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Nobuyuki Shirota has some pictures of last Saturday’s hamburger contest in Tokyo on his blog. Shirota won the men’s contest and Natsuko “The Gal” Sone won the women’s contest. The hamburgers were from McDonald’s and “picnic style” rules were apparently in effect.
Erik Denmark has a blog entry and Joey Chestnut has a photo gallery of Saturday’s asparagus contest.
Liz (without Krista who is currently in China) will cover Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore for Urban Honking’s Digest. Liz also has a photo gallery of Ryan Nerz’s reading at Barnes & Noble.
newtimesbpb.com has an article about the controversy at the end of the Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise, FL on April 15. Runner-up Joe LaRue’s still plans to compete in Sunday’s sweet corn contest despite being very upset about the judging.
(Thanks Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough & Tube Sock Destroyer) The May issue of Jane Magazine (page 140) has an article (not available online) about Sonya Thomas which also includes an account of reporter Claudine Ko’s training for and participation in the Krystal Square Off finals (via a sponsor’s exemption). The article has a picture of “Sister X” wearing her brother’s trademark makeup.
TCPalm has details about Sunday’s sweet corn eating competition in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The Opie & Anthony (& Pat Philbin) radio show will be simulcast on free radio in seven (mainly northeastern) markets from 6am to 9am eastern starting Wednesday, April 26, replacing David Lee Roth’s talk show. The duo will air two uncensored hours solely on the XM satellite network from 9 to 11.
Tim “Eater X” Janus and “Humble” Bob Shoudt both have road trip reports about their trip south to Myrtle Beach this weekend.
According to sport-touring.net, a motorcycle rally to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA will take place this weekend. Currently 75 bikes from 6 states are expected. Could this be the start of the next big gathering of bikers?
(Thanks Pat Bertoletti) A photo gallery of Saturday’s deep fried asparagus contest taken by the family of one of the local contestants can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickfarmer/sets/72057594114394990/
Surprisingly, the first English article about the new princess of Japanese competitive eating has appeared in a South African publication. iol.co.za reports that Natsuko Sone (aka “The Gal”) won a gourmet Japanese seafood eating contest on the northern island of Hokkaido. The article does not mention any other contest entrant.
On her website, Sonya Thomas says that she expects Joey Chestnut to eat 40 or more hot dogs at the Nathan’s finals and guarantees that she will do likewise.
A video clip of “The Gal” can be seen at http://www.ntv.co.jp/news/asx_dai2/060418037_300k.asx as part of a segment in which three females attempt eating challenges. “The Gal” appears at the two and a half minute mark and eats 8 pounds of noodles with chopsticks in 15 minutes. The other challenges are fried rice and shisk-kebabs.
In other Gal news, she did a hamburger eating contest at a slot machine hall and ate 5 Mack hamburgers (short for McDonald’s ?) in a minute, showing speed eating ability for the first time. There was a separate contest for men in which Nobuyuki Shirota (translated as white rice field) won by eating 10 hamburgers in 3 minutes.
from ifoce.com Stockton, CA Asparagus Festival, deep fried asparagus
1. Joey Chestnut (beat Sonya by 2 oz in overtime)
2. Sonya Thomas
3. Rich LeFevre
4. Pat Bertoletti
5. Erik “the Red” Denmark
another down to the wire match between Sonya and Joey, next week Sonya will have the home region advantage which Joey enjoyed today.
There should be some video clips available tomorrow since Sacramento television is covering the festival.
Taste of Broadway Ultimate Eating Festival, Myrtle Beach, SC
1. Bob Shoudt
2. Loren Yarbrough
3?. Tim “Eater X” Janus
Shoudt and Janus make an unexpected trip south.
The Daily Show website has an online video of Ryan Nerz’s appearance Tuesday at http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=61778
Ryan Nerz has made available his chapter about Beautiful Brian and the 2004 Ohio watermelon contest that his editor excised from the final manuscript at http://eatthisbook.com/?page_id=38 If you are considering purchasing “Eat This Book,” that chapter provides a good sample of the style and content of the whole book.
Liz of Urban Honking’s Digest has moved her personal blog from blogspot to http://www.urbanhonking.com/liz/
Megamunch has a transcript of Ryan Nerz’s appearance on the Daily Show on Tuesday.
24dash.com has an article about an English performance artist’s attempt to break Sonya Thomas’ record of 8.4 pounds of baked beans in 2 minutes and 47 seconds. He failed to break the record but did manage to eat over 10 pounds of baked beans in 30 minutes. (Don “Moses” Lerman probably assumes that the record should have an asterisk since he did not compete in the Centerville, IN contest in 2004 in which it was set.)
bloomberg.com reports that Bayer AG, makers of Alka Seltzer, have severed ties with IFOCE and will not sponsor the 2006 US Open of Competitive Eating or any other future eating contests. Bayer’s US marketing executives apparently wanted to continue the sponsorship, but were vetoed by headquarters in Germany.
The episode (“Stranger Searching”) of the Japanese cartoon Samurai Champloo featuring an eating contest is available online at the Cartoon Network’s adult swim website. The contest is won by a European, so it is like the inverse of Kobayashi at Coney Island. The announcer of the contest employs Shea-style rhetoric. The episode is only available this week, so view it soon if you have any desire to see it.
The new poll asks what you think the lowest winning total (not counting overtime amounts) for a Nathan’s qualifier in 2006. The highest possible amount for this value is 21.5, since that was the winning amount (in regulation) for Saturday’s qualifier in Florida.
speedeat.com has been updated after a one month hiatus. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti downplays (but does not explicitly deny) reports that he has returned to AICE and says he does not intend to compete in an AICE event before the pickle contest on May 24. However, all the AICE contests in which he is listed as an expected entrant on the AICE news page are after that date.
The video game version (for the PS2 only) of the anime cartoon Samurai Champloo has a mini-game in which the character Fuu competes in a snow cone eating contest (screen capture). This is the first instance of an eating contest in a store-bought video game that I am aware of.
Loading ...| 2026 Apr 10 | Green Cove Springs, FL | Fried Oreo Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 10 | Surrey, BC, Canada | Mini Donut Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Scott, LA | Boudin Eating Contest - amateurs | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Lewisburg, WV | Chocolate Mousse Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Midland, TX | Crawfish Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Cleveland, TN | Food City Slaw Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Albany, MN | Hot Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Bridgeton, NJ | Hot Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | Melbourne Chilli Eating Championship | ||||
| 2026 Apr 11 | Dunedin, FL | Pizza Eating Contest |
| 2026 Apr 6 Cleveland, OH
Pierogi Eating Contest |
| 2026 Apr 6 Benton, KY
Sweet Potato Pie Eating Contest |
| 2026 Apr 5 Green Cove Springs, FL
Deviled Egg Eating Contest |
| 2026 Apr 4 Buffalo, NY
Burrito Eating Contest |
| 2026 Apr 4 Tampa, FL
Cake Eating Contest - influencers |
| $5,000.00 | "JJ Da Lion" |
| $250.00 | "Lifting Weights Cleaning Plates" |
| $100.00 | "Double Wide" |
| $50.00 | "Santa Clause" |
| $200.00 | "Just Dawsy" |
| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
| $300.00 | "The Village Inn" |
| $100.00 | Jayden "FitnessCheatMeals" |
| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
| $3,000.00 | Wayne "wayneywonder" Algenio |
