Rockford record attempts remembered
MLive has a blog entry (for June 26) about the attempts to break the Rockford Corner Bar’s chili dog record last year:
Wolfe has tried to get Janus (who is ranked No. 7 by the IFOCE), Chestnut and others such as Patrick Bertoletti and Hall Hunt to come back and compete again, but it hasn’t come together.
“They are under contract, so it’s not that easy,” he said.
So, if Nathan’s Famous contest only lasts 12 minutes, and the Corner Bar allows four hours to eat your chili dogs, how long did it take for Janus to eat 43 1/2 of them?
“It took him the whole four hours,” Wolfe said.
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Rhonda Evans said
July 18, 2007 @ 9:16 am
Sonya and Rich would both annihilate that record. Sonya would do it in less than 90 minutes. Nobody should be eating for 4 hours or they might literally bust a gut!
Anonymous said
July 18, 2007 @ 11:19 am
I think they took their time because they had the time. What’s the rush? There isn’t one. Obviously they’ve proven they can eat as much food in 12 minutes as they did in four hours. They wouldn’t NEED 4 hours, or even 90 minutes, this time around if they were set on breaking the record quickly.
liz said
July 18, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Seems like they could work something out with the IFOCE. Like a restaurant with a challenge would pay an “appearance fee” or something for a particular eater. In return, the IFOCE would advertise the upcoming challenge and send out some press releases to local news sources. Of course, the fee wouldn’t guarantee that the eater would finish the challenge, but the fee would guarantee some media buzz around the event. Eaters could even apply for certain challenges and the IFOCE could approach the restaurant with a contract offer. I know this way wouldn’t be as fun as the original, go-on-a-roadtrip-and-beat-four-records-on-a-whim days, but it would at least allow a partnership between these challenges and the eaters who want to do them. I would think a nominal fee on the part of the restaurant would be worth paying for the publicity and ability to show that their challenge is able to be beaten.
Anonymous said
July 18, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
That makes a lot of sense, Liz and that is exactly why it would never be seriously considered. They have always been shortsighted on the many ways they could get publicity and make the sport more popular to a larger segment of the population. Just for fun you should contact Rich or George with the idea and marvel at their response.
Gentleman Joe said
July 18, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
Liz, this would be a great idea if the ifoce wouldn’t charge like $5,000. dollars for something like that.
Assuming that, the eater(s), if top ten, might get $500. of that.
Outside the top ten, they’d be lucky to get anything.
If the Shea’s read this they are probably chuckling, while thinking ‘that Menchetti thinks we only get $5,000. for something like that, & that the eaters would get that much out of it?!’
Carey said
July 18, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
I believe they already do that type of endorsement. Look at Conti’s cake eating for that auto show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBU0IjgWFJk
This must have been just a paid appearance since there is no competition.
on a side note, where is the safety involved in having an announcer asking questions while your mouth is stuffed with cake? You know Conti had to answer too, because not doing so would have been rude.
liz said
July 18, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
Obviously lots of exhibitions happen, but I’m talking about specific restaurant challenges. Though the model for exhibitions could be applied to the challenges.
Carey said
July 18, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
Liz, I hope you don’t think I was trying to insult you or anything because you don’t realize that there are exhibitions. I actually didn’t think there were that many. Conti’s was the only one I ever saw.
anonymous said
July 18, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
Liz you seem to give the IFOCE the benefit of the doubt all the time. They don’t want to work out anything. They don’t want anyone entering other sponsors contests and they don’t want anyone doing restaurant challenges. You would think once in their life they would say “go ahead guys have some fun” Its only them them them and noone else is allowed to make a buck on their own. It sucks!
liz said
July 19, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
No insult taken! This year, there was Pat’s oyster exhibition, Sonya’s UMW hot dog exhibition, the Tyra show with Tim and Seaver, Tim’s donuts, Erik’s upcoming jalapeños, and a handful of Nathan’s ones. I guess I’m just lumping together demos and exhibitions, but there’s not really much of a difference in the end.
I don’t want to come off as totally naive about the way the IFOCE is run. Trust me, I’ve had my share of interaction with them. It’s just that sometimes there are ideas, like this one, that would appear to be economically advantageous for them and for eaters that they seem to overlook. Or if they aren’t actually overlooking them and have reasons for not going forward with certain things, the reasons remains mysterious to the rest of us. I guess I would like to believe that they are doing/not doing things for specific reasons (business, legal, time), but I just never know.
beautifulbrian said
July 19, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Carey maybe you can apologize to me every once in a while for some of your snide insulting remarks. Remember the comment about taking my pic down at the Carnegie so it wont scare the customers away? You think i dont read some of the comments. Im just kidding. On another note i knew that Onion article was bull. I see it in the cafeteria table at my job. If they cant sell it on the newsstand you know that magazine stinks. Barlow did you delib leave me off the best dressed or best looking list because i snubbed you somewhere down the line?