(From “Butch”) Crazy Legs Conti has updated his “Plate” column with news of IFOCE events from 2007 and late 2006:

I consider El Wingador to be a true champion and a stand-up guy. I look forward to my next trip to Philly to avoid the cheesesteak and check out his restaurant, El Wingador To-Go. I also look forward to hanging with seasoned pros Wing Kong, Steakbellie, and their families. Any time Wing Kong, a bus, and a stripper pole is involved count me in. They throw up an after party that rivals Dale Boone at the 8-minute mark. Steakbellie is the James Fennimore Cooper of blogging and I look forward to more of his “Leatherwing Tales” www.steakbellie.blogspot.com.

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Kobayashi has a post about his thoughts on the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown in Savannah.

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The Los Angeles Daily News has a column about a tournament of the major events in 16 North American sports:

(13) World Series of Poker vs. (12) Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest

Winner: In this interesting matchup of mid-majors, hot dogs win again. Look at Kobiyashi’s poker face when he’s ready to rumble.

(You would think a major newspaper could spell Kobayashi correctly)

The author says that Nathan’s hot dog eating contest wins its semifinal matchup, but then does not list it in the finals.

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A press release for the New Jersey Festival of Balooning says the 3rd Quick Check toasted sub eating contest will be held at that event.

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The Dining Events page for Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, VA has the following entry:

03/15/07 – We are hosting HOT DOG EATING CONTEST! 14 UMW Students are invited to compete against Sonya Thomas, the Black Widow, a world champion competetive eater. This event will be sponsored by Dining Services and OSACS. The contest is being held at Palmari Plaza and will start at 12:15.

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Sheboygan-Press.com has an article about the 2007 Brat Days Festival with a picture of a fan wearing Eater X makeup. The schedule has not been finalized, but two events from 2006 that will be continued are listed:

A couple of guarantees, however, are the brat-eating contest and the traditional parade, sponsored by Piggly Wiggly and Fresh Brands.

The main musical guests will be Soul Asylum, Dokken and Trick Pony.

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A Japanese blogger is currently on vacation in Hawaii, and s/he saw a television crew recording Natsuko “Gal” Sone competing in the “Gluttonous Queen” contest on Waikiki Beach. The contest will be televised later this month or in April. It is too bad that apparently no American women were invited to compete.

Exactly recording the gluttonous king decisive game being done at the Waikiki beach, it increased.

The gal 曽 root it was.

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The Harvard Crimson reports that Richard Tarnas was using performance enhancing drugs when he won an eating contest by consuming 17.5 pancakes in December 1969:

Trainer David R. Bishop 72 attributed Tarnas’s victory to his rigid two-week training program.

“We had Rick on a tough schedule-smoking grass every day and never going to bed before 4 a.m.,” said Bishop. “Then the stoned Munchies-brought on by two pre-contest joints-floated my man to victory,” he added.

Richard Tarnas is currently professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His most recent book is Cosmos and Psyche. The astroknavery blog describes the content of that work:

Subtitled, Intimations of a New World View and based, Tarnas claims, upon 30 years* of research, it strives to address what he calls “the profound metaphysical disorientation and groundlessness that pervades contemporary human experience” by suggesting a “new metanarrative that transcends separate cultures and subcultures, an encompassing pattern of meaning that could give to collective human existence a nourishing coherence and intelligibility.”

That meta-narrative, as he calls it, is astrology.

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A 4 person team wing eating contest will take place in Chicago. Finals will be March 31 at Cans Bar & Canteen and qualifiers will be held throughout March. The team entrance fee is $25 and the registration deadline is March 11. First prize is $500.

A corned beef Musubi eating contest will be held in Honolulu on St. Patrick’s Day. First place is $1000. The contest page says the registration deadline has passed, but this starbulletin.com article says entries are still being accepted.

See the side bar for more contests.

updated corned beef prize fixed, thanks GJoe

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beautifulbrian.com reports that Liz Kellermeyer will be his guest for his television show on the 17th

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There is an article about Pat Bertoletti in the Chicago Tribune.

Bertoletti’s competitive strategy is simple: “I just try to focus and push myself. Every time I’m at a contest, I like to see how far it takes me to get to my breaking point.”

That threshold has become harder to reach since he began eating for sport in 2004 at the suggestion of his sister. He entered a local pizza-eating contest and finished fourth. Bertoletti later registered with the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which regulates the contests for safety.

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Natsuko “Gal” Sone is not the only big eating Japanese female distance runner. VAAM-power.com has an interview (originally from the Japan Times) with Naoko Takahashi, the women’s marathon champion in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in which the gold medalist describes her eating habits:

Mostly Japanese food, even in the States. I don’t think in terms of calories, we just tell the cook what we want to eat. I want to eat this, that, meat, and we just eat whatever as much as we want. I can eat 50 pieces of sushi in one sitting. With meat I can eat a two-kg (4.5 lb or 72 oz.) steak.

VAAM is an energy drink made with hornet juice that Ms. Takahashi credits with reducing muscle fatigue.

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A news video of the 123 pound burger from Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub can be viewed at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17402466/

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IFOCE.com reports that the commercial for the St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown starring Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti can be viewed at http://www.spiketv.com/#/originals/index.jhtml?franchise_id=721&video_id=136875

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Bordeaux Undiscovered reports that the wine societies of Oxford and Cambridge Universities want to have wine tasting classified as an official collegiate sport. The wine contests will be judged by how many questions about the wine a taster gets correct and not volume or speed of consumption.

Food falls into the sport category – so why not wine? Competitive Eating is considered a sport. This is a sport which involves the consumption of large quantities of food in a short time period – typically 12 minutes or less. I think the rules can be stretched to include wine tasting – don’t you?

As usual it boils down to tradition – and this is a difficult thing to break in our ancient educational establishments. Awarding colours for sporting achievements dates back to the early 19th century when Oxford and Cambridge staged their first rowing races.

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A clip from a recent “Las Vegas” episode has been uploaded to http://eatfeats.com/videos/LasVegasHotDogContest.wmv (2 minutes 5MB) The video shows Sam (Vanessa Marcil) winning a hot dog eating contest for casino employees by eating the contents of a tray filled with of 50-80 bunless hot dogs (We only see her eat about two or three)

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Maryville Daily Forum has a fictional story about trying to outdrink Kobayashi in a modified game of quarters.

I let Kobayashi take the first shot. He misses terribly, and I’m feeling pretty good. I don’t hit my first time, and we go back and forth before I sink the first shot of the match. Kobayashi tips the glass back and downs it with blinding speed. He lets out a huge belch. I could be in a lot of trouble.

The game continues on. He’s hit a few, but I’m kicking his butt. We’re about 45 minutes in, and I’ve downed four to his 11. I know he’s not even close to being full but he is feeling the effects of the alcohol. He keeps sputtering stuff off in Japanese. His translator is trying to keep me up with what he’s saying and then suddenly stops.

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Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 123 pound burger is the subject of a Japanese blog entry.

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The “Las Vegas” episode with the hot dog eating contest will be rerun on TNT at midnight eastern tonight (9 pm Pacific)

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Videos of Joey Chestnut entering the Wachovia Center before Wing Bowl 15 can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI0Isq0cJdk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5ihrNV4jw

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A page about the Saint Patrick’s Day Chowdown has been set up at http://www.spiketv.com/#shows/mle/index.jhtml There is a commercial starring Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti and videos of the 2005 US Open and Johnsonville Bratwurst contest.

update The commercial with Janus & Conti appears to have been removed.

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The Gant Daily has an article about the making and unveiling of the 123 pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub which mentions the United Eaters of Pennsylvania. Ian Hickman’s record breaking performance appears in the article and there is also a picture of the Invader in the article slideshow.

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blog.gansotorokatsucurry.com reports that candy endorsed by Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake will go on sale on March 26.

In his blog, Shirota states his design goal for his candy:

‘Of the snack which is agreeable to the beer’ was thought in theme.

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Megamunch has a blog entry about his experience MCing two local contests in Harrisburg, PA on Sunday.

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