The Atlanta & Birmingham Krystal qualifier posts below have been updated with more links.
Archive for September, 2009
Erin Griffith has a blog entry and video about Man vs. Food recording at the Buffalo Cantina in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Cook Book
(Via Liz K) The Riverfront Times has a blog entry about making a recipe from the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Cookbook from 1968:
Hot Dog Salad Dressing. For six servings, grind eight hot dogs with one-half teaspoon dry mustard, two tablespoons milk, one tablespoon pickle relish and one-third cup of mayo. Think about that for a second. That’s 1.3 hot dogs per salad serving. This is nothing more than a ploy to sell hot dogs.
6 crabcakes in 2:42 called best crabcake performance
The Baltimore Sun has an article about the Phillips crabcake eating contest at the Maryland Seafood Festival. Walter Hughes won the contest by eating 6 crabcakes in 2:42.
Michelle Torres, director of marketing for Phillips Seafood Restaurants, said Hughes was the fastest crab-cake eater she had ever seen. The restaurant had sponsored four crab-eating contests in recent years, Torres said, and Hughes had outpaced all the other winners.
Sonya Thomas ate 46 crabcakes in 10 minutes to win the 2006 Phillips crabcake contest.
Furious Pete starts twitter
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski has started at twitter at http://twitter.com/Dedicatedforlif His most recent update says he will appear in a dress tonight at an eating contest in Toronto (probably a pasta eating contest at Big Papa’s)
update Pictures and a video of the contest are available. Furious Pete won the contest by eating .6 kg of pasta (pre-cooked weight) in 1:30 and was also victorious in the best dress category.
The Nashville Scene reports that Crazy Legs Conti will compete in Saturday's Krystal qualifier in Nashville. No other competitors are mentioned.
KSO VI wild card leaders
With two Krystal qualifiers left, here are the wild card leaders:
update The Atlanta results on IFOCE.com have been updated to give Steakbellie 42 points.
Sonya Thomas 3 contest streak vs. Bertoletti
Sonya Thomas now has three contest streak where she finished ahead of Pat Bertoletti after not finishing ahead of him in all of 2007 and 2008. A list of head to head performances follows after the jump:
SillyAmerica: Sonya wins La Costena jalapenos
update #3 A press release about the contest is available
update #2 Sonya’s post OT total was 250.5, Bertoletti’s was 240 according to the La Costena twitter
update The eatingcontest twitter has the top 5:
1) Sonya Thomas, 209 won 1 minute eatoff
2) Pat Bertoletti, 209
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker, 158
4T) Hall Hunt 134
4T) Tim “Gravy” Brown 134
Silly America (Val Bromann) reports that Sonya Thomas defeated Pat Bertolett in a one minute eat off to take today’s La Costena jalapeno eating contest in Chicago.
2009 Atlanta Krystal qualifier thread
update Sept 15 Official Krystal blog entry | video
Creative Loafing gallery | Life in the Left Lane blog entry | Paul Barlow “Maaad” as Hell interview video
update #2 Full results are available on IFOCE.com
update Rich Shea has the top 3
1) “Humble” Bob Shoudt, 66 points
2) Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston, 42
3) Jon Bello, 39
The KSO twitter has started contes updates from Lenox Mall.
IFOCE Guantanamo Bay Labor Day event
IFOCE.com has a report about an event held on Labor Day to entertain the military personnel at Guantanamo Bay Navy Base. Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos sat out the lucrative Labor Day weekend contests to compete in a Pro-Am Nathan’s competition paired with a member of the armed forces.
The only coverage of the event I could find is a brief mention on Traveling Miles.
Badlands Booker is best in Birmingham
update Sep 15/b> Official Krystal blog entry | gallery | video
update #2 Full results are available on IFOCE.com
updateThe official top 3 have been announced
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 51
2) Erik Unger 42
3) Anthony Reganato 37
Unger and Reganato were the first pair to complete the Carnivore Challenge at Big Pie in the Sky
The qualifier at the University of Alabama Birmingham has started on the KSO twitter. Erik Unger is close behind Badlands Booker.
The Tuscon Weekly reports that Man vs. Food will record at Lindy's on Fourth on September 25. The challenge meal will be the O.M.F.G. burger.
Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with pictures and a report on her victory in Sunday's cheesesteak contest in Brooklyn.
In memory of the events of 8 years ago, here's the NY Daily News article about the 1998 Nathan's qualifier for civil servants held in the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center.
(from Will Millender's twitter) "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and Will Millender will appear in a program on the National Geographic network on December 7.
The Krystal Square Off blog lists Bob Shoudt's competition in Sunday's qualifier in Atlanta which includes Pete Davekos, Juris Shibayama, Mike Landrich, Micah “Wing Kong†Collins , Steve Martin and Brian Subich.
George Shea's twitter lists the field for Sunday's La Costena jalapeno eating contest in Chicago: "Dom Alesi, Craig Reed, John Palmgren, Bill Myers, Jim Reeves, Erik Denmark, Badlands, Sonya & Hall Hunt".
Daily Lobo previews Pizza 9 contest
The Daily Lobo has a preview of tomorrow’s pizza eating contest at Pizza 9 in Albuquerque that will award a 42 inch flat screen TV. According to the article, the winner will receive a berth in the 2010 Nathan’s finals if Joey Chestnut’s mark of 45 slices is surpassed.
Youtube has an Indian news video about the WLOCE donut eating contest held in Bangalore in March. Challenges by metro area (Northeast)
Here are lists of eating challenges for New York / New England metro areas:
Boston | Bridgeport | Buffalo | Hartford | Long Island | New York City | Syracuse
Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central | Florida | south Atlantic | mid-Atlantic
Ben Monson has posted pictures of him eating 2 five pound burritos from Sonora Cantina in Big Bear, CA to bodybuilding.com
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with "Humble" Bob Shoudt.
2009 San Gennaro cannoli thread
update #3 BeautifulBrian and Gavonne. Metromix has a gallery
update # 2 AOL has a gallery and article, which also calls Tim Janus the 2008 winner. Gavonne has some videos of the contest and Sunday’s cheesesteak contest
update George Shea’s twitter has the top 4:
1st Crazy Legs Conti 20.5
2nd Sean Gordon 19.5
3rd Kevin Basso 17
4th Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin 16
Pat Philbin will be competing in this afternoon’s cannoli contest at the San Gennaro Festival.
Daily Tailgate has an interview with Tim “Eater X” Janus, who will also compete and is billed as the defending champion even though Brad Sciullo won the 2008 cannoli contest.
Thad Bloom reports that Steven Colbert will be recording a show at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub about its giant burgers. No date or other details are listed.
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