TampaBay.com has an article about Victoria Bekiempis, winner of the July 3 Tampa hot dog contest, trying out for America's Next Top Model
Archive for July, 2009
Kooky Canuck (formerly the Big Foot Lodge) now has a King Kookamonga burger challenge weighing 12 pounds, which is free if completed by a team of 2 diners in less than an hour. A video of the first customers to order the burger is available.
San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman on Tila Tequila: "you wouldnt believe how a 4'11'' asian can throw down some food"
(from email) Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky won last night's knish eating contest at the Brooklyn Cyclone game by eating 5.75 knishes in 5 minutes.
Val Bromann and the Hungry Sisters have blog entries about the MLE eaters vs. elephants contest held on July 3.
BacciPizza.com reports that it will sponsor a pizza eating contest at the Bacci Pizza Fest in Chicago on Saturday. $2500 in prizes will be awarded ($1500 to the winner). Entrants will need to qualify by eating three jumbo slices in under 20 minutes at a Bacci's location.
The Heart Attack Grill's twitter reports that Gage Hughes finished a Quadruple Bypass Burger in about 2 minutes, just 15 seconds behind Joey Chestnut's record and about half of Jed Donahue's previous second place mark of 3:55.
TampaBay.Metromix.com has a gallery of the hot dog eating contest held July 3 at the Crowbar in Ybor City which includes pictures of the female winner, who competed under the name "Doll Face Killa"
Juliet Lee has updated her website by adding a report on her experience at this year's Nathan's finals and competing against elephants the day before.
The Dallas Observer has a blog entry about the corn dog eating contest held July 4 at the Libertine Bar. Patrick Michels was the runner up.
A post on bodybuilding.com reports that ptflyforatallguy (6'8") and Dolfan_714 broke the challenge record at Red Devil pizza in Southern California by eating a 28 inch pizza in 11 minutes and 30 seconds. (The previous record was 18 minutes) Videos of the entire challenge are available: Part 1 | Part 2
The Washingtonian has a list of DC area (which extends from northern Virginia to Annapolis) eating challenges.
Examiner.com has a preview of the Jimmy John's sandwich makers vs. eaters contest at Milwaukee's Bastile Days festival on Friday. Pat Bertoletti is the only listed member of the eaters team.
The program where "Furious" Pete Czerwinski took on German restaurants' eating challenges was televised in Europe today and a clip of that program is available on youtube. Bodybuilding.com thread 1 | thread 2
Some post-contest articles on the 2009 Nathan's finalists: Pat Bertoletti (Chicago Tribune | Examiner), Badlands Booker, "Buffalo" Jim Reeves, Marco "Mongo" Marquez (Liz Kellermeyer interview | Pueblo Chieftain)
Andrew "A-Bomb" Lane has a blog entry about the hot dog and cupcake contests he participated in on July 4. The cupcakes store, Tee & Cakes, also has a blog entry about its contest, won by WLOCE cupcake runner-up Jimmy Mares
Bunnette Zoe has posted a blog entry about riding the bus of champions which contains short interviews with Juliet Lee and Joey Chestnut.
Sonya Thomas vs. Juliet Lee
A list of head to head results of Sonya Thomas vs. Juliet Lee in the eatfeats database is available after the jump. Sonya Thomas has not only never finished behind Juliet Lee, she has not lost to any other female competitor:
JapanProbe reports that Miyazaki City created a 300 pound burger to promote the Phoenix Seagaia Resort. (Video)DanisHouseOfPizza.com reports that "Furious" Pete Czerwinski set a record for their contest in the July 4 qualifier by eating 10 slices of pizza in 8 minutes, breaking "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti's record.
The new poll asks who you think will win the Nathan's finals after Joey Chestnut's streak ends.
Sportnation debuted on ESPN2 today, and one of the topics they discussed was whether there should be more televised competitive eating. You can vote on a poll on the program's web page (from anon comment) and also follow the twitter responses.
A knish eating contest will be held at the Brooklyn Cyclones game tomorrow in honor of Jewish Heritage Night.
The twitter for the La Costena Tour reports that Domenico Alesi won yesterday's jalapeno eating contest by eating 14 peppers in one minute and will compete in the MLE jalapeno contest in Chicago later this year.
BeautifulBrian.com has a report on serving as judge for Franco "FrenkyBello" Camerini and the post contest activities along with some pictures and videos from the contest.
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