There are five days left until the March 13 Kickstarter deadline for the "Hungry" documentary. There is currently about a $2,000 difference between the amount currently pledged and the $10,0000 funding threshold.
Archive for March, 2012
The El Al facebook has a gallery of today's Hamantaschen eating contest held in New York City. Robbie Wizenberg won the amateur contest with 14, but did not beat Will Millender's total (25) which would have doubled his prize. The Lerman Report has a Purim message from Zhychick update A video is available. update The NY Daily News has a video & short article
TooJays' facebook has a gallery of the 12 people who have been chosen to compete in the amateur division of the World Class Corned Beef Eating Competition in Palm Beach Gardens, FL on March 17.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at The Foodspotting SXSW Street Food Fest 2012 in Austin on Saturday. He will be competing against a group in a one minute grilled cheese eating contest.
The blog for the Stockton Asparagus Festival has an entry listing the expected entrants in the deep fried asparagus eating contest on April 28. update fields for the Rhythm City catfish eating contest in Davenport, IA on March 24 and the cupcake eating contest at the Isle Casino in Waterloo, Iowa on April 24 have also been announced.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new web site at http://badlandsbooker.me/
AwesomePower27 has a video recorded at last month's king cake eating contest at the Showboat in Atlantic City.
"Hungry" Hayden has a video of him eating a kangaroo burger weighing 2kg. Hayden is considering hiring a bus to do an eating challenge tour of Australia's east coast.
IGoHardNow.com has a blog entry estimating the daily caloric consumption of Charlotte Bobcats forward Boris "Dizilla" Diaw. Three sets of analyses (assuming body weights of 245, 285 and 305 pounds) were done. A Boris "Dizilla" poster is available for sale.
Will Millender has a blog entry about the "Diet Bet" he is starting with Eric Dahl, Joe LaRue, Joel Podelsky, Mike Sisco and Todd Greenwald. The participants will be required to lose 4% of their body weight in 28 days. The diet will begin on March 9 with a "last meal" pizza eating contest at Ripley's Believe it or Not in Times Square. update A press release about the event is available.
The Nathan's Famous in Hawthorne, CA closed earlier this year so there will be a new site for the southern California qualifier.
Meredith "Deep Fried Diva" announces she ate 100 Oreos on B101 this morning in honor of the centennial anniversary of the cookie's origin. update A video is available.
The Cajun Crab House in Atlanta will hold a crab leg eating contest on March 31 for women only awarding $250.
Registration will open at 11 am eastern on IFOCE.com for the Sweet Corn Fiesta eating contest in West Palm Beach on April 29.
The CompetitiveEat twitter announces the field for the National Spring Break Eating Championship on March 24 in Lake Havasu City, AZ: Ian Hickman, Will Millender, John Rivera, Kevin Ross and Stephanie Torres.
Jon "Super" Squibb has a link to a video of his appearance on Fox 45 in Baltimore this morning.
Courant reports that "The Big Dog" will return to the menu of Doogie's in Newington, CT. The two foot long hot dog was dropped from the menu after the meat packer producing it went out of business, but a new supplier has been found.
Qdoba in Chicago on Diversey & Sheffield will hold a burrito eating contest on Thursday. The overall winner will receive four Blackhawks tickets.
Olivia Wilde vs. Chris Farley eating contest called into question
Actress Olivia Wilde (House M. D., Tron: Legacy) relates the following tale from her childhood in the April edition of GQ:
I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live since I was ten. My father took me to a live taping on my birthday. Chris Farley was still in the cast and at the after-party he had a brownie eating contest.
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It became, like, a very valuable, powerful moment in my childhood. Although it was the only eating contest I have ever lost.
This story is either incorrect or Olivia Wilde’s public birthday (March 10, 1984) is inaccurate. Saturday Night Live was never televised live on March 10 during Chris Farley’s tenure as a cast member, which started in fall 1990 and ended in 1995. During that time period March 10 fell on Sunday (1991), Tuesday (1992), Wednesday (1993), Thursday (1994) and Friday (1995).
If a new episode was televised live on Saturday, March 9, 1991, the last hour of the program would have taken place just after midnight on March 10 (when Olivia would have turned seven). No episode was produced on that date; the first live SNL episode of March 1991 was broadcast on March 16.
Olivia Wilde shares a March 10 birthday with Jon Hamm of Mad Men, who was recently caught in an apparent fib about playing baseball at the University of Texas with Roger Clemens.
Marcos Owens was the first person to finish the Mad Hatter Platter (4 1/2 lb. burgers, 1 lb. fries & 24 onion rings) at The HAT Tavern in Summit, NJ yesterday.
Screen.yahoo.com has a parody of The Hunger Games trailer titled The Hungry Games.
Leeetss announces she ate 7 pounds of wings (after picture).
Ben Fredrickson's report about teaming up with Randy Santel for a pizza challenge was the 4th most read article on ColumbiaMissourian.com this week.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has a video of him drinking 1.5 liters of "purple stuff" in 9 seconds.
The Fringe Collective has an audio interview with Joey Chestnut.
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