Beanstockd has a short interview with Joey Chestnut from the Guy's Choice Awards which will be televised tomorrow night at 10 pm. Spike TV also has a page and video about the Chow-lenge
Archive for June, 2009
The Denver Post has a report on Marco "Mongo" Marquez' qualifying for the Nathan's finals. KetchupWithTheHunts also has a blog entry about the Denver qualifier.
New poll: preferred Nathan’s rookie
The new poll asks what eater currently ranked in the IFOCE top 50 who has been competing since at least 2006 and has never made the Nathan’s finals would you most like to see appear on the Coney Island stage. (If I missed anyone who meets these criteria, I will add him to the poll)
A listing of all 15+ HDB qualifier results in the database by eaters who have never reached the Nathan’s finals follows after the jump
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The managing director of Donut Baker has an interview in fnbnews in which he mentions the WLOCE donut eating contest.
Tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier at the New York Mets stadium will take place at 3PM to accommodate the 4:10 PM game start time mandated by the Fox national broadcast.
LVJR blogs: Johnny McGuire's Deli in Las Vegas will hold a 24 inch sub sandwich eating contest tomorrow as part of its grand opening celebration.
WXII12.com has a video reporting the results of Jennie's attempt to eat 100 wings during a newscast to promote the wing eating contest to be held at tomorrow's Wingfest at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax, NC.
Penthouse.com asks Crazy Legs Conti whether he thinks an average person could qualify for the Nathan's finals after 6 weeks of training. (page safe for work)
SeriousEats reports that Franco "Frenky Bello" Camerini, who won the 2008 Mangiatlhon by eating 7.3 kg of food in an hour (video), will compete in the 2009 Nathan's finals.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski announces that he will do a contest in New York City on July 4, but it will be a Dani's pizza qualifier and not the Nathan's finals or Peggy O'Neill's burger contest.
Chronicle Productions has a twit pic of Joey Chestnut's contest on Chronicle Live today. The Chronicle Live twitter has some posts about the appearance.
Straight.com reports that Pink Pearl Chinese Restaurant in Vancover, BC will host a spring roll qualifier on Sunday. The finals will be held in August and award $300.
OCRegister has the top three and a video from last night's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's. Ronald Milutin won the contest by eating 6 pounds in 30 minutes.
Joey Chestnut will appear on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area on Chronicle Live tonight.
July 3 Coney Island Humans vs. elephants eating contest
(Via eater) The Brooklyn Papers reports that Coney Island will host a hot dog bun eating contest between three unnamed humans and three elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus on July 3. George Shea has the following quote:
“When most people see elephants, they see the majesty of nature. To me, I see an arrogant animal that needs to be taken down a notch,†said an unabashedly pro-human Shea.
Comedienne Lily Tomlin protested the elephants’ Coney Island appearance before the eating contest was announced.
Beer & Bourbon baked beans contest
The writer of the web page about the baked bean contest to be held at the Beer and Bourbon Festival at National Harbor, Maryland (suburban Washington, DC) appears ignorant that two of the world’s top competitive eaters are DC-area women:
NEW CONTESTS. Ladies – Do you have what it takes to be Ms. Bar-B-Cutie? Guys – can you handle the WORLD BBQ BEAN –EATING CHAMPIONSHIP? Practice, practice, practice and win big bucks and bragging rights!
Pinnacle Sports has started accepting bets on whether Joey Chestnut or Kobayashi will eat more hot dogs and if the overall winner will eat 60.5 hot dogs.
Levi Oliver has an interview on youtube in which he provides tips for competitors in the raw onion eating contest to be held at the Texas Testosterone Festival on August 9.
Filipino 7-11s to hold hot dog eating contest
7-11 stores in the Philippines will hold a hot dog eating contest this summer. Competitors can attempt to qualify at their local 7-11 on the qualifying dates. The grand prize is 500,000 Philippine pesos ($10,360)
update The contest website is at http://eatingmachinesphilippines.com/. The contest rules do not appear to explicitly require Filipino citizenship. A promotional video of a match beteween Dicky Fellow (a woman) and Katarina Haligi is available.
Fish Tales in Ocean City, Maryland will hold another hot dog eating contest on July 4. Last year' contest awarded $1000. The 2009 prize is no listed listed.
The official Man vs. Food twitter reports the next two sites will be San Francisco and Oahu.
Jimmy Johns sandwich makers vs. eaters in Detroit Saturday
The Detroit River Days music schedule lists the following non-musical event:
Also, sure to draw a crowd on Saturday, June 20 at the Michigan Lottery Stage is the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich and Making Contest at 2 p.m. The contest will feature three of the fastest sandwich makers going head-to-head again three World Class Major League Eaters to see who is faster. Major League Eaters are infamous for gobbling down hot dogs and chicken wings on TV. Jimmy John’s believes they have they fastest sandwich makers around, what better way to prove it?
An email from Craig Reed reports that the three eaters will be Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt and Tim Brown.
OCRegister has the prizes for tomorrow's prime rib eating contest at Gulliver's in Irvine, CA: 1) $400, overnight stay at Radisson Newport Beach Hotel, two Angels tickets and dinner for two at Gulliver’s 2) $200 and gift card for Burke Williams 3) $100 and two Angels tickets.
A video of Ian Hickman's victory in Saturday's contest at the grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune donuts is available.
The Ada Herald has a report on Saturday's pork rind eating contest with full results.
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