The foods in the four rounds of Saturday’s speed eating tournament in Myrtle Beach are listed as chicken wings, hot dogs, ice cream and shrimp by event coordinater Michael Castelalano at the end of this article about the Tucson jalapeno popper contest.

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Ryan Nerz’s appearance received good reviews on this forum thread about the Daily Show.

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With the Acme oyster contest cancelled due to Katrina, the most lucrative oyster contest held this spring will apparently be held at the Washington Platform restaurant in Cincinatti on Friday. The winner will receive $1,000 in gift certificates.

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Salon has an interview with Ryan Nerz. (You have to watch a commercial to read the whole article)

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MyrtleBeachOnline has a short preview of Saturday’s speed eating tournament at Broadway at the Beach. Larry McNeil and Loren Yarbrough are listed as expected entrants.

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The Izushi noodle contest was held Saturday. The Nurse (嘉数千恵) (Google can’t translate her name), 3rd place finisher in the “gluttonous queen” contest, won the overall contest with 95 small plates of noodles (no other famous eaters competed). There were 270 participants including children and 11000 plates of noodles were prepared. It is surprising that the minimum age for all contests was not raised to 18 after the controversy after the death of the schoolboy who was imitating a competitive eating stunt in 2002.

The following blog entries and articles about the Izushi provide an overview of a typical Japanese contest that is not a made-for-TV event: Sea Bass blog, Much & Fast (written by the contest runner up), KTV and MBS.

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(From The Tube Sock Destroyer) The current edition of Entertainment Weekly has mini-book reviews of the two competitive eating books which award a grade of B+ to “Eat This Book” and A- to “Horsemen of the Esophagus.”

There is a new book out called “Insatiable” which might be why the title of Jason Fagone’s book was changed.

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“Eat This Book” author and IFOCE MC Ryan Nerz will appear on the Daily Show on Comedy Central at 11 pm eastern tonight. If you miss the episode, it will be replayed at 1 am, 10 am, 2 pm, and 8 pm tomorrow (all times eastern)

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The Philadelphia Daily News has a short article about “Horsemen of the Esophagus” author Jason Fagone.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has a detailed writeup of Saturday’s Nathan’s hot dog qualifier at Sunrise FL with the top 8 finishers. If the 3rd place finisher was Bryan Miller, he also had strong performances at Krystal qualifiers in Savannah and Jacksonville last fall. I am curious if there was any PETA presence at the contest.

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from Boston Marathon Results:

Conti’s time of 5:04 was almost 3 hours behind the winner’s course record of 2:07.

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Brian Seiken has a few more details about the controversial finish to the Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise, Fl on Saturday. It is surprising that there are no articles, blog entries or buffet message board posts with additional details about this contest two days after it took place.

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This translated blog entry says that the “Gluttonous Queen” contest broadcast on TV Tokyo April 2 received good television ratings. Hopefully this will result in more eating contests broadcast on Japanese television, including contests in which Americans compete.

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If you are curious how Eric “Badlands” Booker managed to upset Sonya Thomas at the Buffalo Wing Festival last year, cluckbucket.com has detailed information on his personal wing eating technique along with over a dozen other wing eating styles.

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Brian Seiken has emailed me that there is a divergence of opinion regarding who controls entry into next month’s United Pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli. United Pickle, the contest sponsor, has given control of the contest field to Cookie Jarvis and Brian Seiken while the owner of the Carnegie Deli believes he will decide who will compete. Seiken says that he and Jarvis will not compete if any AICE members are entered and they are expecting other IFOCE members to honor their boycott.

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The eigth episode of Brian Seiken’s TV show, featuring Tim Janus, is now available. “Eater X” appears in studio and phone calls from the audience are taken for the first time. Janus offers information about the conflict with Dale Boone at the US Open and says that MTV is producing a sequel to its documentary about competitive eaters. A commercial of Badlands Booker at IHOP (which had virtually no audio on my computer) and a phone interview with Brian’s nephew who is a star of an MTV2 show are also displayed.

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beautifulbrian.com and an anonymous commenter state that Crazy Legs Conti won the Sunrise, Fl Nathan’s qualifier with 24.5 hot dogs in overtime. Conti and Joe LaRue were tied with 21.5 hot dogs after twelve minutes.

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Ryan Nerz’s hometown paper, The (Columbus, IN) Republic, has an interview with the author of “Eat This Book.”

There is also a podcast of Nerz’s appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio (The Nerz segment starts at 40:00). Nerz mentions that Tim Janus has left his Wall Street job (perhaps to pursue whaling full time?)

The party for “Eat This Book” will apparently be on May 3.

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The website for the Stockton, CA Asparagus Festival announces that the winner of the 2004 deep fried asparagus eating contest, Sonya Thomas, and the winner of the 2005 event, Joey Chestnut, will face off in the 2006 contest to be held on April 22. Sonya will stop off on the west coast en route from returning from her homeland of South Korea.

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Mojo’s Authentic Barbecue of Leominster, MA is holding a rib eating contest on Sunday, April 23. The winner will receive $200. The entry fee is $50, but proceeds will go to benefit Ginny’s Food Pantry. The contest will have a duration of 30 minutes.

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has a preview and odds of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Sunrise, Florida. It appears that the Boeing employee is trying to single-handedly create a market for his company’s products. In less than a month, the Seattle resident will have competed in the NE, SE and SW corners of the country.

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Although Ed Krachie’s dream of having his “Belt of Fat” theory published in the New England Journal of Medicine has yet to be realized, it has received mention in another prestigious Boston area publication. The Harvard Independent has an article about Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest focusing on Kobayashi’s achievements.

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After the MacArthur Center in Norfolk hosted Sonya Thomas’ record for Nathan’s qualifiers last year, eaters at that location will try to set another record. A Peep eating contest will be held at that location tomorrow.

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Leyla Milani of NBC’s “Deal or no Deal” game show (and former WWE Raw diva search participant) claims to have eaten four hot dogs and buns in under a minute.

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The new poll asks what you think will be the largest number of hot dogs eaten at any Nathan’s qualifier. I believe the current record is 32 by Sonya Thomas at Norfolk last year (I am not sure how many hot dogs Kobayashi ate in the 2001 Tokyo qualifier) Joey Chestnut announced on the buffet message board that he plans to attend the Philadelphia qualifier, which is also the closest qualifier to Sonya Thomas, so it might take 35 or more hot dogs to win that event.

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