Information about December 3 “Man vs. Food” restaurants
Here is some additional information about the challenges featured in the Man vs. Food episodes which debuted on December 3:
Big Texan Steak Ranch 72 ounce steak Amarillo, Texas
- BigTexan 72 ounce steak statistics home page
- 72 ounce steak challenge webcam
- List of all finishers 1991-2005 in the eatfeats.com database
- BBC article about the Big Texan Steak Ranch
- Amarillo.com article about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak record
- News video (without audio) about Joey Chestnut breaking the record
- Former Big Texan record holder Frank Pastore’s blog entry about Joey Chestnut breaking his record. Pastore was a Cincinnati Reds pitcher when he broke the record for the seventh time in 1987 and is now a conservative talk radio host.
- Video clip from 2000 episode of Ripley’s Believe it or not about the Big Texan starring Rich & Carlene LeFevre
Big Foot Lodge Sasquatch Burger Memphis, TN
update Dec 22, 2008 The Big Foot Lodge changed its name to Kooky Canuck and its challenge burger is now called the Kookamunga Challenge to settle a lawsuit with a California restaurant
- The Big Foot Lodge’s page about the challenge
- The Big Foot Lodge’s Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame. Joey Chestnut is the current record holder at 7 minutes 36 seconds. Roger Robinson has completed the challenge 3 times in 2008.
- Memphis Commercial Appeal article about Jeremy Payne becoming the second finisher of the challenge
- Memphis Flyer article about Pat Bertoletti becoming the first person to finish the challenge
- The picture of the burger below was photographed at a ball in Memphis, so it is probably the Sasquatch Challenge burger. According to the photographer, the woman holding the burger completed it.
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anonymous said
December 8, 2008 @ 9:27 am
I bet ed jarvis will bitch that he holds the 76 oz record for steak. That was 7yrs ago. Let him try it now i bet it would take him more than a half hour to finish the steak
I said
December 8, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
joey ate a 72oz steak dinner not a 76oz steak.
Anonymous said
December 8, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Jarvis wouldn’t even be in the top 10 today even if he was ar his best. The legends of yesteryear are all jokes living in fantasy land.
Bartholomew Pratt said
December 8, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
The eaters of today could not compare to Ed Jarvis or past eaters and they are nothing but milk toasts in front of the camera and pale in comparison to yesterdays eaters in every category except bordom
Badlands Booker said (Registered October 9, 2008)
December 22, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynqflYQTcc
KneeGroid said
November 26, 2009 @ 5:55 am
Id like to deep in her den. (Santa stuck christmas in his hobbit hole)
chris marble said
July 15, 2011 @ 12:12 am
current URL for Frank’s blog entry about the Big Texan challenge is:
http://townhall.com/columnists/frankpastore/2008/03/25/i_held_the_big_texan_steak_record_for_21_years,_until_last_night
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