Thorny's in Myrtle Beach, SC will start offering an 80 ounce steak on October 14 that will be free if completed in less than an hour.
Archive for October, 2009
Fire & Ice Restaurant in Richmond will hold a hot dog eating contest on Saturday that will award $250 to the winner.
(from Liz K) WFAA has a video of Pat Michels, who has written several competitive eating articles for the Dallas Observer, winning a hot wing eating contest at Plucker's televised on Good Morning Texas.
A jalapeno eating contest at A Taste of Greenville (SC) tomorrow will award $600 ($300 to the winner).
Orange Tree Hot Dogs will hold an eating contest on October 29 that will award tickets to the Florida / Georgia football game on Halloween.
Kobayashi eats 387 bowls of noodles in 2001 contest
Another contest from the 2001 Japanese Nathan’s qualifier is available on youtube. In this competition, Takeru Kobayashi eats 387 small bowls of noodles weighing 9.67 kg (21.3 pounds) to win. The noodle servers, who refill the bowl immediately after it is emptied, are almost as impressive as the eaters.
The Carolina (Raleigh/Durham) Ale House will host the second of five qualifiers for its Wing Fling contest tonight. The finals on October 30 will award a year of wings and beer.
Rob Gale has a gallery of last month's Krystal Square Off finals and JahnaviB has a gallery of the Garlicky Greens contest
LaJollaLight has an article about a flauta eating contest qualifier held at Jose's Court Room in La Jolla, California. (San Diego area) The finals on December 6 will be sanctioned by the IFOCE and the purse will be $3,500.
Jimmy John's youtube page has a video from a sandwich makers vs. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown & Hall Hunt competition.
The Daily News Tribune has a report on Saturday's Garlicky Green eating contest. A video of introductions and post-contest interviews from that event is also available.
Man v. Food October 7 (Springfield, IL) episode links
Travel Channel: Episode Guide | slideshow | Side of the City video
Restaurants
- Joe Rogers’ challenge: Firebrand chili
home page | yelp
SJ-R article about the recording (no spoiler)
Program video clip about making of chili - D’arcys Pint meal: horseshoe sandwich
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
Blog entry about negative experience at recording - Cozy Dog Drive In meal: corn dog
Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
SJ-R article about the restaurant
Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest that will take place at the NYC Dumpling Festival on October 24. Previous contests awarded $1,800 for both the men's and women's division.
Part 2 of Brad Sciullo on The Colbert Report
The second part of Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 15+ pound Belly Buster Burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report is now available on the program’s website. The segment closes with Sciullo expressing his desire to eat a live shark and Colbert responding “I think we’re going to need a bigger throat”.
KTNA has a report on Man vs. Food recording at two Talkeetna, Alaska restaurants this past weekened.
Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with information on her tamale victory. (Her thoughts on the Knoxville Krystal qualifier are not mentioned.)
The new poll asks how you currently rank the IFOCE top 4.
Youtube has a video of last month's Fatburger eating contest produced by News 12 Long Island.
Kobayashi has a tribute to Rich LeFevre on his blog. He also has several entries about his trip to Chattanooga.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski's profile page on bodybuilding.com was named BodySpace of the Month for September 2009.
SJ-R has a preview of Wednesday's episode of Man vs. Food which was recorded in Springfield, Illinois.
The twitter for Big Mama's & Papa's pizza in Los Angeles reports that an attempt at the 54 inch square pizza challenge was made today. 23 slices were left over after the attempt, the smallest amount so far.
Saosin is having a hot dog eating contest tonight at Spike's Junkyard Dogs in Providence.
Pete Davekos defends Garlicky Greens title
Update Oct 5 Carlos the Dwarf has a video
Update The Boston Herald has an article and gallery. No ranked eaters are listed in the captions. IFOCE also has a contest report.
The eatingcontest twitter reports that Pete “Pretty Boy” Davekos defended his Garlicky Greens title and broke his previous record with a total of 7.5 lbs.
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