(Via Greg Avola twitter) The commercial for next week’s episode (Hartford) of Man vs. Food is available on youtube and it reports that Greg “The Great Moomsi” Maloomian will be Adam Richman’s partner for the two person pizza challenge at Randy’s Wooster St. Pizza. Previous New England eating challenges by “The Great Moomsi” can be seen at Grippa69’s youtube page.

update This will be the second national cable TV appearance for a bodybuilding.com member in ten days. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski appeared on last Sunday’s episode of “Humanly Impossible” on the National Geographic Channel.

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Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow

• RU Hungry Grease Trucks challenge – 5 fat sandwiches
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  Extreme Pigouts segment about grease trucks
  Rutgers student newspaper article about recording (contains spoilers)
• Harold’s New York Deli meal – triple decker sandwich
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  Episode clip about triple decker sandwich
  2008 New York Times article
• Stuff Yer Face meal – giant stromboli
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List of north New Jersey eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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This website will be running some end of year & decade polls over the remainder of December. A list of the current choices for the yearly competitive eater polls is available after the jump. Please list any suggestions you think should be added to the polls in the comments. The polls will start in 2 or 3 days.

The new poll asks who you think is the competitive eater of the decade. Nobuyuki Shirota defeated Kobayashi in 3 out of the 4 Food Battle Club contests if you are questioning why he is listed.

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The segment from last night’s episode of Humanly Impossible featuring competitive eaters “Furious” Pete Czerwinski and Will Millender (called Willie) has been captured and uploaded. Dr. David Metz, who has appeared in previous programs about competitive eating, provides commentary.

HumanlyImpossible.wmv 9 minutes, 10.4 MB

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update #5 Jose’s facebook has a contest gallery

update #4 SDNN has a slideshow

update #3 NBCSanDiego has a video and article which calls the winner “Ben Munson”.

update #2 The rest of the results are on the MLE facebook

update The top 5 from the MLE facebook:

1) Ben Monson 65 flautas
2) Joey Chestnut 56
3) Erik “The Red” Denmark 45
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 43
5) Ben Taylor 41

Joses twitpic page has some pictures

Joses’s flauta contest is expected to start a 4 pm Pacific time (7 pm eastern)

Badlands Booker has posted a picture from the contest site.

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article about Adam Richman’s appearance at at the Giant Eagle Market District in Robinson, PA which reports that the third season of Man vs. Food will begin recording in January and that book project for the program is in the works.

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