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The town of Fulton Texas is holding an oyster festival and eating contest this weekend. Joel Pruitt won the men’s contest (registration or bugmenot.com required) and a prize of $200 by eating 134 oysters in five minutes. The event was obviously not an IFOCE affair because a four year old participated in it and there were separate contests for men and women. The women’s division will be held today.
The Tour de Gorge reruns will continue into March. If you want to see Sonya Thomas in high definition, you can view her wins in the 2004 taco and meatball contests.
The Tour de Gorge has a page on the INHD website at http://inhd.com/item.jsp?item=29&mp=cb2
The Doodle Burger online Hall of Fame has now been updated with Tim “Eater X” Janus’ result of 33 burgers in 2.5 hours. The page has set Eater X’s home page as badlandsbooker.com
Dan Reed of the San Jose Mercury News has an article about San Jose State student Joey Chestnut. Reed takes Joey to the Wendy’s on Monterey Highway in San Jose (where an extortionist claimed she found a fingertip in her chili) and he tries to consume eight containers of chili in 2 minutes. Chestnut will be competing in the Stockton Asparagus Festival, the site of his first victory last year.
Mike Nichols of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a column in favor of the Sheboygan bratwurst contest. He would consider banning the contest if it used Chicago style hot dogs. George Shea and Chowhound Chapman are both quoted and they have diverging opinions on the frequency of vomiting in contests. Nichols says that Oleg Zhornitskiy’s mayonaisse eating record is much more disgusting than the bratwurst contest.
The new poll question asks how the three contest winners of 2006: Sonya Thomas, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti should be ranked. (I think those three have won all non-qualifier IFOCE contests since Cookie Jarvis won the Smirnoff grape contest at the start of November) I want to set up user rankings with more than 3 eaters, but doing so will require a more complicated poll system which does not use radio buttons.
After a foray into professional basketball, Ed “Cookie” Jarvis’ next challenge will occur in the world of high fashion. Cookie’s home page says he will hit the runway for the Sunrise Fund’s Little Miracles fashion show on March 9.
Powerlifter Marty Gallagher has an article about his theory on how the more slender competitive eaters consume massive amounts of food and avoid gaining weight. He says that eating 6 meals spread throughout the day will produce less weight gain than one massive meal containing the same amount of calories. Sonya Thomas eating one giant meal seems to disprove Gallagher’s theory.
The next post in the series about rankings lists impressive performances by unranked eaters since July. The best currently unranked eater is definitely Chip “The Phenom” Simpson who has three top 4 finishes in non-qualifiers and should definitely be ranked in the top 15 in the next rankings. Other notable eaters, listed alphabetically include:
Leland Collins – winner of ABQ GC (did not participate in finals)
Ryan Delano – lost OKC GC to Conti by 1/2 sandwich
Erik “The Red” Denmark – respectable performances in Big Daddy Burger & chili cheese fries
Jason “The Erbivore” Erb – top NW eater in Seattle Voicewing
Ken “Mongo” Federighi – respectable performances in chili cheese fries & meatballs
Shaun Kessler – 3 #3 finishes in Krystal qualifiers
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane – #3 in ABQ GC – #6 in Raleigh with better result
Mike Nafziger – #2 to Janus’ record performance, top local in Iowa smoked pork
Justin Mih – #2 & #3, lost only to LeFevre & Donahue
Bryan Miller – #2 & #3 finish in Krystal qualifiers
David Ray – #2 in Miss. Krystal
Joe “Donkey Kong” Zakerski – #3 in Nashville Krystal qualifier
If IFOCE had a female rookie of the year award for 2005, the best choice for that would probably be Alicia Garcia, who ate 10 sandwiches at the Nebraska State Fair
Gluttony is the topic of columnist Steve Rushin in the current issue of Sports Illustrated (subscription required to read column online). The second half of his column is devoted to competitive eating. Crazy Legs Conti, described as a lean former three sport letterman at Johns Hopkins, says he once ate himself out of a sarcophagus filled with popcorn and that to win a bet, the only calories he received for a week came from Guinness. Rushin makes two mistakes: he says the upcoming corned beef contest will be on Saint Patrick’s Day (it is actually on the 16th) and that Kobayashi weighs 132 pounds (he was almost 40 pounds heavier at the Krystal Square Off finals.)
The undelicious blog, a food blog based in southeastern Wisconsin, does not agree with Clarence Mertz’s claim that his referendum would pass by a 10:1 ratio.
Mertz’s requested referendum has put competitive eating in the news during a period of few contests. Many newspapers have picked up the AP article about the contest.
The official IFOCE rankings have not been updated since September. I am going to do a series of posts providing information about the rankings which will help anyone who wants to create a more up to date listing.
I have not been able to find any information that the following eaters have competed since the US Open last July or earlier. This does not imply that the following eaters should be dropped from the rankings.
#13 Dale Boone
#17 Oleg Zhornitskiy
#29 Leon Feingold
#31 Randy Harrison
#32 Bill “Pit” Pendleton
#33 Lynn Curley
#37 Ken Tittle
#38 Cade Hardin
#41 Jason Kokoszka
#42 Ed Taboada, Jr.
#47 “Collard Green” Hughes
#48 Bob Ford
#49 Robert Brooks
This column by Rick Horowitz from 1997 states that Clarence Mertz has been trying to stop the Sheboygan Bratwurst Eating Contest for almost a decade. In 1996, only five local competitors entered and the vomiting = disqualification rule was not in effect.
While IFOCE.com does not provide the dates of the Nathan’s qualifiers, the registration page on Nathan’s website does list the schedule. Registration has opened and slots will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Competitors are limited to three qualifiers. The calendar for the qualifiers is:
April 15 — Florida Panthers, Sunrise, FL
May 18 — New York, New York Casino, Las Vegas, NV
May 20 — Nathan’s, E. Hartford, CT
May 27 — Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA
June 4 — Arizona Mills Mall, Tempe, AZ
June 10 — MacArthur Center Mall, Norfolk, VA
June 17 — Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
June 18 — NY Mets-Shea, Queens, NY
June 23 — Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza, Cranbury, NJ
June 24 — Century Theaters, San Francisco, CA
June 24 — Long Island Ducks Stadium, Central Islip, NY
June 24 — Zoo Atlanta , Atlanta, GA
June 27 — Civil Service, South Street Seaport, NY
Simon has informed me that he has founded the first competitive eating organization in the United Kingdom:
Hi – Simon here from CEUK – the UK’s only CE organisation. We have been formed
to promote the CE scene in the UK. I’d love to hear from you in the US with
advice and thoughts on how we can get the UK interested in CE.
The website for the CEUK can be found at http://www.freewebs.com/ceuk/index.htm and its blog is located at http://www.freewebs.com/ceuk/myblog.htm
Several paczki (polish pastries similar to filled doughnuts) contests were held throughout the country yesterday in honor of Fat Tuesday. The Connecticut Post reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a contest at Eddy’s Bakery in Ansonia for the third straight year by eating 11 paczkis in 5 minutes. The Muskegon Chronicle reports that petite teenager Valerie Wilcox won a contest by consuming 5 paczkis in three minutes. She was tied with Trent Swanson at the end of regulation, but he capitulated in the overtime period.
The Sheboygan Press reports than Clarence Mertz, a former Sheboygan city attorney, has requested that the city hold a referendum to decide if the city will continue to hold the Johnsonville Bratwurst contest during the Bratwurst Days Festival. The contest is sponsored by the Sheboygan Jaycee’s and not the city of Sheboygan, so it is not clear what authority the city has to prohibit the contest. The festival generated a $30,000 profit last year and lost money before it had a sanctioned bratwurst contest.
Updated 11:07 AM
The Duluth News Tribune has an AP article about the dispute which mentions that Sheboygan County Clerk Julie Glancey said it was too late to get an advisory referendum on the April ballot. The next possible referendum could not occur until September, one month after the August contest.
IFOCE.com announced the cities for the 2006 Nathan’s Famous qualifiers. The contests will begin in mid-April, but the exact dates have yet to be determined. The cities hosting contests are essentially the same as in 2005, but a Bloomington, MN qualifier has been added and the Florida contest has been shifted to Sunrise from Pembroke Pines.
The Whaler apparently has a rival for the title of biggest Eater X fan on the internet. After watching MTV’s True Life documentary, Amanda because smitten with the stock trader and learned he was a Presidential Scholar. Amanda is also the only female Rush (the band, not the talk show host) fan that I am aware of.
Levi “The Prophet” Oliver has joined a running group to help train for his upcoming triathalon. One of his training partners wrote a blog entry about the experience of doing 200m sprints with Levi.
103.1 FM in Albany has a photo gallery of Friday’s Steer Burger contest at Sutter’s Mill and Mining Company which “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won by eating 7.5 burgers in 20 minutes. The burgers contained a half a pound of meat and Menchetti claims they are equivalent to 3-4 Doodle Burgers.
The page for MTV’s True Life: I am a Competitive Eater has a summary and video gallery (images 84-95) with screen captures of Takeru Koabayashi, Tim “Eater X” Janus and Ian “The Invader” Hickman (Carlene LeFevre also appears in the background in one of the pictures) Flash player required to view images.
The San Bernardino Sun has a flashback from 43 years today ago about a pancake contest for college students sponsored by the International House of Pancakes. Teams from over 50 colleges participated, including a team from Tokyo. Two San Bernardino Valley College students, Bruce James and Susan Moncrief, won the contest by eating 270 pancakes in 30 minutes. A breakdown of the amount of pancakes eaten by James and Moncrief is not provided.
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has a new article about Tim Janus’ new Doodle Burger record and Eric “Badlands” Booker’s previous record. Seiken was an eyewitness to Booker’s record and has some pictures and a video clip of that endeavor.
The new poll question is inspired by The Whaler’s Eater X fan blog like the previous question. In his recent blog entry, The Whaler states that he finds the general tone of comments on this board obsequious and treacly. I am curious to see if that opinion is shared.
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