 3.2lbs
Bubba yarbrough
Jim Hammer Hamrick
Kevin CarrDomenico the Sicilian Alesi 6th place 2.8lbs
That’s all for now, I am using a phone to type this in so….I am sorry for sloppiness.
7th 8th 9th????
Reversals allowed in Moe’s Burritos for Life
Hollis has a report of the second round Moe’s Burritos for life contest held in Germantown, MS. Gurgitation -> Regurgitation -> Gurgigation is apparently an accepted sequence of actions in the eating tournament.
BeautifulBrian.com: Pat B wins Three Brothers Pizza
from beautifulbrian.com:
Three Bro’s Pizza Results
1. Pat B 19 slices
2. Chip Simpson 17 slices
3. Bob Shoudt 15 slices
4. Larry Mcneill 13 slices
5. Brian Subich 12 slices
6, Allen Goldstein 11 slices
7 Pat Philbin 11
Rest of the field ?????
Each pie based on 8 slice 16” pie
Brian Seiken has also started the fall season of his video podcasts with a show featuring Joe LaRue
(From Luther) Sonya Thomas did not do a hometown contest because she is doing a contest in Hong Kong this weekend (.doc file)
Updated 10:02 pm – steakbellie fan Wendy Scherer attended the contest and wrote a blog entry about it. The winner of the amateur contest was a woman (maybe megamunch’s friend the Pizza Princess”) who ate 11 slices in ten minutes.
Updated 8/13 4:38 pm – The Washington Post has an article with a picture and information about the amateur winner, Juliet Lee, who said she was inspired by Sonya Thomas. Like “The Black Widow”, Ms. Lee is 39 years old and about 5’4″ and 105 lb.
WTOP radio has an AP article about the contest
Updated 8/14 12:45 am – megamunch has a blog entry and gallery of the contest
Updated 8/16 12:40 pm – steakbellie has a blog entry and gallery of the contest
Trenchies #3: breakthrough eater
The new poll asks which (non-rookie) eater made the biggest improvement in 2005-2006.
Aug 12/13 contest previews
Three Brothers Pizza – Sonya Thomas is listed as an expected entrant
Illinois State Fair Horseshoes
LA Tofu
Minnesota Vikings compare their appetites to Kobayashi’s
twincities.com asks several members of the Minnesota Vikings how close they could come to Kobayashi’s mark of 58 bratwurst in 10 minutes. (Sonya Thomas destroyed the best eater on the Washington Redskin’s, Randy Thomas, when she had a shrimp eating contest with him)
Kobayashi has returned to Japan and has written a blog entry about the contest.
Adam Ash reviews Insatiable/Horsemen
Adam Ash has a long review of “Insatiable” / “Horsemen of the Esophagus”. He dislikes the subject matter at first, but likes Fagone’s book.
Updated 8/12 2:05 am – Jason Fagone says Adam Ash’s review was plagiarized from a Sunday Telegraph review by William Leith
Sonya Thomas to do 3 brothers pizza
The AP calendar reports that Sonya Thomas will compete in Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest in Greenbelt, MD. Sonya will look to extend her VA/MD/DC/DE/NC undefeated streak.
Trenchies #2: Rookie Trencherwoman
The next poll category is for the female rookie of the year. The choices are Balinda Gould, Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Amy Walter
August 12/13 to be a lucrative weekend in competitive eating
There will be at least 5 contests this weekend with a purse value of $1,000 or more:
3 Brothers Pizza, $5000
Illinois State Fair Horseshoes, $4000
Queens Chinese dumplings, $3600 – $1800 for men’s and women’s divisions
Windmill Hot Dog Eating contest, over $1000
LA Tofu eating contest, first place prize is a 13 day trip to Asia
The purse for the Ashbrook Saloon rib eating contest is not listed
Another youtube clip of Gal Sone vs. Shirota
Another video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota’s weekly duel has been posted on youtube. The contest involves eating 5kg of udon (whatever that is) in 15 minutes.
Sheboygan bratfest gallery & blog entry
Domenico Alesi (who attended as a spectator) has a gallery and Erik “the Red” Denmark has a blog entry about last Saturday’s Johnsonville bratwurst contest.
Nathan’s profits increase 19.4% from last year
(From mosesnews.com)
Nathan’s Famous announces that quarterly profits increased by 19.4% in the quarter ending June 25. Sales increased 7.6% and sales of hot dogs to food service companies increased by 17.8% Other revenues (including TV fees) increased just 1.6% (with the increase in TV ratings for 2006, it will be interesting to see if that figure will increase)
Competitive eating horoscope in The Onion
The Onion’s horoscope for Pisces
You will rock the competitive-eating world this week after deciding to return to the sport just four hours after announcing your retirement.
I wonder if any eaters who have announced retirement and then returned are Pisces.
“According to Jim” hot dog eating contest episode rerun tonight
The episode of “According to Jim” in which Jim Belushi loses a hot dog eating contest to a petite Asian woman will be rerun tonight at 9:30 Eastern on ABC
Trenchies #1: Rookie Male Trencherman
I have started voting for the “Trenchies” with the category of rookie male eater of 2005-2006. If you have difficulty voting, you can email your vote.
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