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StarHQ reports that Elizabethton, Tennessee will have a hot dog eating contest in conjunction with its fourth of July festivities. $250 will be awarded to the winner, making the contest the first 2008 July 4 hot dog contest to announce a cash prize that I am aware of.
update added 2008
Kotaku reports that this week’s new downloadable games for the Wii are My Pokemon Ranch, a port of the 1980s arcade game Dig Dug and Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, a less famous game from two decades ago. There are three more possible Monday release dates for the Major League Eating WiiWare game before the Nathan’s finals.
Gal Sone had a book signing in Tokyo for her autobiography today and she has a blog entry about the appearance. Tomorrow, she will sign autographs in Osaka. The autobiography is currently #131 on the amazon.co.jp rankings (The Japanese translation of the final Harry Potter book, which will be released next month, is #1)
Tomoko Miyake’s book of photographs is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. The release date is June 28.
update June 9 Gal Sone’s book is currently ranked #97 on Amazon of Japan, which place it on the bestseller list. A screen capture has been uploaded (click the thumbnail below).
Gal Sone’s blog has a report about today’s Osaka book signing
Yama3 went to the Tokyo autograph session.
(from Steakbellie comment) The Onion has an article about a competitive eater who gets banned from the IFOCE after throwing a mayonnaise eating contest and has to resort to winning impromptu unsanctioned contests. The picture used for the article is from the Trip Rewards wing eating contest last year.
New Orleans qualifier results from Dr. Bigtime comment & IFOCE.com report:
1. Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama – 28
2. Peter Parker – 17
3. Damon Serignet – 16
Dunno after that.
Norfolk qualifier results from IFOCE.com
1. Sonya Thomas, 38.5 HDB (.5 off 12 minute personal best)
2. Russ Keeler 20.75
3. William Schierer 19.75
4, Joe Tursi 19
Erica Pierson, a DJ at Love 96.1 FM, attempted Tumbleweed’s 2 pound burger challenge last October. The owner of Tumbleweed’s donated $500 to the Spinal Cord Injury Project after she successfully completed the burger.
A German novel about the 2001 Nathan’s contest was released last year. The book is titled Die Wetteser (The Competitive Eaters). The novel has the following description on amazon.de (automatically translated)
4 July 2001 was the day, which umstürzte the world of the meal: Takeru Kobayashi, schmächtiger Japanese, plugged in 12 minutes of more Hot Dogs in itself inside than ever humans before it and humiliated with it, just at the independence day, its American competitor. OD Krachie, “the animalâ€, a white automobile engineer, and Charles Hardy, “the hungry oneâ€, a black improvement officer, two simply knitted Kolosse, both sunk in self-pity and hate on their Japanese opponents: Kazutoyo Arai, “the hareâ€, a complacent medium star, and Kobayashi, “the princeâ€, a good-looking Dandy. While for these four men the Hot Dog Wettessen is the most normal thing of the world, Sandra and their clique can imagine hardly something Perverseres. As radical Veganer they fight to spread their message from the animal-suffering-free life to. With the world championship of the meal before Nathan’s nearly Food restaurants hit these two worlds finally one on the other. The Wettesser tells embittered competition, of love in hostile times, of records, low impacts, of counter and other worlds, of strange alliances – and of the normality of the insanity.
LiteraturHaus also has a review
(from Nate Biller) The latest episode of A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila had a hot dog consumption contest. Labeling eaters who do not adhere to picnic style rules “food drinkers” was not an exaggeration in this competition:
The next day, everyone is chilling poolside when TT comes out of the house with another challenge: a hot dog eating contest. But there’s a twist! Because Bo’s jaw is still recovering, he’s had to eat virtually all his food blended. Well, “what’s good enough for Bo is good enough for everyone,” according to TT, and she begins blending a disgusting concoction of bread, hot dogs, relish, ketchup, and mustard. According to Jay it looked like Tila had eaten something, thrown it up, and then said, “here! have some!”
The blog for the Team Emerica skateboarding team reports that several team members attempted the Big Texan 72 ounce steak challenge last night. Danger Ehren from the MTV show Jackass also tried to win a free meal.
Skinnyboy caught the webcast of their attempt last night and has some video captures. He thinks the mohawked diner looks like Pat Bertoletti, but apparently does not eat like him.
The Houston Chronicle reports that Sam Houston Race Park will hold a brownie eating contest during their telecast of the Belmont races on Saturday in honor of Big Brown’s attempt at a Triple Crown. The contest purse is listed at $500.
(From Badlands Booker) A segment from Holiday Foods: Fourth of July: Hot Dogs which culminates in a hot dog eating contest between Eric “Badlands” Booker and Famous Fat Dave can be seen on the History Channel’s website. Ryan Nerz also makes an appearance.
Randy Thomas and Renaldo Wynn are not the only Washington Redskins to have participated in eating contests. In a post for the Yahoo! sports blog Shutdown Corner, Chris Cooley writes about his competitive eating experience:
The Ritz Carlton in St. Louis has the most unbelievable bacon I’ve ever tasted. Not only did I love the bacon, everyone on the team was blown away by the taste. Three or four of us decided to forget all other foods and have a bacon-eating contest. I won with 39 pieces and was was sick on the floor for the next hour in the visitor locker room. We tried to keep up with the contest, but no other bacon was up to par with St. Louis.
I’m not saying that someone can go on the McDonald’s “Super Size Me” diet and be a great athlete, but so much more goes into the sport than what goes into a player’s body. Someone might assume that a healthy eater would be a much better football player, especially at any skill position, and I would almost have to agree with him or her. But, as I finish up my sixth Mountain Dew for the day, I have proved to myself that my diet has continually worked for me. I eat what makes me happy, but I put in a tremendous amount of hard work as well. I’ve thought about trying to change, but there is something to be said about four consistent and healthy seasons in the NFL (I have never missed a practice), as well as going to the Pro Bowl.
WTKR has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at the MacArthur Center in Norfolk, VA which reports that Sonya Thomas is expected to compete. No other entrants are listed. The article says that truncating the qualifier to 10 minutes could work in Sonya’s favor.
The next poll will ask who you think is the top eater in the USA who is currently unlisted in the IFOCE, non-IFOCE or Hall Hunt rankings. The current choices are:
Dale Boone
Sal Carbone – Brooklyn Pizza
“Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan (top 5 Wing Bowl)
Jed Donahue
Mike Fitzgerald – 23.5 HDB, 2007 Sheboygan brats winner
Nic “The Incredible Bulk” Fry – 21 HDB
Sean Gordon
Ron Koch
Floria Lee – Queens Dumpling female winner
Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
Brent Ricord
Mike Springer
John “jcrue” Taylor
Frank Wach
Lori Weiss – Denny 96er finisher
Russell Witzke
Scott “Scozzy Bone” Zulkowski
Please add eaters you think should be added to the list in the comments
update The poll has been activated. Eaters who have announced retirement were not eligible.
The episode of “Without a Trace” in which a competitive eater disappears after winning a chili eating contest will air tonight on CBS at 10 pm.
(from HHH email) Hall Hunt’s new poll is now out. The top 10 are:
1. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (7) (193) [1]
2. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti (1) (188) [2]
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt (167) [4]
4. Takeru Kobayashi (162) [3]
5. Tim “Eater-X” Janus (148) [5]
6. Hall “Hoover” Hunt (147) [7]
7. Sonya “The Blackwidow” Thomas (146) [6]
8. Rich “The Locust” LeFevre (138) [7]
9. Juliet Lee (130) [11]
10. Erik “The Red” Denmark (126) [9]
Patrick Vandam (#17), Jim Reeves (#24) and Nate Biller (#25) are the new entrants, replacing Joe LaRue, Brian Seiken and Paul Barlow.
The Fayetteville (NC) Observer has an article about Joshua “Jabber-Jaws” Currier and his rise to prominence this year. Currier says he will compete in the pulled pork sandwich contest in Dover, Delaware and the Coney Island hamburger contest. He hopes to become a member of the team that will compete in Japan at the end of this year.
Digital Sports has an article about the undercard for the Three Brothers Pizza contest in which four person teams from De Matha and St. Vincent Pallotti high schools faced off. The DeMatha team won the contest 24 slices to 15.75. The top individual was Nick Rivers of DeMatha who ate 7 slices in 10 minutes.
There are several interviews at the bottom of the page, including an interview with Sonya Thomas. Sonya says she has done an eating contest in Korea.
(From BaseballThinkFactory) Susan Polgar, the first woman to obtain the rating of chess grandmaster in regular competition, recently dined at the Big Texan and wrote about that restaurant’s signature meal. According to the blog entry, Joey Chestnut was not the first Nathan’s champion to attempt the challenge:
Former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Frank Pastore did it in a record time of 9 ½ minutes, and held that record for 21 years until Joey Chestnut took the title on March 24, 2008 with a time of 8 minutes and 52 seconds. Another famous person who tried this was Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time hot dog-eating world champion.
It is not clear from the blog entry if Ms. Polgar attempted the 72 ounce steak. She is currently the chess coach at Texas Tech so it was not that long a trip for her. (Picture is from chessphotography)
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