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The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.
In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?
As far as I can tell, these are the most viewed competitive eating videos on youtube as of November 15
Gal Sone 40,000 calories, 319K views
Kobayashi – SNL TV Funhouse 122K views
Kobayashi vs. Bear, 99K views
Gal Sone vs. Shirota 6Kg curry, 85K views
End of 2004 Nathan’s finals 56K views
Kobayashi vs. Takako Akasaka Food Battle Club, 37K views
Kobayashi – Coffee Milk, Food Battle Club, 36K
Kobayashi at US Open, 28K views
Entirety of 2006 Nathan’s finals, 26K views
Gal Sone vs Shirota – 5kg udon, 23K views
(From IFOCE.com) The Thanksgiving Invitational will take place on November 22 at Artie’s Delicatessen in New York City. Heartburn medication Axia 3 takes over sponsorship from goldenpalace.net. As in 2005, the food will remain whole turkeys, but larger birds will be used this year. Spectators from the general public will not be allowed at the contest.
Eaters invited (not a complete list)
Sonya Thomas (defending champion)
Tim Janus
Crazy Legs Conti
Justin Mih
Arturos Rios Jr.
Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston
“Big” Brian Subich
Video footage from the 2004 NC State Fair Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Contest can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3yyOq4DTE Sonya Thomas won the contest, but she only makes an extremely brief appearance in the film.
(from slashfood) The BBC reports that The Institute of Food Research have built a stomach simulator to enable better understanding of the human digestion process. There is no word on whether the artificial stomach will participate in the mince pie eating competition later this month.
The slashfood food blog has an article about the efforts of the House of LeFevre to retain the posole title. The author has a different opinion on posole than his subjects do.
There will be a bologna burger eating contest at the “Mason-Dixon Meltdown†at South Boston Speedway in Virginia (near NC border) on November. First prize is $250. The competitors goals will be to break driver Elliot Sadler’s record of 14 bologna burgers.
Angelo Cataldi says that the format for the upcoming Wing Bowl will be changed, and this alteration will benefit local eaters at the expense of out of towners. The new poll asks what change do you think is most likely.
Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry & gallery about his meal at Big Ed’s BBQ where he got the all you can eat special with Kevin & Lorraine Lipsitz and some other family members. The “clash of generations” originally envisioned could apparently not be scheduled, but Kevin’s nephew Kyle made a strong showing for younger eaters by eating 21 ribs.
competitiveeatingnews.com says that it is “very likely” that heartburn remedy Axia 3 will sponsor the 2006 Thanksgiving Invitational. Previous Thanksgiving invitationals have been held in New York City, but the food changed from year to year.
Crazy Legs Conti will appear at an amateur wing eating contest at the Wingery in Covington, LA, on Thursday, the first Lousiana IFOCE event since Katrina.
As of November 13, Wing Bowl 15 has yet to be listed on the Wachovia Center Schedule. If the Wing Bowl is held the Friday morning before the Super Bowl on February 2, the Wachovia Center will have to switch from a hockey rink to the Wing Bowl configuration to basketball in 24 hours.
(from supersizedmeals.com) The owner of Bob’s BBQ in Thailand, which created a cheeseburger weighing approximately 80 pounds, left a comment in supersizedmeals.com disputing the Guinness record status of the 105 pound “8th Wonder” burger made by the Clinton Station Diner due to its meat being undercooked and having too many condiments. (Lavish use of condiments did not deny Denny’s 96er burger from having the official Guinness record for a time)
Google Video has footage of the 2004 Pumpkin Pie Eating contest, won by Eric “Badlands” Booker at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2212699343578141015
Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live had a cartoon about Kobayashi in Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse that can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=4hkq6Qn0nQY The cartoon had a live action segment which Kobayashi describes the filming of in a blog entry. William “Refrigerator” Perry is the only person who has competed in an IFOCE contest besides Kobayashi to appear in the clip.
Brian Seiken has a new television show out and his guest is Eric “Badlands” Booker.
In other Badlands news, the preview for Hungry & Focused III on IFOCE.com says that Badland’s son Brandon (seen on Wife Swap) will perform on it.
The whaler breaks an almost one month hiatus with a review of the Olive Garden. The quality of that restaurant’s entrees are all but irrelevant to the review.
In a youtube video, Natsuko “Gal” Sone eats a mountain of curry and 75 pudding cups (after aiming for 100), then gets an ultrasound examination with a full stomach.
WIP host Angelo Cataldi answers a question about Wing Bowl 15 in his blog. He says that tickets will probably go on sale the first week of December and a new contest theme and commisioner to replace the late Eric Gregg will be named at that time. The new theme will “address growing concerns that Wing Bowl has become too much of a national event, at the expense of Philadelphia.” We will have to wait until next month to see if those concerns will be addressed by banning or discouraging out of market eaters from competing.
A list of every IFOCE eater to win money after July 5 is available after the jump:
Versus (formerly OLN) will broadcast a barbecuing contest. The competition will be in the format of a multiround tournament. You would think if they can show competitive cooking, they can also televise competitive eating.
An article about the Toyota Scion in today’s Wall Street Journal says that Toyota intends to drastically reduce television advertising for that brand and focus more on event marketing and branded entertainment. Toyota trucks sponsored an IFOCE contest at the Indiana State Fair and an IFOCE blurb said that several top IFOCE eaters drive Scions.
It is surprising that absolutely no information about Wing Bowl 15 regarding eligibility, format, tickets or other aspects of that event have been made public yet given that qualifying stunts usually begin the week after Thanksgiving. WIP’s Wing Bowl page still only has information about Wing Bowl 14. Last year, tickets had been sold out by October 24.
Some clips from last month’s Gluttonous King program are available at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=oogui&search=Search TV Tokyo will have the clips removed when they find out about it, so what it soon if you are interested.
“Humble” Bob Shoudt has a report from his trip to Chattanooga to compete in Krystal Square Off III in his blog.
(from megamunch) Last Saturday’s meeting of the United Eaters of Pennsylvania to Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has made the home page of that restaurant.
Loading ...| 2026 Jan 22 | San Jose, CA | Pho Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 23 | St. Petersburg, FL | Banh Mi Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 23 | Philadelphia, PA | Waffle Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | St. Petersburg, FL | Banh Mi Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Flint, MI | Coney Dog Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Mesa, AZ | Empanada Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Humble, TX | Hot Pepper Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Grand Rapids, MI | Hot Sauce Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Hagerstown, MD | Jumbo Burrito Eating Contest | ||||
| 2026 Jan 24 | Port Orange, FL | Pickle Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jan 22 San Jose, CA
Pho Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jan 21 Bridgeport, WV
Hot Wing Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jan 20 Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hot Dog Eating Contest |
| 2026 Jan 19 Boca Raton, FL
Berry Big Bit Contest |
| 2026 Jan 19 Lenox, MA
Wicked Wolf Wing Eating Contest |
| $5,000.00 | "JJ Da Lion" |
| $500.00 | "Track the Bear" |
| $250.00 | "Lifting Weights Cleaning Plates" |
| $100.00 | "Double Wide" |
| $50.00 | "Santa Clause" |
| $100.00 | "plonksmash" |
| $300.00 | "The Village Inn" |
| $100.00 | Jayden "FitnessCheatMeals" |
| $500.00 | Jean Christophe |
| $3,000.00 | Wayne "wayneywonder" Algenio |