Cracked.com has a list of five awful life lessons learned from an attempt at the phaal challenge at Brick Lane Curry in Manhattan.
Archive for March, 2012
screen.yahoo.com has a video titled "Special: Best of Eating Competitions" about several independent contests (via Jim Jennings email)
The Southern Hotwing Festival will hold a wing eating contest in Memphis on April 21 awarding $300.
Randy Santel has uploaded a professionally produced video of his attempt at the 10 hot dog challenge at Cafe Chilingo in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Toby Keith's Bar & Grill in Denver will hold a 72 ounce steak eating contest tomorrow awarding a trip to Amarillo, TX.
Duffy's Sports Grill in North Miami Beach will hold a wing eating contest on Sunday awarding two tickets to the April 6 Miami Heat game.
Dave "The Whiner" Bailie has a request for people to attempt eating challenges for an upcoming article in Vegas Rocks magazine.
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez won the men's peeps eating contest at the Baja Bar & Grill in Las Vegas with a total of 52 peeps in 2 minutes. Mary Bowers won the women's contest with 20 peeps.
Naader Reda & Stephanie Torres attempt NV/CA challenges
Naader Reda has a three part series about the meals he ate with Stephanie Torres in the Las Vegas area (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) After Nevada, they attempted the following challenges in California: Cataldaldo’s 10 lb. team pizza challenge in Bakersfield, El Tortillon 9 lb. burrito in Fresno (only previous finisher Aubrey Koehn), Pho Kitchen challenge in Fresno and Big Mama’s & Papa’s 36 inch two person challenge (with two toppings).
(semi off-topic) A giant Pac-Man mosaic was created by AC Milan fans holding up colored cards in yesterday's Champions League match versus Barcelona. The mosaic was captioned "Mangiamoli!" ("Let's eat them!") and the ghost Pac-Man was chasing had Barcelona colors.
Stephanie Torres' total of 3.25 pounds of cheese fries in 8 minutes was claimed to be a national record. Takeru Kobayashi ate five pounds of cheese fries in five minutes in the first round of the US Open of Competitive Eating in 2005. (The only other US Open cheese fries result I could find was Carlene LeFevre's total of 3 lb. 3 oz).
Registration for Niko Niko's Greek World Gyro-Eating Championship in Houston May 20 opens at 11 am on IFOCE.com.
Mike Longo has posted a video of him cutting the record for the Big Buns Burger Challenge in Ballston, VA from 12 minutes to 6:51.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has a video of his attempt at the 120 ounce steak at Brand in Las Vegas. Naader Reda also attempted the challenge.
Registration will open today at 4pm eastern for the first qualifier for the Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship to be held April 5 in Augusta, GA. The qualifier purse will be $1000 with the winner receiving $500 and a trip to the finals. The date and location for the finals and other nine qualifiers were not listed.
A rib eating contest for three person teams at the Mercer County Fairgrounds in Celina, Ohio will award $850 ($500 to the winners) on May 19.
The Texas State student paper has an article about San Marcos, TX eating challenges. Gil's Broiler will award free food for life to women who finish its 7 pound burrito in under 30 minutes.
The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reports that the Rhythm and Ribs BBQ Festival will hold a MLE rib pulled pork slider eating contest in Lancaster, Ohio (south Columbus area) during July.
The BBC has a video of a bacon eating contest held Sunday at DT Kirby's in Lafayette, Indiana, which is captioned as having taken place on Monday in Louisiana.
The National Pro-Am Pecan Pie Eating Championship will be held in Birmingham, Alabama on May 12. Eric "Silo" Dahl will be the pro, and he is billed as the "#1 ranked profesional eater" (without any qualifications). It is not clear if Dahl still merits the top ranking among AICE/APE competitors after Stephanie Torres' victory in an Arizona contest Saturday where he was a no-show. update The phrasing has been changed to "#1 Ranked Professional Eater as ranked by All Pro Eating" (via email)
Sylvester's Burgers in Atascadero, California will hold a five pound burger eating contest on May 20. Entrants will need to qualify between April 1 and May 19.
ESPN New York reports that the Carnegie Deli has added the "Jetbow" sandwich to its menu in honor of Tim Tebow's trade to the New York Jets. The sandwich weighs 3.5 pounds and contains corned beef, pastrami, roast beef and American cheese and white bread. The Village Voice gave the new item a negative review. In 2010, the deli created a "Lebron MVP" sandwich to entice LeBron James to sign with the Knicks.
The new poll asks how many of the 13 Nathan's qualifiers in 2012 will have a female winner eating ten or more hot dogs. In 2011, seven women broke the 10 HDB threshold. Two of those qualifier winners (Stephanie Torres and Grace Lee) are not expected to compete in the 2012 qualifiers and Sonya Thomas might receive a bye as the defending female champion. Among IFOCE female rookies, Meredith Boxberger and Rebecca Oey appear capable of hitting double digits and Julie Dey ate 12 hot dogs in the 2009 Minnesota qualifier.
Point Park News Service has an article about western Pennsylvania competitive eating featuring Brad Sciullo and "Big" Brian Subich which lists 2013 as the expected release date of the "Hungry" documentary co-starring Sciullo.
Patch.com has a preview of the Matzo Ball Mania contest that will award $700 ($500 to the winner) on April 1 at Maxie's in Stoughton, MA.
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