Hooters in Texas will hold a wing eating tournament. Each location will hold a qualifier over the next four Tuesdays starting tomorrow. Winners of the store championships on April 13 will compete in regional contests. The state champion will win a prize to the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant.
Archive for March, 2010
PBPulse has a preview of the TooJay's corned beef contest and the TooJay's website has a list of all the competing IFOCE members.
TooJay's Deli youtube page has an interview with Jon Bello about Wednesday's corned beef eating contest.
Extreme Amy of Fox 5 Vegas is looking for entrants for tomorrow morning's World's Largest Ravioli Eating Contest.
IFOCE.com has a short interview with Ben Monson, who will look to extend his winning streak against Joey Chestnut on Wednesday.
The Port Royal Pub and Grille in Islip, Long Island has seven eating challenges: a BBQ and a seafood challenge along with a burger and four sandwich challenges.
Pandora.tv has a video of Gal Sone's tour of restaurants throughout Japan on Golden Legend A video of Gal Sone with two rapping "FBI agents" is also available.
Baltimore corned beef results
Will Millender has the top 3 from today’s corned beef and cabbage eating contest in Baltimore: 1) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 2) Joe Menchetti 3) Will Millender
update Mar 15 Saval Deli has a gallery of the contest. A caption has the official top 3:
1st “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 2 lbs, 8 oz
2nd “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 2 lbs 3.5 oz
3rd Will “The Champ” Millender 1 lb 11 oz
IFOCE.com announces registration for the May 15 Niko Niko World Gyro-Eating Championship in Houston and May 31 World Curly Fries Eating Championship in Wildwood, NJ will open tomorrow at 1pm eastern.
Sonya Thomas finishes 9 pound burger at BGR?
The twitter for BGR Burger Joint claims that Sonya Thomas is the only person to have finished its 9 pound challenge burger, which took her 22 minutes.
update Mar 15 Commenters have noticed that the online menu claims the burger was featured in an “I.F.O.C.” contest. (Ian Hickman won an independent 2008 contest at BGR)
The online menu also lists the total weight of the burger at 15.6 pounds, making it larger than Denny’s Beer Barrel Old 96er and the Clinton Station Diner’s Zeus challenge.
Furious Pete edges GJoe in MD Wing Wars
Will Millender has results from today’s Wing Wars contest in Columbia, MD sponsored by Holly Poultry: “pete wins wing wars by 1 wing. pete 76, gjoe 75, gorman 52, tiger wings 49, joel & ian tie with 47. I suck with 29 but didn’t really try.”
update Mar 16 The Baltimore Sun has a contest video
KTNV reports that NFL linemen Evan Mathis, Kyle Cook, and Kirk Barton will attempt the B3 burrito challenge at the NASCAR Cafe in Las Vegas today. There have been 27 challenge successes out of the 3,000 times it has been attempted since it became available about a year ago.
The facebook for Pop's Beef reports that former Chicago Bear Dan Hampton will serve as MC for the hot dog eating contest at Palos Fest on July 3.
The British newspaper The Guardian has a review of Man vs. Food calling the program "obscene on many levels, but daft on several more".
Thrillist has a blog entry about the challenge offered by the Cowtown Diner in Fort Worth which consists of 64 oz. of chicken fried steak, 6 pounds of mashed potatoes and 10 slices of Texas toast.
The TooJay's facebook lists the five amateurs who received spaces in the March 17 corned beef eating contest by eating a Jaynormous sandwich and winning a lottery.
PhillyChitChat has a report on yesterday's Shank (kosher wing) Bowl. Ben Jablonski defeated defending champ Adam "Hungry Hungry Hebrew" Taxin to win $990.
Louskum has several behind the scenes videos from the 2008 Nathan's finals, including the pre-contest eaters meeting.
Asahi.com has an article about Takeru Kobayashi, who says he would like to open a restaurant.
THE MLE facebook announces that a curly fry eating contest awarding $2,500 will be held at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, NJ (Cape May area) on Memorial Day (May 31).
ELPastino lists four entrants in the April 17 rib eating contest to be held at the Isle of Capri casino in Lula, Mississippi: Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus, Nate Biller & Brian Seiken.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of his schnitzel record attempt televised by Kabel 1 of Germany.
RXMuscle has videos of the "Whack Pack" visiting the Heart Attack Grill and J & R's Steakhouse in Islip, NY: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Trevor Iordanides has a blog entry about competing in December's Jose's Flauta Eating Championship in La Jolla, California.
On March 17, Greg "the Great Moomsi" Maloomian will attempt to break the chicken finger record at The Chicken Shack in Hamden, CT.
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