StlToday.com reports that a sausage eating contest will be held at the Soulard Octoberfest this weekend. Soulard.org has more details:

This year, the Soulard Oktoberfest Benevolent Association has added even more reasons to attend St. Louis’ most authentic German festival. Along with the annual World’s Largest Bratwurst Competition, SOBA is sponsoring Fat Toney’s Sausage Eating Contest for those brave and hungry enough to enter. With a grand prize of a trip to Las Vegas,compliments of Fat Toney Goucher himself, this competition is sure to attract a crowd. Fat Toney’s Sausage Eating Contest will take place on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. Sign up for the Herculean task or simply cheer on the brave and the hungry.

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BeautifulBrian.com and MosesNews.com have updated entries about the Major League Eating DVD.

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(From So Good Blog)Manuel Lora makes the following proposals in his blog:

Eating contests must be closely watched by a regulatory agency. I propose the following pieces of legislation:

A) Participants must be licensed. If we license automobile drivers, why can’t we license competitive eaters? Some of them often receive monetary and in-kind prices and as such they are employees subject to regulation.

B) Participants must be insured. Because the eaters might have a higher than average incidence of heart burn and other complications, it makes perfect sense of them to have primary and secondary insurance otherwise hospitals will have to bear the cost of the eating fetishists.

C) Competitive eating organizers shall be required to provide to audiences brochures and other instructional material about healthy eating. Children who witness these monstrous spectacles could very well be disturbed, their lives forever changed. Society must do whatever possible to prevent damaging the children.

D) Whether it is pies or hot dogs, organizers must provide nutritional information to eaters and the public. This way everyone can see the insane number of calories that they are consuming. Perhaps a “shock and awe” campaign is what we need to eliminate obesity once and for all.

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Whitd has some videos recorded from the audience from Saturday’s grits eating contest. A news video is also available.

Hall Hunt has some pictures and a report from the contest.

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The new poll asks what you think the result would be if the IFOCE contract was challenged in court.

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Sakura Takahashi has the following apology (automatically translated) on her blog:

“Originator! Gluttonous king decisive game”
You participated the case where method of my eating,
“It is ugly.”
With it received the comment which is pointed out.

With new this game advance, there is no room,
Clean of method of eating to, the air did not turn.
With this, we apologize to the person who is harmed feeling, from heart.
In addition, also the image for gluttony makes bad,
With that, to we applied annoyance also the gluttonous authorized personnel and TV station.

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Megamunch has compiled a list of the highest poundages in IFOCE history. A list of poundages (for foods measured in pounds) above 10 obtained directly from the eatfeats database is available after the jump. The final round of Food Battle Club in 2001 had 10 kg (22 pounds) of curry.

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The Washington Post Sports “Bog” has results from Sunday’s “Pros vs. Joes” pizza eating contest for charity:

Kedric Golston and his team of “Pros” won the celebrity pizza eating contest Sunday at Don Corleone’s. By one slice. Professional eater Ian “The Invader” Hickman carried the team of pros, downing 32 slices, according to enthusiastic Don Corleone’s owner Waleed R. Zarou.

But Golston held his own, putting away 14 slices of pizza in 10 minutes (remember, they were double-cut, so that means he ate about 87 percent of one pie).

A commenter thinks Hickman’s result must be an IFOCE record.

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PRNewsWire.com has a press release about the second MLE event to be televised on Spike TV:

Spike TV and Major League Eating present JOEY CHESTNUT vs. KOBAYASHI (and the other top eaters in the world) in chicken wing (Buffalo Wild Wings(R)) and potato wedge consumption in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 9 from the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

This one hour special, MLE Chowdown: Wedges And Wings, will air Thursday, October 18 at 11:00pm ET/PT on Spike TV.

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Joining Chestnut and Kobayashi will be the top Major League Eaters in the world including Patrick Bertoletti (winner of Spike TV’s St. 2007 Patrick’s Day Chowdown), Tim “Eater X” Janus, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Richard LeFevre, Juliet Lee, and Hall Hunt.

This event marks the second MLE on Spike TV. The first, The St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown, featuring corned beef and cabbage, green donuts, and jalapenos, drew a robust 739,000 viewers on March 17.

The press release says that 16 eaters will compete, leaving 8 unnamed.

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The Eagle Tribune has an article about Andover, MA resident Paul MacInnis, who is on a quest to ban all eating contests.

After he stops the Nathan’s contest, he said he’ll move to ban all professional competitive eating.

He has the option of introducing a bill to the Massachusetts Legislature — which he’d have to do by January. Andover Town Clerk Randy Hanson said it wouldn’t be possible to ban competitive eating locally because the Board of Selectmen would have no authority to uphold such a ruling, even if it were voted in at town meeting.

But one thing’s for sure: MacInnis is one tough cookie, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes.

“I will not be ignored,” he said. “I will become such a pain in the neck to these people. I may be on a fool’s errand here, but I’m not going to let it go.”

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The final round of this year’s Gluttonous King contest, in which Shirota, Yamamoto and “the Artist” competed, has been uploaded to youtube. It will probably not be there very long so watch it soon if you are interested.

Yomiuri.co reports that the program received a 19.7% audience share, which peaked at 28.8% just after “Gal” Sone was eliminated.

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(From Levi Oliver) A documentary about Levi Oliver’s competitive eating career has been completed and a website for it has been set up at http://eatinglevi.com/ A trailer is available.

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A video of Joey G attempting to win a free meal by eating two three pound burritos at Pinata’s on Long Island has been uploaded to youtube. Cookie Jarvis’ record in the challenge is mentioned at the start of the video.

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This message appeared recently on the old Yahoo group:

Hi,

I just joined your group. I am currently making a documentary film on competitve eating and it would be amazing if I could include insight from a female perspective. If anyone is interested in helping us with content, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Darren Sikorski

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