Las Vegas grilled cheese videos & gallery
Erik Denmark has a video of Eater X’s grilled cheese exhibition & Andrew Lane has a gallery by El Toro on their blogs.
Archive for 2006
Dale Boone returns to the United States?
In this comment from March 5, Dale Boone says he will return in 97 days. If he adhered to that schedule, he would have returned to North American on June 10.
Brian Subich Digest interview
Liz interviewed “Big” Brian Subich after he won the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday.
Ham steak contest in Richmond June 24?
The calendar on Badlands Booker’s myspace page announces that he will appear at the Virginia State Lottery Ham Steaks Contest in Richmond on June 24. This contest does not appear on the IFOCE list of contests.
Updated June 12 1:50 PM Ian Hickman has confirmed that the Virginia Lottery will sponsor a contest on the 24th in Lynchburg, not Richmod. Sonya Thomas is expected.
A new goldenpalace rib contest in Memphis on July 3 has also been announced.
Kobayashi videos on YouTube
The video below is a clip from MTV’s True Life documentary in which Takeru Kobayashi eats a huge meal of noodles and then a mountain of spicy shaved ice:
Other Kobayashi videos on YouTube:
US Open of Competitive Eating – Pasta
Nathan’s Hot Dog finals
Andrew Lane: Joey sets record w/47 GC sandwiches
from dogsarefunyes.blogspot.com
ArenaBowl XX FanFest, Las Vegas, NV
1) Joey Chestnut 47 grilled cheese sandwiches – world record
2) Sonya Thomas & Pat Bertoletti 37 – tie
4) Rich LeFevre 35
5) Chip Simpson 33
6) Ron Koch 20
7) Erik “the Red” Denmark 17.5
Other results – not necessarily complete
Jason “Erbavore” Erb 15
El Toro 12.5
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 10
Doug “Cerberus” Ecks 8
Tim Janus 18 in five minute exhibition against Arena Football player
Mike Justice 9 in amateur contest
updated 10:00 pm
updated June 11, 9:47 am – Marketwire has a press release and video about the contest.
updated 7:34 – Andrew Lane has a trip report (which is a must-see for females who have ever wondered what men’s bathrooms in Las Vegas look like)
Updated 8:43 PM – KESQ has an AP article about the contest
Brian Subich wins Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier
from IFOCE.com & Brian Seiken – Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier results:
1. Brian Subich, 20.5 HDB
2. Hall Hunt, 20.375 HDB
3. Seaver Miller, 18 HDB
4. Justin Mih, 17 HDB
Gluttonous World Cup Group
Last Wednesday’s televised contest between Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota featured German sausage in honor of the location of the World Cup. Shirota defeated Gal-Sone 49 sausages to 42 and they both wore the jersey of the Japanese national soccer team. Additional eaters wore the uniforms of Japan’s first round opponents: Brazil, Australia and Croatia. Miku Matsumoto, who wore Croatia’s jersey and ate 10 sausages, has a blog entry about the contest.
WSJ on Guinness challengers
The Wall Street Journal has an article on how Guinness is being challenged by alternate record-maintaining organizations including IFOCE. (Sonya Thomas is not the only woman from South Korea who can claim a world eating record)
New Poll: Best amateur grilled cheese performance
Tomorrow a potential $100,000 will be awarded if an amateur eater from Las Vegas eats more than 36.5 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes. The new poll asks if you believe if a feat is possible for the best amateur eater in North America.
Paging Mr. Bertoletti
On Father’s Day, Harry Caray’s restaurant in Chicago will offer a 6 pound tallgrass steak burger for $37.95. The first person to finish that sandwich will receive 4 tickets to a Chicago Cubs game in Harry’s personal seats and his or her name in lights on Wrigley Field’s centerfield scoreboard along with a week’s supply of steaks. $500 will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for each finisher of the burger.
“Eat This Book” appears in MSNBC’s list of summer non-fiction books
A review of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz appears in MSNBC’s roundup of non-fiction books suitable for summer vacation reading.
Hackensack Quick Chek qualifier
NorthJersey.com has a report on yesterday’s Quick Chek Italian sub qualifier held in Hackensack, New Jersey. Ian Hickman won the contest, and Joshua “the Lumberjack” Hearne and Mike Grove also gained entrance into the finals.
TV Champion type program to be adapted from Japanese TV for ABC
TV Tokyo has a program called “TV Champion” which tries to determine who is best in a particular field such as brick laying or eating. A program similar to “TV Champion” called “World Records” on the Nippon Television Network will be adapted into the program “Master of Champions” which will air this summer on ABC. The home page for “Master of Champions” does not say if any eating contests will be televised.
Bilingual Kobayashi blog entry
A hot dog for breakfast inspired the Grumpy Care Bear to write a blog entry about Kobayashi in both English and Japanese. It is interesting to see how differently Google translates apparently equivalent statements.
Russell “the Black Hole” Blackwell starts a blog
Russell “the Black Hole” Blackwell, third place finisher in last Saturday’s Tempe Nathan’s qualifier, has started a blog at http://russellblackwell.blogspot.com/
Ex-vegetarian from India to compete in Norfolk qualifier
The Hampton Roads Daily press has a profile of Partha Peddi, a former vegetarian from Hyderabad, India, who will compete in the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier on Saturday. (Perhaps Peddi has learned the secrets of Indian competitive eating that Dale Boone has boasted about in his comments)
Offer to link to AICE response
If the AICE leadership believes that they have been censored in the comments of this blog, I will post a link to whatever content on competitiveeaters.com they desire. (This will eliminate the possbility of impostors that is present with blog comments)
BetUS.com posts Nathan’s odds
theonlinewire.com reports that BetUS.com has posted odds for next month’s Nathan’s finals. (I have not been able to find the odds on the actual BetUS site)
Hot Dog Safari report
Festivus Gastronomicus attended the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest won by Justin Mih at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston last Sunday and wrote a blog entry about it.
Journal News article about competitive eating in general
The Journal News of Westchester County, NY has an article about competitive eating with quotes from Richard Shea and Tim Janus.
Cookie Jarvis unretires again?
Cookie Jarvis’ home page says that he is just taking a few months hiatus from eating contests. The headline is the same from about a month ago, so it is possible that Cookie’s webmaster uploaded an out of date version.
Miscellaneous podcasts & articles
Here are various links I have come across in the past month or so:
Erik Denmark radio interviews: June 2, June 5
Kevin Carr’s interview with Pat Bertoletti (about 50 minutes)
Interview with David “Brickhouse” Braunstein & Matt Streett before Baltimore crabcake contest
Las Vegas Sun preview of Nathan’s qualifier (has only Ron Koch quotes I am aware of)
2005 US Open of Competitive Eating writeups: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3-5
Rocky Mountain News column
Another Natsuko “Gal” Sone fan blog
Happy 21st Pat Bertoletti
(Thanks Liz) Pat Bertoletti turns 21 today and will be fully able to enjoy Las Vegas when he competes in the grilled cheese contest this weekend.
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