The opener for the third season of Beautiful Brian’s video podcast is now available. The contents are described:

Beautifulbrian’s corner Season 3 features a tribute to Krazy Kevin’s retirement from competitive eating. Baby Huey attempts to break Joey Chestnut’s record of gallon milk in 41 seconds. El Toro phone in from Las Vegas , Phoney phone call from 1974

El Toro’s girlfriend declined participation because she thought the questions were stupid.

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Controlled Labs is sponsoring a video-based ice cream sandwich eating contest. Videos must be submitted by November 17. The first ten women who enter the contest and make a legitimate effort will receive a skull cap.

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“Gustoff Zhychick” has emailed a video (3.0 MB 40 seconds) announcing that he will not be present at the Wing Bowl.

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HungrySisters is a new blog describing its focus as: “food, especially (but not necessarily limited to): Dairy Queen, Tacos, and the fine art known as competitive eating.” The sisters traveled west from their home in North Carolina to go to the Krystal Square Off finals and wrote a trip report about it.

The next morning we were ready for the festivities to begin. We ate breakfast at this awesome cafe connected to our hotel. Sadie and I both ordered Chocolate Chip Pancakes. After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and walked to the riverside where the contest was to take place. We arrived about 2 hours early, but we didn’t have anything better to do, so we watched the Krystal People set up the area for the contest. While we were waiting, we met Crazy Legs Conti!!!! It was the coolest thing ever. It was our first encounter meeting a real-live competitive eater; one who we have seen on TV many, many times. Very exciting!!!

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Some people have said that new IFOCE rankings were released today, but the cached rankings (from November 7) and the current rankings are the same. Kobayashi was dropped to #3 after the “Wings & Wedges” broadcast in October.

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Megamunch has a blog entry requesting more prize money for lower finishers.

The new polls asks what fraction of a contest’s purse do you think should go to the top 3 finishers.

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The logos on the home page of IFOCE.com have been changed and the IFOCE store graphic announces that the Major League Eating DVD can be purchased. The DVD page has a review from Robert Gilman which begins:

“Blending the historic integrity of Ken Burns with the stylistic perfection of Scorsese, Major League Eaters delights at every turn. Cookie Jarvis loves two things–celebrity and free food. Sadly he is losing both. Rich and Carlene LeFevre are a dynamic couple with epicurean leanings, but has another eater been leaning a bit too close to Carlene?

The logos for Heinz, Pizza Hut and Netflix have been dropped (cached home page)

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Steve Reeves wrote a negative review of Eagle’s Deli in Boston which mentions the removal of the Polaroid pictures of diners who finished a large burger. The owner of the restaurant responded to the negative review on Digg and says he will set up an online wall of fame at an unspecified time in the future:

The pictures were of people who ate the Godzilla burger (1lb of beef, 4 slices of cheese and 1lb of fries) or higher, most of the pictures were people who ate the Godzilla as very few have finished more then that.
a. The pictures were taken down because their simply was no more room, we have pictures hanging just about everywhere you could pin one and there was no room left and we had stacks of photos to put up with no where to put them.
b. We had 2 ideas
i. Make the new photo level the “Cowabunga” (2lbs of beef, 8 slices of cheese, 2lbs of fries)
ii. Put the pictures up and every year take them down and move them to the web-site making room for new pictures
c. After taking down the photos, patching the walls and painting, we were complemented by many customers, most of them regulars who had been coming for 5, 10 15 some even 20 years on how much cleaner and brighter the places looked and asking us not to put the photos back up. After long considerations we decided to stop the Polaroid photos.
i. At some point all old photos will make it to the web-site and we will look into doing a direct to web-site pictures.

The Phantom Gourmet reports that the first person to finish the deli’s 5 pound burger and 5 pounds of fries will have the sandwich named after him or her. The website also has a list of the best restaurants in Boston serving huge portions.

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Short article about Juris Shibayama, no quotes or other new information.
Former NFL star Herschel Walker sponsors a hamburger eating contest to promote his line of food products.
Crystal Light eating contest video
Soft taco eating contest between teams of cheerleaders.
Another eating contest for cheerleaders, this one involving tater tots.

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Tonight, Cambridge, MA, BGood’s Garlicky Greens eating contest, need to fill out application to receive a slot, prize is free burgers for a year
Nov 10, Scranton, PA EATORF hot wing eating contest
Nov 11, East Los Angeles tamale eating contest, first prize is $100 gift certificate
Nov 16, Kittanning, PA gingerbread house eating contest, $250 first prize, See also pittsburghlive.com
Sometime in November, Baltimore, MD, Pete’s Grill pancake eating contest, $500 prizes offered to both male & female winners, Last year’s female winner ate 10.5 pancakes in a hour Pete’s Grill contact info

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CaymanNetNews.com reports on a conch fritter eating contest held during “Conchquest 07”, a celebration of conch in the Cayman Islands:

The first-ever Cayman Islands conch fritter eating contest was held on Saturday 3, November.

Deal Ebanks, 48, from West Bay chewed up seven other strong competitors by devouring 43 conch fritters in six minutes, clearly threatening the world record of 45 held by Joe Menchetti.

The contest, sponsored by Cayman’s favourite rock station 96.5 CayRock and Lipton PureLeaf Tea, was held at Macabuca at the Cracked Conch before over 200 spectators with eight entrants competing for a CI$1,000 cash prize.

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Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has uploaded a video of her describing the contents of a full grocery cart to http://youtube.com/watch?v=ai_T8DjUyCY She estimates the food will last her 2 or 3 days. Ms. Turell comments on the video in this Muscular Development thread and says she has considered entering an eating contest In this musclemayhem thread:

Now one another note… If I to a resturant like for example I went to Cheesecake Factory. I order the big sampler appetizer. i eat the whole thing myself. THe waiter will be like thats alot of food, mentally i am thinking “yeah and your piont is??” I am a paying customer, don’t question me on what I order. I must have ate that thing up in 10 minutes. I then order the big filet mignon and of course cheesecake not 1 but maybe 3 cheesecake to nibble here and there. But that once in a while.

I have ben tempted to enter these food eating contest, but I can’t see myself stuffing face like some of those people. But i would be kinda of fun to try. I would probably pass out or something

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Two promotional video clips for the “Turkey Bowl” have been uploaded to youtube: Video 1, Video 2 Embedded videos available after the jump:
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Hall Hunt’s November top 25 is out. The top 5 are:

1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (8) (248) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (235) [2]
3. Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi (233) [3]
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (1) (219) [4]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (191) [5]

It would be interesting to know who voted for Bob Shoudt as #1 and what they based that selection on.

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A press release announces that the third MLE special on Spike TV, the “Turkey Bowl” will be televised twice on Thanksgiving Day, November 22 at 11am and 7pm.

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The Wall Street Journal Online has a long profile of “activist” investor Nelson Peltz, who is responsible for Heinz’s co-sponsorship of the Nathan’s finals:

Mr. Peltz also believed that Heinz was paying supermarkets too much to promote its products and provide good shelf placement. He said Heinz should seek visibility in other ways, like sponsoring the hot-dog eating contest held each Independence Day at New York’s Coney Island. The activist shareholder also took issue with the 11 billion single-serve ketchup packets Heinz sold each year to fast-food chains, schools and sports venues, calling them messy. His suggestion: Sell ketchup in dip cups like those used for barbeque sauce.

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Sales and profits at Heinz are up. This past July’s hot-dog eating contest in Coney Island was festooned with inflatable Heinz ketchup bottles. As for messy ketchup packaging, Heinz says that apparently unbeknownst to Mr. Peltz, it had already been selling tens of millions of dip cups annually. “He said, ‘Why don’t we have dip cups?’ the senior Heinz employee recalls. “We do have dip cups.” The company is currently developing larger dip cups, it says.

Heinz stock is up 10.5% since Peltz became involved with the company. Peltz has been recently been accumulating shares of Kraft Foods. Perhaps he can get a Kraft brand to sponsor another eating contest.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry about his history in the Wing Bowl and his negative experience in Wing Bowl 13. Lerman’s difficulty in entering the arena in that event is mentioned on page 185 of “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone:

The media-door supplicants aren’t all pretenders. Some are even participants, like Mr. IFOCE himself, George Shea, his neatly slicked hair and sharp suit putting the Philly mooks to shame. Butter champ Don Lerman is here, too. I’m standing right next to him. I know it’s Don Lerman because it says so on his wool hat.

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R Suzuki reports that Gal Sone traveled to the west coast of Canada and went on an octopus hunt around Vancouver Island on a Nippon TV program. After a diver caught an octopus, it was cooked and served to Gal Sone in a restaurant.

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The new poll asks what is the most important factor in deciding whether or not you decide to participate in an eating contest.

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NJ.com reports on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons’ preparations to win his sixth Wing Bowl crown at Wing Bowl 16:

“A lot of people in the Delaware Valley are ticked off somebody from San Jose won Wing Bowl,” says Wingador. “Many have asked me to come back and keep the title local. So I am.”

Simmons is warming to the task by eating 10-15 pounds of food a day, wings three times a week. He feels he balances the scales by working out on a regular basis and drinking three gallons of water daily. He currently weighs 332.

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A clip from ESPN’s Sportcenter about the results of Krystal Square Off IV can be viewed at http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash2?id=3084545

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(from Erik Denmark) The MLE page on Spike TV announces that the second segment of the MLE Chowdown, titled “Battle of the Bird”, will be televised on Thanksgiving Day. A time is not listed.

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Hall Hunt and Erik Denmark have both posted trip reports with several pictures on their experiences at the Krystal finals.

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(From bb.coms Bits & Pieces) Brian Seiken’s “Black Pearl” video is no longer the only Sonya Thomas tribute video on youtube. Duke 618 has created and uploaded a video called “Gurgitator” to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5nLKrKefhY

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Liz has posted her trip report from the Krystal Square Off IV finals where she served as Pat Bertoletti’s bunnette. A gallery is available.

I really enjoyed cheerleading.
Like, maybe I should have been a cheerleader. I mean, if I hadn’t gone to the hippie high school with no cheerleading. Or sports. And if I hadn’t quit gymnastics in middle school after hitting my head trying to do a back handspring. And that I would never have been caught dead cheerleading when I was 16. I mean all that aside, I would have made a killer cheerleader.

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